Question

Original language required. Some commentators read the Aeneid’s depiction of this virtue, exemplified by Aeneas, in opposition to self-destructive furor. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Roman virtue. A temple dedicated to the goddess of this virtue stood near a column where wetnurses possibly exchanged their services.
ANSWER: pietas [or pius; reject “filial piety”]
[10e] The pius Aeneas must leave this queen behind to fulfill his duty. This Carthaginian queen exhibits furor as she commits suicide upon a pyre.
ANSWER: Dido [accept Elissa]
[10m] Two answers required. Virgil describes the love between these men as pius before the footrace during Anchises’s funeral games, when one trips Salius so that the other wins. These two men die together after enemies spot the gleam of a stolen helmet.
ANSWER: Nisus AND Euryalus
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
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Ezrielev et al.Does a dawg have Buddha-nature?010010
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Hawk the Herald Angels TuahTrielectic Materialists1010020
Kirtland SignatureRump Fest? I Thought They Closed That Place Down1010020
The Questions for the Historical Je*BUZZ* by AlBonus SchweitzerThe Philosophy of Furniture1010020
The Rumbleless Rumble in Meinong's JungleJesus wept, for He had no more worlds to conquer0101020
The Waterloo QueensQuining Quem Quaeritis010010
is the priestly source stored in the ballsJosiah Royce da 5'9010010

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror05/31/25N417.50100%50%25%
2025 RMP Fest Carleton Mirror07/13/25Y313.33100%0%33%
2025 RMP Fest CO Mirror08/10/25Y616.67100%33%33%