Ladon - 2024 PACE NSC - Buzzpoints App

Question

Diodorus Siculus relates a reinterpretation of this figure as a powerful shepherd who guards a flock of golden-fleeced sheep. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this hundred-headed beast represented by the constellation Draco. Vase paintings tend to depict this unsleeping beast coiled around an apple tree.

ANSWER: Ladon [prompt on, BUT DO NOT REVEAL, Drakon Hesperian or Hesperian Dragon or the dragon that guards the Garden of the Hesperides or the dragon that guards the golden apples of immortality]

[10m] Ladon guards the immortality-granting golden apples in this garden, whose eponymous daughters of Atlas are the source of the sunset’s golden light.

ANSWER: Garden of the Hesperides

[10e] Ladon’s still-twitching corpse is later encountered by this band of adventurers led by Jason.

ANSWER: Argonauts

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Beavercreek	Saint Joseph	0	10	10	20
Belmont	Lightridge	0	10	10	20
Bloomington	Okemos	0	0	10	10
Carbondale	Stevenson A	10	10	10	30
Chattahoochee	McLean B	0	10	10	20
Detroit Catholic Central A	Seven Lakes	0	10	10	20
Detroit Catholic Central B	University Lab	0	10	10	20
Downingtown STEM	Walter Payton B	0	10	10	20
Fairfield County AT	Thomas Jefferson D	0	0	10	10
Great Valley	DuPage County AT	0	10	10	20
Heights	Detroit Catholic Central C	10	10	10	30
Hoover A	Winston Churchill B	0	10	10	20
Hunter A	Georgetown Day	10	10	10	30
Hunter B	Winston Churchill A	0	10	10	20
Innovation Academy A	Livingston B	0	0	10	10
Innovation Academy B	Barrington	10	10	10	30
James W. Robinson	Livingston A	0	10	10	20
Johns Creek B	William Fremd	10	10	10	30
Kinkaid	Cincinnati Hills	0	10	10	20
Maggie Walker A	St. Xavier	0	10	10	20
Maggie Walker B	Lambert	0	0	10	10
Maggie Walker C	Alabama Cyber Tech	0	0	10	10
McLean A	Carl Sandburg	0	10	10	20
Mexico	Hoover B	10	10	10	30
Northmont A	Norfolk Academic Guild	0	10	10	20
Northmont B	St. Mark's	0	10	10	20
Owensboro	Durham AT	0	10	10	20
Richard Montgomery A	Lindbergh	10	10	10	30
Richard Montgomery B	Johns Creek A	0	10	10	20
Solon	Stevenson B	10	10	10	30
St. Thomas	Choate Rosemary Hall	0	10	10	20
Strake Jesuit	Elkhorn North	10	10	10	30
Thomas Jefferson A	West Point	0	10	10	20
Thomas Jefferson B	Freeman	10	10	10	30
Thomas Jefferson C	Canyon Crest	10	10	10	30
Walter Payton A	Hastings	0	0	10	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 PACE NSC	06/08/2024	Y	36	21.39	100%	83%	31%