Gawain - 2024 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

In a 14th-century romance, this character battles and defeats Gologoras after returning from Jerusalem, but submits to him anyway to prevent further bloodshed. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this character, who names another romance in which he endures strange requests from a wealthy and powerful peasant named Carl.

ANSWER: Gawain

[10e] In a more famous romance, Gawain accepts a challenge from this colorful figure to a beheading game.

ANSWER: the Green Knight

[10m] In the romance Le Morte D’Arthur, Gawain is ultimately slain by Lancelot, a knight popularized by the romances of this French author of Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart.

ANSWER: Chrétien de Troyes (“crate-YANN duh TWAH”)

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	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	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	12.00	100%	0%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


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