Saint Nicholas of Myra - 2024 ARGOS

Question

On Good Friday, Serbs and Croats symbolically guard the grave of Christ at a church named for this saint in Vrlika. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this “Wonderworker,” a saint who is sometimes depicted slapping a heretic during an early church council.

ANSWER: Saint Nicholas of Myra [or Nikolas; or Nicholas of Bari; or Nikolaos the Wonderworker; or Saint Nick; reject "Santa Claus"] (The tradition in Vrlika is Čuvari Hristovog Groba.)

[10h] Nicholas is often celebrated on December 19th through one of these ceremonies, legendarily introduced by the Serbian patron Saint Sava. A patriotic slogan says that wherever there is one of these celebrations of a family’s patron saint, there is a Serb.

ANSWER: Slavas [or Krsna slava; accept Krsna ime; accept posna; accept mrsna; accept preslava; reject "Slav" or “Slavs”]

[10e] Serbs often celebrate a May 6th slava to honor this saint, though April 23rd is the day when Westerners celebrate this patron saint of England.

ANSWER: Saint George of Lydda

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2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


\|madam\|	Banned from ARGOS	0	10	10
Hu up Jinning they Tao	Pahkin' the Ahgo	10	10	20
Stanford+	Cry of the Common Loon	0	10	10
A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	0	10	10
Berkeley	number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	10	10	20
I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	throw away your cards, rally in the streets	10	10	20
CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	Thompson et al.	0	10	10
Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	UBC	0	10	10
"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	Import Pandas	10	10	20
Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	BHSU Rebirth	10	10	20
hawk two of	Clown Squad	10	10	20
BHSU ReFantazio	Music to Help You Stop Smoking	10	10	20
Clown Senpais	Northeast by Northwestern	10	10	20
That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	Notre Dame	10	10	20
WashU	The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	0	10	10
Limp Franceskit	Cambridge	10	10	20
Cien Años de Quizboledad	Simple Vibes	10	10	20
Defying Suavity	Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	10	10	20
Cope is the thing with feathers	Walston et. al.	0	10	10
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	12 Litres of Green Tea	10	10	20
NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	just one more half-dot bro	10	10	20
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	10	10	20
Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	0	10	10
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	10	10	20
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	0	10	10
You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	0	10	10