Question
A poem in this language states, "The sons of Adam are limbs of each other" and is inscribed in the United Nations building. Seven principal voices are used in a 50,000-line poem in this language whose prologue describes an object that makes a "crying sound" after being separated from its bed. In a poem in this language, a character realizes he killed his son after seeing a jewel on his arm. That man rides the stallion (*) Rakhsh and was saved at birth by the simurgh. A poem in this language of the Masnavi begins with a command to "AWAKE!" and consists of AABA rhyme scheme quatrains. For 10 points, what language was used to describe how the "Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on" in Omar Khayyam's Rubáiyát? ■END■
ANSWER: Farsi [or Persian] (The poem in the first line is the Bani Adam from Saadi's Gulistan; the unnamed poem in the third line is Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.)
<Literature - World 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 | 42 | 98% | 38% | 0% | 83.24 |