coconuts - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

John Steinbeck IV converted to a religion named for these objects while living in a “peace zone” with its founder, known as the “monk” of these objects. For 10 points each:

[10h] Identify these objects that name a syncretic Buddhist–Christian new religious movement founded by Nguyễn Thành Nam (“win tan nam”), who was alleged to have eaten only these objects for three years.

ANSWER: coconuts [or dừa (“zuh”); accept Coconut Religion or Coconut Monk; accept Đạo Dừa or Ông Đạo Dừa]

[10e] This country is home to several syncretic new religious movements, including the Coconut Religion, Cao Đài (“cow die”), and Hòa Hảo (“hwah how”). Hòa Hảo militias controlled swaths of this country’s south prior to the fall of Saigon in 1975.

ANSWER: Vietnam [or Việt Nam; accept Socialist Republic of Vietnam or SRV]

[10m] Under Japanese rule, Hòa Hảo’s founder Huỳnh Phú Sổ (“hwin foo sho”) syncretized it with this most populous organized religious tradition in Vietnam. Practitioners of this Amitabha-revering Mahayana Buddhist tradition practice niànfó hoping to enter its namesake realms.

ANSWER: Pure Land Buddhism [or tịnh độ tông (“tin doh tong”); accept pure realms or Buddha-fields or jìngtǔ; reject partial answers]

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California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	13.33	100%	25%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	17.14	86%	57%	29%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	14.17	100%	42%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	15.00	100%	50%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley F	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley E	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Stanford C	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley D	UCSC	0	10	10	20
Claremont Scripps	UCSB	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCI	0	10	10	20
UCLA D	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	10	10	20
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	10	0	10
UCLA C	USC	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Queen's B	0	10	0	10
McMaster C	Toronto G	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto C	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Guelph A	0	10	10	20
Toronto D	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Toronto I	10	10	10	30
McGill C	Toronto J	0	10	0	10
Toronto K	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
Queen's A	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	0	10
Waterloo	Toronto H	0	10	0	10
McMaster A	Western Ontario	0	10	0	10
Guelph B	McMaster B	0	10	0	10
UCF A	ERAU B	0	10	0	10
UF B	Melbourne B	0	10	0	10
ERAU A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UF D	UF E	0	10	0	10
UF C	USF	0	10	0	10
FIU	UF A	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	CWRU C	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	CWRU D	10	10	10	30
Pitt B	Kenyon A	0	10	10	20
OSU C	MSU A	10	0	10	20
MSU B	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
OSU A	Pitt C	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	OSU B	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	Virginia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Roanoke	James Madison	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	NC State	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	South Carolina B	0	10	10	20
Tennessee B	North Carolina C	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Catholic University	Penn B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame E	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
George Washington A	VCU A	0	10	0	10
George Washington B	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	Georgetown B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins C	NYU A	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Maryland C	0	10	0	10
Missouri A	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
SIUE	Truman State	0	10	0	10
WashU A	WashU D	0	10	10	20
WashU B	WashU C	10	10	0	20
George Mason B	Maryland D	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
UIC	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Chicago D	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Kentucky	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	Louisville B	0	10	0	10
Purdue B	Notre Dame D	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Purdue C	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin A	Amherst A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	Amherst B	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Brandeis Orlando	0	10	10	20
Harvard	Brandeis Wilson	0	10	10	20
Brown B	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Lloyd George	Brown C	0	10	10	20
Cornell-UG	BU	0	10	10	20
MIT B	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
Brown A	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
BC B	Williams	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth	Yale B	0	10	10	20
Yale A	BC A	0	10	0	10
Alberta	British Columbia A	0	10	10	20
British Columbia B	Simon Fraser	10	10	10	30
British Columbia C	Washington A	0	10	10	20
British Columbia D	Washington B	0	10	10	20
LSE B	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10
Bristol A	Manchester B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
ESF	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Cornell-DII	Rochester	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Syracuse	0	10	0	10