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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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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	25.71	100%	100%	57%
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%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	17.00	80%	80%	10%

Data


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 B	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
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
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
Michigan State B (UG)	Michigan B	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	10	10	10	30
Ohio State C (DII)	CWRU B (UG)	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
Texas B	Mississippi State	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
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
Florida State University A	UF F	0	10	0	10
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
NYU A	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
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