Question
Like "banderole," this word is sometimes used for the scrolls that function like speech bubbles in Renaissance art. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this English word of Greek origin that historically described cases for relics. In the King James Version, Jesus attacks the Pharisees for “making broad” objects denoted by this word, which are described as tefillin in Hebrew.
ANSWER: phylactery [or phylacteries]
[10e] Instead of Torah scrolls, the phylactery of a lich contains his soul in the world of this pencil-and-paper RPG published by Wizards of the Coast, whose gameplay is managed by a DM.
ANSWER: Dungeons & Dragons [or D&D; or DnD]
[10h] This writer helped to repopularize the Old English-derived word "lich" in stories such as "The Empire of the Necromancers," which pushed him above Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft as the most morbid of the "Big Three" contributors to Weird Tales.
ANSWER: Clark Ashton Smith [prompt on Smith]
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Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |