Question
In order to obtain grazia, these people are advised to learn a “certain nonchalance” that disguises the fact that they are performing difficult tasks. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these people who should demonstrate Sprezzatura according to a book titled for them by Baldassare Castiglione.
ANSWER: courtiers [accept Book of the Courtier or Il Cortegiano]
[10e] Castiglione desired for courtiers to have mastery over both Latin and this other Classical language spoken by Aristotle.
ANSWER: Ancient Greek
[10m] Ancient courtiers may have had titles like “Master of Squires” or this position that Sargon the Great held under Ur-Zababa. In Greek myth, a boy kidnapped by an eagle from Mount Ida replaced Hebe in this position.
ANSWER: cup-bearer [prompt on non-specific answers such as a waiter or servant] (The boy is Ganymede.)
<Michael Bentley, Other - Other Academic and General Knowledge> ~20521~ <Editor: Ganon Evans>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 19.14 | 100% | 74% | 17% |
Data
| Barrington A | Detroit Catholic Central A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Creek B | Barrington B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Belvidere | Detroit Catholic Central B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Thomas Jefferson A | Canyon Crest | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chattahoochee B | Irvington A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maggie Walker C | Choate Rosemary Hall | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Mercer County | Detroit Catholic Central C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Detroit Country Day | Mira Loma | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Heights | Carbondale | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Hinsdale Central | Innovation Academy A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maggie Walker B | Innovation Academy B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| John Adams A | Stevenson B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Elkhorn North | John Adams B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Creek A | William Fremd | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chattahoochee A | Lincoln-Way East | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Winston Churchill B | Mexico | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Midtown | Winnebago | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Hoover B | Moberly | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Hunter B | Norman | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Lake Highland | Norris | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northmont A | Walter Payton | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Parkway West | New Brighton | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rockford Auburn A | Richard Montgomery | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northmont B | Saint Joseph | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Hunter A | Solon | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Dunbar | St. Mark's | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stevenson A | Carl Sandburg | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Dallas County | Thomas Jefferson B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Thomas Jefferson D | Thomas Jefferson C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Kinkaid | Troy | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maggie Walker A | University Lab | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cincinnati Hills Christian | Washington | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| West Point | Rockford Auburn B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Winston Churchill A | Belmont | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Plymouth | Woodland | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |