Question
This character sees men with "stony eye-balls" lift their right hands glowing like torches, in a passage later removed from a collection. An author coined the term "suspension of disbelief" while recalling his creation of this "bright-eyed" man in the Biographia Literaria. This man meets a Pilot and a Hermit in a work where his "life-blood seemed to sip" after a "Night-mare" with (*) "skin...white as leprosy" wins a dice game. A poem's narrator tells this "gray-beard loon" that he fears his "glittering eye." This man blesses water snakes and tells the Wedding-Guest how he saw "Water, water every where, / Nor any drop to drink." For 10 points, what title man shoots an albatross in a "Rime" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge? ■END■
ANSWER: the Ancient Mariner [accept "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; prompt on the Mariner]
<Literature - British Literature - Poetry>
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 35 | 97% | 17% | 0% | 80.71 |