Packet 7: Bonus 1
One treatise describes a law concerning these events, in which women were invited a year in advance in order to be able to prepare their garments and other ornaments. For 10 points each:
[10m] Athenaeus of Naucratis wrote a treatise named for what events, after which participants would sometimes play the kottabos game?
ANSWER: banquets [accept feasts or dinner parties or meals or dining or word-forms; accept deipnon; accept symposia, symposium, symposion, or drinking parties or equivalents; prompt on Deipnosophistae by asking “what events provide the name of the treatise?”; prompt on parties] (The symposia were technically the drinking parties afterwards rather than the dining proper.)
[10h] Athenaeus describes this city’s custom of letting chefs monopolize their new recipes for a year, which has been viewed as an early example of patent law. This rival of Croton in Magna Graecia was notable for its close wool-trade links with Miletus (“my-LEET-us”).
ANSWER: Sybaris (“SIB-uh-riss”)
[10e] While Greeks from Sybaris were associated with excess, giving rise to the term sybarite, Greeks from this other region home to Sparta name a blunt form of speaking.
ANSWER: Laconia [or Lakonia; accept laconic]
<Berkeley A, Other History> | G. Prelims 7 - Georgia Tech A + Berkeley A + Bruin + Georgetown
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 10.95 | 62% | 33% | 14% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia A | Cambridge | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Cornell | MIT | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | WashU | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Illinois A | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Indiana | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | MH |
| Michigan | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Minnesota | Virginia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Northwestern B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| North Carolina | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Northwestern A | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Ohio State | Swarthmore | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Pittsburgh | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Purdue | Maryland B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Stanford A | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Stanford B | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Penn State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UCF | British Columbia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vanderbilt | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 10.95 | 62% | 33% | 14% |