Question
A leader broke a gag rule about this island by delivering an elegy in the persona of a mad herald, and later misquoted the Catalog of Ships to support his city’s ownership of it. A depiction of accounting on the Darius Vase is corroborated by a tablet from this island, the oldest surviving counting board. A cult on this island centered on a cave that the antisocial playwright Euripides fled to. Plutarch claims that Xanthippus’s dog swam to this island after old people were evacuated to it via a decree preserved at (*) Troezen (“TREE-zen”). This island was held by Megara until Athens seized it under Solon. In one account, a fleet entered a strait named for this island due to false intel from the slave Sicinnus. A battle named for this island supposedly occurred the same day as the Battle of Himera and fulfilled a prophecy about “wooden walls.” For 10 points, what island names a naval battle where Themistocles defeated Xerxes’s fleet? ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 93% | 13% | 20% | 130.21 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Robert Wang | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 12 | -5 |
Matt Jackson | LMM's LLM MLM | BHSU B | 16 | 15 |
Aidan Mehigan | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | Les Missourables | 71 | -5 |
Jason Hong | The Jeam Team | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 89 | 15 |
Daniel Ma | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 100 | 10 |
Raymond Wang | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | The Oldest Men in the World | 124 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | The Empire Bikes Back | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 131 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 132 | 10 |
Stephen Liu | Lisan al-Quib | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 136 | 10 |
Ryan Westbrook | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | var merchants | 144 | -5 |
Charles Hang | Les Missourables | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 147 | 10 |
Richard Yu | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 147 | 10 |
Emmett Laurie | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | We Need New Names | 158 | 10 |
Tracy Mirkin | 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 | 158 | 10 |
Rob Carson | Punished "Venom" BHSU | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 161 | 10 |
Justin Wytmar | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 162 | 10 |
Anwen Kelleher | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 162 | 0 |
Jonathan Shauf | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 162 | 0 |
Rohan Kher | var merchants | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 162 | 10 |