The performance of this action in pursuit of the Greek principle of kleos is analyzed in a Melissa Mueller essay that discusses a gift given to Telemachus. For telling stories and performing this action instead of attending the festival of Bacchus, the Minyades (“mih-NYE-uh-dees”) are transformed into bats. Helen is performing this action when she is visited by Iris in her first appearance in the Iliad. After going mute, Philomela performs this action to reveal that King Tereus assaulted her. After enraging a goddess with her perfect performance of this activity in one story, a shepherd’s daughter hangs herself. In the Odyssey, Penelope repeatedly undoes the previous night’s performance of this action to keep her suitors at bay. For 10 points, Athena turns Arachne into a spider after a contest in what domestic activity? ■END■
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| James McCurley | Harvard | Brown A | 43 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 46 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Amherst A | 51 | 10 |
| Brodie Henry | Auburn A | Bruin A | 52 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto C | 55 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 55 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Edinburgh A | 55 | 10 |
| Wyatt Roder | Georgetown A | Penn B | 59 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 60 | 10 |
| Andrew Lin | Toronto K | McGill B | 64 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | SIUE | 64 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | BC B | 64 | -5 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | UTD B | 64 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Oxford A | 64 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brown B | 65 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Carleton | 69 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Dartmouth | 69 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 69 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Johns Hopkins C | 71 | -5 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Notre Dame D | 71 | -5 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Indiana B | 73 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Orlando | 74 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 75 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Georgetown B | 76 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Purdue B | 76 | 10 |
| Maggie Sun | MIT B | BU | 76 | -5 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | Williams | 76 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | McGill D | 76 | -5 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto D | 77 | -5 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Penn A | 77 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 78 | -5 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 78 | -5 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | NYU B | 80 | -5 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 84 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | Louisville B | 86 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland D | 88 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 89 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Michigan C | 89 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Michigan D | 89 | 10 |
| Ben Romano | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown C | 89 | -5 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | UCO | 89 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | UTD A | 89 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 89 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Cambridge C | 89 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Oxford B | 89 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Queen's B | 91 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Toronto E | 91 | -5 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill C | Toronto I | 92 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | George Washington A | 92 | -5 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | LSE B | 92 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Sheffield B | 92 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Huntsville A | 93 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Louisville A | 94 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas A | 94 | -5 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Tufts B | 95 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Mississippi State A | 95 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | Imperial B | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Brown | UIC | Indiana A | 97 | 10 |
| Ian Costigan | Sheffield C | Southampton A | 97 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 97 | 10 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Georgetown A | 99 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Alabama B | 101 | 10 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt B | 101 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | George Washington B | 102 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | George Mason B | 102 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU B | 102 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | BC A | 102 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | Warwick B | 105 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Rose State | 106 | -5 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Toronto A | 107 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McGill A | 109 | 10 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago D | Notre Dame A | 114 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 116 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | UMBC A | 116 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 116 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Chicago A | 116 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | MIT B | 116 | 0 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Sewanee A | 116 | 10 |
| Olivia Parisotto | Toronto G | Toronto F | 119 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McMaster C | 121 | -5 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 125 | 10 |
| Gavin Ge | Waterloo | Guelph B | 126 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Imperial C | 127 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Arizona State B | 128 | 10 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Notre Dame B | 132 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | Ottawa | 133 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 133 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Queen's A | 133 | 10 |
| Eva Lettiere | George Washington A | Catholic University | 133 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Notre Dame E | 133 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin B | 133 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | Brandeis Clemenceau | 133 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Arizona State A | 133 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern A | 133 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Texas B | 133 | 10 |
| Ayden Gates | Rose State | Northwestern C | 133 | 0 |