Packet 2: Tossup 1

In a poem, a woman in white tells one of these people a story in which a falling pumpkin is among the divine interruptions that keep a man from having sex out of wedlock. In another poem, one of these people competes with a sculptor (-5[1])who carves a staircase into a mountain for the love (15[1])of (15[1])a woman whom (-5[1])he had met bathing nude in a stream. A princess in the red dome of Mars tells one of these people (15[2])a story (-5[1])resembling Turandot in an erotic poem (15[1])in which the days of the week correspond to (*) “Seven Beauties.” (10[1]-5[1])One of these people marries the Christian Shirin in one of the “five (-5[1])treasures” of Nizami’s (10[1])Khamsa. (-5[2])People of this type include the first man, Keyumars, (10[1])as (-5[1])well as (10[1])Kay (10[3])Kāvus, (10[1])in a (10[1])50,000 (10[2])verse (10[2])poem partly (10[1])named (10[1])for them. (10[8])For 10 (10[2])points, (10[1])what (10[1])rulers title (10[1])an epic (10[3])that (10[1])narrates the deeds of Rostam, (10[2])written by Ferdowsi? ■END■ (10[4])

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