Question
A poem titled for this university begins “Softly I am leaving, / Just as softly as I came; / I softly wave goodbye / To the clouds in the western sky.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this university where a stone bears an inscription of lines from Xú Zhìmó’s (“shoo jurr-mwoh’s”) best-known poem, which is about leaving this university.
ANSWER: Cambridge University [accept “On Leaving Cambridge,” “Leaving Cambridge Again,” “Farewell Again, Cambridge,” or “Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again”; accept “Zài Bié Kāngqiáo”]
[10m] This poet declared “For Cambridge people rarely smile” in “The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.” A sonnet by this poet begins “If I should die, think only this of me” before describing “rich earth” with “a richer dust concealed.”
ANSWER: Rupert Brooke [or Rupert Chawner Brooke] (The sonnet is “The Soldier.”)
[10e] This poet described his “Residence at Cambridge” in the third book of his long autobiographical poem, The Prelude.
ANSWER: William Wordsworth
Data
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
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Brown A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Chicago A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Chicago B | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Columbia B | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Cornell B | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Georgia Tech A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Harvard A | Houston A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Illinois A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Indiana A | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Iowa State A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
MIT A | Penn State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Maryland A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
McGill A | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Michigan A | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Minnesota A | Rutgers A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Minnesota B | Claremont A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Carolina A | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Ohio State A | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Purdue A | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Stanford A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Texas A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Yale A | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |