elephants - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

Bhima kills one of these animals named Ashwatthama to trick the Kaurava commander Drona into thinking that his son, also named Ashwatthama, was killed instead. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these animals, one of which causes Durvasa to curse the devas by throwing a garland on the ground.

ANSWER: elephants [or gaja]

[10m] The devas must churn the ocean for the nectar of immortality because of the white elephant Airavata, who is the mount of this Vedic god.

ANSWER: Indra

[10e] This elephant-headed Hindu god uses one of his tusks to write the Mahabharata.

ANSWER: Ganesha [or Ganapati or Vinayaka or Lambodara or Pillaiyar]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	15.56	100%	22%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	23.75	100%	63%	75%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	9	18.89	100%	56%	33%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
UChicago D	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
UChicago A	Notre Dame	10	0	10	20
UIUC C	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Purdue C	UIUC D	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	UChicago C	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	UChicago B	0	0	10	10
Purdue D	UIUC B	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	WashU B	0	0	10	10
WashU D	SIUE A	0	0	10	10
Central Oklahoma	Texas D	10	0	10	20
NYU B	Colorado College	10	10	10	30
Iowa	Texas C	10	0	10	20
Missouri	McGill E	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Oregon State	10	10	10	30
Texas A	Arkansas	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Vassar B	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	WUSTL A	0	10	10	20
Alberta	UW B	0	0	10	10
SFU	UBC B	0	0	10	10
UBC A	UW A	10	10	10	30
Florida State University A	Florida Tech A	0	0	10	10
UF B	Florida Tech B	0	10	10	20
UF A	UCF A	10	10	10	30
UF C	UF F	0	0	10	10
UF E	UF D	10	10	10	30
Penn State B	Lehigh A	0	0	10	10
Stanford L	Stanford M	10	0	10	20
Bristol B	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	LSE A	0	10	10	20
Bristol A	Cambridge D	0	10	10	20
LSE B	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Durham B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Southhampton B	10	0	10	20
Warwick A	Vanderbilt	10	0	10	20