Question
One of these people named “the Archpoet” wrote how God will take mercy on him after he dies in a tavern in a "Confession" found in Carmina Burana. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these people who often presented their works at the Feast of Fools. These people principally worshipped Venus and Fortuna.
ANSWER: goliards
[10h] The goliards observed this holiday, in which a certain animal would stand behind the priest while the audience imitated it. This holiday fell out of favor in the 15th century with the suppression of the related Feast of Fools.
ANSWER: Feast of the Ass [or Festum Asinorum; or Fête de l'âne]
[10e] Most goliards were people with this specific relation to their parents, who were forced to become priests. The title of Prince Harry's autobiography refers to the notion that these members of noble families were "spares."
ANSWER: second sons [accept descriptions of non-inheriting sons or sons who are not the firstborn; accept younger sons; prompt on sons; prompt on second children]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 17% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 0% | 33% |
Data
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |