Dinaric Alps - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

The Vjetrenica (“v’yeh-TREN-eet-sa”) Cave in this mountain range was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site to protect the blind Olm salamander, which has adapted to live entirely underwater. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this mountain range that feeds the heavily dammed Trebišnjica (“TREB-ish-neet-sa”) River. The topographical word “karst” derives from a German word describing this range’s geology.

ANSWER: Dinaric Alps [or Dinarides; reject “Alps”]

[10e] The Vjetrenica Cave and Trebišnjica River are in this country at the southern end of the Dinaric Alps. The Miljacka (“mil-YAHTS-ka”) river flows through this country’s Sarajevo Valley.

ANSWER: Bosnia and Herzegovina [or Bosnia-Herzegovina; or Bosna i Hercegovina]

[10m] Description acceptable. Some stretches of the Trebišnjica River with distinct names have this unusual quality common in karst regions. Both a stretch of the Danube starting at Memmingen and Idaho’s Big Lost River have this quality.

ANSWER: sinking [or disappearing or influent; accept description or synonyms for going underground or recharging aquifers; accept flowing into a sinkhole; reject “shrinking” or “getting smaller”]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	16.00	90%	60%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Chicago Open	2025-08-09	N	10	17.00	100%	60%	10%

Data


UC Berkeley B	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UC Berkeley A	UCLA	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	UCSD	0	10	0	10
Carnegie Mellon B	Case Western B	0	0	0	0
Michigan B	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Carnegie Mellon A	Michigan State	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Case Western A	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Illinois A	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Chicago C	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Chicago D	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Missoui S&T	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Missouri	0	10	0	10
Florida A	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
Florida B	Valencia A	10	10	10	30
UCF B	UCF C	0	0	0	0
Winona State	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin A	Carleton	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Brown A	0	10	10	20
BU	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	Northwestern A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Georgetown B	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20
Purdue	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Bruin A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Oxford C	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge D	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Durham	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Sheffield	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
LSE	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Cambridge E	0	0	0	0
Texas B	TAMU	0	10	0	10
Texas A	ASU	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Iowa	0	10	10	20
Vassar A	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Columbia C	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Haverford A	0	10	0	10
Penn A	John Jay College	0	10	0	10
Yale A	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	RIT B	0	10	0	10
ESF A	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Cornell C	0	10	10	20