Question
A saint named for this city wrote an autobiographical treatise about her life in Ferrara in The Seven Spiritual Weapons. A jurist from this city allegedly taught law from behind a curtain so that her students would not be distracted by her beauty. Ge’ez, Gujarati, and Algonquin were supposedly spoken fluently by a polyglot cardinal from this city. This city may have been the first in the world to abolish slavery through its Liber Paradisus. The rivals Bulgarus and Martinus Gosia belonged to a group from this city that studied under (*) Irnerius. The “Four Doctors” of this city offered differing interpretations of the Corpus Juris Civilis. An institution in this city included Laura Bassi and Dante among its students. For 10 points, named this Italian city home to the oldest continuously-operating university in the world. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 88.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 133.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 118.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 91.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 17% | 110.83 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 125.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 126.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Adil Haider | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 31 | 15 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Clown Squad | hawk two of | 43 | -5 |
Neil Gurram | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 76 | 15 |
Akshar Goyal | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Clown Senpais | 87 | 15 |
Allan Lee | Stanford+ | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 92 | 10 |
Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley | Cry of the Common Loon | 96 | 10 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | WashU | 98 | 10 |
Tejas Raje | BHSU Rebirth | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 105 | 10 |
Sky Li | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 105 | -5 |
Brendan Bethlehem | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Defying Suavity | 107 | -5 |
Liam Starnes | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 110 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Cambridge | 111 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 113 | 10 |
Oscar O'Flanagan | Limp Francekit | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 118 | -5 |
Emmett Laurie | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 121 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 123 | -5 |
Albert Zhang | Walston et. al. | just one more half-dot bro | 129 | 10 |
Will Sanders | Notre Dame | Northeast by Northwestern | 130 | 10 |
Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 131 | 10 |
Joseph Collins | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Limp Francekit | 134 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Clown Squad | 135 | 10 |
Afham Raoof | Defying Suavity | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 135 | 10 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | Cope is the thing with feathers | 135 | 0 |
Elijah Mandelbaum | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 135 | 0 |