rhetoric - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

In a dialogue, a practitioner of this activity defends its ability to teach arete, or virtue. For 10 points each:

[10m] What activity was practiced by sophists? Cicero advised practitioners of this activity to use memory palaces.

ANSWER: rhetoric [or oratory or word forms; accept De Oratore; prompt on public speaking]

[10e] This author of the dialogue The Sophist criticized the sophists for using rhetoric for their own benefit. Nevertheless, this thinker argued that philosopher-kings should tell a “noble lie” in his dialogue Republic.

ANSWER: Plato [or Platon]

[10h] Plato also wrote dialogues titled for Gorgias and this other sophist, who defended relativism with the statement “man is the measure of all things.”

ANSWER: Protagoras

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	15.00	100%	42%	8%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
North	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	14.17	100%	33%	8%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	13.33	89%	33%	11%
South Central	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	13.85	100%	31%	8%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	14.00	100%	0%	40%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%

Data


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