Question
Jean-Baptiste Peres’ satire Grand Erratum suggests that Napoleon didn’t exist and was a metaphor for this type of god, since his name sounds like “Apollo” and he moved from east to west. For 10 points each:
[10e] What type of god includes Ra and Helios?
ANSWER: sun god [accept word forms like solar deity]
[10m] This scholar’s principles of “solar mythology” led R. F. Littledale to argue that by his own logic, this man himself was a solar myth. This orientalist directed translation of The Sacred Books of the East.
ANSWER: Max Muller
[10h] Émile Senart argued that the legend of this figure was in fact a solar myth. In one episode, this figure accepted a gift of honey from a monkey, which became so overwhelmed that it fell out of its tree and died.
ANSWER: Gautama Buddha [accept either underlined portion of Siddhārtha Gautama; accept Shakyamuni] (Senart’s idea was that the Buddha was first a mythological solar deity, whose legend was then reduced to that of a human.)
<JC, Mythology>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror | 05/31/25 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2025 RMP Fest Carleton Mirror | 07/13/25 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 RMP Fest CO Mirror | 08/10/25 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |