Wicca - 2024 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

In a “Great Rite,” a priestess of this religion symbolically plunges an athame knife into a cup. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this British neopagan religion whose festivals follow a “Sacred Wheel.” Gerald Gardner’s book “Witchcraft Today” influenced this primarily Celtic and Germanic-influenced religion.

ANSWER: Wicca [or the Craft; prompt on Witchcraft]

[10h] Some Wiccans partake in a “dumb supper” ritual on this holiday in which they eat a silent meal to honor the dead. A wood straw cross called a parshell is hung outside homes on this holiday.

ANSWER: Samhain (“SOW-in”) [or Sauin; accept Oíche Shamhna]

[10m] Alongside Wiccans, adherents of this belief system believe in an afterlife called Summerland. Helena Blavatsky and Henry Olcott founded this 19th-century Indian-inspired belief system.

ANSWER: Theosophy [accept the Theosophical Society]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	67%	67%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	6	15.00	83%	50%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	10	15.00	90%	50%	10%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	6	13.33	17%	100%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	86%	43%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	88%	25%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	12.50	50%	50%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	17.00	90%	40%	40%

Data


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