Packet 7: Bonus 5

The first printed book to be condemned by the Catholic church was this thinker’s pluralistic 900 Theses. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this thinker who quoted Abdala the Saracen in one work to describe the wonder of its title figure. This thinker described a progression of the Seraphim, Cherubim, and Throne in an oration on how the title figure can become angelic.
ANSWER: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola [prompt on Mirandola]
[10e] Pico della Mirandola, the author of the Oration on the Dignity of Man, was a thinker from this country who was patronized by Lorenzo de Medici while in Florence.
ANSWER: Italy [or Italian Republic; or Italia]
[10m] Pico della Mirandola argued that his Florentine academy contemporary Marsilio Ficino’s astrology undermined this concept. Viewing it as emerging from a “rational appetite,” St. Thomas Aquinas argued that this concept emerges from the intellects’ pursuit of the ultimate good.
ANSWER: free will [or liberum arbitrium; prompt on freedom; prompt on will]
<Philosophy, Aveek Sarkar> | VAULT II Packet 07

HeardPPBE %M %H %
4411.36100%7%7%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Albanian Rift in the SkyBig Brown Ballers010010E
Always Set the KurveBasileus II: Electric Boogaloo010010E
Armand duplantis fan clubTed Offensive010010E
BathWarperial010010E
Bella VistaRenert010010E
Belmont AWaltham A010010E
Belmont BMansfield B010010E
Birmingham BSouthampton010010E
Booz Allen InternsAn even worse idea010010E
Burlington TrojansAbbey Park010010E
BurnsvilleMinnetonka B010010E
CaliforniaGeorgia C010010E
Cary AcademyGrimsley010010E
Chapel Hill AEast Chapel Hill010010E
Chapel Hill BTantaene Animis Caelestibus Irae0101020EM
Chattahoochee BInnovation B010010E
Cheese SandwichGlebe0101020EM
EdinburghManchester B010010E
ExhibitionMidtown1010020HE
Georgia BTexas B010010E
Hoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?I have no buzzer and I must neg1010020HE
Johns CreekHoover010010E
Lambert AInnovation A010010E
Lexington BMansfield A010010E
MartingroveNorthern0101020EM
Michael Touse-SquidThe Young Jits010010E
Midnight Bus to VistaDon't Ever Take Sides Against the Family010010E
Minnetonka CMinnetonka A010010E
Mountain Dew is BetterNot Just Biking010010E
New YorkGeorgia A010010E
North CarolinaKentucky010010E
Northview ALambert B010010E
Northview BChattahoochee A010010E
Ostia OrcasJeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutu010010E
OxfordBirmingham A010010E
PC Chris Master RaceThey'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days1010020HE
Prat PackWith Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience010010E
ProvidenceEden Prairie010010E
Sheffield AManchester A010010E
Sheffield BChimera010010E
SouthperialCambridge010010E
Texas AWashington010010E
Virginia TechThey fuck you up your buzz and neg010010E
whateverLeif Eriksen's Striking Appearance010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓611.67100%0%17%
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓313.33100%33%0%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓310.00100%0%0%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓415.00100%50%0%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓510.00100%0%0%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓310.00100%0%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓410.00100%0%0%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓310.00100%0%0%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓510.00100%0%0%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓812.50100%0%25%