Packet 2: Tossup 8

The myth that these structures contain peppermint is due to a report by Georg August Schweinfurth (“SHVINE-foort”). John Greaves’s pioneering survey of these structures has been drawn on by amateurs who were dubbed their namesake “idiots” by O. G. S. Crawford. A young prince gains entry to one of these structures in a 1731 Jean Terrasson novel often taken as an authentic translation. Charles Piazzi Smyth used these structures to derive pints and inches that supposedly (10[1])underlie imperial units. Shelley and Keats were buried near one of these structures in Rome (-5[1])named for Cestius. (10[2])These structures (10[1])appear unrealistically (-5[1])narrow (10[1])in pseudotranslations (-5[1])by Athanasius Kircher. In 2015, Ben Carson repeated the theory (10[1])that (10[1])these (10[1])structures (10[1])were built as granaries. (10[3]-5[1])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])the Eye of Providence appears over what kind of structure (10[1])on the dollar (10[2])bill? (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

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