Bonus
This poem’s concluding image of “Mary without spot” is a reference to a historical debate about the Immaculate Conception. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poem that describes a certain “Towery city” as “[c]uckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded.”
ANSWER: “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”
[10e] “Duns Scotus’s Oxford” is by this Victorian poet and Jesuit priest, whose philosophy-themed poem “That Nature is Heraclitean (“hera-CLY-tee-un”) Fire” uses his trademark “sprung rhythm.”
ANSWER: Gerard Manley Hopkins
[10m] Hopkins’s contemporary Matthew Arnold wrote a closet drama about this other philosopher, which concludes with Callicles’s (“CAL-ih-kleez’s”) song to Apollo, and is excerpted in the Oxford Book of English Verse.
ANSWER: Empedocles (“em-PED-oh-kleez”) [accept Empedocles on Etna]
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Georgia State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago A | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell A | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cornell B | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Johns Hopkins | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| LSE | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland | North Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Minnesota | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU | Waterloo B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ottawa | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Penn State | Florida | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Rutgers | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Texas | Toronto C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Waterloo A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Vanderbilt | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| WUSTL B | Yale | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Winona State | UCF | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 14.17 | 92% | 46% | 4% |