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 Hermes with the Infant Dionysus. The peplos of a goddess (*) slips off her shoulder (-5[1])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 adjusting sometimes-winged examples (10[1])of what type of garment? ■END■ (10[1]0[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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sky LiThe Passion According to C.H.Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style89-5
Joey SunParth et al.The Vulture's Guide to Buzz12610
Milan FernandezMilan et al.Cameron et al.1320
Cameron AminiCameron et al.Milan et al.1320
Sheena LiNeg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy StyleThe Passion According to C.H.13210

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