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A poetic form in this language is recited during verbal duels as comebacks called setriny (“SAY-treen”) or chanted in a style called “falling rice,” or vary raraka (“vahr RAH-ruh-kuh”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this language of metaphor-laden poetry called hainteny (“hyne-TAYN”). The hero of an epic in this language defeats Great Echo in a verbal duel to rescue Girl of Grace from Stone Man.
ANSWER: Malagasy (The epic is Ibonia.)
[10e] Hainteny often features ohabolana (“ooh-uh-BOO-lahn-uh”), a form of these phrases. In Swahili, “wisdom killed the wise man” is one of these sayings, which name an Old Testament book of wisdom literature.
ANSWER: proverbs [accept Book of Proverbs or Mishlei]
[10m] Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, who preserved many hainteny as Africa’s first modern poet, is quoted in this essay. This preface to Léopold Senghor’s (“sahn-GOR’s”) Anthology of New Negro and Malagasy Poetry opens by questioning “the gag… keeping these black mouths shut.”
ANSWER: “Black Orpheus” [or “Orphée noir”] (by Jean-Paul Sartre)
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Arizona StateNYU010010E
Columbia AIndiana010010E
FloridaBritish Columbia0101020EM
Georgia TechToronto C010010E
HarvardTexas010010E
Illinois AToronto A010010E
Illinois BWinona State010010E
Iowa StateChicago B010010E
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MichiganOhio State010010E
MinnesotaJohns Hopkins0101020EM
North Carolina AUC Berkeley A0101020EM
OttawaGeorgia State010010E
Penn StateYale0101020EM
RutgersWUSTL A0101020EM
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UCFMaryland0101020EM
VanderbiltColumbia B0000
VirginiaCornell B010010E
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WUSTL BUC Berkeley B010010E
Waterloo ANorthwestern010010E

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TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2212.7396%32%0%