philosophy AND religion - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

When Yosef ben Yehuda asked Maimonides which of these two disciplines he should study, Maimonides told him to pursue both. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these two disciplines. Averroës’ (“uh-VAIR-oh-eez’s”) doctrine of “double truth” holds that contradictory ideas from these two disciplines can be true simultaneously.

ANSWER: philosophy AND religion [accept in either order; accept falāsafa in place of “philosophy”; accept theology in place of “religion”; reject answers that mention “kalām”]

[10e] Maimonides and Averroës reconciled this philosopher’s theories with Judaism and Islam, respectively. This Greek philosopher theorized the golden mean of virtue in Nicomachean Ethics.

ANSWER: Aristotle [or Aristotélēs]

[10m] Ibn Sina claimed he read this book by Aristotle forty times, but only understood it after reading al-Fārābī’s commentary. This book studies “being qua being” and is titled for the discipline of “first philosophy.”

ANSWER: Metaphysics [or Tōn meta ta physika; or Ta meta ta physika; or Metaphysica]

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Northern California	Main	Y	4	5.00	25%	25%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	8.89	78%	11%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	4	7.50	50%	0%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	16.00	90%	60%	10%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	12.22	78%	44%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	14.44	100%	22%	22%
North	Main	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	14.55	91%	46%	9%
South Central	Main	Y	6	16.67	83%	50%	33%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	10.83	83%	8%	17%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	6.00	60%	0%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	12.50	88%	25%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	8.00	60%	0%	20%

Data


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