Ireland - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Metalworkers on this island produced elaborate “book shrines” called cumdachs that were used as reliquary boxes to hold manuscripts. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this island whose metalworkers made the Cross of Cong and the Ardagh (“ARR-da”) Chalice. A famed illustrated manuscript of the Gospels is named for this island’s town of Kells.

ANSWER: Ireland [or Éire; or Airlann]

[10m] The goldsmith Billfrith made the now-lost elaborate metal casing for this 8th-century illuminated manuscript. This collection of gospels is named for an island off the coast of Northumberland.

ANSWER: Lindisfarne Gospels

[10h] Celtic metalworkers pioneered a “pseudo-penannular” style of these objects, such as ones named for Hunterston and Tara. A bone in the human body takes its name from the Roman term for these clothing objects.

ANSWER: brooches (“broaches”) [or clasps; prompt on fibulae or fibulas; prompt on clamps or pins or clips or fasteners]

<TM, Painting and Sculpture>

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	0%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	50%	50%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	67%	50%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	0%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	40%	80%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	19.00	80%	100%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	50%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	0%	33%	0%

Data


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