Mwindo - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This hero cures the pus-filled sores of the maiden Kahindo, who falls in love with him and tells him how to avoid getting trapped in the underworld. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this hero of the Nyanga people who chases his evil father into the underworld, where this hero uses his conga scepter to grow a banana forest in a single day and beat up the death god Muisa.

ANSWER: Mwindo

[10e] The Ashanti hero Kwase Benefo is assisted by the psychopomp Amokye in travelling on one of these natural features. In Greek mythology, Charon ferries souls across one of these natural features.

ANSWER: rivers

[10m] In the mythology of these people, the hero Uncama accidentally enters the underworld while chasing a porcupine that ate his millet garden. Unkulunkulu is the chief god of these people, who believe death came from a lizard who outran a chameleon.

ANSWER: Zulu [or Amazulu; prompt on Bantu or Nguni]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	50%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	15.00	100%	10%	40%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	16.25	100%	13%	50%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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