Question
This good was collected on the tidal island of Ictis, sailed to Gaul, and brought down the Rhône to Massalia. For 10 points each:
[10e] What good gave its name to the Cassiterides, an archipelago sometimes identified with the Isles of Scilly (“silly”)? After supplies in Hispania were depleted, Roman trade networks for this good expanded in Cornwall.
ANSWER: tin [or stannum; or Sn]
[10m] Per Strabo, either this man’s father or son led an expedition to find the sources of tin in the 1st century BCE. This man established a corrupt private force whose function Augustus later replaced with the vigiles.
ANSWER: Marcus Licinius Crassus Triumvir
[10h] In the Gallic Wars, Crassus’s son sent an embassy to Darioritum, the capital of this tribe that controlled the tin trade off Brittany’s coast. Forces of Decimus Brutus beat this Armorican tribe’s fleet by cutting their rigging with long billhooks.
ANSWER: Veneti
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Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 16.67 | 92% | 67% | 8% |
Data
The Oldest Men in the World | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Lisan al-Quib | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
LMM's LLM MLM | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
The Dyatlov Passement incident | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
The Jeam Team | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
We Need New Names | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
The Empire Bikes Back | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | BHSU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |