Greek underworld - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Various Greek goddesses have been given the epithet Brimo when referring to their “angry” or “terrifying” aspects. For 10 points each:

[10e] Goddesses whose vengeful aspects are referred to as Brimo are often linked to this place, which includes the Fields of Elysium and Tartarus.

ANSWER: Greek underworld [accept hell or Hades or land of the dead]

[10m] This goddess was given the epithet Brimo in her temple at Pherae in Thessaly. Lycophron’s Alexandra uses the name Brimo when describing queen Hecuba’s transformation into this goddess’s symbol of a black dog.

ANSWER: Hecate [or Hekate; prompt on Trivia]

[10h] Hippolytus states that during this event, a priest announced that a goddess called Brimo gave birth to a son named Brimos. “Unrepeatables” of this event include “Things Done,” “Things Shown,” and “Things Said.”

ANSWER: Eleusinian Mysteries [prompt on mysteries] (The “unrepeatables” held inside the Telesterion included reenacting the Demeter-Persephone myth and being shown sacred relics by a priest with commentary.)

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


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