Bonus
When Yosef ben Yehuda asked Maimonides which of these two disciplines he should study, Maimonides told him to pursue both. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two disciplines. Averroës’ (“uh-VAIR-oh-eez’s”) doctrine of “double truth” holds that contradictory ideas from these two disciplines can be true simultaneously.
ANSWER: philosophy AND religion [accept in either order; accept falāsafa in place of “philosophy”; accept theology in place of “religion”; reject answers that mention “kalām”]
[10e] Maimonides and Averroës reconciled this philosopher’s theories with Judaism and Islam, respectively. This Greek philosopher theorized the golden mean of virtue in Nicomachean Ethics.
ANSWER: Aristotle [or Aristotélēs]
[10m] Ibn Sina claimed he read this book by Aristotle forty times, but only understood it after reading al-Fārābī’s commentary. This book studies “being qua being” and is titled for the discipline of “first philosophy.”
ANSWER: Metaphysics [or Tōn meta ta physika; or Ta meta ta physika; or Metaphysica]
<UCLA D, Philosophy>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 104 | 11.44 | 78% | 27% | 10% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 6.00 | 60% | 0% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 88% | 25% | 13% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 5.00 | 25% | 25% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 8.89 | 78% | 11% | 0% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 0% | 25% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 90% | 60% | 10% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 12.22 | 78% | 44% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 11 | 14.55 | 91% | 46% | 9% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 10.83 | 83% | 8% | 17% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 0% | 20% |