Question

Aphrodite holds up one of these items to ward off Pan in a marble group from Delos whose common name humorously pairs this item with “slapper.” Pliny's Natural History recounts how a maker of these objects criticized various details of an Apelles painting after finding a defect in one of these objects, to which Apelles responded by telling the man not to “look beyond” this object. A Herakles knot adorns one of these objects in Praxiteles's (-5[1])Hermes (-5[1])with the Infant Dionysus. The peplos of a goddess (*) slips off her shoulder as she stretches her right arm towards one of these objects in a marble sculpture from the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis. For 10 points, Greek sculptures often depict Hermes or Nike (-5[1])adjusting sometimes-winged examples (10[2])of what type (10[1])of garment? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: shoes [or sandals; or slippers; or talaria] (The first sculpture is commonly known as the Slipper-Slapper; the idiomatic phrase is Sutor, ne ultra crepidam, meaning “shoemaker, not beyond the shoe”)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nick JensenMojo ShojoNorthwestern75-5
Will AlstonAmartya Senpai Notice MeChicago B+76-5
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTLOSU123-5
Andrew NadigEpic GamesChicago A12610
Justin WytmarIllinois A+Maryland B-12610
Conor ThompsonMaryland B-Purdue12910
Chris RayOSUWUSTL13110
Alston BoydChicago B+Amartya Senpai Notice Me13210
Andrew SalijNorthwesternMojo Shojo13210

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%0%50%129.33
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%33%128.33
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%0%33%115.33
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%0%33%128.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y367%0%33%129.00