Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music.

* Heracles challenged wine god Dionysus to a drinking contest and lost, resulting in his joining the Thiasus for a period.

At the threshold to the 19th century, Britain was challenged again by France under Napoleon, in a struggle that, unlike previous wars, represented a contest of ideologies between the two nations.

A famous " Battle of the Bands " or " cutting contest " happened when the Benny Goodman Orchestra challenged Chick Webb in 1937.

In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas () is a central figure in two stories involving death: in one, he picked up the double flute ( aulos ) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it ; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life.

In Book VI, it is revealed that he had challenged the gods to a musical contest on the conch shell, and for his impudence was drowned by Triton.

Once, students from an adjacent town's high school challenged Riverdale to an eating contest, pitting their chubby undefeated champion against Jughead.

The village officials did not contest these allegations, but instead challenged the dissolution statute itself as contrary to the home rule provisions of the Ohio Constitution.

The style of warfare after 1863 differed markedly from that of the 1860-61 conflict, in which Māori had taken set positions and challenged the army to an open contest.

The style of warfare after 1863 differed markedly from that of the 1860-61 conflict, in which Māori had taken set positions and challenged the army to an open contest.

Lindsey tried to challenged the Giants to a contest in the benefit game, however Fausch refused to respond.

In one Shipib tale, an anteater challenged a jaguar to a breath holding contest underwater, which the jaguar accepted.

FLP parliamentarian Poseci Bune challenged the FLP on 3 February 2006 to substantiate its assertion that three FLP caucus members had applied to contest the upcoming election on the SDL ticket.

Johann Eck became involved in a literary contest with Andreas Karlstadt and challenged his adversary to a public debate.

Ahmad's followers claim that he had categorically vowed in Anjam-e-Atham not to engage in any more debates, as he judged them ineffective at convincing the religious clergy to reform ( the reason why he had challenged Meher Ali Shah to such a decisive contest in the first place and not to a debate ); rather, he would invoke God for divine intervention by holding such contests or " prayer duels ", which he called Ejazi-Muqabala, or " miraculous contest ", between him and his opponents, primarily Christian missionaries and Muslim scholars and divines.

In any case, he challenged Apollo to a musical contest, where the winner would be able to " do whatever he wanted " to the loser-Marsyas's expectation, typical of a satyr, was that this would be sexual in nature.

Despite speculation that she would be challenged for preselection in her seat of Mackellar for the next election, this did not eventuate and she later reaffirmed her intention to contest the next election.

Tanner has been a prominent member of Labor's left faction and it was thought that he might contest the Labor leadership in 2002, when former leader Kim Beazley first challenged Simon Crean.

George Roden had dug up the casket of one Anna Hughes from the Davidian cemetery and had challenged Howell to a resurrection contest to prove who was the rightful heir to the leadership.

He hadn't faced another contest nearly that close until 2010 when he was challenged by Republican nominee Ilario Pantano in the general election.

Chee was defeated by the PAP's Matthias Yao ( who he had publicly challenged to stand against him ) in a high-profile contest in the MacPherson constituency.

Her first serious opposition came during the 2008 primary -- the real contest in this district -- when she was challenged by both former State Representative Mary Waters and State Senator Martha Scott in the Democratic primary.

At the threshold to the 19th century, Britain was challenged again by France under Napoleon, in a struggle that, unlike previous wars, represented a contest of ideologies between the two nations.

After winning a $ 250 ($ in modern dollars ) scholarship in an essay contest, he went to college and graduated with honors from Lincoln University in Jefferson City, the state's undergraduate institution for African Americans, with a bachelor's degree in history.

In 2008 the Asian American Business Council placed a contest to design a " landmark monument " to be placed on Bellaire Boulevard between Beltway 8 and Gessner Road in order to increase visibility among Asian Americans and non-Asian Americans and to beautify the area.

The Americans dominated all the early matches, and it was not until the 22nd contest when a Briton won for the first time.

He went to South Carolina to investigate and contest the laws of that state, which allowed the seizure of sailors who were free African Americans ( often who were citizens of Massachusetts ) and placed into bondage, if such sailors disembarked from their ship.

With doubts as to whether this game would be played persisting until the day of the contest, ticket sales were poor ; only 14, 794 fans saw the final regular season game the Americans would play.

In the final period, the Americans tied the game and captain Mike Eruzione scored with exactly 10 minutes to play in the contest to give the Americans a 4 – 3 lead.

These men, William Robbins and John Taylor, were both Americans and decided not to contest the repeat of the final to protest the judges ' decision.

" says Cartman to the Orange County kids, who respond by declaring that " it's on "; there is now a dance contest to be had, the Orange County kids versus the best dancers in South Park.

He proposes a contest to see which man has the most obedient wife: All three will call for their wives and see which ones respond.

