Question
In 2024, Julian Schilliger co-won a machine learning challenge named for this mountain. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this mountain near Naples, whose eruption in 79 CE buried scrolls in Herculaneum in ash.
ANSWER: Mount Vesuvius [accept Vesuvius Challenge]
[10h] Other scrolls recovered from the library in Herculaneum contained fragments from this philosopher’s On Nature. This philosopher mused on ethics in his Letter to Menoeceus (“men-oh-EE-see-us”) and ran a school in Athens open to women.
ANSWER: Epicurus [or Epikouros]
[10m] The machine learning challenge was inspired by Brent Searles’s successful deciphering of verses from a scroll of this Book of the Old Testament. Chapters 17 to 26 of this book are often called the Holiness Code and include rules about blasphemy.
ANSWER: Book of Leviticus [accept Third Book of Moses]
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Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 15.56 | 97% | 56% | 3% |