knowledge - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

A “scroll of Great Revelation” recounts the history of a religious group named for this concept. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this concept from which the Mandaeans get their name. It’s not Christianity, but early texts from an esoteric belief system named for this concept that venerates “the One” were found at the Nag Hammadi library.

ANSWER: knowledge [or gnosis; accept Gnosticism]

[10h] Mandaeans revere God through a “living” form of this thing called “yardena.” Early Indo-Iranians venerated a “child” of this thing called Apām Napāt.

ANSWER: water [or mia; accept living water or mia hiia]

[10e] Mandaeans revere water because it is used for the baptism ritual first performed by this New Testament figure with Jesus.

ANSWER: John the Baptist [or Yuhana Maṣbana]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	14.44	100%	44%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	9	14.44	89%	56%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	86%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%

Data


Bard A	Rowan A	10	10	20
Princeton A	Haverford A	0	10	10
Rutgers A	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10
Penn B	Penn A	0	10	10
Penn State A	Columbia A	10	10	20
Penn State B	Rutgers C	0	10	10
Purdue A	Indiana A	10	10	20
Miami	UIUC D	10	10	20
Notre Dame	Northwestern A	10	10	20
Purdue B	SIUE A	0	10	10
WashU C	Purdue C	0	10	10
UChicago D	Indiana B	0	10	10
UIUC A	UChicago C	10	10	20
UIUC B	WashU B	0	10	10
UChicago B	UIUC C	0	10	10
CWRU A (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	10	10	20
Kenyon A (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	0	10	10
Kenyon B (DII)	CWRU D (DII)	10	10	20
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan C (UG)	0	10	10
Michigan State C (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	10	0	10
Pitt A	Michigan State A	10	10	20
Michigan State B (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	0	10	10
Michigan A	Ohio State A (UG)	10	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State B (DII)	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	0	10	10
Missouri	Iowa	0	10	10
Oregon State	McGill E	0	10	10
Texas C	Colorado College	10	10	20
Texas A	Vassar A	10	10	20
Vassar B	Texas D	0	10	10
NYU B	WUSTL A	10	0	10
UF D	Florida Tech A	0	10	10
Florida State University A	UCF A	0	10	10
UF B	UCF B	10	10	20
UF E	UF F	0	10	10
Bristol A	Cambridge A	0	10	10
Imperial A	Cambridge B	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Manchester	10	10	20
Cambridge D	Southampton A	10	10	20
Durham	Birmingham	10	10	20
Warwick A	Imperial B	0	10	10
LSE A	Oxford A	10	10	20
Oxford B	Southampton B	10	10	20
Mississippi State	Central Oklahoma	0	10	10