Question
A leader broke a gag rule about this island by delivering an elegy in the persona of a mad herald, and later misquoted the Catalog of Ships to support his city’s ownership of it. A depiction of accounting on the Darius Vase is corroborated by a tablet from this island, the oldest surviving counting board. A cult on this island centered on a cave that the antisocial playwright Euripides fled to. Plutarch claims that Xanthippus’s dog swam to this island after old people were evacuated to it via a decree preserved at (*) Troezen (“TREE-zen”). This island was held by Megara until Athens seized it under Solon. In one account, a fleet entered a strait named for this island due to false intel from the slave Sicinnus. A battle named for this island supposedly occurred the same day as the Battle of Himera and fulfilled a prophecy about “wooden walls.” For 10 points, what island names a naval battle where Themistocles defeated Xerxes’s fleet? ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 93% | 13% | 20% | 130.21 |