Question
Answer the following about the Yale Series of Younger Poets, which publishes a debut collection each year, for 10 points each.
[10e] The series is considered to have peaked while this author of “September 1, 1939” and “Funeral Blues” served as judge.
ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]
[10h] The 1950 prize was awarded by Auden to this poet for her collection A Change of World. The final stanza of a poem by this author describes “carrying…a book of myths in which our names do not appear.”
ANSWER: Adrienne Rich (The unnamed poem is “Diving into the Wreck.”)
[10m] Auden also awarded the prize to an author with this surname who wrote a poem titled for “Lying in a Hammock” at a farm. In a novel by an author with this surname, the protagonist kills a rat with a skillet and later accidentally suffocates a Communist girl.
ANSWER: Wright [or Richard Wright; or Richard Nathanael Wright; or James Wright; or James Arlington Wright] (The novel in the second sentence is Native Son.)
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 15.28 | 89% | 50% | 14% |