Question
One of these people spent thirty years building a mercury-powered automaton, only for another one of them to smash it to bits while shrieking “Salve! Salve!” For 10 points each:
[10m] What people’s “Dictes” are the subject of a medieval legendarium? One of these people was sewn in a sack and thrown into the Seine for his affair with the queen, and another was stabbed to death with pens.
ANSWER: philosophers [accept theologians, scholastics, or philosophes; accept Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers or Liber Philosophorum; prompt on answers like thinkers, scholars, academics, teachers, or writers; prompt on priests or friars]
[10e] The philosopher Sydrac meets Boctus, the king of this city, in a popular medieval tale. This city’s entry among the Seven Wonders of the World was supposedly built to console Queen Amytis.
ANSWER: Babylon [or Babel; accept Hanging Gardens of Babylon]
[10h] A 13th-century lai originated this other medieval legend about a philosopher. In this scene exemplifying the “Power of Women” motif, a woman sometimes conflated with Campaspe (“cam-PASS-pee”) embarrasses an old man in a garden.
ANSWER: Phyllis riding Aristotle [accept “Phyllis and Aristotle” or “Aristotle and Phyllis”; accept descriptions of Phyllis sitting on Aristotle’s back; prompt on Phyllis or Aristotle]
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Summary
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Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BHSU B | LMM's LLM MLM | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | The Jeam Team | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |