Question
In Clare Cavanagh’s translation of a poem in this language titled “Map,” the author claims to like the title objects “because they give no access to the vicious truth.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this language used by the Nobel Prize-winning poet of the collections Salt and Nothing Twice. Robert Hass translated “A Song on the End of the World” from this language to English.
ANSWER: Polish [or polski] (The poets are Wisława Szymborska and Czesław Miłosz.)
[10h] Cavanagh’s translation of this author’s poem “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” was printed on the back page of The New Yorker after 9/11. This member of Poland’s Generation of ‘68 died in 2021.
ANSWER: Adam Zagajewski (“zah-gah-YEV-skee”)
[10e] Cavanagh’s essay “The Art of Losing” pushes back against the desire for literal translations using the example of a Polish translation of this American poet’s villanelle “One Art.”
ANSWER: Elizabeth Bishop
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Houston A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Duke A | Brown A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida A | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida B | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech A | Ohio State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Penn State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois A | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| MIT A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill A | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Indiana A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Iowa State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina A | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Texas A | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Harvard A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | Michigan A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |