college quiz bowl fall 2025

Jupiter Hammon

first published African American in colonies

Calling of St. Matthew

man hunched over coins on table

Love in the time of cholera

Barbara Lynch

Beethoven’s fifth

fate knocking at the door

Google

willow and sycamore chips

Naipaul

short stories In a Free State

Dulce et decorum est

“bitter as cud”

Australian myths

dancing eel, bunyips

Around the world in 80 days

84 degree shaving water

Messiaen

quartet for the end of Time in German POW camp

water margin

stone tortoise

Flaubert

a simple heart

Lancelot

son of king Ban, raised by lady of lake, lover of guinevere, lord of castle joyous Gard, fathered galahad with Elaine

massachusetts bay colony

antinomianism

Klee

Pedagogical Sketchbook, bird on handcrank, Twittering Machine

Chopin

Etudes for Liszt

thylacine

marsupial

Albee

Seascape

Yangtze River

dolphins, dam

Ayahs

smaller units of surrahs

Saarinen

conversation pit, twa, tulip chair, rink

Benito Cereno

ship captain

Marlow

Hero and Leander completed by George Chapman

Count of Monte Cristo

Wait and Hope

Ymir

giant killed in norse myth, suckled by cosmic cow Audhumla

Milosz

Polish, The captive mind

Havel

The garden party

Foucault

biopower, the Birth of The Clinic, Panopticon, public execution, Discipline and Punish, history of Sexuality, discussed Las Meninas

Spivak

Can the Subaltern Speak

Canada

King Bing Affair

Ramayana

tail on fire

Keneally

The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith

Okonkwo

son Ikemefuna

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

anti-nazi, the Cost of Discipleship

Ramsses the Great

poem of Pentaur, Sheridan Sea Pirates

Smith

used stones to translate golden plates

Mont Blanc

tallest in Alps, Ozzi Iceman

Andre Brink

A Dry White Season, South Africa

Lawrence

Pinkie, opposite blue boy

Wenceslas

Bohemia

legalism

The Book of Lord Shang, Han Fei essays

Wallace Stevens

“dresser of deal”

hysterical realism

White teeth by Zadie Smith, real event ridiculous prose

Cat on a Hot tin roof

broke ankles hurdling, sees child prostitute on vacation

Epic of Sundiata

broken staff to walk, ugly woman Sogolon, buffalo woman, mandinka king

Pool at Bethesda

jesus healed a paralyzed man

Mario and the Magician

disfigured body, fascist hypnotist

Locke

act of picking apples

Hesse

magister Ludi

easter Island

sooty terns, Ranga Ranga, birdmen

Tagore

Post Office play, night Paris fell broadcast

Holocaust

different trains, sprechstimme

Walcott

worm of carrion, far cry from Africa, remake of Iliad

Pele

carries sister egg, detachable vagina

Anthony von Hoboken

created music catalogue, Haydn music

morpheme

meaningful unit of language that cannot be further divided, such as -ing

phoneme

perceptual unit of sound in a word

Chomsky

poverty of the stimulus

Philadelphia

Venturi’s mother’s house

Rigoletto

Caro Nome, La Donna e mobile

Hokusai

fine wind clear morning

Hiroshige

100 views of ego, 53 views of station

Hedda Gabler

manuscript

The Time Machine

giant crabs, white flowers

Persian

Conference of Birds, Hoopoe

July These

Romania

Schubert’s 8th

Unfinished Symphony

cannes

Palm D’Or

Huck Finn

royal nonesuch

Martin Fierro

Gaucho literature, Argentina, Jose Hernandez

Monk

Straight no Chaser

JG Ballard

Crash (car crash fetishists), Empire of the Sun, The Drowned World

Pinter

A Slight Ache

Grosse

Bonaparte visits plague victims, student of David

Fenrir

sword in mouth, fire from eyes, lives in island

Ovid

Daphne into tree, to Corinna

Renzo Piano

Centre Pompidou, outside plumbing

cutty sark

skirt of witch in tam o’shanter, historic ship

Bronzino

mannerist painter of Venus Cupid Folly and Time

Night on Bald mountain

Mussorgsky, Witches Sabbath

Sisyphus

no gold coin in mouth

New York School

Frank O’Hara

Duino Elegies

Gaspara Stampa

Bellerophon

Plain of Aleion, defeated amazons by dropping boulders, to be killed by King Iodates, falsely accused of rape by Stheneboea

Turandot

theme from music box, prince of Persia, children’s chorus, folk song Jasmine

Machiavelli

armed prophets, commentary on Ab Urbe Condita, the prince a satire

Love Song of JAP

Pervigilium section, tongue of flame in epigraph

Aeschylus

letting the daughters of Danaus into Argos

Ansel Adams

women doing calisthenics, Manzanar, inspired by Strand, moved away from pictorialist, Zone system

The Brothers Karamazov

Speech at the Stone at schoolboy’s funeral, sensualist son from marriage with Adelaida

Rubens

second wife Helena Fourment, Bathsheba at the Fountain, Garden of Eden with the Fall of man, medici cycle, Triumph of Truth

vanity fair

Marquis of Steyne, Clytemnestra during charades, dies of yellow fever while governor at Coventry Island

Burns

grey horse named Meg, “nursing wrath to keep it warm”, rocks melt in sun and sands of time run out

Copland

Lincoln Portrait, George Wallace Speech, Quiet City

Hera

hung from Mt Olympus w/ gold chains for uprising against Zeus

Little Women

“strong and wild like gull,”

Michelangelo

self as Nicodemus, only signed work “Florent Faciebat”, Night and Day figures

Neruda

“river of buried tigers,” “river of yellow lightning”