Bonus
Genre and author required. The Renaissance proto-feminist Laura Cereta (“cheh-REH-tah”) used the title of some of these works for a book of neo-Latin writings. For 10 points each:
[10m] What works were prompted by a rediscovery of Cicero’s manuscripts? The Liber sine nomine (“LEE-bair see-nay NOH-mee-nay”) collects some of these works withheld from a set dubbed “familiares,” one of which inspired Cereta’s ascent of Mount Isola.
ANSWER: letters by Petrarch [accept epistles or epistolae in place of “letters”; accept Francesco Petrarca in place of “Petrarch”; prompt on letters or epistles or epistolae by asking “by whom?”]
[10e] Cereta published her letters with a burlesque funeral oration on the death of one of these animals, based on a Latin novel by Apuleius (“APP-yoo-LEE-uss”) in which Lucius is transformed into one.
ANSWER: donkey [or ass; accept On the Death of an Ass or Asinarium Faunus; accept The Golden Ass or Asinus aureus]
[10h] Cereta also drew on a letter from Petrarch’s Seniles, his last work. That oft-revised letter addressed to this concept gives an account of Petrarch’s life hailed as the first Western autobiography since St. Augustine’s Confessions.
ANSWER: posterity [or Letter to Posterity; or Epistola Posteritati]
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell B | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Georgia Tech | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Illinois B | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Indiana | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Iowa State | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Johns Hopkins | Texas | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| LSE | Yale | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | MIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| North Carolina A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Northwestern | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ottawa | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Georgia State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Toronto C | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| UCF | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| WUSTL B | Florida | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo B | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Winona State | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 13.75 | 96% | 42% | 0% |