Packet 7: Bonus 19
This student of Ammonius Saccas proposed a class of rational creatures with free will called logikoi in surviving fragments of the text First Principles. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this thinker who headed the Catechetical (“cat-uh-KET-ic-al”) School after Clement. This autocastrated scholar compiled versions of the Old Testament into six parallel columns in one of the first works of comparative textual criticism.
ANSWER: Origen of Alexandria [or Origen Adamantius] (The work is the Hexapla.)
[10h] Origen used this Greek term from Acts for a process of universal restoration of all logikoi, including the Devil, to God’s perfection. This universalist idea was later preached by Gregory of Nyssa.
ANSWER: apokatastasis
[10e] Origen’s apokatastasis was condemned at the second church council in this city. Michael Psellos and John Chrysostom developed Orthodox Christian theology while working in this imperial capital.
ANSWER: Constantinople [or Kōnstăntīnoúpolĭs; prompt on Byzantium]
<Bruin, Philosophy> | G. Prelims 7 - Georgia Tech A + Berkeley A + Bruin + Georgetown
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
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| Cambridge | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Illinois A | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |