Question

The names of the deities of this people were inscribed into a bronze sheep liver used for haruspicy and discovered near Piacenza (“pie-ah-SHEN-zah”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this people, whose triad of gods Tinia (“TEE-nee-ah”), Uni (“OO-nee”), and Menrva (“men-ER-wa”) inspired another civilization’s Capitoline Triad.
ANSWER: Etruscans [accept Etruria or Etrurian culture; or Rasenna or Rasna; accept Tyrrhenia or Tyrrhenian; prompt on Italians]
[10e] A well-preserved Etruscan terracotta statue from Veii depicts an equivalent of this Greek and Roman deity. This twin brother of Diana was a god of archery and music.
ANSWER: Apollo [or Apollon or Aplu]
[10m] This author described how Vertumnus, a Roman god adapted from the Etruscans, seduced Pomona in one of the various mythological transformations he chronicled in a 15-book narrative poem.
ANSWER: Ovid [or Publius Ovidius Naso] (The work is Metamorphoses.)
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2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY918.8989%56%44%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY722.86100%71%57%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1215.83100%33%25%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY920.00100%44%56%
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY718.5786%57%43%
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY1024.00100%90%50%

Data

Notre Dame AChicago A10101030
Illinois CChicago B1010020
Illinois AIllinois D10101030
WashU AIllinois B0101020
Northwestern AIowa A10101030
Northwestern BIndiana0101020
Notre Dame BWashU B0101020
Purdue APurdue B10101030
Notre Dame CPurdue C0101020
Iowa BSIUE0101020