Socrates - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This person was reimagined as a monotheist facing religious persecution in a three-act play by Voltaire aiming to criticize organized religion. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this character who, in an older play, makes unique arguments for the genders of nouns, including suggesting that Amynias is feminine since it is the plural of Amynia.

ANSWER: Socrates

[10m] Socrates was depicted in The Clouds by Aristophanes, who also depicted Cleon in this play after a slander trial over The Babylonians. In this play, Cleon loses a debate to a sausage seller for the confidence of the Demos.

ANSWER: The Knights [or Hippeîs]

[10e] In The Knights, Aristophanes uses one of these groups to voice his opinion that “the author-director of comedies is the hardest job of all.” In The Clouds, the clouds themselves are one of these groups who respond to the action of a Greek drama.

ANSWER: chorus

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Canada	Main Site	Y	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	4	22.50	100%	50%	75%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%

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UCLA B	UCSD B	10	0	10	20
UCSD A	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo B	Carleton University	0	0	10	10
McGill A	Guelph	0	0	10	10
Ottawa	Queen's	0	10	10	20
Simon Fraser	McGill B	0	0	10	10
UBC A	Toronto B	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Toronto C	0	0	10	10
Toronto E	UBC B	0	0	10	10
UC Santa Barbara	UCSD C	0	0	10	10
Toronto F	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
Waterloo A	McMaster A	0	10	10	20
CWRU A	Ohio State B	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
CWRU B	Ohio State C	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	VCU	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	Wake Forest	0	10	10	20
Liberty C	Virginia	0	0	10	10
William and Mary	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
MIT	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Brown	Brandeis B	10	0	10	20
Harvard A	Brandeis A	10	10	10	30
Yale	Dartmouth A	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Missouri A	Minnesota A	0	10	10	20
Washington A	Washington B	0	0	10	10
Bruin	Louisville B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Kentucky	Mississipi State	0	0	10	10
Alabama A	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10
WashU A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
WashU B	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Oxford C	Cardiff	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
Warwick B	Montpellier	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Catholic	0	10	10	20
Rutgers A	John Jay	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Georgetown	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
Columbia C	Columbia B	0	0	10	10