Question
This city's chief crop was a legendary contraceptive, medicine, and seasoning called silphium. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city in modern-day Libya that was the birthplace of the skeptic philosopher Carneades ("car-NAY-uh-deez") and the polymath Eratosthenes ("air-uh-TOSS-thuh-neez"). Colonists from Thera founded this city's Battiad dynasty.
ANSWER: Cyrene [or Kyrene]
[10m] The myth that the heart symbol is shaped like a silphium seed can be traced to this Muslim author's 11th Century Canon of Medicine.
ANSWER: Ibn Sina [or Avicenna; or Abū ʿAlī al-Husayn bin ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Hasan bin ʿAlī bin Sīnā al-Balkhi al-Bukhari]
[10e] Alexander the Great's army mistook a relative of silphium called asafoetida ("ASS-uh-feh-tih-duh") for a new source of the plant while returning from a campaign near this river. Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were cities on this river.
ANSWER: Indus River [or Sindh]
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 15.24 | 93% | 43% | 17% |