T. S. Eliot - 2025 ACF Regionals

Tossup

A poem by this author describes a “man and woman daunsinge (“DAWN-sing”), signifying matrimonie,” (10[1])quoting an ancestor’s work, The Boke Named The Governour. Another poem by this author moves from an empty pool in a rose garden (10[2])to a “place of disaffection,” (10[1])the London (10[1])Underground. A personal motto of Mary, Queen of Scots ends a poem by this author titled for a village that now holds his ashes. (10[1])This author drew on his upbringing (-5[1])in St. Louis (10[4])in a poem that (10[1])evokes the (10[1])Mississippi (10[1])River (10[4])as a “strong (10[2])brown (10[2])god.” (10[2]-5[4])A set of poems by this (-5[1])author (10[1]-5[1])includes the opening lines, “time present and time (10[1])past (10[2])/ are (10[1])both (10[2])perhaps present in time future” and “in my beginning is my end.” For 10 points, (10[1])name this poet (10[1])who included “The Dry (10[1])Salvages (“sal-VAY-jiz”)” and “Burnt (10[1])Norton” (10[3])in the collection (10[1])Four Quartets. (10[2]0[1])■END■ (10[11]0[7])

ANSWER: T. S. Eliot [or Thomas Stearns Eliot] (The Boke Named the Governour is by Thomas Elyot, a distant ancestor of Eliot.)

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Louis Cameron	Cambridge E	Southampton B	12	10
Parker McCoig	Tennessee A	Georgia Tech C	35	10
Sinecio Morales	Johns Hopkins A	Columbia C	35	10
Hrishit Chaudhuri	NYU B	Haverford A	40	10
Jay Kim	Chicago B	Missouri S&T	42	10
Arya Karthik	Oxford A	Cambridge D	66	10
Seraphina Charlotte Foo	Cambridge A	Imperial A	72	-5
Carter Pisocky	Michigan C	Ohio State A	75	10
Jakob Myers	Indiana A	Chicago C	75	10
Ben Koberlein	Notre Dame B	Georgetown B	75	10
Olin Bose	Columbia B	George Washington B	75	10
Guy Indorante	Iowa State	Winona State	79	10
Rachel Fanous	Michigan A	Michigan D	81	10
Jerry Vinokurov	John Jay College	Penn A	82	10
Ned Tagtmeier	Chicago A	Missouri	83	10
James McCurley	Harvard B	BU	83	10
Stephen Walsh	Northwestern B	Stanford B	83	10
Cade Reinberger	RIT A	Cornell C	83	10
Rosa Xia	Cornell B	Vassar A	86	10
Gus Vanskike	Maryland B	NYU A	86	10
Ryan Sun	UC Berkeley B	Claremont B	87	10
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	WashU A	87	10
Joy An	Harvard A	Tufts A	88	-5
Jisoo Yoo	Texas A	ASU	88	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin A	Georgia Tech A	88	-5
Louis Harney	Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	88	-5
Benjamin Liu	Oxford C	Cambridge B	88	10
Albert Nyang	LSE	Southampton A	88	-5
John Luke Broussard	TAMU	Texas B	94	-5
Christopher Dech	Brandeis A	Brandeis B	95	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	UMass Boston	95	-5
Philip Yao	Brown A	MIT A	103	10
Kevin Zheng	Michigan B	Kenyon	104	10
Arjun Kala	Illinois B	WashU B	104	10
William Orr	Yale A	George Washington A	106	10
Nathaniel Hull	UC Berkeley A	UCLA	107	10
Andrew Harms	Michigan State	Carnegie Mellon A	107	10
Nolan Dannels	UCSD	Claremont A	122	10
Rachel Ezrielev	Georgetown A	Northwestern A	125	10
Stan Melkumian	Purdue	Notre Dame C	129	10
Antoni Kluzowski	Warwick A	NYU C	132	10
Rohan Navaneetha Raj	Ohio State B	Case Western A	133	10
Max Hodes	Chicago D	Indiana B	133	10
Kevin Flanagan	Bristol	Imperial B	133	10
Jacob Finley	Notre Dame A	Iowa	136	10
Meredith Wiper	Case Western B	Carnegie Mellon B	138	10
Morgan Bozeman	Minnesota B	Wisconsin B	138	10
Michael Zhou	Georgia Tech A	Bruin A	138	0
Leo Law	Florida A	Florida State A	139	10
Clete Reinberger	Valencia A	Florida B	139	10
Henry Keating	UCF C	UCF B	139	10
Nithin Mendu	Wisconsin A	Carleton	139	0
Isaac Meredith	Tufts A	Harvard A	139	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Georgia Tech B	139	10
Samir Sarma	Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt A	139	0
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech D	139	10
Justin Lee	Imperial A	Cambridge A	139	0
Kai Madgwick	Manchester	Durham	139	10
Sarah Henderson	Cambridge C	Oxford B	139	10
Andrew Fisher	Sheffield	Warwick B	139	10
Zayyan Mahmood	Southampton A	LSE	139	10
Patrick Torre	Maryland A	Haverford B	139	10
Giuseppe Piccirilli	Binghamton A	RIT B	139	0
Greg Reiser	RIT B	Binghamton A	139	0
Gregory Stone	ESF A	Cornell D	139	0
Kritanu Saha	Cornell D	ESF A	139	0

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
California	2025-02-01	3	100%	0%	105.33
Florida	2025-02-01	3	100%	0%	139.00
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	6	100%	0%	106.33
Midwest	2025-02-01	6	100%	0%	87.33
North	2025-02-01	3	67%	0%	108.50
Northeast	2025-02-01	5	80%	40%	105.00
Overflow	2025-02-01	5	100%	0%	109.60
South Central	2025-02-01	2	50%	50%	88.00
Southeast	2025-02-01	4	75%	50%	104.33
UK	2025-02-01	10	90%	20%	109.67
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	8	100%	0%	81.13
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	3	33%	0%	83.00