amphorae - 2023 Penn Bowl - Buzzpoints App

Question

In 2023, archaeologists found an address to Ceres and Bacchus from Virgil’s Georgics scribbled onto one of these objects in the Guadalquivir River. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these objects. Many broken examples of these objects inscribed with the words “tituli picti,” some of which are also adorned by Virgil quotes, make up the manmade Mount Testaccio.

ANSWER: amphorae [or amphoreús; prompt on pottery or vase]

[10e] At least thirty six known instances of Virgil-based graffiti have been found in Pompeii, which was buried by the explosion of this volcano in 79 AD.

ANSWER: Mount Vesuvius

[10m] Virgil’s line “They all fell silent,” was found on a tile in this region, where the Vindolanda tablets also contain Virgil etchings. The Battle of Mons Graupius is recounted in a biography largely set in this region by Tacitus.

ANSWER: Britannia [or Roman Britain]

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Summary


2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo	10/28/2023	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU	10/28/2023	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)	10/21/2023	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)	10/21/2023	Y	7	12.86	100%	14%	14%
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)	10/28/2023	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)	10/28/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)	10/28/2023	Y	5	24.00	100%	80%	60%
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC	10/28/2023	Y	3	10.00	0%	33%	67%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	N	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	N	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	N	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	N	2	10.00	0%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	N	6	20.00	83%	100%	17%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	N	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	N	5	12.00	40%	80%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	N	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%

Data


La Clique du Château	Library of Babel School of Continuing Studies	0	10	0	10
Toronto Joy	Mixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Miku	Toronto Rofl	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Hatsune	Toronto Weary	10	10	10	30
Brown	Brandeis	10	10	0	20
MIT	Harvard	0	10	10	20
Tufts	Boston College	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Cornell A	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
JHU B	Swarthmore	0	10	0	10
Pitt	NYU	0	10	0	10
John Jay A	RIT	0	10	0	10
UMD A	Rutgers	0	10	0	10
JHU A	UMD B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Stanford	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Oklahoma A	Texas C	0	10	0	10
Oklahoma B	Rice	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	10	10	10	30
Foucoult's Penndulum	3HK1MM	0	10	10	20
Old London Town	Broken Hearts	10	10	10	30
Scottish, Irish, Both or Neither	Edinburgh	10	10	10	30
Tabearnacle	Four Neg Omelette	10	10	10	30
Betrayed by Rita Izzatdust	Yes, Moderator	0	10	0	10
USC A	Duke A	10	0	0	10
UNC B	UNC A	10	0	0	10
FSU B	FSU A	0	10	0	10
North Florida	Florida A	0	10	0	10
UNC C	USC B	0	0	10	10