Question
The flashback that introduces the main action in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is triggered when Laruelle does a parody of this activity using Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this activity popular in ancient Rome, in which people would attempt to determine their future by flipping to a random page of a certain Roman author’s work and reading the first line they saw.
ANSWER: sortes Vergilianae [or Virgilian Lots; prompt on answers involving predicting the future from reading Virgil; reject “Sortes Homericae”]
[10e] People who employed the sortes Vergilianae most commonly drew from this epic of his, which begins, “I sing of arms and the man.”
ANSWER: The Aeneid
[10m] An emperor known by this name used a line from the Aeneid to determine that his brother Quintillus should not succeed him. The “pumpkinification” of another emperor of this name is described in Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis.
ANSWER: Claudius [accept Claudius Gothicus or Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus] (Quintillus did in fact succeed Claudius Gothicus via coup, reigned for 17 days, and was assassinated by his soldiers.)
<HG, European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| McDouble West-Carleton | Ottawa C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ottawa B | Ottawa A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont | Auxiliary CLU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke | South Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | James Madison A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NC State | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech C | Emory A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Georgia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Birmingham | Edinburgh | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Warwick | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Durham | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Cambridge B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Bristol | Oxford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Notre Dame A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Purdue B | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Notre Dame B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| George Washington A | George Washington B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland B | Georgetown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kenyon B | Michigan B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State B | Kenyon A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Arizona State | Boston College | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Farrellmagnetism | Zen and the Art of Buzzing | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| MSU A and Friend | Ganon Evans Fan Club | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell MATLAB | Cornell R | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| RIT | Syracuse+Rochester | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| HCC | TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | TAMU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas C | Texas B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL XYZ | Missouri A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Missouri B | SIUE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| WUSTL H2O | Squidward Community College | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | James Madison B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |