Question
Bart Ehrman likes to begin lectures by talking about a prophesied miracle-worker who was put on trial by the Romans and ascended to heaven, then revealing he’s talking about this man. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Pythagorean philosopher who travels with his companion Damis in a biography by Philostratus. He hailed from the city of Tyana.
ANSWER: Apollonius of Tyana
[10e] In the Life, Apollonius gets in trouble with Tigellinus after interpreting one of these events as a sign of Nero’s impending death. Thales predicted one of these events that interrupted a battle between the Lydians and Medes.
ANSWER: solar eclipses [prompt on transits or occultations]
[10h] Apollonius saw the traces that soldiers in this war left while storming a rocky citadel held by thunderbolt-wielding sages with magic invisibility clouds. This war against King Deriades is the subject of the longest surviving poem of classical antiquity.
ANSWER: Dionysus’s invasion of India [accept answers mentioning conquest, expedition, or synonyms in place of “invasion” prompt on invasion of India by asking “by whom?”; prompt on Dionysus’s invasion by asking “of where?”] (The invasion is the subject of Nonnus’s poem Dionysiaca.)
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 14.17 | 100% | 25% | 17% |
Data
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| var merchants | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Les Missourables | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | BHSU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| We Need New Names | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |