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Question

According to legend, a holder of this position had to sit on the sedes stercoraria (“seh-DAYS stair-coh-RAH-ree-uh”), the “dung chair,” to have their genitals examined to bar women holders of it. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this position that sedevacantists (“seh-duh-VAY-can-tists”) claim is currently empty. The phrase extra omnes (“extra OHM-nays”) is used to indicate the start of a process to select new holders of this position, whose current holder, Leo XIV, was elected by the conclave.

ANSWER: pope [or papa; or supreme pontiff; or pontifex maximus; or summus pontifex; or Roman pontiff; or Romanus pontifex; or bishop of Rome; or patriarch of Rome]

[10m] Description acceptable. According to Jean de Mailly (“duh mah-YEE”), this action was done for four days after the female Pope Joan’s death. In the Old Testament, Moses and Elijah did this action for forty days in addition to praying.

ANSWER: fasting [accept word forms; accept descriptions like not eating or not drinking or starving oneself]

[10h] Pope Joan was used as an exemplum for this Christian order. Friars from this order were called Blackfriars due to their black capes and Thomas Aquinas belonged to this order.

ANSWER: Dominican Order [accept Dominicans; accept Ordo Praedicatorum; or Order of Preachers; or OP; accept Jacobins]

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Southern California	Main	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	20.00	89%	89%	22%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	24.17	100%	100%	42%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	21.67	100%	100%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	22.50	92%	100%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	23.33	100%	89%	44%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	21.67	100%	92%	25%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	23.33	100%	89%	44%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	22.50	100%	100%	25%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	26.00	100%	100%	60%

Data


UCSD A	Claremont B	10	10	10	30
UC Santa Barbara	Claremont A	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	UCLA F	10	10	10	30
UCLA D	UCLA C	10	10	0	20
Claremont C	UCLA E	10	10	0	20
UCLA B	UCSD B	10	0	0	10
USC A	UC Irvine	10	10	0	20
Guelph A	Waterloo B	10	10	0	20
McMaster A	Toronto C	10	10	0	20
Toronto D	Toronto A	10	0	10	20
Waterloo A	Toronto B	10	10	10	30
Waterloo C	Toronto E	10	10	0	20
Toronto F	Brock A	10	10	0	20
Toronto G	McMaster B	10	10	0	20
McMaster C	Toronto H	0	10	0	10
Queen's A	Toronto I	10	10	0	20
CWRU A	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	CWRU B	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Louisville A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B	Louisville B	10	10	0	20
Louisville D	CWRU C	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20
Michigan D	Kentucky	10	10	10	30
Michigan State B	CWRU D	10	10	0	20
Michigan State D	Ohio State D	10	10	0	20
Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
WVU A	Louisville C	10	10	0	20
Michigan State C	WVU B	10	10	10	30
JMU A	Duke A	10	10	0	20
Liberty B	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
UNC D	VCU A	10	10	0	20
UNC B	Virginia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Liberty A	William & Mary B	10	10	10	30
Rutgers C	Rowan	0	10	0	10
Stony Brook	Rutgers D	10	10	10	30
Vassar B	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Rutgers B	10	10	10	30
George Mason A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	George Mason B	10	10	0	20
NYU C	George Mason C	10	10	0	20
Penn	Johns Hopkins	10	10	0	20
Lehigh B	Princeton	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Maryland C	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Lehigh A	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
William Woods University A	Chicago B	10	0	0	10
WashU Grizzlers	Illinois Blue	10	10	0	20
Illinois Urbana	Illinois Canada	10	10	10	30
Illinois Champaign	Iowa A	10	10	0	20
Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Orange	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Iowa B	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Purdue C	WashU Grolars	10	10	0	20
Williams A	Amherst A	10	10	0	20
Williams B	Boston College A	10	10	0	20
Boston University A	Tufts B	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Mozart	Brown B	10	10	10	30
Tufts A	Dartmouth A	10	10	10	30
British Columbia B	Washington State	10	10	10	30
Arizona State A	Texas	10	10	10	30
Washington Atlantic	Washington Masu	10	10	0	20
Alberta B	Washington Chinook	10	10	0	20
Washington Steelhead	Washington Chum	10	10	10	30
Boise State	Washington Coho	10	0	0	10
MIT A	Dartmouth B	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth C	MIT B	10	10	0	20
Amherst B	Southern Connecticut State University A	10	10	10	30
Boston College B	Tufts C	10	10	0	20
Vermont A	Brandeis Bach	10	0	0	10
Brown A	Vermont B	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Beethoven	Williams C	10	10	0	20
Alberta A	Washington Pink	10	10	0	20
Arizona State B	British Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Washington Sockeye	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
JMU B	Tusculum A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Auburn A	10	10	0	20
Emory A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Auburn B	Georgia A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Clemson C	10	10	0	20
Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Mississippi State A	Auburn C	10	10	0	20
Sewanne	Clemson B	10	10	0	20
Chipola College	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Tennessee A	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt C	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Durham C	Durham A	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh A	Edinburgh D	10	10	0	20
Sheffield A	Sheffield B	10	10	10	30
York	Durham B	10	10	0	20
Bristol	Oxford	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
Birmingham	Cambridge D	10	0	0	10
Imperial B	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge E	LSE	10	10	0	20
Southampton	Cardiff	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	Warwick	10	10	10	30
Imperial C	Imperial D	10	10	0	20
RIT A	Binghamton A	10	10	10	30
Cornell D	Binghamton B	10	10	0	20
ESF	Binghamton C	10	10	10	30
Cornell C	Cornell B	10	10	10	30
Cornell A	RIT B	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Edinburgh C	10	0	0	10