Iravan - 2024 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

This figure is celebrated in hijṛā communities, a gender non-conforming people, during an 18-day festival in Koovagam where his marriage is re-enacted. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this son of Arjuna and Ulupi. Krishna honors this figure’s wish to be married before dying by transforming into the female form of Mohini.

ANSWER: Iravan [or Iravat, or Iravant, or Aravan, or Kuttantavar]

[10e] The story of Iravan is found in this Hindu epic, whose section about Arjuna’s conversation with Krishna on the necessity of fighting the Kurukshetra War is often excerpted as the Bhagavad Gita.

ANSWER: Mahābhārata

[10m] Iravan plays an important role in the cult of this figure. During the last years of a self-imposed exile, Arjuna disguised himself as a eunuch and took up roles of a hijṛā for breaking an oath that he made to this figure.

ANSWER: Draupadi

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	8.75	75%	13%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Waterloo Aspidistra	Carleton A	10	0	10
Toronto B	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	20
Toronto A	Toronto Metropolitan A	10	10	20
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	10	0	10
McGill A	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	10	0	10
Waterloo Basic	Waterloo Cloze	10	0	10
Penn State	RIT	10	0	10
Pitt	Maryland	10	0	10
UF C	Florida Tech	10	0	10
UCF A	UCF B	10	0	10
UF B	Valencia	10	0	10
UF A	USF	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley Past	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Stanford	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Bristol	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Southampton	10	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick A	10	0	10
Imperial A	Warwick B	10	0	10
Warwick C	LSE B	10	0	10
Anderson et al.	SGV Ventures	10	0	10
ALCU	Claremont	10	0	10
U[C]SD	Jason et al.	10	0	10
Amherst	Boston University	10	10	20
Bowdoin C	Boston College A	0	0	0
Brandeis B	Boston College B	10	0	10
MIT	Bowdoin B	10	0	10
Tufts B	Clark House	10	0	10
Clark Wilson	Harvard	0	0	0
Tufts A	Bowdoin A	10	0	10
Brandeis A	Yale	10	0	10
South Carolina	Virginia Tech A	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	20
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina B	10	0	10
Missouri	WashU	10	0	10
In the Mood for Buzz	Madmen and Specialists	10	0	10
Social credit go vroom	Old and Young	10	0	10
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Paddington in Peru (2024)	10	0	10
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	0	10
bingy academy	The cult of SGA	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Innovation Academy A	10	0	10
Johns Creek	Innovation Academy B	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Lambert	10	0	10
Milton	Innovation Academy C	10	0	10
Chicago B	Notre Dame	10	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois Blue	10	0	10
Illinois Orange	Purdue B	10	0	10
Purdue A	SIUE	10	0	10