Question
According to tradition, these mythological creatures will only land on the legendary Mount Qaf. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these giant birds common throughout Middle Eastern mythologies. In one story, these birds retrieve meat from a valley of diamonds.
ANSWER: rocs [or rukhs]
[10e] Rocs were described as enormous eagles by this medieval Italian traveler, who collected many stories of mythical creatures across Asia in his travelogue Il Milione.
ANSWER: Marco Polo [accept The Travels of Marco Polo]
[10h] In this text, a roc delivers a blessed piece of wood to King Solomon that transforms the Queen of Sheba’s goat foot into a human foot. In this text, the Queen of Sheba steals the Ark of the Covenant from King Solomon.
ANSWER: Kebra Nagast [or Kebra Negast or The Book of the Glory of the Kings]
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| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 86% | 57% | 29% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 67% | 83% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 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 | 10 | 25.00 | 100% | 90% | 60% |
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| Stanford L | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley C | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford M | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Bard A | Princeton A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | Hopkins B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Penn State B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn A | Lehigh A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Haverford A | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Rutgers C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Miami | Indiana B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue C | Notre Dame | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UChicago D | Purdue D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UChicago A | SIUE A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UIUC A | WashU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | WashU D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UChicago B | Purdue B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| CWRU A (UG) | Kenyon B (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan A | CWRU C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan State A | Michigan State C (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A (UG) | Michigan D (DII) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ohio State C (DII) | CWRU B (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas B | Mississippi State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Oregon State | Texas D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Missouri | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ole Miss | Vassar A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Colorado College | Arkansas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Central Oklahoma | Iowa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vassar B | McGill E | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan State B (UG) | Michigan B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida State University A | UF F | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UF B | Florida Tech A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UF A | Florida Tech B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UCF B | UCF A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UF E | UF C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cambridge C | Birmingham | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge A | Imperial B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge B | Durham A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Warwick A | Cambridge D | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Manchester | Edinburgh | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Oxford B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Bristol B | LSE B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford A | Bristol A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Warwick B | Southampton A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Durham B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Amherst A | A Brandeis Supreme | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Clark A | Bowdoin A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BU B | Diamond Brandeis | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Carabrandeis | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northeastern A | Tufts A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MIT A | Tufts B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Bowdoin B | Williams A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Brandeises Brew | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale B | Boston University A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Brown A | Yale C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |