Gayomart - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

After this being was slain by the demoness Jahi, a tree sprouted from their corpse, leading to the birth of the first man Mashya and the first woman Mashyana. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this first human being from Avestan mythology. One epic begins by describing this figure’s rule during a time when humans still lived in caves and wore leopard skins.

ANSWER: Gayomart [or Kayomart; or Keyumars; or Kiomars]

[10e] Upon Gayomart’s death after ruling for 30 years, their grandson Hushang founded this modern-day country’s Pishdadian Dynasty. The story of Gayomart opens this country’s national epic, the Shahnameh.

ANSWER: Iran [or Islamic Republic of Iran; or Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran; prompt on Persia]

[10m] Gayomart’s son Siamak is killed while leading an army against the forces of this figure. In a story from the Shahnameh, kisses from this figure cause snakes to grow from the shoulders of the evil king Zahhak.

ANSWER: Ahriman [or Angra Mainyu]

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Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	17.14	100%	29%	43%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Wisconsin A	Winona State	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	Georgetown B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Florida A	Valencia A	0	10	0	10
Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
UNC B	Virginia Tech A	10	10	10	30
UNC C	Virginia A	0	10	0	10
William & Mary	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
BU	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis A	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Dartmouth A	0	10	10	20
Georgetown A	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame C	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Iowa	Purdue	0	10	0	10
UW A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Oxford A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Manchester	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Oxford C	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	George Washington A	10	10	10	30
Rutgers A	Haverford A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Haverford B	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
ESF A	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Cornell D	0	10	10	20
Florida B	UCF C	0	10	0	10
UCF B	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan State	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Case Western B	0	10	0	10
Duke	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
UW B	UBC	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Cambridge E	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
LSE	Sheffield	0	10	10	20