Packet 5: Bonus 9
Answer the following about stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses performed with solo oud accompaniment in Andrew Berns’s production “Orpheus” at the University of South Carolina. For 10 points each:
[10e] The first story performed was of Deucalion and Pyrrha, two mythical survivors of one of these natural disasters. Noah builds an ark to survive one of these events in the Bible.
ANSWER: floods [accept Great Floods]
[10m] The second story follows a contest in this activity that ends with a woman either hanging herself or being beaten senseless by Minerva. A woman keeps her suitors away by undoing progress in this activity every night during her husband’s 10 year voyage home.
ANSWER: weaving [accept word forms like weave; prompt on answers like creating a funeral shroud or making a tapestry] (The first woman is Arachne, the second is Penelope)
[10h] Philomela weaves to reveal her assault by King Tereus to this woman, her sister, in the third story performed. This woman feeds Tereus his own son before she and Philomela are turned into nightingales.
ANSWER: Procne
<Mythology, Sinecio Morales> | VAULT II Packet 05
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 20.53 | 100% | 92% | 13% |
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 23.75 | 100% | 88% | 50% |