Question

A set of Old English poems personify this entity as a Chaldean nobleman who exchanges riddles with Solomon. After descending a golden ladder on this object, a soul spins so fast that it glows brightly, then reveals itself to Dante as Peter Damian. After thirty years, this object returns to the ecliptic longitude it occupied at someone’s birth, accounting for quarter-life crises in horoscopic astrology. Johannes Kepler modeled this body as a sphere enclosing a set of (*) Platonic solids. (-5[1])Erwin (-5[1])Panofsky co-wrote a study of the association between melancholy and being born under (10[1])the sign of this (10[1])planet. (10[1])The Paradiso places this planet just before the Fixed Stars as the seventh level of heaven. For 10 points, name this farthest of the classical planets, (10[1])named after the Roman equivalent (10[1])of Cronus. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Saturn [or Saturnus; accept the seventh heaven before “seventh”; accept the seventh splendor before “seventh”; accept al settimo splendore before “seventh”]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Davis Everson-RoseEpic GamesWUSTL78-5
Conor ThompsonMichiganChicago B+79-5
Taylor HarveyMojo ShojoChicago9210
Clark SmithOSUPurdue9610
Jordan BrownsteinMaryland B-Amartya Senpai Notice Me9710
Christopher SimsNorthwesternIllinois A+12310
Alston BoydChicago B+Michigan12810
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTLEpic Games13110

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%0%33%111.17
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%67%119.67
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%0%67%124.00
2023 BHSU Online04/15/2023Y4100%0%50%118.25
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y2100%0%0%114.00