smoking mirror - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

The deity K’awill is often depicted with one of these objects on his forehead being pierced by an ax and emitting flames. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these objects. An Aztec deity whose name is commonly translated as these objects was often depicted as a black jaguar and ruled over the first creation before being struck down by Quetzalcoatl.

ANSWER: smoking mirror [prompt on obsidian by asking “fashioned into what object?”]

[10e] This apparition who shares her name with a cocktail is said to appear from a mirror if you repeat her name three times.

ANSWER: Bloody Mary

[10h] In feng shui, one of these symbols with two solid lines separated by a broken line is placed on mirrors to bring fire energy into a home. The I Ching lists combinations of these Daoist symbols that represent yin and yang and appear on South Korea’s flag.

ANSWER: bagua [or pa kua; accept the Eight Trigrams; prompt on hexagrams]

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	N	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	N	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	N	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	N	3	10.00	33%	33%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	N	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	N	6	23.33	83%	67%	83%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	N	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	N	4	7.50	0%	25%	50%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	N	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	N	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	N	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Waterloo	A Ray of Sun in the Sky	10	10	0	20
McDouble West-Carleton	Ottawa C	0	10	0	10
Ottawa A	Ottawa B	0	10	0	10
Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University	I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Durham	10	10	0	20
Birmingham	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Oxford	10	10	10	30
Warwick	Edinburgh	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Indiana	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Vanderbilt	10	10	10	30
RIT	Cornell MATLAB	10	10	0	20
Syracuse+Rochester	Cornell R	10	10	10	30
SIUE	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	WUSTL H2O	10	10	0	20
Missouri A	WUSTL XYZ	10	10	0	20