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Question

In his book on the “history of fear” around these figures, Ronald Hutton discusses Greco-Roman examples like Canidia, who can poison food with her breath or viper’s blood. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name these figures who, in Medieval times, were hunted using the Malleus Maleficarum and burned at the stake. Circe and Medea are types of these figures who often used wands and potions.

ANSWER: witches [accept sorceresses or enchantress or magicians or mages; accept magos or pharmakides; reject pharmakos]

[10m] A witch in this novel, Meroë, replaces Socrates’ heart with a sponge and he dies when it falls out. After spying on another witch in this novel, Lucius begs Photis to cast an ultimately botched spell on him.

ANSWER: The Golden Ass [or The Metamorphoses of Apuleius; reject “Metamorphoses”]

[10h] The powerful witches of this region were reputedly able to drag the moon down from the sky. This region was home to the centaurs as well as the city of Iolcus (“eye-OLL-cuss”), where Jason was from.

ANSWER: Thessaly [accept Thessalia or Petthalia; accept Magnesia]

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
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	12.50	100%	0%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	10.00	80%	0%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	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


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