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Question

In Greek mythology, this country is named for the brother of Danaus who tried to convince the fifty daughters of Danaus to marry his fifty sons. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this modern-day country. One god from this country, Thoth, was syncretized with Hermes to form Hermes Trismegistus.

ANSWER: Egypt [accept Aegyptus]

[10m] This figure, sometimes identified with Isis, ended up in Egypt after being chased by a gadfly sent by Hera. This figure was the mother of Epaphus, the founder of Memphis.

ANSWER: Io

[10h] This scholar debated Mary Lefkowitz over his claims that Greek myths, such as the tale of Danaus, preserve the memory of Egypt’s cultural influence on Greece.

ANSWER: Martin Bernal

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest	10/12/2024	N	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley A	10	0	10
Stanford	Berkeley B	10	10	20
Michigan A	Carnegie Mellon	10	0	10
Michigan State	Ohio State A	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Ohio State C	0	0	0
Pittsburgh	Michigan B	10	0	10
Chicago A	Northwestern B	10	10	20
Purdue	Chicago B	10	10	20
Illinois A	Notre Dame B	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Illinois C	10	10	20
Minnesota	Illinois B	10	0	10
Notre Dame C	Notre Dame A	10	10	20
Indiana A	SIUE	10	10	20
WUSTL	Indiana B	10	10	20
UF B	UF A	10	0	10
UF C	UCF	10	0	10
Brandeis	Harvard A	10	10	20
MIT	Yale B	10	10	20
BU	Tufts	10	0	10
Harvard B	Yale A	10	10	20
Columbia	JHU A	10	10	20
Princeton	JHU B	10	0	10
NYU A	NYU B	10	10	20
Texas B	Houston	10	10	20
Texas A	TAMU	10	10	20
Oxford School for Quizness	3HK1MM	10	10	20
Four Times I Have Despised My Soul	Sorted	10	10	20
LSE	See it	10	10	20
Say it	Limp Chriskit	10	10	20
The Crying of Team 49	Gressenheller A	10	0	10
Duke A	UNC C	10	0	10
RIT A	UNC B	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC A	10	10	20