Great Flood - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

To get around a promise to not warn an “exceedingly-wise” man about this event, a god instead issued the warning to the reed wall of his hut. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this event that flattened the earth and turned humans into clay. In his namesake epic, Gilgamesh asks for the secret to immortality from a man who survived this event named Utnapishtim, which inspired a story in Genesis.

ANSWER: Great Flood [or deluge]

[10h] The flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh is likely derived from the story of this earlier epic’s title character. This epic begins with minor gods rebelling because they are tired of digging ditches, so they kill Geshtu and use his blood to create humanity.

ANSWER: Atra-Hasis

[10m] This god warned Atra-Hasis about the flood, and suggested killing Geshtu to create humanity. This water god, who was worshipped in the Abzu temple, is the consort of Ninhursag.

ANSWER: Enki [or Ea]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	12.50	100%	13%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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