shooting an apple off the head of one’s child - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. The earliest appearance of a motif about this task comes from Saxo Grammaticus, who writes that Harald Bluetooth ordered Palnatoki to do it while drunk. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this task performed in another tale on the order of the bailiff Gessler, by a man who refused to bow to a hat placed on a pole. A description is acceptable.

ANSWER: shooting an apple off the head of one’s child [prompt on archery or shooting by asking “what is the target?”; prompt on shooting an apple or apple-shot or Apfelschuss by asking “off of what?”; prompt on shooting at one’s child or shooting at the head of one’s child]

[10e] The most famous instance of the apple-shot motif comes from the story of this Swiss folk hero who titles a Rossini opera.

ANSWER: William Tell [or Guillaume Tell]

[10h] In another myth, this character must shoot an apple off his son’s head at the instigation of king Nidud. This skald writes runes in his blood on a horn, thereby destroying it and thwarting a poisoning attempt, in a text titled for him that may share authorship with the Heimskringla.

ANSWER: Egil [or Aigil; or Egil Skallagrímsson; accept Egil’s Saga]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	21.67	100%	100%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	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	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	14.44	89%	44%	11%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Chicago Open	2025-08-09	N	10	19.00	100%	40%	50%
2025 Chicago Open	2025-08-09	N	12	16.67	100%	50%	17%

Data


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