Packet J: Bonus 5
Description acceptable. This real-life person might be the addressee of a poem that states “You will know our new covenant was a sign of the stars / and, having broken that enormous pact, you had to die.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this railroad worker whose suicide inspired a collection of poems that opens with him being lowered into the earth from a “frozen niche” that men placed him in.
ANSWER: Romelio Ureta [accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, descriptions of Gabriela Mistral’s lover]
[10e] The death of Romelio Ureta inspired Sonnets of Death, which is by this Chilean poet.
ANSWER: Gabriela Mistral [or Lucila Godoy Alcayaga]
[10h] The Sonnets of Death were later included in this collection of Mistral’s poetry. A poem from this collection that begins “A son, a son, a son! I wanted a son of yours” was referenced in Mistral’s Nobel citation in 1945.
ANSWER: Desolación [or Desolation or Despair]
<Edinburgh A, World Literature> | Packet J - Southampton A, Indiana A, Illinois B, Edinburgh A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 | 11.11 | 65% | 38% | 7% |
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 10.00 | 58% | 42% | 0% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 11.11 | 78% | 33% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 8.75 | 50% | 25% | 13% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 40% | 40% | 20% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 16.25 | 75% | 50% | 38% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 6.67 | 33% | 17% | 17% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 12.22 | 89% | 33% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |