Question
This person chastises a later author for forgetting his mortality in three dialogues from the book Secretum. The Waste Land quotes this author’s lines “to Carthage then I came” and “thou pluckest me out.” This writer’s claim, “men wonder at the heights of mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea...but they consider themselves not” provided Petrarch an epiphany during his ascent of Mont Ventoux. The protagonist of a book by this author reads in a garden with his friend (*) Alypius after he requests to “make me chaste, but not yet.” This author’s mother Monica arranges a marriage for him in a book that recounts him stealing pears. In that work, a child’s voice chanting “take up and read!” prompts this author’s conversion to Catholicism. For 10 points, name this 5th-century author of the Confessions. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 76.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 98.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 57% | 128.29 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 71.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 99.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 29% | 113.29 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 116.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 83.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 75.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 84.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 83.80 |
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Moses Kitakule | In the Mood for Buzz | Social credit go vroom | 19 | -5 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina B | 28 | 15 |
Braden Booth | Missouri | WashU | 28 | -5 |
Yash Mandavia | Illinois Orange | Purdue A | 28 | -5 |
Justine French | U[C]SD | Anderson et al. | 28 | 15 |
Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Berkeley Past | 32 | 15 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | Truman | 33 | 15 |
Kevin Zheng | Social credit go vroom | In the Mood for Buzz | 33 | 15 |
Henry Keating | UCF B | UF C | 33 | 15 |
Ariel Faeder | Pitt | Maryland | 36 | 15 |
Issac Meredith | Tufts A | Brandeis B | 41 | -5 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Notre Dame | 54 | 15 |
Darren Kellis | Milton | Lambert | 61 | -5 |
Michael Kearney | Harvard | Bowdoin A | 64 | -5 |
Daniel Ma | Madmen and Specialists | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 64 | -5 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford | 64 | -5 |
Raymond Chen | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | Toronto A | 64 | -5 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo Basic | McGill A | 64 | -5 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | ALCU | 79 | 15 |
Omkar Marathe | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | Madmen and Specialists | 80 | 10 |
Odysseas Gabrielatos | Warwick B | Warwick A | 83 | 10 |
Gabriel Margolies | Boston College B | MIT | 90 | 10 |
Richard Lin | Amherst | Brandeis A | 90 | 10 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech C | 90 | 10 |
Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton | Imperial A | 90 | 10 |
Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | LSE A | 90 | 10 |
Andy Huff | LSE B | Bristol | 91 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Paddington in Peru (2024) | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 94 | 10 |
Ben Wismath | Toronto B | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 94 | 10 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Georgia Tech A | 97 | 10 |
Biniam Alaro | UF A | Valencia | 99 | 10 |
Max Hodes | Chicago B | SIUE | 99 | 10 |
Evan Lucca | Bowdoin A | Harvard | 102 | 10 |
Mike Cheyne | Old and Young | The cult of SGA | 102 | 10 |
Jesse Chusing | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Waterloo Aspidistra | 104 | -5 |
Jesse Chusing | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Waterloo Aspidistra | 104 | -5 |
Aalok Bhattacharya | Boston College A | Yale | 107 | 10 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech B | South Carolina | 107 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Penn State | 107 | 10 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois Blue | Purdue B | 107 | 10 |
Tegan Kapadia | bingy academy | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 110 | 10 |
Edward Kim | Johns Creek | Mississippi State | 110 | 10 |
Jason Cheng | Jason et al. | Claremont | 121 | 10 |
Quentin Mot | Georgia Tech B | Innovation Academy C | 124 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | Waterloo Cloze | 131 | 10 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick C | 131 | 10 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF A | USF | 133 | 10 |
Lance Hulme | Bowdoin B | Clark Wilson | 134 | 10 |
Graham Cope | UF B | Florida Tech | 134 | 10 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley B | 134 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo Aspidistra | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 134 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo Aspidistra | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 134 | 10 |
Isabel Schumacher | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 135 | 10 |
Derek Fino | Clark House | BU | 135 | 10 |
John John Groger | WashU | Missouri | 135 | 10 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto A | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 135 | 10 |
Kevin Le | Carleton A | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 135 | 10 |
Nick Edwards | McGill A | Waterloo Basic | 135 | 10 |
Sanjay Shanmuga Perumal | Lambert | Milton | 135 | 10 |
David Mathew | Purdue A | Illinois Orange | 135 | 10 |