miracles - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

A text exploring these events praises the invention of the incandescent lightbulb and telephone. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these events that, along with metaphors, title Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl’s analysis of religion. The founder of one religion refused to acknowledge these events, one of which is necessary for beatification.

ANSWER: miracles [accept Miracles and Metaphors]

[10e] While the founder of this religion refused miracles, his successors such as Shoghi Effendi are attributed healing powers. The Universal House of Justice in Haifa governs this religion founded in 19th-century Iran.

ANSWER: Baháʼí faith

[10h] Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl uses the lack of historical evidence for this figure to claim that his life was merely a metaphor. 14th-century Persian poet Shahin Shirazi wrote an epic about this figure, who was succeeded by the son of Nun.

ANSWER: Moses [or Moshe; accept Mūsā]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	88%	63%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	21.82	100%	100%	18%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	17.00	100%	70%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Stanford M	10	10	0	20
Emory A	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Auburn A	0	10	10	20
Auburn C	Georgia Tech E	0	0	0	0
Clemson A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Emory B	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Tennesse A	10	10	0	20
South Carolina A	Tennesse B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Stanford L	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
Kenyon A (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Michigan D (DII)	10	10	0	20
CWRU C (UG)	Michigan C (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State B (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B (DII)	Kenyon B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State C (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Arkansas	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Iowa	Oregon State	10	10	0	20
McGill E	Mississippi State	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Colorado College	10	10	0	20
Ole Miss	NYU A	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Vassar B	10	10	0	20
Texas C	Central Oklahoma	10	10	0	20
Texas D	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
UW A	Alberta	10	10	0	20
UBC B	UW B	10	10	0	20
UCF A	UF E	0	10	0	10
UBC A	SFU	10	10	0	20
UCF B	UF D	10	10	0	20
UF B	Florida State University A	10	10	10	30
UF A	UF C	10	10	0	20
UF F	Florida Tech B	0	0	0	0
Birmingham	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
LSE B	Bristol B	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Cambridge A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge D	Southampton	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh	Durham B	10	10	0	20
Bristol A	LSE A	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Manchester	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Durham A	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Amherst A	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
Williams A	Boston University B	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin A	BU A	10	10	0	20
Tufts B	Brandeises Brew	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	Brown A	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Carabrandeis	10	10	0	20
Yale B	Clark A	10	10	0	20
Diamond Brandeis	A Brandeis Supreme	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Yale A	0	10	0	10
Northeastern A	Yale C	0	10	0	10