Geryon - 2024 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

In a poem named for this figure, his death by poisoned arrow is compared to the withering of a poppy. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this three torsoed giant from Erytheia whose cattle was stolen by Heracles as part of the latter’s tenth labor.

ANSWER: Geryon

[10e] Geryon’s cattle were scattered by a gadfly sent by this queen of the gods, who hated Heracles for being a demigod son of Zeus. The cattle were later sacrificed to her.

ANSWER: Hera

[10h] In Roman versions of the story, some of Geryon’s cattle were stolen by this giant son of Vulcan, who made them walk backward to not leave new tracks. Hercules killed this figure on the Aventine Hill.

ANSWER: Cacus

<GT, Beliefs>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	5	24.00	100%	80%	60%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


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