Question
This person is the oldest in a series of supposed letters documented in the Arabic manuscript Secret of Secrets. Plutarch hinted that this person engaged in a poisoning plot after a ruler executed this person’s great-nephew Callisthenes. This native of Stagira refused to let Athens “sin twice” and fled to Euboea (“yoo-BEE-ah”) after receiving impiety charges. This person taught that barbarians and slaves were identical to a student he took under the patronage of Philip II. A cloister where this person and his students walked lends its name to the Peripatetic school he founded at the Lyceum. For 10 points, name this tutor to Alexander the Great, a Greek philosopher who wrote the Nicomachean Ethics. ■END■
ANSWER: Aristotle [or Aristotéles]
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Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adam Hermann (DII) | Claremont B | Claremont A | 50 | -5 |
Karthik Krishnamurthy (DII) | USC | Claremont C | 54 | -5 |
Nick Machin (UG) | UCLA A | UCLA B | 56 | -5 |
Andrew Nucci (DII) | UCLA E | UCSD | 74 | 10 |
Ishan Pachauri (DII) | UCLA D | UCLA C | 95 | 10 |
Ivan Karp (UG) | UCLA B | UCLA A | 113 | 10 |
Annika Larson (DII) | Claremont A | Claremont B | 114 | 10 |
Alex Chen (DII) | Claremont C | USC | 114 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 82.56 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 82.57 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 50% | 95.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 27% | 89.30 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 95.20 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 102.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 94.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 33% | 82.25 |