Question

A seven-sided one of these objects carved from dark brown stone features a battle axe resting on the shoulder of a hunter in relief who holds a ram and a pot of water. Common modifications include adding 1,001 or 108 miniature copies to these objects’s surface, or adding a metal covering with one or more human faces. In a common scene, a boar and goose appear at the top and bottom of these objects as someone emerges from within it. Two guardians flank each entrance to the square cella that houses one of these objects, the focal point of the (*) Great Cave of Elephanta. The name of these objects refers to a “sign,” explaining their function as aniconic symbols of the formless Ultimate Reality. These objects are usually displayed atop a lipped pitha, or disk, that symbolizes Parashakti. For 10 points, what abstract objects, (10[1])often (10[1])paired with yonis, represent Shiva? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Shiva lingams [or Shiva lingas; or Shivlings; accept any of the Gudimallam Lingam or sahasra lingams or ashtottara-sata lingams or mukhalingams or Lingodbhavamurti; prompt on any reference to a phallic symbol by asking “What is the common name for those symbolic objects?”]
<Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts - Misc Arts>
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jared HeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut14310
Micah ColmanTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers14410
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 14910
Aaron Dos RemediosModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere15010
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange15010

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025N3100%0%33%140.00
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025N3100%0%67%148.67
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025N367%0%67%133.50
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%0%0%147.20
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024N650%17%83%125.00
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024N367%0%33%148.50
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024N3100%0%0%133.67