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 (-5[1])a set of (*) Platonic solids. Erwin Panofsky co-wrote a study of the association between (10[1])melancholy (-5[1])and being born under the sign of this planet. 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, named after (10[1])the Roman equivalent of Cronus. (10[1])■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
Arya KarthikThe Enrique Trastamara Military Academy BCornell C++73-5
Raymond WangHutto HipposHouston and friends8710
Dan NiCornell B-Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang88-5
Ani PerumallaWhat is BH! And you are asking me? BHSUDr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq12510
Kenji ShimizuRollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne GangCornell B-13010
Ben HuCornell C++The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B13110

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