Marsilio Ficino - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

This philosopher was the first person to translate the complete works of Plato into Latin. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this philosopher who first coined the modern definition of platonic love and who wrote a series of 18 books arguing for the immortality of the soul.

ANSWER: Marsilio Ficino (“fee-CHEE-no”)

[10m] Ficino taught this fellow philosopher who wrote 900 Theses, which developed the tradition of Christian Kabbalah, and used his speech Oration on the Dignity of Man as its introduction.

ANSWER: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola [or Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; or Giovanni Pico dei conti della Mirandola e della Concordia]

[10e] Ficino and Pico both contributed to the development of this historical period’s humanist movement, which studied classical antiquity and argued for humanity’s innate worth.

ANSWER: Renaissance [or the Italian Renaissance]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	7	8.57	86%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	10.00	88%	13%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%

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Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	0	0	0
UCLA A	Claremont A	0	0	10	10
Claremont B	UCSD	0	0	0	0
Art of Premature Signaling	P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	0	10	10	20
girl 15 whale i mean they	UCSB	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State D	Oberlin	0	0	10	10
Belmont	Lexington	0	0	10	10
Brown	RIT	0	10	10	20
BU	Harvard	0	0	10	10
MIT	Brandeis	0	0	10	10
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Billy's Bastion	0	10	10	20
Keeping Up With the Cardassians	Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	0	0	10	10
Too much from you lately	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	0	10	10
NYU C	George Mason C	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	George Washington	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Haverford B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins B	Catholic University of America	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	NYU A	0	0	10	10
George Mason A	CWRU	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Arizona State University A	0	0	0	0
Alberta	Arizona State University B	0	0	10	10
UW A	UW B	0	0	10	10
Washington Connections	South Dakota School of Mines	0	0	0	0
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Four Generalists in Search of a Power	Auburn 2026	0	10	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	Gruh	0	0	10	10
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	0	10	10	20
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Free Agents 1	0	0	10	10
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Cambridge	Sheffield B	0	0	10	10
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UBC	Ottawa A	0	0	10	10
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Toronto B	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	Simon Fraser	0	0	10	10
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Waterloo A	McGill A	0	0	10	10
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	10	10	10	30
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Master and Margaritaville	0	10	10	20
Somehow Paula Deen Returned	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	0	0	10	10
WashU Charmander	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	WashU Squirtle	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Illinois C	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Truman State	0	0	10	10