Olympia - 2023 PACE NSC - Buzzpoints App

Question

This city’s king Iphitos instituted a policy that fined Spartans for sacking Lepreum. A boy in this city whose parents were still alive would use golden scissors to cut olive branches for a kotinos. (0[1])The Spartan princess Kyniska gained fame for horses she provided to a tethrippon (0[1])held in this city. (0[1])An artwork in this city (0[1])was repeatedly rubbed with olive oil due to the Altis Grove’s marshiness. (0[1])Phidias was apocryphally (*) murdered after completing (0[1])that (0[2])chryselephantine (0[3])(“criss-el-uh-FAN-teen”) statue in this (0[1])city. (10[1]0[1])100 oxen were sacrificed (0[1])at this city’s massive Temple (0[1])of Zeus (10[2]0[2])during events that were revived (10[1]0[2])in the 1890s (10[2]0[1])by (10[1])Baron Pierre de Coubertin. (10[1])For 10 (0[1])points, (10[1])name this (10[1])Peloponnesian city (10[1])that, with Delphi, hosted part (0[1])of the Panhellenic Games every four years. (10[5])■END■ (10[5]0[11])

ANSWER: Olympia [or Archaia Olympia; accept the Statue of Zeus at Olympia; prompt on Elis before “completing a statue” by asking “What city under Elis’s control?”; reject “Olympics” or “Olympus”]

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2023 PACE NSC	06/10/2023	Y	34	62%	0%	0%	109.57

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Thomas Belcher	Saint Joseph	Detroit Country Day	33	0
Kevin Adler	Northmont B	St. Mark's	46	0
Camden Williams	Mexico	Woodland	50	0
Cole Hartung	Kinkaid	Moberly	55	0
Braden Booth	Dallas County	Elkhorn North	67	0
Lucas Jraiche	Detroit Catholic Central B	Lincoln-Way East	73	0
Keefer Lin	Chattahoochee B	Hunter B	74	0
Maya Pandit	Hunter B	Chattahoochee B	74	0
Dennis Yang	Troy	Thomas Jefferson C	75	0
Addison Baker	Walter Payton	Belvidere	75	0
Rohan Dalal	Johns Creek B	Winston Churchill A	75	0
Joshua Fan	Richard Montgomery	Detroit Catholic Central C	78	0
Costas Pavlou	Detroit Country Day	Saint Joseph	79	10
Isaac McCollum	Hoover B	Winnebago	79	0
Matt Mokrzycki	Carl Sandburg	Lake Highland	83	0
Suhit Damani	Innovation Academy B	Hinsdale Central	88	0
Kyunghwan Lim	Chattahoochee A	Dunbar	90	0
Rohan Kher	Barrington A	Cincinnati Hills Christian	90	10
Javik Hodson	Moberly	Kinkaid	90	10
Brielle Rach	Rockford Auburn B	New Brighton	90	0
Diane Buffet-Mogul	Mercer County	Thomas Jefferson D	95	10
C. Schenkel	Washington	Barrington B	95	0
Ulden Gao	Winston Churchill B	West Point	95	0
Bryce Cruise	Heights	Mira Loma	98	10
Owen Arneson	Parkway West	Johns Creek A	98	10
Ave Rieger	Northmont A	William Fremd	98	0
Deven Hagen	Thomas Jefferson A	John Adams B	99	10
Sam McNamee	Maggie Walker A	Midtown	103	10
Leon Luo	Plymouth	Waukee	105	0
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	Hunter A	Norman	106	10
Will Carstens	Detroit Catholic Central A	Innovation Academy A	108	10
Hari Veginati	Stevenson A	Maggie Walker B	110	10
Chris Yoo	Thomas Jefferson B	Irvington A	115	0
Chakri Gudlavalleti	Dunbar	Chattahoochee A	122	10
Nolan King	Elkhorn North	Dallas County	122	10
Evan Lin	Woodland	Mexico	122	10
Puna Ekka	New Brighton	Rockford Auburn B	122	10
Aditya Shivaswamy	St. Mark's	Northmont B	122	10
John Hines-Shah	Hinsdale Central	Innovation Academy B	123	0
Michael Camilleri	John Adams A	Rockford Auburn A	123	0
Alex Crowell	Rockford Auburn A	John Adams A	123	0
Kyan van Beek	Lake Highland	Carl Sandburg	123	0
Anila Moparthi	Lincoln-Way East	Detroit Catholic Central B	123	0
Brenden Stremler	Maggie Walker C	Belmont	123	10
Mason Severson	Norris	Carbondale	123	10
Pranav Aiyar	William Fremd	Northmont A	123	10
Chris Goolsby	Detroit Catholic Central C	Richard Montgomery	123	0
Anthony Zhao	Thomas Jefferson C	Troy	123	10
Jonathan Tao	Stevenson B	University Lab	123	0
Shreyas Singh	University Lab	Stevenson B	123	0
Donovan Jensen	Belvidere	Walter Payton	123	10
Kaitlyn Leonard	Barrington B	Washington	123	0
Miles Sierra	Waukee	Plymouth	123	0
Sean Harbison	West Point	Winston Churchill B	123	0