Bhagavad Gītā - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

A metaphor from this text about beads on a necklace is often cited in non-dualist arguments. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this sacred Hindu text that describes 3 forms of “yoga,” or union. J. Robert Oppenheimer conflated time and death when quoting “Now I am become Death” from this text.

ANSWER: Bhagavad Gītā [reject “Bhagavatam”]

[10m] Original-language term required. Another metaphor in the Bhagavad Gītā compares one of these places and a “knower” to Brahman and a realized soul. Arjuna refuses to fight at one of these places named for the Kuru clan.

ANSWER: kshetra [accept kshetrajna; accept Kurukshetra]

[10h] This non-dualist Hindu theologian wrote a commentary of the Bhagavad Gītā promoting Advaita Vedanta. This theologian’s school rivaled the dualist Madhvācārya and the qualified non-dualist Ramanuja.

ANSWER: Adi Shankara [or Ādi Śaṅkara; or Śaṅkarācārya]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	11.25	88%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	12.50	25%	88%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	9	15.56	89%	44%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	13.33	89%	22%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	8	12.50	88%	13%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	9	14.44	78%	56%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	11.82	91%	18%	9%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	11.00	80%	20%	10%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford L	10	0	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	0	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford M	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Tusculum A	0	0	0	0
Emory A	Tennesse A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Georgia A	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Georgia Tech F	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Georgia Tech F	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Emory B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Emory B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Emory B	Tennesse B	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Tusculum A	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Tusculum A	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Auburn C	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Georgia Tech F	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Georgia Tech F	0	10	0	10
Tennesse A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Emory B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Emory B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	South Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	South Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Tennesse B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Auburn A	Tusculum A	0	0	0	0
Auburn A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Auburn A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Clemson A	Tusculum A	10	0	0	10
Lehigh A	Bard A	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Rowan A	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	Rutgers C	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Rutgers C	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Penn State A	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Penn B	10	10	10	30
Penn B	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Haverford A	Penn State B	10	0	0	10
Penn A	Princeton A	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Rutgers C	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	Rutgers C	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	Penn A	0	0	0	0
Columbia B	Penn A	0	0	0	0
Indiana B	UIUC D	10	0	0	10
Miami	Purdue D	10	0	10	20
WashU C	Notre Dame	0	0	0	0
UChicago C	Purdue A	10	0	0	10
UChicago A	Purdue B	10	0	0	10
Purdue C	WashU D	10	10	0	20
UIUC A	WashU B	10	0	0	10
Indiana A	UIUC B	10	10	10	30
UIUC C	SIUE A	10	0	0	10
CWRU D	CWRU C	0	0	0	0
Michigan State C (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State C (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State C (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State C (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State C (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State C (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State C (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State C (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Kenyon B (DII)	Michigan D (DII)	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
Michigan State B (UG)	Michigan C (UG)	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan State A	10	0	10	20
Ohio State B (DII)	Pitt A	10	10	0	20
Arkansas	Texas D	0	0	0	0
Iowa	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma	McGill E	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Oregon State	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Texas A	10	10	0	20
Texas C	Colorado College	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Vassar A	10	0	0	10
Vassar B	Ole Miss	10	0	0	10
WUSTL A	Mississippi State	10	0	0	10
Alberta	UBC A	10	0	0	10
SFU	UW B	10	0	0	10
UBC B	UW A	10	0	0	10
Birmingham	Southampton B	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Bristol A	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10
Durham A	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge D	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
LSE A	Imperial A	10	0	0	10
LSE B	Durham B	10	0	0	10
Southampton A	Oxford B	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt	Bristol B	10	0	0	10
Warwick B	Edinburgh	0	0	0	0
Boston University A	Boston University B	10	0	0	10
Amherst A	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
A Brandeis Supreme	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Carabrandeis	Brandeises Brew	0	0	0	0
Brown A	Northeastern A	10	0	0	10
Williams A	Clark A	0	0	0	0
Diamond Brandeis	Yale B	10	0	0	10
MIT A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Tufts B	Yale C	10	0	0	10
Yale A	Harvard A	10	0	0	10