Question

This theologian's lost deathbed exposition of the Song of Solomon may be contained in the Aurora consurgens, an alchemical treatise that comments on Senior Zadith ibn Umayl's Silvery Water. For 10 points each:
[10e] Albert Magnus legendarily gave the philosopher’s stone to what student who wrote the Summa contra gentiles?
ANSWER: Thomas Aquinas [or Saint Thomas Aquino; or Thomas of Aquino; or Tommaso d'Aquino; or Doctor Angelicus; or Doctor Communis; or Doctor Univeralis; or Doctor Humanitatis; accept Thomism; prompt on Saint Thomas]
[10h] A theologian of this surname predated the Summa Theologica's question-and-answer format in his tafsir Keys to the Unseen. Abu Hatim debated and shared this surname with a possibly heretical physician, alchemist, and philosopher whose metaphysics were based on "five eternal" principles.
ANSWER: al-Razi [accept Rhazes or Rhasis; specifically, accept Abu Bakr al-Razi, Abu Hatim al-Razi, or Fakhr al-Din al-Razi]
[10m] Golden Age Islamic thought is sometimes divided into a strain of "philosophy" called falsafa, and one of "theology" denoted by this Arabic term. William Lane Craig revived an argument of this name that opens with the premise that everything that begins to exist must have a cause.
ANSWER: kalam [accept Ilm al-kalam; accept kalam cosmological argument]
<Philosophy - Philosophy>

Back to bonuses

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y618.33100%67%17%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y313.3333%100%0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y313.3333%67%33%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y514.0040%80%20%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y326.67100%100%67%
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025N33.3333%0%0%
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025N313.3333%100%0%

Data

BHSU ReFantaziohawk two of10101030
Clown SenpaisThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)1001020
Clown SquadMusic to Help You Stop Smoking100010
Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?Northeast by Northwestern1001020
BHSU RebirthNotre Dame1001020
WashUThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days100010
Defying SuavityGrzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz001010
Limp FranceskitCambridge001010
Simple VibesCien Años de Quizboledad1001020
Walston et. al.12 Litres of Green Tea10101030
NJ TRANSit (and anwenCope is the thing with feathers0000
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan clubjust one more half-dot bro001010
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut1001020
You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha001010
Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange0000
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere0101020
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Kenas rational as the square root of two power bottoms1001020
number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haikuA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs10101030
Cry of the Common LoonBerkeley1001020
Stanford+Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?10101030