Haitian Vodou - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Many individual symbols in this religion are depicted in a circle in the milokan representation of certain images. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this religion whose practitioners create those images, commonly using cornmeal, to depict important religious symbols such as a cross or a walking cane.

ANSWER: Haitian Vodou [or Voodoo] (Those images are vèvè.)

[10h] Similar to Vodou vèvè (“veh-VEH”), practitioners of this religion create diagrams called firmas that connect mpungu spirits to the material world. This Kongo-inspired religion teaches that spirits inhabit vessels called nganga.

ANSWER: Palo [or Palo Mayombe; prompt on Reglas de Congo]

[10e] Practitioners of a religion from this country, Abakuá, draw diagrams called anaforuanas based on Nsibidi symbols. Palo developed in this country, as did the Yoruba-Catholic syncretic religion Santería.

ANSWER: Cuba [or Republic of Cuba; or República de Cuba]

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Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	0%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	5.00	33%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	50%	50%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	8.00	50%	30%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	7.50	50%	25%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	0%	33%	0%

Data


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