automatons - 2024 PACE NSC

Question

Note to moderator: read answerline carefully. The Kabeiroi’s (“KAAB-air-roi’s”) father gifted them two of these things for their adamantine chariot. The golden doors and silver posts of Alcinous’s palace were guarded by two of these things. (20[2])A Colchian princess gave a hero a magic ointment (20[1])that he rubbed on to defeat (20[1])some (20[1])of these things. (20[2])Poeas’s (“POI-ah’s”) arrow felled one of these things, bleeding golden ichor from (20[1])its single vein. (20[1])Jason yoked two of these things (20[2])that could breathe fire (20[2])and resembled (*) bulls. A sorceress induces madness in one of these things, which threw boulders to keep the Argo at bay. One of these things guarding Crete was felled after Medea removed (10[1])its ankle nail. For 10 points, Talos exemplified what mechanical beings made by (10[1])Olympus’s smith god? (10[1])■END■ (10[15])

ANSWER: automatons [accept robots; accept answers indicating specific creations of Hephaestus like bulls or statues or dogs or horses; prompt on self-operating machinery before “mechanical” by asking “created by whom”; prompt on colossi or statues or bronze bulls or horses or watch dogs by asking “created by whom”]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Brayden Ferrell	Heights	Carbondale	34	20
Kaushik Gollamudi	Barrington	Hoover A	34	20
Michelle Luo	Johns Creek B	Hunter B	43	20
Anthony Zhao	Thomas Jefferson B	Stevenson B	49	20
Hazel DePreist-Sullivan	Hastings	Owensboro	50	20
Kevin Zhang	Livingston A	Great Valley	53	20
Christian 'Ash' Frederickson	Mexico	Walter Payton B	53	20
Arav Kaushik	Livingston B	Freeman	64	20
Gregory Zeldovich	Belmont	Stevenson A	67	20
Angela Sun	Solon	Innovation Academy A	73	20
Aarushi Kanigicherla	Thomas Jefferson C	Walter Payton A	73	20
Kevin Peng	Winston Churchill A	St. Thomas	77	20
Omkar Marathe	William Fremd	Choate Rosemary Hall	77	20
Eli Taylor	West Point	Elkhorn North	109	10
Nick Murray	Detroit Catholic Central A	St. Xavier	122	10
Adam Williams	Northmont A	DuPage County AT	125	10
Ulden Gao	Winston Churchill B	Beavercreek	126	10
Ansel Lollar	Bloomington	St. Mark's	126	10
Ali Hamzeh	Kinkaid	Chattahoochee	126	10
Alex Xu	Canyon Crest	Durham AT	126	10
Miley Henton	Hoover B	Georgetown Day	126	10
Ryan Smith	Downingtown STEM	Hunter A	126	10
Shawn Syed	University Lab	Johns Creek A	126	10
Christian Curtis	Detroit Catholic Central C	Lightridge	126	10
Yash Saxena	Maggie Walker A	Richard Montgomery A	126	10
Russell Dillak	Northmont B	Maggie Walker B	126	10
William Shi	Richard Montgomery B	Maggie Walker C	126	10
Alex Zhang	Okemos	Lambert	126	10
Aditya Khambekar	Seven Lakes	Lindbergh	126	10
Zee Ebert	Carl Sandburg	Strake Jesuit	126	10
Clete Reinberger	Cincinnati Hills	Thomas Jefferson D	126	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 PACE NSC	06/08/2024	Y	31	100%	42%	0%	96.55