Gesar  - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This character marries Brugmo, a neighboring chieftain’s daughter, after winning a horse race at the age of twelve. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this king of Ling who titles a million-verse epic originally from Tibet. In that epic, this king fights enemies such as his uncle Krothung and the neighboring Kingdom of Hor.

ANSWER: Gesar (“GAY-sar”) [or Kesar; or Geser; or King Gesar]

[10m] In some versions of the Epic of Gesar, he is nursed by one of these animals. In Balinese myth, the demon queen Rangda fights the heroic king Barong, who is most often depicted as one of these animals.

ANSWER: lions [or lionesses; prompt on cats]

[10e] Scholars interpret Gesar as a manifestation of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who blessed one of these animals to marry the ogress Sinmo and become the progenitor of the Tibetans. The Buddha drops a mountain on top of a “king” of these animals, Sun Wukong.

ANSWER: monkeys [accept apes]

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	0%	67%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	17%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	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	10	17.00	100%	40%	30%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	12.86	86%	29%	14%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


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