Question
A short poem called “The Gnat” was traditionally attributed to this author, and is included in an Appendix once considered to contain this author’s.youthful works. This author was interpreted as foretelling the birth of Jesus due to the description of a messianic child called the “great growth of Jupiter” in the fourth section of one work. A character created by this author tears off a golden bough from a tree to gain admission to the underworld. This poet declared “Love conquers all” in the second of his Eclogues, and declared “Of arms and the man I sing” at the start of an epic poem whose title character kills Turnus and has an affair with Dido. For 10 points, who wrote the Aeneid ■END■
ANSWER: Virgil [or Publius Vergilius Maro; accept Appendix Vergiliana]
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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 22% | 115.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 29% | 97.43 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 50% | 102.20 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 85.25 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 91.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 50.63 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 94.38 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 87.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Daniel Kim (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | 15 | 10 |
Anton Akroush (DII) | Michigan State A | West Virginia A (UG) | 24 | -5 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech C | 24 | -5 |
Saif Virani (UG) | Fordham A | Columbia J (DII) | 24 | 10 |
Xavier Bomhorst (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 24 | 10 |
Nick Smemoe | UNC B | Tusculum | 30 | 10 |
Vivian Fan (DII) | Claremont A | UCLA E | 34 | 10 |
Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Columbia B | 34 | 10 |
Alex Wong (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | Penn B (DII) | 36 | 10 |
Beck Faletti | UW Gluttony | UW Envy | 37 | 10 |
Steven McPhillimey (UG) | Lehigh A (UG) | Bard A (UG) | 37 | 10 |
Zaid Asif (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Penn B (DII) | 38 | -5 |
Dylan Bianchi | UW Greed | UW Pride | 44 | -5 |
Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Chicago A | 46 | 10 |
Steven Vicoria | Binghamton A | RIT B | 47 | -5 |
Kevin Zheng (UG) | Michigan A (UG) | Ohio State A (UG) | 47 | 10 |
Alex Myrick | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt A | 48 | 10 |
Tarun Koti | Emory A | Tennessee B | 48 | 10 |
Saif Virani (UG) | Fordham A | Penn A (DII) | 49 | 10 |
John Shelly (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | Rutgers B | 50 | -5 |
Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | Cornell E | 55 | -5 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Appalachian State B | 58 | 10 |
Davis Johnson | Purdue C | Purdue A | 61 | 10 |
Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 66 | -5 |
Matthew Wang | UBC B | Arizona State A | 69 | -5 |
Nikola Wu (DII) | UCLA A | UCLA C | 69 | 10 |
Cameron Wiliams | Appalachian State A | UNC A | 72 | 10 |
Alec Riso | Cornell D | Syracuse | 75 | 10 |
Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech E | Georgia A | 75 | 10 |
Sean Jackson | South Carolina A | Belmont | 75 | 10 |
Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia | 75 | 10 |
Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | Rowan A (DII) | 75 | 10 |
Sebastian Pujet | WashU A | Illinois C | 75 | 10 |
Vikas Kothari | Northwestern B | Illinois D | 75 | 10 |
Sam Alahi | Illinois A | WashU B | 78 | 10 |
Jacob Moeller (DII) | Miami A (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | 80 | -5 |
Florian Chiu | UW Sloth | UW Chastity | 81 | -5 |
Andrew Yang | Columbia B | Rutgers A (UG) | 84 | 10 |
Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Penn A (DII) | 86 | 10 |
Peter Zeng (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Miami C (DII) | 87 | 10 |
Karthik Krishnamurthy (DII) | USC | UCSD | 87 | 10 |
Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan State B | 89 | 10 |
Alan Kappler (DII) | Claremont C | Claremont B | 91 | 10 |
Mark Lee (DII) | Michigan B (UG) | Miami A (UG) | 94 | 10 |
Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Auburn B | 94 | 10 |
Ethan Rehder | Duke B | James Madison B | 96 | 10 |
Sidhant Chaliha (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | Maryland B (DII) | 96 | -5 |
Lucas Shedlock (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | NYU B | 100 | 10 |
Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Vanderbilt B | 101 | 10 |
Timothy Porter | VCU | William & Mary | 102 | -5 |
Sophia Madrazo | Purdue B | Notre Dame A | 102 | 10 |
Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Clemson A | 106 | -5 |
Ishan Joshi (DII) | Rutgers B | Rowan A (DII) | 110 | 10 |
Emmett Cho | Chicago B | Illinois B | 113 | 10 |
Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Boise State | 114 | 10 |
Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana | Iowa B | 114 | 10 |
Sonya Bates | UW Wrath | Alberta | 116 | 10 |
Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn C | 119 | 10 |
Claire Chambers | Binghamton B | Cornell G | 121 | 10 |
Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT C | 121 | 10 |
Meredith Wiper (DII) | CWRU B (DII) | West Virginia B (UG) | 121 | 10 |
Daniel Tritasavit (DII) | UCLA D | UCLA B | 121 | 10 |
Leonard Castine (DII) | Penn B (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 121 | 10 |
Jaden Bandy (DII) | Rutgers B | Lehigh B (DII) | 121 | 10 |
Gregory Stone | ESF | U of Rochester A | 122 | 10 |
Kritanu Saha | Cornell A | Cornell F | 122 | 10 |
Anna Kuang | Cornell E | Cornell C | 122 | 0 |
Will Hoover | RIT B | Binghamton A | 122 | 10 |
Nayel Tekle | Cornell B | Penn State | 122 | 10 |
Sammy Carstens | U of Rochester B | Binghamton C | 122 | 0 |
Kate Merritt (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | Michigan State A | 122 | 10 |
Angelo Pan (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | Ohio State C (DII) | 122 | 10 |
Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State A | UBC B | 122 | 10 |
Luke Strole | UW Pride | UW Greed | 122 | 10 |
Euan McCubbin | UW Chastity | UW Sloth | 122 | 0 |
Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson A | Mississippi State A | 122 | 0 |
Shawn Richardson | Clemson B | Emory Oxford | 122 | 10 |
Soren Heydari | UNC C | Liberty B | 122 | 10 |
Nova Sink | Virginia Tech B | James Madison A | 122 | 10 |
Meredie Cohen | William & Mary | VCU | 122 | 10 |
Gentry Dowdy | Liberty C | Duke A | 122 | 10 |
Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | NYU B | Bard A (UG) | 122 | 10 |
Daniel Kim (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 122 | 10 |
Sophia Arnold | SIUE | Iowa A | 122 | 10 |