wisdom - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A figure named for this concept lives in the thirteenth “aeon,” according to a text named for this concept narrated by Jesus. For 10 points each:

[10m] What concept names a genre of ancient literature that includes the Book of Job?

ANSWER: wisdom [or sophia; accept wisdom literature; or hokhmah; or khokhmah; accept Pistis Sophia; reject “knowledge”]

[10e] Sophia is represented as a divine feminine figure in many of these traditions. Many of these traditions, named for their emphasis on spiritual knowledge, believe in a malevolent “demiurge.”

ANSWER: Gnosticism [or Gnostic traditions]

[10h] In Gnosticism, Sophia is the creator of the first of these figures, Yaldabaoth. The Nag Hammadi library contains a Gnostic text about the Hypostasis of these figures, five of whom rule the “Kingdom of Darkness” in Manichaeism.

ANSWER: archons [or archontes; accept Hypostasis of the Archons]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	67%	0%	67%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	83%	67%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	0.00	0%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	13.00	90%	20%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	15.00	75%	63%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


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