Question
This work describes a man waiting at a vestibule as one who made “the great refusal.” Dorothy Sayers tried to preserve this work’s rhyme scheme in a project a century after it was translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A couple in this work euphemistically describes love-making with the phrase “we read no more that day,” after reading a book about Lancelot and Guinevere. This work’s narrator declares (*) “midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark” before seeing a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf. In this terza rima (“TUR-zuh REE-muh”) poem, the narrator meets Paolo and Francesca and sees a gate marked “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” For 10 points, Dante tours Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in what poem? ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 35 | 100% | 26% | 0% | 77.63 |