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A hairy man intercepts messengers sent to consult this being and predicts the king’s death from injuries sustained by falling through a lattice. Louis Le Breton depicted this being with skull-and-crossbones on two of his wings in the Dictionnaire Infernal. This being’s popular name is either a corruption of a title referring to the “heavenly ■END■ (15[1])

ANSWER: Baalzebub [or Beelzebub; or Baalzebul; or the Lord of the Flies; prompt on Baal; prompt on Satan or the devil] (The first sentence refers to an incident in Second Kings, Chapter 1.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Yihong ChenModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken5515
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut11510
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit12310
Elijah Mandelbaumas rational as the square root of two power bottomsShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere13310
Adil HaiderThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 141-5
Kane NguyenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange1490

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%33%131.67
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