Packet 2: Bonus 13
Contra Matthew Arnold, this poet quipped that translating Homer in hexameters is “a most burlesque barbarous experiment.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poet who drew on Homer for a monologue in which an “idle king” declares his intention to sail away from home in order “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (The poem is “Ulysses.”)
[10m] Tennyson’s trip to Spain with Arthur Hallam inspired “Oenone” (“ee-NOH-nee”) and this other Homeric poem, whose speakers state “all hath suffer’d change” after arriving in “a land / In which it seemed always afternoon.”
ANSWER: “The Lotos-Eaters”
[10h] Tennyson’s translations from the Iliad include the scene of Achilles’s “brazen cry” over this place. Achilles is told to stand “Flame-capped, and shout for me” in a Patrick Shaw-Stewart poem that reimagines this title place.
ANSWER: the trench [accept the trenches; accept the ditch; accept “Achilles in the Trench”; accept “Achilles Over the Trench”; prompt on the Achaeans’ camp, the rampart or the wooden wall]
<Brown, British Literature> | B. Prelims 2 - Northwestern A + Virginia Tech + Brown + Penn State
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 13.33 | 81% | 48% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | North Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Bruin | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge | Virginia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | UCF | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Cornell | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech A | WashU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech B | Minnesota | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech C | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | Georgetown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois A | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois B | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Indiana | MIT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Maryland A | Pittsburgh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Maryland B | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Stanford B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| NYU B | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Northwestern B | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Ohio State | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | UCLA | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Swarthmore | Texas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| UC Berkeley A | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 13.33 | 81% | 48% | 5% |