Leonidas - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

Plutarch recorded several quips of this leader, such as him proclaiming that he would “fight in the shade” after being told that a barrage of arrows would block the Sun. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this leader who Plutarch also alleged responded “molon labe” (“moh-LOHN lah-BAY”) or “come and take it” when asked to drop his weapons.

ANSWER: Leonidas (The battle was Thermopylae.)

[10e] Leonidas’s quotes were characteristic of the “laconic” speech of this militaristic Greek city-state that rivaled Athens.

ANSWER: Sparta

[10m] Anaxandridas (“an-ax-AND-rid-ass”) quipped that Spartans took care of themselves so that these people could care for their fields. This slave-like servile class often came from Messenia.

ANSWER: helots [or heílotes]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	17.78	100%	44%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	18.75	100%	38%	50%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	9	20.00	100%	44%	56%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	7	21.43	100%	57%	57%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	12	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	10	20.00	100%	60%	40%

Data


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