Question
The narrator of this poem asks God why, in this “huge ineducable / heterogeneous hotch and rabble,” he is “condemned to squabble.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this long poem written in Scots. The poet’s Marxist-Leninist views may have informed his responses to contemporary events like the 1926 United Kingdom general strike in sections of this poem.
ANSWER: “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”
[10m] This man, who is the subject of a poem by Blind Harry, is among the historical figures whom the narrator of Hugh MacDiarmid’s (“muck-DER-mid’s”) “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” sees upon the turning of the “weary wheel.”
ANSWER: William Wallace [or Uilleam Uallas or Weelum Wallace; accept The Wallace or The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace]
[10e] The narrator also makes repeated references to this Robert Burns poem that asks “Should auld acquaintance be forgot?”
ANSWER: “Auld Lang Syne”
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago B | Imperial A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Texas A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Claremont A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Duke A | Penn State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Brown A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Indiana A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Virginia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UC Berkeley B | Ohio State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Florida A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL B | McGill A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | Rutgers B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |