Question

An author from this country wrote about the life of Marcus Vinicius during the reign of Nero. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country, home to the author of Quo Vadis (“KWOH VAH-dis”). That author also wrote With Fire and Sword as part of a trilogy of books.
ANSWER: Poland [the author is Henryk Sienkiewicz]
[10m] Another polish author, Adam Mickiewicz (“MEET-skuh-veech”), wrote one of these works for Poland called the Pan Tadeusz (“pahn tah-DAY-ooshl”). The Lusiads is one of these works of Portugal.
ANSWER: national epics [prompt on epics]
[10e] Adam Mickiewicz also wrote one of these poems dedicated “to Youth." Freidrich Schiller wrote one of them “to Joy” that was set to music at the end of Beethoven’s ninth symphony.
ANSWER: odes [accept “Ode to Youth”; accept “Ode to Joy”]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
BASIS-Independent BrooklynEast Brunswick A001010
EastchesterDowningtown STEM0101020
Great ValleyHunter A10101030
Hastings AMather C10101030
Hastings BNorth Babylon A001010
Stuyvesant ATrinity B10101030
Stuyvesant BDaniel Boone Academy001010
Trinity AHunter B0101020
moving finger AMather B10101030
moving finger BNorth Babylon B001010
moving finger CMather A001010

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
Snowball Fight 21/11/2025N316.67100%67%0%
2024 FARSI @ Columbia12/08/2024Y1119.09100%55%36%