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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= Average correct buzz position
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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Albert Zeng (DII) | Penn B (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 15 | -5 |
Jason Lee (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | Penn B (DII) | 32 | -5 |
Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Columbia B | 35 | -5 |
Saif Virani (UG) | Fordham A | Columbia J (DII) | 37 | 10 |
Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | Bard A (UG) | 41 | -5 |
Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 48 | -5 |
Elijah Scheinson (UG) | Columbia A (UG) | Penn A (DII) | 60 | -5 |
Theodore Farrell (UG) | Fordham A | Penn A (DII) | 61 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi (DII) | Rutgers B | Rowan A (DII) | 67 | -5 |
Sidhant Chaliha (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | NYU B | 69 | -5 |
Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | NYU B | Bard A (UG) | 69 | 10 |
Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | Rowan A (DII) | 75 | -5 |
Jack Stuhlman (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | 78 | -5 |
Sidhant Chaliha (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | Maryland B (DII) | 98 | 10 |
Ben Spirtas (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 98 | -5 |
Jaden Bandy (DII) | Rutgers B | Lehigh B (DII) | 100 | 10 |
Rishi Swaminathan (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Penn B (DII) | 112 | 10 |
Vedh Ramesh (DII) | Penn A (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | 113 | 0 |
Sam Millenbach (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | 113 | 10 |
Andrew Yang | Columbia B | Rutgers A (UG) | 113 | 10 |
Rohit Chintala (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | 118 | 10 |
Rico-Ian Banting (UG) | NYU B | Princeton A (UG) | 118 | 10 |
Abby Hope (UG) | Bard A (UG) | Lehigh A (UG) | 119 | 10 |
Andrew Yang | Columbia B | Columbia A (UG) | 119 | 10 |
Arthur Zhang (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Maryland A (DII) | 119 | 10 |
Hannah Nieuwveld (DII) | Penn B (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | 119 | 10 |
John Shelly (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | Rutgers B | 119 | 0 |