Packet 1: Bonus 7
This poet penned the lines “Joyful, joyful, joyful, / as only dogs know how to be happy” in a poem about “having lost a companion / who was never servile” entitled “A Dog Has Died.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet. The speaker tells the title creature “you buzz in my soul, drunk with honey,” in this author’s poem “White Bee.”
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]
[10e] The speaker describes how “a gust of air like a crystal wave splits up inside my chest” in a Neruda ode to these animals. Maya Angelou titled an autobiography for Paul Laurence Dunbar’s line about a “caged” one of these animals that sings.
ANSWER: birds [accept “Ode to Bird Watching” or I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]
[10m] Neruda notes a cat’s “paws and its posture” in a poem titled for a “Cat’s” one of these things. Another poem asks whether one of these things “dr[ies] up / like a raisin in the sun.”
ANSWER: dreams [accept “Cat’s Dream” or “a dream deferred”] (The second poem is Langston Hughes’s “Harlem.”)
<Poetry — Sinecio Morales> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 1
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 16.67 | 100% | 54% | 13% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harpeth Hall | USN C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Merrol Hyde A | Athens Bible School | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Owensboro | Franklin Road Academy | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| USN A | Merrol Hyde B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| USN B | Portland High | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 14 | 13.57 | 100% | 29% | 7% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 100% | 40% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |