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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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 89% | 56% | 44% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 22.86 | 100% | 71% | 57% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 15.83 | 100% | 33% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 44% | 56% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 86% | 57% | 43% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 10 | 24.00 | 100% | 90% | 50% |
Data
| Appalachian State B | James Madison A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke A | James Madison B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Tusculum | Liberty B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty C | Duke B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| William & Mary | NC State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Liberty A | UNC A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Virginia Tech A | UNC C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Virginia | UNC D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| VCU | Virginia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |