Packet 12: Bonus 22
In a poem about this feature, the speaker watches a melon-rind go by and states “I am he who has gazed a hundred thousand years / On that which he now sees for the first time.” For 10 points each:
[10e] What feature is described as “beautiful” and “blue” in a Karl Isidor Beck poem that inspired a waltz by Johann Strauss II?
ANSWER: Danube River [or Donau; or Duna; accept “By the Danube” or “A Dunánál”; accept “By the Beautiful Blue Danube” or “An der schönen blauen Donau”]
[10h] This Hungarian poet of “By the Danube” described his “native country” as the place where his tombstone will “not for once misspell my name.” This socialist summed up his life in a “Curriculum Vitae” before dying at age 32.
ANSWER: Attila József [or József Attila]
[10m] This earlier poet wrote a “hymn” about the Ister, or Danube, that a 1942 lecture course by Martin Heidegger reads against the choral odes of Sophocles.
ANSWER: Friedrich Hölderlin [or Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin]
<HA, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-12
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
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| Indiana | Muscle Mass Extinction Event | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EH |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |