Question
Followers of this belief system commemorated two founders on the holiday of Eikas on the twentieth day of every month. In Naples, a circle of adherents to this belief system was led by Philodemus of Gadara, a client of Lucius Calpurnius Piso. Gravestones of many members of this movement include the inscription “Non fui, fui, non sum.” Every day, followers of this belief system recited the (*) tetrapharmakos, part of its “principal doctrines.” The founder of this belief system is praised for defeating the monster Religion in a poem that also discusses the clinamen, or “swerve.” For 10 points, name this materialistic ancient philosophy expounded in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, which taught that the highest good was ataraxia, the absence of pain. ■END■
Summary
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 17% | 85.33 |
2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.00 |
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 111.67 |
2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 73.67 |
2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 85.67 |
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.00 |
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 112.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Michael Kearney | nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft | Columbia B | 39 | 15 |
Charles Hang | WUSTL | Chicago B | 52 | 15 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | UG Championship Players (and Mazin) | Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again | 56 | -5 |
Jordan Brownstein | Maryland B- | Epic Games | 66 | 10 |
Will Alston | Amartya Senpai Notice Me | Purdue | 66 | -5 |
Sky Li | The Passion According to C.H. | Parth et al. | 66 | -5 |
Chris Manners | Dr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq | The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B | 71 | 10 |
Jason Golfinos | [Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | Stanford A | 74 | -5 |
Taylor Harvey | Mojo Shojo | Illinois | 77 | 10 |
Arthur Delot-Vilain | Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again | UG Championship Players (and Mazin) | 77 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | Cameron et al. | 84 | -5 |
Geoffrey Chen | Hutto Hippos | Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang | 92 | 10 |
Hari Parameswaran | It's Joever | Stanford B | 94 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 94 | -5 |
Matt Jackson | Chicago A | Michigan | 94 | 10 |
Young Fenimore Leave | What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU | Cornell C++ | 94 | 10 |
Ash Seetharaman | Houston and Friends | Cornell B- | 94 | -5 |
Ben | Buzzers Karamazov | Oxford Hornets | 94 | 10 |
Jonathan Shauf | The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs | Maryland A | 99 | 10 |
Chris Sims | Northwestern | OSU | 102 | 10 |
Enoch | Broken Imperial Nomads | Magisters Ludi | 102 | 10 |
Ian Chow | Milan et al. | The Vulture's Guide to Buzz | 103 | 10 |
Jim Fan | Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them | Rutgers Diaspora | 105 | 10 |
Halle Friedman | meet the new weird, same as the old weird | Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry | 105 | 10 |
Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 120 | 10 |
Jonathan Magin | Maryland B+ | Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery | 120 | 10 |
Natan Holtzman | Stanford A | [Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | 121 | 10 |
Quynh Phung | Purdue | Amartya Senpai Notice Me | 121 | 10 |
David Snoddon | Parth et al. | The Passion According to C.H. | 121 | 0 |
Andrej Vukovic | Cameron et al. | Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | 121 | 10 |