The contest is just one example of how Barnes and Ambaum respond to feedback from the audience.

Historians have long portrayed the contest between Jefferson and Hamilton as iconic for the politics, political philosophy, economic policies and future direction of the United States.

Historians have long portrayed the contest between Jefferson and Hamilton as iconic for the politics, political philosophy, economic policies and future direction of the United States.

But his eloquence was as powerful as ever, and all its power was directed against the government policy in the contest with America, which had become the question of all-absorbing interest.

Even though inter-party competition was out of question, the contest for seats within UNIP was energetic.

We might thus consider deliberation to be the central question and contest of political philosophy, variously defined, either setting normative guidelines for how deliberation through an organized process of argumentation should proceed, or conversely, how the configuration of subjects produces particular conditions under which deliberation might continually re-emerge.

Two families compete against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey question posed to 100 people.

Judging for competition is based on the three " T's " ( below ) as well as showmanship ( unless the contest in question designates the audience as the deciding factor ).

The contest ended, however ; public interest had grown cold, absorbed entirely by the Lutheran question, and Reuchlin had no reason to fear new attacks.

In a reply to a question, she said she had neither personally approached the Congress nor did it offer to make her its candidate for the 2009 election, however in the past she had received many offer from the Congress to contest election, the first being in 1984 from Rajiv Gandhi.

The question of which two teams should contest the Shield should one team win both the FA Cup and League continued to linger.

" At the very centre of this is the contest between love and friendship ; " an essential part of the comicality of The Two Gentlemen of Verona is created by the necessary conflict between highly stylised concepts of love and friendship " This is manifested in the question of whether the relationship between two male friends is more important than that between lovers, encapsulated by Proteus ' rhetorical question at 5. 4. 54 ; " In love / Who respects friend?

In the Books of Kings, Elijah challenges 450 prophets of a particular Baal to a contest at the altar on Mount Carmel to determine whose deity was genuinely in control of the Kingdom of Israel ; since the narrative is set during the rule of Ahab and his association with the Phoenicians, biblical scholars suspect that the Baal in question was probably Melqart.

The Great Midwest Trivia Contest is known as the " World's Longest Running Trivia Contest " because of its custom of asking the previous year's garruda as the first question of the next year's contest.

" Paul Harvey asked a question in the 1978 contest: " I ’ m Paul Harvey.

The phalanx of men that convened were inexorable about doing something concerning the direction of the Government under Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and to come, James Buchanan, all of whom made no qualms about their stance on the “ slavery question .” The central plank of these conveners was “ to consider upon the measures which duty demands us, as of a Free State, to take in reference to the late acts of Congress on the subject of slavery, and its anticipated further extension .” Commerce in human bondage was construed by these men as “ a great moral, and social, and political evil ;” It was “ Resolved, that, postponing and suspending all differences with regard to political economy or administrative policy … we will act cordially and faithfully in unison ” to fight the approval of slavery, and “ we will cooperate and be known as ‘ Republicans ’ until the contest be terminated .”

In stanza 55, at the conclusion of the contest, Vafþrúðnir is obliged to capitulate to Odin's cunning when Odin asks him what Odin whispered in Baldr's ear prior to Baldr's body being placed on the funerary ship, a question to which only Odin knows the answer ; it is a rule of the wisdom contest that questions could only be asked to which the questioner knew the answer and so it is at this point that Vafþrúðnir recognizes his guest for who he is:

The question that arises is that, How can a party with an adhering alliance with the Indian National Congress contest in elections and then break the bonding within a short span of 6 months?

Because they were young and polite, the slight suggestion by Joad that their etiquette and sportsmanship were in question was extremely off-putting, and distracted them for the rest of contest.

From the 2002 – 2003 season to the 2008 – 2009 season, there were only 3 questions, with a warm-up question before the contest.

After her final question, in which she delivered a defense of the Miss Universe contest ( and other beauty pageants ), she became the second Indian Miss Universe.

EGM Live * also had a weekly trivia contest, which featured a randomly selected 1UP. com member who answered their question.

The idea behind starting a comicbook series devoted to Indian culture and history came to Pai from a quiz contest aired on Doordarshan in February 1967, in which participants could easily answer questions pertaining to Greek mythology, but were unable to reply to the question " In the Ramayana, who was Rama's mother?

Of his three treatises on this question, being very serviceable to the imperial cause to the contest, one is lost ; this was an answer to the letter of Gregory VII, written in 1081 to Bishop Hermann of Metz, in which Gregory asserted that the popes have the right to excommunicate kings and to release subjects from the oath of loyalty.

In recent years, three of the five primary characters ( Issa, Noel & Mick ) are now officially in committed relationships, which calls into question whether or not the contest will be run differently and if said characters can still be selected by fans.