Question
According to Herodian, Elagabalus was murdered at an entrance to this system, where Nero allegedly dumped the bodies of street hermits that he drunkenly killed. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this system commissioned by Tarquinius Priscus and built by reclaiming the swamps around the Roman Forum. Marcus Agrippa renovated this system and allegedly rode through it as a demonstration.
ANSWER: Roman sewer system [or sewage system; accept drainage system; or sanitation system; or plumbing system; accept Cloaca Maxima; prompt on waste management or water management or wastewater management; prompt on Cloaca]
[10h] Rome’s sewer system was protected by this deity, whose identity became fused with the Etruscan water goddess Cloacina (“clo-uh-CHEE-nuh”). The city’s largest temple was one dedicated to Roma and this other deity on the Velian Hill.
ANSWER: Venus [accept Venus Cloacina or Venus the Purifier; accept Venus Felix or Lucky Venus; reject “Aphrodite”]
[10e] The Cloaca Maxima began at the Forum named for this first Roman Emperor. His son-in-law Marcus Agrippa defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium.
ANSWER: Augustus Caesar [or Octavian; or Gaius Octavius; or Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus; prompt on Caesar; reject other partial answers]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 89% | 56% | 0% |
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| Cornell C | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Vassar | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Rowan A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Haverford | Princeton A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Princeton B | Bard A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Yale C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn B | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |