Packet 4: Bonus 1
This text, which originally dates from no later than the 4th century BCE, preserves features of early Latin like using the word lases (“LAH-says”) for lares (“LAH-rays”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe this text recited by people who were reportedly assigned “the first crown ever worn at Rome.” The inscription that preserves this text repeats the word triumpe (“tree-OOM-peh”) five times.
ANSWER: Carmen Arvale (“ar-VAH-lay” or “ar-WAH-lay”) [accept any answer indicating the chant or song or hymn or equivalent of the Arval Brothers or Arval Brethren or Fratres Arvales or Brothers of the Fields] (The preserved inscription dates to 218 AD. Lases is an early form in which s was not rhotacized between vowels.)
[10e] In the Carmen Arvale, triumpe reflects an intermediate form of the term for the Roman triumph, which came from Greek thriambos via these people’s language. These people’s cities on the Italian peninsula included Veii (“VAY-ee”).
ANSWER: Etruscans [or Rasenna or Tuscī or Etruscī]
[10m] Ceres had close links to both Dea Dia (“DAY-ah DEE-ah”), who was venerated by the Arval Brothers, and a goddess with this name who personified the grain supply. The Roman grain dole was known as the cura of this term.
ANSWER: Annona [accept cura annonae]
<Editors, Other History> | D. Prelims 4 - Toronto B + Harvard + Michigan + Minnesota
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 12.86 | 100% | 19% | 10% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Bruin | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge | UCF | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Columbia A | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgetown | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Georgia Tech A | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern B | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Pittsburgh | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | WashU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | UCLA | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 12.86 | 100% | 19% | 10% |