Carthage - 2024 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

Upon first encountering this city, a group of characters compare it to “busy bees above a field of flowers / in early summer amid sunbeams toil.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this city where a man is brought to tears in a shrine by a mural depicting a conflict he had fled years earlier.

ANSWER: Carthage

[10e] Vergil’s comparison of Carthage to a beehive in the Aeneid exemplifies the “epic” form of this literary device, in which two things are directly compared to each other using “like” or “as.”

ANSWER: simile [accept epic simile or Homeric simile]

[10m] The final book of the Aeneid opens with an epic simile comparing this character to “a lion on the Libyan plain / gashed along his tawny breast.” Despite begging for his life, this character is murdered for wearing the belt of Pallas.

ANSWER: Turnus

<HG, European Literature>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	17.50	100%	38%	38%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	0%	100%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Bowdoin A	Boston College B	10	10	0	20
Brandeis B	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
Bowdoin C	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
Boston College A	Clark House	0	10	0	10
Clark Wilson	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
MIT	Harvard	0	10	10	20
Amherst	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
Yale	BU	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Truman	Missouri	10	0	10	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	0	10	10	20
In the Mood for Buzz	The cult of SGA	10	10	10	30
Madmen and Specialists	Social credit go vroom	10	10	10	30
Paddington in Peru (2024)	Old and Young	0	10	10	20
bingy academy	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Squidward Community College	0	10	10	20
WashU	Truman	10	10	10	30
Penn State	Maryland	0	10	0	10
RIT	Pitt	0	10	0	10
Valencia	UF C	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Stanford	Berkeley Past	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	10	10	20
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	Carleton A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	0	10	10	20
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	Waterloo Basic	0	10	10	20
Toronto A	Waterloo Cloze	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Innovation Academy B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Johns Creek	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Lambert	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Illinois Orange	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Illinois Blue	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Notre Dame	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	SIUE	10	10	0	20
UCF A	Florida Tech	0	10	0	10
UF A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UF B	USF	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
LSE B	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
LSE A	Southampton	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Warwick C	0	10	0	10
ALCU	Jason et al.	10	10	10	30
Claremont	Anderson et al.	0	10	0	10
U[C]SD	SGV Ventures	0	10	10	20