Question

The narrator of a poem by this author falls asleep after reading Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis and dreams that Scipio Africanus is guiding him to a celestial gate. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who wrote about a debate between eagles that occurs when Nature convenes the birds to pick their mates in his Parlement of Foules.
ANSWER: Geoffrey Chaucer
[10h] In this other Middle English debate poem, one participant says that her opponent is only useful as a scarecrow. This poem’s two title birds seek out Nicholas of Guildford to settle their debate.
ANSWER: The Owl and the Nightingale [or Hule and the Nightingale; or Altercatio inter filomenam et bubonem]
[10m] In John Clanvowe’s The Book of Cupid, God of Love, the nightingale defends love in a debate with this other bird, which the narrator chases off with a stone. The poem “Sumer is icumen in” asks this bird to sing.
ANSWER: cuckoo [or cuccu or cukkow; accept common cuckoo or European cuckoo or other species]
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Data

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Arizona StateColumbia B100010
Berkeley BCornell B1001020
BrownNYU1010020
Chicago CMinnesota B0000
Columbia AWaterloo100010
Cornell ATexas10101030
FloridaYale B0000
Georgia TechBerkeley A100010
HarvardVanderbilt1010020
IllinoisMichigan1001020
IndianaChicago A1001020
Johns HopkinsNorthwestern100010
MarylandIowa State100010
McGillChicago D1001020
Minnesota AChicago B100010
North Carolina APurdue1001020
OttawaDuke0000
PennRutgers100010
South CarolinaNorth Carolina B100010
Toronto BClaremont Colleges100010
Truman StateKentucky100010
VirginiaWUSTL B0000
WUSTL AStanford100010
Yale AToronto A1001020

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2412.5083%29%13%