Question
Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall condemns a passage of “unfeeling witticisms” from this treatise that begins “How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this treatise by Tertullian, which promises that the joy of looking down from heaven on the suffering of the damned will exceed the pleasures of its title events.
ANSWER: De spectaculis [or On the Spectacles; or The Shows]
[10e] De spectaculis is positively cited at the end of a Rodney Stark book that attributes the rise of Christianity to Christians’ conduct during these events. One of these events is named for a patriarch who claimed there is “no salvation outside the church,” Cyprian.
ANSWER: plagues [or epidemics; accept the Plague of Cyprian] (The Rise of Christianity claims that Christians won converts by nursing the sick instead of abandoning them during epidemics.)
[10m] Gleeful depictions of hell also appear in the apocalypse texts named for these two people. Saint Jerome argued that these two people only pretended to disagree about the Mosaic Law during the Incident at Antioch.
ANSWER: Saint Peter AND Saint Paul [accept Simon Peter or Cephas in place of “Saint Peter”; accept Saul of Tarsus in place of “Paul”; accept Petrine AND Pauline Christianity; accept The Apocalypse of Peter and The Apocalypse of Paul]
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |