left-handedness - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

English speakers can use the mnemonic “it’s no sin to [have this trait]” to distinguish between the Hebrew letters “sin” and “shin.” For 10 points each:

[10m] What stigmatized trait is indicated by the Latin word sinistra?

ANSWER: left-handedness [or synonyms like lefty or southpaw; prompt on left]

[10e] On the other hand, this English-language word for one’s fine motor skills comes from Latin for “right.” A Dungeons & Dragons statistic with this name measures a character’s agility.

ANSWER: dexterity [or word forms like dexterous]

[10h] The Russian nickname Levsha, or “Lefty,” unusually denotes skill thanks to a Nikolai Leskov story in which a craftsman makes a steel one of these animals. These animals would pull tiny carts and fight with tiny swords in a popular 19th-century entertainment.

ANSWER: flea [or Siphonaptera; accept a flea circus; accept “The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea”]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	10	19.00	100%	80%	10%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	22.86	100%	86%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	19.00	100%	80%	10%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford L	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Georgia A	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Emory B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Emory A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Auburn B	Tusculum A	0	10	0	10
UChicago D	Miami	10	10	0	20
UChicago D	Miami	10	10	0	20
UChicago D	Miami	10	10	0	20
UChicago D	Miami	10	10	0	20
UChicago D	Miami	10	10	0	20
UChicago D	Miami	10	10	0	20
UChicago D	Miami	10	10	0	20
UChicago D	Miami	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
Purdue C	Notre Dame	10	10	0	20
SIUE A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UChicago C	WashU C	0	10	0	10
UIUC A	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
UIUC B	UChicago B	10	10	0	20
WashU B	UIUC C	10	10	0	20
UIUC D	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	CWRU B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Pitt A	Kenyon A (UG)	10	10	10	30
CWRU A (UG)	Michigan C (UG)	0	10	10	20
Michigan State A	Kenyon B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	Kenyon B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	Pitt B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	Pitt B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan D	OSU C	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Ohio State B (DII)	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B (DII)	CWRU A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Kenyon A (UG)	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Michigan C (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	Kenyon B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	Kenyon B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	Pitt B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	Pitt B (UG)	10	10	0	20
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Ohio State C (DII)	Pitt A	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State	Arkansas	0	10	0	10
Ole Miss	Central Oklahoma	10	10	0	20
McGill E	Colorado College	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Vassar B	10	10	10	30
Iowa	NYU A	0	10	0	10
Texas B	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Oregon State	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Vassar A	Texas C	10	10	0	20
SFU	Alberta	10	10	10	30
UBC A	UBC B	10	10	0	20
UW B	UW A	10	10	0	20
Florida State University A	Florida Tech B	10	10	0	20
UF A	UCF B	10	10	0	20
UCF A	UF B	0	10	0	10
UF C	Florida Tech A	10	10	0	20
UF D	UF F	10	10	0	20
Bristol A	Durham B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Bristol B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Durham A	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
LSE A	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Oxford B	LSE B	10	10	0	20
Southampton B	Edinburgh	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Stanford M	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10