Aeneas - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

In a speech in the underworld, Anchises (“an-KYE-seez”) tells this man about his descendants, starting with his last-born son Silvius. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this man who had that son, Silvius, with his wife Lavinia. This son of Venus earlier entered the underworld via Lake Avernus.

ANSWER: Aeneas

[10e] Later in that speech, Aeneas views a parade of Rome’s future heroes and hears a prophecy about this mythical founder of Rome. No mention is made of this person’s twin brother Remus, whom he murders in many accounts.

ANSWER: Romulus

[10h] After that speech, Anchises leads Aeneas and this woman through the gate of false dreams. This prophetess, who guides Aeneas through the underworld, ordered Aeneas to retrieve a golden bough so that Charon would ferry them across the Styx.

ANSWER: Sibyl of Cumae [or Cumaean Sibyl or Deiphobe; accept Sibylla Cumana; prompt on Sibyl or Sibylla]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	21.43	100%	71%	43%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	15.56	100%	33%	22%
Florida	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	15.45	100%	46%	9%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	56%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	14.44	100%	33%	11%
North	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	58%	8%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	16.15	100%	46%	15%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%

Data


Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Boss Bandit	0	10	0	10
Berkeley Mighty Miner	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley Skeleton King	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley Little Prince	UCSC	10	10	0	20
Claremont A	UCLA B	10	10	10	30
UCLA E	UC Irvine	10	10	0	20
UCSD A	UCLA A	10	10	0	20
UCLA F	UC Santa Barbara	0	10	0	10
UCLA D	UCSD B	10	10	10	30
Claremont B	USC A	10	10	10	30
USC B	Claremont C	0	10	0	10
Ottawa D	Ottawa B	10	10	0	20
Ottawa A	McGill A	0	10	0	10
McGill B	McGill C	0	10	0	10
McGill E	Carleton B	10	10	0	20
Carleton A	Ottawa C	0	10	0	10
Toronto I	Brock A	10	10	10	30
McMaster B	Guelph A	0	10	0	10
McMaster C	Queen's A	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	McMaster A	0	10	0	10
Toronto D	Toronto B	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Waterloo C	10	10	0	20
Toronto H	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	Waterloo A	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Waterloo B	0	10	10	20
Florida B	UCF A	10	10	0	20
ERAU Daytona A	South Florida A	0	10	0	10
Florida A	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
Florida State A	Florida Tech B	0	10	0	10
Michigan D	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
CWRU B	CWRU C	10	10	0	20
CWRU D	Michigan State A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State D	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Louisville B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State D	Louisville D	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Louisville C	0	10	0	10
Michigan State B	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Michigan State C	10	10	10	30
Pittsburgh	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
WVU B	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
NCSU A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	10	30
William & Mary B	Duke A	0	10	0	10
JMU B	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
William & Mary A	UNC A	0	10	0	10
UNC D	UNC C	10	10	0	20
VCU A	Virginia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Virginia A	0	10	0	10
William & Mary C	JMU A	10	10	10	30
NCSU B	Tusculum A	10	10	10	30
George Mason C	Stony Brook	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Johns Hopkins	0	10	0	10
NYU C	Lehigh B	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
NYU A	George Mason B	10	10	0	20
Penn	Vassar B	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Princeton	0	10	0	10
Rowan	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Rutgers C	10	10	0	20
Rutgers D	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
WashU Grizzlers	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Illinois Champaign	William Woods University A	0	10	0	10
Illinois Orange	Purdue C	0	10	0	10
Iowa A	Illinois Urbana	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Purdue D	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
WashU Grolars	Rose-Hulman A	0	10	0	10
Illinois Canada	Illinois Blue	10	10	0	20
Michigan Tech	Minnesota	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	St. Thomas	0	10	0	10
Macalester	Wisconsin A	10	10	10	30
Wisconsin C	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
Boston College A	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
Williams B	Amherst A	10	10	0	20
Boston College B	Vermont A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Beethoven	Boston University B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Mozart	Vermont B	10	10	0	20
Brown A	Tufts C	0	10	0	10
Amherst B	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth B	Boston University A	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth C	MIT B	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	UConn A	10	10	0	20
Southern Connecticut State University A	Williams A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Bach	Williams C	10	10	10	30
British Columbia C	Arizona State A	0	10	0	10
Washington Sockeye	Boise State	10	10	0	20
Washington Atlantic	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Alberta A	British Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Arizona State B	Texas	10	10	0	20
Washington Coho	Washington Chinook	0	10	0	10
Washington Masu	Alberta B	0	10	0	10
Washington State	Washington Pink	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma B	Rose State	0	10	0	10
Kansas State A	Harding	0	10	0	10
Kansas State B	Tulsa B	0	10	0	10
Nebraska A	Murray State College B	0	10	0	10
Murray State College A	Nebraska B	0	10	0	10
Nebraska C	Tulsa A	10	10	0	20
Oklahoma	Central Oklahoma A	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt B	Auburn C	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Auburn B	Tennessee Tech	0	10	0	10
Montevallo	Clemson C	0	10	0	10
Emory A	Georgia Tech F	10	10	0	20
Georgia A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Sewanne	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Chipola College	Vanderbilt A	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt C	Mississippi State A	10	10	0	20
Clemson B	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Durham B	0	10	0	10
Durham C	Edinburgh A	0	10	0	10
Durham D	Sheffield A	10	10	10	30
Sheffield B	Edinburgh C	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh B	York	0	10	0	10
Cardiff	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Birmingham	10	10	10	30
Cambridge E	Oxford	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Cambridge D	10	10	0	20
Imperial C	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Imperial D	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
LSE	Warwick	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Southampton	10	10	0	20
Cornell D	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	Binghamton B	10	10	10	30
Cornell A	Cornell C	10	10	0	20
ESF	RIT B	0	10	0	10
Rochester	RIT A	10	10	0	20