Question

In one of Aesop’s fables, one of these animals giving a ride to a supposedly Athenian monkey bucks him off after the monkey says “I know him very well” when asked if he knows the city Piraeus. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these animals that love music and always answer to the name Vasili in Greek folklore. The musician Arion of Lesbos was saved from brigands by some of these animals.
ANSWER: dolphins [accept specific species, such as bottlenose dolphins; prompt on cetaceans or whales]
[10e] After being captured, a disguised version of this Greek god turned a group of pirates into dolphins. This god is served by the Maenads.
ANSWER: Dionysus [or Dionysos; or Bacchus or Bacchos]
[10h] This man’s corpse was legendarily recovered by dolphins after his murder in the grove of Nemean Zeus in Locria, whither he fled upon being told he would die in Nemea by the Delphic oracle.
ANSWER: Hesiod [or Hēsíodos]

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Brown AYale A1010020
Chicago CNorthwestern A010010
Claremont APenn State A010010
Columbia AIndiana A010010
Columbia BUC Berkeley B010010
Cornell AWUSTL A010010
Cornell BTexas A010010
Duke AStanford A1010020
Florida BNYU A010010
Georgia Tech AChicago A1010020
Imperial APurdue A010010
Johns Hopkins AHouston A010010
MIT AHarvard A1010020
Maryland AChicago B1010020
McGill AGeorgia Tech B1010020
Michigan AVanderbilt A010010
Minnesota ANorth Carolina A1010020
Ohio State AFlorida A10101030
Penn AVirginia A1010020
Rutgers AIllinois A1010020
Rutgers BMinnesota B1010020
South Carolina AWUSTL B010010
UC Berkeley AToronto A1010020
Yale BIowa State A010010