Etruscans - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

The names of the deities of this people were inscribed into a bronze sheep liver used for haruspicy and discovered near Piacenza (“pie-ah-SHEN-zah”). For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this people, whose triad of gods Tinia (“TEE-nee-ah”), Uni (“OO-nee”), and Menrva (“men-ER-wa”) inspired another civilization’s Capitoline Triad.

ANSWER: Etruscans [accept Etruria or Etrurian culture; or Rasenna or Rasna; accept Tyrrhenia or Tyrrhenian; prompt on Italians]

[10e] A well-preserved Etruscan terracotta statue from Veii depicts an equivalent of this Greek and Roman deity. This twin brother of Diana was a god of archery and music.

ANSWER: Apollo [or Apollon or Aplu]

[10m] This author described how Vertumnus, a Roman god adapted from the Etruscans, seduced Pomona in one of the various mythological transformations he chronicled in a 15-book narrative poem.

ANSWER: Ovid [or Publius Ovidius Naso] (The work is Metamorphoses.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	9	18.89	89%	56%	44%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	7	22.86	100%	71%	57%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	12	15.83	100%	33%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	20.00	100%	44%	56%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	7	18.57	86%	57%	43%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	10	24.00	100%	90%	50%

Data


Miami A (UG)	CWRU A (UG)	10	0	10	20
Miami B (UG)	CWRU B (DII)	0	10	0	10
Michigan State B	CWRU C (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan A (UG)	Michigan State A	10	10	10	30
Michigan D (UG)	Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan B (UG)	10	10	10	30
West Virginia A (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	10	20
Miami C (DII)	West Virginia B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
UW Chastity	Alberta	0	10	0	10
Arizona State B	Arizona State A	10	10	10	30
UBC B	UBC A	10	10	10	30
UW Greed	UW Gluttony	10	10	10	30
UW Envy	UW Lust	10	10	10	30
UW Pride	UW Wrath	0	10	10	20
UW Sloth	Boise State	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia A	0	10	0	10
Clemson B	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Belmont	Auburn C	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Furman	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	10	30
Mississippi State A	Emory Oxford	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Southern	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt B	Clemson A	0	10	0	10
Appalachian State B	James Madison A	0	10	0	10
Duke A	James Madison B	0	10	10	20
Tusculum	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	Duke B	0	10	0	10
William & Mary	NC State	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	UNC A	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	UNC C	10	10	10	30
Virginia	UNC D	10	10	0	20
VCU	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Rowan A (DII)	Bard A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Columbia A (UG)	Rutgers A (UG)	10	10	10	30
Maryland B (DII)	Lehigh A (UG)	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Lehigh B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Maryland A (DII)	Columbia J (DII)	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Penn B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Princeton A (UG)	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Illinois D	10	10	10	30
WashU A	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	Iowa A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern B	Indiana	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame C	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
Iowa B	SIUE	0	10	10	20