sonnets - 2025 PACE NSC - Buzzpoints App

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Vittoria da Colonna ("vit-TOR-ee-ah dah koh-LON-nah") created 103 of these works as a 1540 present for Michelangelo. The strambotto ("stram-BOT-toh") may have inspired the first creation of these works by Giacomo da Lentini ("JACK-oh-moh dah len-TEE-nee"). In A. S. Kline's translation, "sighs on which I fed my heart" are described in the first of 317 of these works (20[1])in a sequence that popularized (20[1])them. (20[2])25 of these works, along with commentaries, form the bulk of the prosimetrum book The New Life, or La (*) Vita (10[1])Nuova (10[4]0[1])("lah VEE-tah N'WOH-vah"). One of these poems addressed to (10[1])"you (0[1])who (10[1])hear (10[1])the sound, (10[2])in (0[1])scattered (10[2]0[1])rhymes" (10[7])provides (0[1])an (10[1])alternative (10[1])title (10[2])for Il Canzoniere (10[1])("eel cant-zon-YAIR-ay"), which includes (0[1])many of them about Laura. (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1])an octave is followed by a sestet (10[3])in the "Petrarchan" ("peh-TRAR-kun") form of what 14-line (10[2])poems? (10[1])■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: sonnets [or sonetti or sonetto; accept Petrarchan sonnets; prompt on poems until read]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Jacob Higgs	Strake Jesuit A	Audrain County AT	50	20
Shishir Bharadwaj	Lexington	Lambert A	55	20
Juni Lowenhar	Hunter B	Detroit Catholic Central B	56	20
Evan Schleck	Hunter A	Northview	56	20
Simra Kuchay	Walter Payton A	Eastchester	76	10
Tate Osborne	Alabama Cyber Tech	Belmont	77	10
Krish Chinta	Innovation Academy A	Fremd	77	0
Evan Ting	Park Tudor	Wayzata	77	10
Abigail AuYeung	Hinsdale Central A	Richard Montgomery	77	10
Hamin Song	Okemos	Thomas Jefferson D	77	10
Soham Ray	Parkway West	Seven Lakes	83	10
Arjun Vijaykumar	Saratoga	Edina	84	0
Joshua Koch	Grosse Pointe South	Adlai E. Stevenson B	85	10
Travis Johnson	Great Valley	Downingtown STEM	86	10
Michael Pu	Carmel A	Winston Churchill A	88	10
Jason Yao	Montgomery Blair B	Innovation Academy B	88	10
Jasper Xu	Westwood	Johns Creek	89	0
Akilan Ganesan	Chattahoochee A	Georgetown Day	90	10
Nathan Haley	Northmont	Lindbergh	90	10
Ben Newman	Uni of Illinois Laboratory	Strake Jesuit B	90	0
Brodie Henry	West Point	Barrington	91	10
Sreekar Vajjha	Classen SAS	Centennial A	91	10
Karthik Jayaram	Walker	Glenbrook South	91	10
Winnie Nutkowitz	Northside College Prep	Quince Orchard	91	10
Arianne Amasol	Yukon A	Solon	91	10
Monit Karmakar	Adlai E. Stevenson A	Thomas Jefferson A	91	10
Ophelia Cherry-Pulay	Uni School of Nashville A	Uni School of Nashville B	91	10
Anthony Xu	Thomas Jefferson B	Carl Sandburg	92	0
Nick Murray	Detroit Catholic Central A	Montgomery Blair A	93	10
Aidyn Congdon	Lee's Summit	Winston Churchill B	94	10
Arani Pittu	Lambert B	Carmel B	95	10
Darren Kellis	Milton	Centennial B	95	10
Felix Sacks	Lincoln-Way East A	Irvington	98	10
Ahya Farhat	Russell	Detroit Catholic Central C	100	0
Rajiv Pujara	Fairfield County AT	Chattahoochee B	105	10
Teddy Berente	Saint Joseph	Thomas Jefferson C	107	10
Micah Chacon	Page	Herron	108	10
Tony Han	Kane County AT	Thomas Jefferson E	115	10
Amy Tan	North Quincy	Virginia	115	10
Maya Ritz	Yukon B	Walter Payton B	115	10
Omkar Marathe	Fremd	Innovation Academy A	122	10
Tommy Koch	Detroit Catholic Central C	Russell	122	10
Jayden Wright	White Pigeon	Homewood-Flossmoor	123	10
Ayaan Ghori	Carl Sandburg	Thomas Jefferson B	124	10
Beckett Pursey	Edina	Saratoga	124	10
Michelle Luo	Johns Creek	Westwood	124	10
Stephen Langdon	Lincoln-Way East B	Coronado	124	10
Mikey Rodriguez	Strake Jesuit B	Uni of Illinois Laboratory	124	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 PACE NSC	06/07/2025	Y	42	100%	10%	0%	94.64