Question
More iron spits for meat roasting have been found at the site of these events than anywhere else in the Mediterranean. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these athletic competitions held every four years in a namesake city.
ANSWER: The Olympic Games [or the Olympics]
[10h] According to Diodorus Siculus, when this ruler brought an extremely luxurious tent to the Olympics, people trashed it. Plato tried to overthrow this tyrant of Syracuse, who destroyed Rhegium for allying with Carthage.
ANSWER: Dionysius I [or Dionysius of Syracuse; or Dionysius the Younger; prompt on Dionysius]
[10m] This author of Description of Greece wrote that Olympic animal sacrifice reduced the area around the altar of Zeus to a two-meter-high pile of ash. He shares his name with the Greek general who won the Battle of Plataea.
ANSWER: Pausanias
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Summary
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
Berkeley A | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |