Minyades - 2024 PLAYTIME - Buzzpoints App

Question

The first of these figures to be mentioned by name, Alcithoë, tells the story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus in Book 4 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these figures who are turned into bats for their refusal to acknowledge Bacchus as the son of Jupiter.

ANSWER: Minyades [or daughters of Minyas]

[10m] The Minyades decide to tell stories while performing this activity instead of attending the festival celebrating Bacchus. A woman tries to hang herself when she is beaten on the head by Minerva after a contest in this activity.

ANSWER: weaving

[10e] Leucónoë, one of the Minyades, tells the story of Leucothoë and Clytië as part of a tale she refers to as “Loves of [a god of this domain],” who she claims spies on Mars and Venus. Phaethon is killed by a thunderbolt while riding the chariot of his father, Helios, who rules this domain.

ANSWER: the sun [accept sun gods]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	21.11	100%	100%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	18.75	100%	88%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


Michigan D	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Oberlin	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State D	Ohio State B	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Ohio State C	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
Art of Premature Signaling	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
girl 15 whale i mean they	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	UCSB	0	10	10	20
Keeping Up With the Cardassians	Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	0	10	10	20
Billy's Bastion	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	0	10	10	20
Too much from you lately	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	10	20
RIT	Belmont	0	10	10	20
Brown	Brandeis	0	10	10	20
Harvard	Lexington	10	10	10	30
MIT	BU	0	10	10	20
George Mason B	George Washington	0	0	10	10
George Mason C	Haverford A	0	0	0	0
Haverford B	Catholic University of America	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Georgetown	0	10	10	20
NYU C	George Mason A	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Rutgers	0	10	10	20
Alberta	Washington Connections	0	10	10	20
UW A	Arizona State University A	0	10	10	20
Carleton	SD Mines	0	0	10	10
UW B	Arizona State University B	0	10	10	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	we need new names	0	10	10	20
2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	0	10	10	20
Gruh	MSJ	0	10	10	20
Free Agents 1	Illinois Orange	0	10	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	Auburn 2026	0	10	10	20
mongeese	Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	0	10	10	20
Quatumvirate	Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	10	10	10	30
evil women enjoyers	Goober Gang	0	10	10	20
Caltech	UCSD	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Cambridge	0	10	10	20
Sheffield A	Warwick C	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh	Manchester	0	10	10	20
Mac A	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
McGill A	McGill B	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Guelph	0	10	10	20
Toronto D	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
Ottawa A	Toronto C	0	10	10	20
Waterloo A	UBC	0	10	10	20
Waterloo B	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Waterloo C	0	10	10	20
Lancaster	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	0	10	10	20
Master and Margaritaville	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	0	10	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	WashU Charmander	10	10	10	30
Imperial B	Sheffield C	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Sheffield B	0	10	10	20