tyrants - 2024 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

One ruler with this title was assassinated by the lovers Harmodius and Aristogeiton. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this title held by Hipparchus and Hippias, the sons of Pisistratus. A group of oligarchic rulers known by this title forcibly attained power through a peace treaty that forced one city to destroy the Long Walls.

ANSWER: tyrants [or tyrannos; accept tyrants of Athens or Thirty Tyrants]

[10e] In a parable about the peril of power, the tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse offers the courtier Damocles his throne on the condition that one of these weapons must constantly hang on a thread above his head.

ANSWER: swords [accept Sword of Damocles]

[10h] One of the first Greek tyrants, Cypselus (“SIP-suh-luss”), took power in this city after overthrowing this city’s ancient Bacchiadae ruling family, who claimed descent from Heracles.

ANSWER: Corinth [or Kórinthos]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	22.22	100%	78%	44%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	9	18.89	89%	78%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	18.57	100%	43%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	8	21.25	100%	75%	38%

Data


Oregon State	McGill E	0	10	10	20
Texas C	Colorado College	0	10	0	10
Haverford A	Princeton A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Penn State A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers C	Penn State B	0	10	0	10
WashU C	Purdue C	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	UChicago D	0	10	0	10
UChicago B	UIUC C	10	10	10	30
Kenyon A (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	0	10	0	10
Kenyon B (DII)	CWRU D (DII)	0	0	0	0
Pitt A	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Michigan State B (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
UCF A	Florida State University A	10	0	10	20
UF B	UCF B	10	10	0	20
Bristol A	Cambridge A	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Durham	Birmingham	10	10	10	30
Southampton B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Rowan A	Bard A	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Penn A	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Miami	UIUC D	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame	Northwestern A	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	SIUE A	10	10	0	20
UIUC A	UChicago C	10	10	10	30
WashU B	UIUC B	10	10	0	20
CWRU A (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	10	10	10	30
Michigan C (UG)	CWRU B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan D (DII)	Michigan State C (UG)	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Iowa	10	10	0	20
Central Oklahoma	Mississippi State	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	Texas A	10	10	0	20
Vassar B	Texas D	0	10	0	10
WUSTL A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
UF D	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
UF E	UF F	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	Manchester	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Imperial B	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	LSE A	10	10	0	20