Question
According to Pseudo-Eratosthenes, a planet named after this deity was also called Phaethon. Roman soldiers sacrificed their enemies’ weapons to a wife of this deity named Lua. A son of this deity was betrothed to Canens causing Circe to turn him into a woodpecker out of jealousy. This deity was the first ruler of Latium, who then passed it on to his son Picus. A holiday dedicated to this deity was the only occasion for wearing colorful dinner clothes called synthesis in public. That festival honoring this deity featured widespread gambling and enslaved people switching places with their masters. The best-known wife of this deity was Ops. For 10 points, what Roman deity who ate his son Jupiter was syncretized with the Greek Kronos? ■END■
ANSWER: Saturn [or Saturnus; accept Saturnalia; prompt on Kronos or Cronus until read by asking “who was his Roman counterpart?”]
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Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.33 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 104.33 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 91.00 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 96.20 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.50 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.00 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 124.00 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 87.14 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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James McCurley | Harvard B | Brown A | 15 | -5 |
Drew Scheiner | Missouri | Indiana A | 21 | -5 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Missoui S&T | 30 | 10 |
Andy Yu | Maryland A | Penn B | 31 | 10 |
Jon Suh | Harvard A | BU | 43 | 10 |
Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Chicago C | 46 | -5 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Virginia A | 56 | -5 |
Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 63 | -5 |
Saketh Dontaraju | NYU A | George Washington B | 63 | -5 |
Elijah Scheinson | Columbia C | Vassar A | 75 | 10 |
Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Maryland B | 78 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 79 | 10 |
Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Chicago B | 79 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 82 | 10 |
Soren Heydari | UNC B | UNC C | 83 | 10 |
Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Duke | 90 | 10 |
Owen Gilroy | Texas B | ASU | 90 | 10 |
Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | George Washington A | 90 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 92 | 10 |
Jonathan Huang | MIT A | Brandeis B | 92 | -5 |
Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Brandeis A | 92 | 10 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Illinois C | 93 | 10 |
Matthew Wang | UBC | UW A | 93 | 10 |
Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Yale A | 93 | -5 |
Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | NYU B | 93 | 10 |
Alan Fan | UW B | Alberta | 94 | 10 |
Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty C | 95 | 10 |
John John Groger | WashU B | Chicago D | 98 | 10 |
Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Tufts A | 98 | 10 |
Karan Gurazada | Texas A | TAMU | 98 | 10 |
Nathan Redford | Liberty A | Liberty B | 117 | 10 |
Benny Shtutman | South Carolina | Wake Forest | 117 | 10 |
William Broker | Haverford B | Penn A | 119 | 10 |
Sam Konkel | Chicago C | WashU A | 122 | 10 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Virginia Tech A | 124 | 10 |
Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Missouri | 124 | 10 |
Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | MIT A | 124 | 10 |
Mason Yu | Brown A | Harvard B | 124 | 10 |
Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 124 | 10 |
Jem Burch | Yale A | Haverford A | 124 | 10 |