Question
Residents of a “hanging city” above this river were terrorized by rumors of a giant octopus and prayed to a beauty goddess “of the Sewer.” During Argei, twenty-seven straw figures were thrown annually into this river to honor a drowned king of Alba Longa that may name it. The Tetrarchy was abolished shortly after a battle on this river’s Milvian Bridge. The first colonia was a city at the mouth of this river which imported grain and was named Ostia. This river’s aqueducts like the Aqua Appia supplied water to bathhouses in a city built on seven hills like the Palatine and Capitoline. For 10 points, name this river that flows through Rome. ■END■
ANSWER: Tiber River [or Tiberis or Tevere; prompt on Albula] (The first line is Pliny the Elder’s description of Rome and of Cloacina as the “Venus of the Sewer.” The drowned king was Tiberinus.)
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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 80.13 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 91.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 85.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 10% | 74.33 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 89.11 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 67.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 88% | 110.43 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 50% | 91.71 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 85.75 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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William Foster | Chicago A | Notre Dame B | 47 | 10 |
Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 49 | 10 |
Sam Alahi | Illinois A | WashU B | 59 | -5 |
David Nickel | Purdue C | Purdue A | 72 | -5 |
Vikas Kothari | Northwestern B | Illinois D | 79 | 10 |
Danielle Webb | SIUE | Iowa A | 79 | 10 |
David Zhang | Illinois B | Chicago B | 102 | 10 |
Trenton Burgess | Indiana | Iowa B | 102 | -5 |
Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | Purdue C | 105 | 10 |
Theodor Martin | WashU B | Illinois A | 112 | 10 |
Abigail Zimmerman | Iowa B | Indiana | 113 | 10 |