Zeus’s sinews - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

These objects are guarded by the serpentess Delphyne, who the Homeric Hymn to Apollo identifies as the creature later slain by Apollo at Delphi. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name or describe these objects that are taken from a god and hidden in the Corycian Cave before being retrieved by Hermes and Aegipan.

ANSWER: Zeus’s sinews [or equivalents like Zeus’s tendons; prompt on descriptions of body parts of Zeus; prompt on sinews or tendons]

[10e] Zeus’s sinews are taken from him by Typhon, a child of this Greek personification of the earth and mother of the Titans.

ANSWER: Gaia

[10m] In a variant of the Typhon myth told in the Dionysiaca, this hero tricks Typhon into returning Zeus’s sinews to him through his singing. This hero later recruits the Spartoi to help him found a city.

ANSWER: Cadmus

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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	17.50	100%	63%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	18.89	100%	67%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	17.27	100%	55%	18%

Data


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