Question
A ruler of this ethnicity established a major Buddhist center at his capital of Sagala. These people were known as Yonas or Yavanas in ancient Pali and Sanskrit sources. Converts of this ethnicity made the earliest iconic statues of the Buddha. The Milindapañha records Nagasena converting a ruler of this ethnicity to Buddhism. Dynasties of this ethnicity spread Buddhism in (*) Gandhāra and Bactria. An empire of this ethnicity ceded its easternmost provinces to Chandragupta Maurya in return for the war elephants used at the Battle of Ipsus. A conqueror of this ethnicity won the Battle of the Hydaspes against King Porus. For 10 points, name this ethnicity of Seleucus and other rulers who succeeded Alexander the Great. ■END■
ANSWER: Greek [or Hellene; or Yona, Yonaka, Yavana, or Yavanar before mention; accept Macedonian; accept Ionian]
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Summary
2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 17% | 50% | 90.40 |
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 25% | 68.00 |
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 87.25 |
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 17% | 53.00 |
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 57.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ani Perumalla | Penn State A | Michigan B | 27 | 15 |
Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury | Michigan A | Ohio | 28 | 15 |
Charles Hang | WUSTL | Case Western | 28 | 15 |
Kushal Aluru | Rutgers | Columbia C | 36 | 15 |
Donal Ryan | Truman State | SIUE | 40 | 15 |
Joey Sun | Toronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl | Toronto cDNA | 41 | 15 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Bust | Toronto Penguin World War | 42 | -5 |
Shourjo Ganguli | Ohio State | Stanford | 43 | -5 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | WUSTL C | 50 | -5 |
Yihong Chen | Toronto Pilk | Toronto Sprout | 50 | 15 |
Sam Macchi | Vassar | North Carolina | 62 | 10 |
Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Iowa | 62 | 10 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Claremont | 62 | 10 |
Michael Du | Waterloo Cali | Ottawa | 64 | 10 |
Cooper Roh | Columbia A | NYU A | 66 | 10 |
Devam Srivastava | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech B | 74 | -5 |
Jonah Schwartz | WUSTL J | WUSTL A | 74 | 10 |
Will Hollister | Lehigh B | Bard | 79 | -5 |
Alan Wu | Vanderbilt B | Belmont | 80 | 10 |
Finn Doyle | Princeton | Lehigh A | 86 | -5 |
Andrew Minagar | Yale | NYU B | 91 | -5 |
Jeremy Cummings | WUSTL | Georgia Tech A | 91 | 10 |
Andrew Zeng | Stanford | Ohio State | 111 | 10 |
Jeff Guan | NYU C | Columbia B | 116 | 10 |
Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech C | 116 | 10 |
Cody Coon | Bard | Lehigh B | 117 | 10 |
Miles Jaffee | Lehigh A | Princeton | 117 | 0 |
Zaid Asif | NYU B | Yale | 117 | 10 |
Collin Nadarajah | WUSTL C | Squidward Community College | 117 | 0 |
Sky Li | Toronto Penguin World War | Waterloo Bust | 117 | 10 |