Question

A set of Old English poems personify this entity as a Chaldean nobleman who exchanges riddles with Solomon. After descending a golden ladder on this object, a soul spins so fast that it glows brightly, then reveals itself to Dante as Peter Damian. After thirty years, this object returns to the ecliptic longitude it occupied at someone’s birth, accounting for quarter-life crises in horoscopic astrology. Johannes Kepler modeled this body as a sphere enclosing (-5[1])a set of (*) Platonic solids. (-5[1])Erwin (-5[1])Panofsky co-wrote a study (-5[1])of the association between (10[1])melancholy (-5[1])and being born under (10[1])the sign (-5[1])of this (10[1])planet. (10[2]-5[1])The Paradiso places this planet just before the (10[1])Fixed Stars as the seventh (10[1])level of heaven. For 10 points, name this farthest of the classical planets, (10[2])named after (10[1])the Roman (-5[1])equivalent (10[1])of Cronus. (10[1])■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: Saturn [or Saturnus; accept the seventh heaven before “seventh”; accept the seventh splendor before “seventh”; accept al settimo splendore before “seventh”]
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Summary

2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%0%33%111.17
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%67%119.67
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%0%67%124.00
2023 BHSU Online04/15/2023Y4100%0%50%118.25
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y2100%0%0%114.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Arya KarthikThe Enrique Trastamara Military Academy BCornell C++73-5
Davis Everson-RoseEpic GamesWUSTL78-5
Conor ThompsonMichiganChicago B+79-5
Swapnil GargBerkeley ABerkeley B83-5
Raymond WangHutto HipposHouston and friends8710
Dan NiCornell B-Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang88-5
Taylor HarveyMojo ShojoChicago9210
Ethan StrombeckStanford A[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]94-5
Clark SmithOSUPurdue9610
Jonathan MaginMaryland B+Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery9710
Jim FanFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find ThemRutgers Diaspora97-5
Jordan BrownsteinMaryland B-Amartya Senpai Notice Me9710
KrolMagisters LudiBroken Imperial Nomads10510
Eric WolfsbergIt's JoeverStanford B11010
Christopher SimsNorthwesternIllinois A+12310
BenBuzzers KaramazovOxford Hornets12310
Ani PerumallaWhat is BH! And you are asking me? BHSUDr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq12510
Jonathan ShaufThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 NegsMaryland A127-5
Alston BoydChicago B+Michigan12810
Kenji ShimizuRollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne GangCornell B-13010
Stephen Liu[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]Stanford A13110
Vinu HariharBerkeley BBerkeley A13110
Collin AceRutgers DiasporaFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them13110
Isaac MammelMaryland AThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs13110
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTLEpic Games13110
Ben HuCornell C++The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B13110