Sedna - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about mythological interpretations of auroras, for 10 points each.

[10m] In Inuit mythology, the Northern Lights are believed to be children playing ball with the skull of a walrus, an animal created when this sea goddess’s fingers were cut off by her father Anguta.

ANSWER: Sedna [or Sanna]

[10e] The Gunai people of this country believe the Southern Lights to be fire from the spirit world. Nabunum the eel made the frog Tiddalik laugh, releasing all the world’s water, in the mythology of this country’s Aboriginal peoples.

ANSWER: Australia [or Commonwealth of Australia]

[10h] In Chinese mythology, this figure was conceived either by an aurora or lightning from the Big Dipper. In the Records of the Grand Historian, this figure teamed up with the emperor Yuwang to win the battle of Zhuolu.

ANSWER: Yellow Emperor [or Yellow Thearch or Huangdi or Xuānyuán] (Huangdi legendarily founded huaxia civilization after winning Zhuolu.)

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
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	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Chicago Open	2025-08-09	N	11	10.91	100%	9%	0%

Data


UC Berkeley A	Claremont A	10	10	10	30
UCSD	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley B	UCLA	10	10	10	30
Florida B	Florida A	10	10	10	30
Valencia A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Kenyon	10	10	10	30
Michigan D	Case Western A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Case Western B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Carnegie Mellon A	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin A	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
Winona State	Wisconsin B	10	10	0	20
Georgetown A	Purdue	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	Northwestern A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame A	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Georgetown B	10	10	0	20
Alberta	UW B	0	10	0	10
UW A	UBC	10	10	0	20
ASU	Texas B	10	10	0	20
TAMU	Texas A	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
Bruin A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Bristol	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge E	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Durham	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Manchester	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Oxford C	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	LSE	10	10	0	20
Cambridge D	Sheffield	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Cornell B	10	10	0	20
Penn B	John Jay College	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	NYU A	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	RIT B	10	10	0	20
RIT A	ESF A	0	10	0	10