Jorge Luis Borges claimed that the way this character returns from one voyage symbolizes the author’s belief that the world of Platonic forms is more real than the actual world. Two doves answer a prayer this character makes in a forest while collecting wood for a funeral pyre. After this character is unable to pacify his former lover, that lover finds comfort from her husband Sychaeus. With a prophetess who tames a monster with a drugged honey cake, this character travels through the second of the (*) gates of horn and ivory. This character is told of a long line of descendents that includes Proca and Silvius while watching souls be reborn at the river Lethe. This character plucks the Golden Bough to enter the underworld, where his father Anchises prophesies his future wife Lavinia in Italy. For 10 points, name this pious Trojan hero who is the subject of an epic by Virgil. ■END■
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| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 90.50 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 90.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 127.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 50% | 134.17 |
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| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 143.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 40% | 20% | 90.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 67% | 127.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 20% | 40% | 108.00 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brodie Henry | Auburn 2026 | Illinois Orange | 22 | -5 |
| Nicholas Decker | George Mason A | NYU A | 40 | -5 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 46 | 15 |
| Payton Chung | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCLA B | 47 | 15 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Lexington | 47 | 15 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Alberta | 47 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | Goober Gang | 52 | -5 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Chicago B | 64 | -5 |
| Hunter Davis | Quatumvirate | mongeese | 65 | 15 |
| Rachel Bentham | Cambridge | Sheffield A | 65 | 15 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 65 | 15 |
| Seth Kendall | Billy's Bastion | Too much from you lately | 68 | -5 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | Free Agents 1 | 68 | 15 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Egypt Airlines Haters | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 72 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 75 | 15 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | UW A | 76 | -5 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Truman State | 77 | 15 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan D | 79 | 15 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 79 | -5 |
| Daniel Sheinberg | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 80 | 15 |
| Orion Keller | Master and Margaritaville | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 81 | 15 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago A | WashU Bulbasaur | 87 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Ohio State C | 88 | -5 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Manchester | 88 | 10 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 88 | -5 |
| Arav Kaushik | we need new names | Gruh | 90 | 10 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh | Sheffield B | 90 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Waterloo A | 90 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | RIT | 90 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland B | 90 | 10 |
| Kushal Aluru | Rutgers | George Mason C | 90 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Birmingham | 92 | 10 |
| Scarlett Rutter | Claremont B | Caltech | 93 | -5 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | Toronto C | 94 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Illinois A | 94 | -5 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto E | UBC | 97 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU | Haverford A | 97 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Mac A | 100 | -5 |
| Elise Economou | Pittsburgh | Michigan C | 104 | 10 |
| Kenner Bailey | BU | Brown | 105 | 10 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | Waterloo B | 109 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State University B | Carleton | 113 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCLA A | 114 | 10 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | McGill B | 114 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Ohio State A | 120 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Brandeis | 120 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 124 | -5 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Warwick C | 124 | 10 |
| Matt Weiner | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 124 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial A | Sheffield C | 125 | -5 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | WashU Squirtle | 126 | 10 |
| Mikolai Davis | Ohio State B | Oberlin | 127 | -5 |
| David Latimer | Imperial B | Warwick B | 128 | 10 |
| Arev Lima Boudakian | Oberlin | Ohio State B | 129 | 10 |
| Daniel Merida | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Mahjonng Masters | 132 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Waterloo C | 143 | 10 |
| Patrick Minsker | Illinois C | SIUE | 143 | 10 |
| Saketh Dontaraju | NYU A | George Mason A | 143 | 10 |
| Alex Xu | Caltech | Claremont B | 152 | 0 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | UCSD | 153 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Billy's Bastion | 153 | 10 |
| Alexander Nichols | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 153 | 10 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield C | Imperial A | 153 | 10 |
| Anastacia Healey | Ottawa A | Guelph | 153 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | Toronto B | 153 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | Mac A | Toronto D | 153 | 10 |
| Ethan Skolnick | WashU Bulbasaur | Chicago A | 153 | 10 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | Illinois B | 153 | 10 |
| Tad Horomanski | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | MSJ | 153 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Illinois Orange | Auburn 2026 | 153 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Goober Gang | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 153 | 10 |
| Evan Giles | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Egypt Airlines Haters | 153 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | Arizona State University A | 153 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW A | UW B | 153 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | South Dakota School of Mines | 153 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Iowa State | 153 | 10 |