Question

A spirit granted passage to a missionary of this belief system named Mar Ammo when he recited a chapter of The Treasury of Life. Buddhist syncretizations mask symbols of this system in Fujian’s Cao’an temple. In the cosmogony of this system, the third creation resulted in an antagonist made up of five archons. A former “hearer” of this system (15[1])described how Faustus of Mileve evaded his questions during debates (15[1])in (*) Carthage. Evil exists because the Father of Greatness is not omnipotent (-5[1])according to this gnostic belief system’s founder, a third century Iranian prophet. Before Ambrose converted him to Christianity, Saint Augustine was a follower of this (10[1])belief (-5[1])system. For 10 points, name this mostly extinct dualistic religion centered on the battle between (-5[1])light and darkness. (0[3])■END■

ANSWER: Manichaeism [or Āyīn-e Mānī; or Móníjiào; accept word forms like Manichaean; prompt on gnosticism before “gnostic”]
<Religion - Religion>
= Average correct buzz position

Back to tossups

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jack LewisMTSUGeorgia Tech B5915
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AVanderbilt B6915
Jack LewisMTSUClaremont81-5
Kevin ParkClaremontMTSU10610
Ophelia Cherry-PulayUSN AWUSTL107-5
Matthew SumanenGeorgia Tech BBelmont122-5
Brady PinterBelmontGeorgia Tech B1250
Joshua DavenportGeorgia Tech CGeorgia Tech A1250
Bharath RamGeorgia Tech AGeorgia Tech C1250

Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y683%17%33%86.00
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%75%0%47.25
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y540%20%60%87.50
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y1100%100%0%59.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y4100%25%50%102.25
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%33%33%94.67