Packet 1: Bonus 7

Before dying on Air France Flight 343, a poet with this surname and the first name David derided assimilationists from his country in his poem “The Renegade.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this shared surname of a poet with the first name Birago, who wrote the collection Leurres et Lueurs (“LURR zay loo-URR”). A third author with this surname founded the literary magazine Présence Africaine (“pray-ZONCE ah-free-KEN”).
ANSWER: Diop [accept David Diop or Birago Diop or Alioune Diop]
[10e] Contemporary novelist David Diop wrote about Senegalese Tirailleurs (“tee-rye-YURRS”) in his novel At Night All [this substance] is Black. This substance names the title “petals” of a Ngũgĩ novel.
ANSWER: blood [accept At Night All Blood is Black; accept Petals of Blood]
[10m] The speaker’s three fingers are red with the blood of a dog, a bull, and one of these animals in Birago Diop’s poem “Viaticum.” A love triangle is the focus of a Greek-inspired J. P. Clark play titled for the “song of” this animal.
ANSWER: goats [accept Song of a Goat]
<Editors, World Literature> | J. Playoffs 1 (Editors 1)

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2412.9296%29%4%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaGeorgia Tech C010010E
BruinOhio State0101020EM
Chicago AUC Berkeley B0101020EM
Chicago BSwarthmore010010E
CornellBrown0000
GeorgetownNorthwestern B0101020EM
Georgia Tech AStanford B0101020EM
Georgia Tech BVirginia010010E
Illinois APittsburgh1010020HE
MITUCLA010010E
MichiganRutgers010010E
MinnesotaCambridge010010E
NYU AMaryland A010010E
NYU BJohns Hopkins010010E
North CarolinaMaryland B0101020EM
Northwestern AColumbia A010010E
Penn StateColumbia B0101020EM
PurdueWaterloo010010E
Stanford AHarvard010010E
Toronto BTexas010010E
UC Berkeley AToronto A0101020EM
UCFIllinois B010010E
Virginia TechIndiana010010E
WashUVanderbilt010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2412.9296%29%4%