Packet 9: Bonus 7
Muhammad’s great-grandfather Hashim ibn Abd Manaf is said to have been born with this characteristic as an omen of bloodshed among his family. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this characteristic of the 12th-century Biddenden Maids, whose images are stamped on biscuits in Kent.
ANSWER: they were conjoined twins [or Siamese twins; accept descriptions of being attached or connected to a sibling; prompt on twins; prompt on congenital deformity or birth defects]
[10e] Anatomist Ambroise Paré (“ahm-BWAHZ pah-RAY”) categorized conjoined twins using this term, which also names a deformed baby from Ravenna and comes from the Latin for “warning.” Tolkien’s essay about these things “and the Critics” discusses the dragon from Beowulf.
ANSWER: monsters [or monstrous births, or monstrosities, or other word forms; accept Monster of Ravenna or On Monsters and Marvels or Des monstres et prodiges or “Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics”]
[10m] In his 1573 text On Monsters and Marvels, Paré states that conjoined twins may be omens of divine wrath or caused scientifically by an excess of this substance. This substance was stolen by demons to make cambions, and was later believed to contain homunculi.
ANSWER: semen [or sperm; accept colloquial terms]
<Editors, Mythology> | R. Playoffs 9 (Editors 9)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 14.58 | 83% | 58% | 4% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | WashU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Brown | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cambridge | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Columbia B | Ohio State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Georgetown | UCF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland A | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Minnesota | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU B | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | Maryland B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Pittsburgh | UCLA | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | MIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia | Bruin | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Waterloo | Swarthmore | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 14.58 | 83% | 58% | 4% |