Question
An island in this city’s harbor was the site of an unfinished palace called the Timonium. This city’s gymnasium was located in a quarter called the Brucheion (“broo-kay-ON”), which also contained a building inscribed with the words “The place of the cure of the soul.” During a war in this city, one commander captured two bridges on either side of a causeway called the Heptastadion. Pliny the Elder dubiously claimed one structure in this city was built by the architect (*) Sostratus. The Pinakes (“pin-AH-keys”) was a compilation by Callimachus of all the items in one building in the city. The Earth’s circumference was calculated by Eratosthenes from an institution in this city that was significantly damaged by fires set by the forces of Julius Caesar. For 10 points, name this capital city of Ptolemaic Egypt, once home to a large lighthouse and great library. ■END■
Summary
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 50% | 105.75 |
2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 100.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 105.25 |
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 104.25 |
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Enoch Yuen | 3HK1MM | Say it | 43 | 15 |
Owyn Noble | Purdue | Notre Dame C | 44 | -5 |
Jem Burch | Yale A | Harvard A | 67 | 15 |
Christopher Dech | Brandeis | BU | 74 | -5 |
James McCurley | Harvard B | MIT | 78 | -5 |
Andre Wong | LSE | Oxford School for Quizness | 78 | -5 |
Ben Russel Jones | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | Gressenheller A | 79 | -5 |
Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois A | 84 | 10 |
Matt Schiavone | Northwestern A | Chicago A | 84 | 10 |
John John Groger | WUSTL | Minnesota | 84 | -5 |
Brendan Bethlehem | Sorted | Limp Chriskit | 84 | 10 |
Jacob Goodson | Ohio State A | Ohio State C | 86 | 10 |
Akshar Goyal | Illinois B | Notre Dame B | 90 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | JHU A | NYU A | 90 | 10 |
Cooper Roh | Columbia | Princeton | 93 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE | Chicago B | 98 | 10 |
Oliver Hargrave | See it | The Crying of Team 49 | 98 | 10 |
Zach Joseph | Notre Dame A | Illinois C | 99 | 10 |
Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon | Pittsburgh | 103 | 10 |
Raifton Bartling | Michigan State | Ohio State B | 103 | 10 |
Peter Scully | Tufts | Yale B | 103 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard B | 111 | 10 |
Andrew Vincent | Northwestern B | Indiana B | 115 | 10 |
Derrick Liu | JHU B | NYU B | 116 | 10 |
Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Purdue | 122 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan B | 129 | 10 |
Kai Madgwick | Gressenheller A | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | 134 | 10 |
Ved Muthusamy | Oxford School for Quizness | LSE | 141 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | WUSTL | 142 | 10 |
Jaehyun Park | BU | Brandeis | 142 | 10 |