Packet 3: Bonus 15
A volume edited by Bahl and Hanss surveys the global use of these elements by early modern scribes from Timbuktu’s Fondo Kati library to Aleppo’s Melkite Renaissance. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these inscriptions that document a manuscript’s publication. In modern publishing, they often feature emblematic devices, such as Alfred A. Knopf’s borzoi.
ANSWER: colophons [accept Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800]
[10m] A Roman coin inspired this Renaissance printer’s colophon, a dolphin around an anchor with the motto “make haste slowly.” This creator of italics disseminated Bessarion’s Greek classics from Venice’s Aldine Press.
ANSWER: Aldus Manutius [or Aldus Pius Manutius; or Aldo Pio Manuzio]
[10e] Manutius printed the editiones principes of histories by Herodotus and Thucydides used as references in this field, the contextual interpretation of language in written texts like Greek classics. Its name means “love of words.”
ANSWER: philology [or word forms of philological; accept comparative philology or classical philology]
<UCLA, Other Academic> | C. Prelims 3 - Cambridge + UCLA + Stanford B + Virginia
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 13.81 | 81% | 43% | 14% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruin | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Chicago A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Columbia A | North Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | H |
| Georgia Tech B | Virginia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Illinois B | Northwestern A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Indiana | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Johns Hopkins | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| MIT | Maryland A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Penn State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | H |
| NYU A | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Ohio State | WashU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Pittsburgh | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Texas | Georgetown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Toronto B | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley B | Northwestern B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UCF | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Waterloo | Cornell | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 13.81 | 81% | 43% | 14% |