Question
This man failed to apply his treatise on The Management of Troops to his only military post, which ended with his troops ransacking his house and forcing Shams al-Dawla to exile him. This man’s magnum opus superseded a “Royal Book” that Constantine the African introduced to Europe. This man’s mentor Masihi died in a sandstorm while they fled to the Ziyarid emir Qabus in Gorgan in an effort to escape Mahmud of Ghazni, who sent portraits of this man to cities like Reyy, Tus, and Balkh. This author’s work was used in bimaristans and is celebrated by his (*) tower mausoleum in Hamadan. In a rare primary source on libraries of the Islamic Golden Age, this author’s autobiography describes the chests of books he was given access to after curing the Samanid emir of Bukhara, his hometown. For 10 points, what polymath wrote a Galen-influenced encyclopedia called the Canon of Medicine? ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 148.44 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Will Alston | LMM's LLM MLM | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 72 | -5 |
Chris Ray | We Need New Names | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 85 | -5 |
Akshar Goyal | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Lisan al-Quib | 87 | -5 |
Tracy Mirkin | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 101 | -5 |
Jason Hong | The Jeam Team | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 135 | -5 |
Christopher Sims | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 140 | 10 |
Doug Simons | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | var merchants | 140 | -5 |
Tejas Raje | BHSU B | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 147 | 10 |
Jonathan Shauf | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 149 | 10 |
Arya Karthik | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | LMM's LLM MLM | 150 | 0 |
Ryan Rosenberg | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Les Missourables | 150 | 10 |
Rohan Kher | var merchants | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 150 | 10 |
Anderson Wang | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | The Jeam Team | 150 | 10 |
Naveed Chowdhury | Lisan al-Quib | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 150 | 10 |
Eric Chen | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | The Oldest Men in the World | 150 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | We Need New Names | 150 | 0 |
Robert Wang | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 150 | 0 |
Richard Yu | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 150 | 10 |