Fionn mac Cumhaill - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This hero twice lets water run through his fingers rather than healing Diarmuid (“DEER-mud”) with it out of bitterness at him for running away with Gráinne (“GRAHN-yuh”). For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this Irish hero who burns his thumb while cooking the Salmon of Knowledge and leads the Fianna.

ANSWER: Fionn mac Cumhaill [or Finn MacCool; or Deinme; prompt on MacCool or mac Cumhaill]

[10m] Diarmuid is temporarily resurrected by the love god Aengus Óg after being killed by one of these animals. Ysbaddaden tasks heroes with retrieving a comb and scissors from one of these animals named Twrch Trwyth (“TURK TRUE-ith”).

ANSWER: boars [accept pigs or wild boars or wild pigs or swine or wild hogs]

[10h] Original-language term required. Gráinne forces Diarmuid to run away with her and to capture horses by twice afflicting him with these restrictions, another of which prevents him from piercing the skin of the boar that kills him. Cú Chulainn (“koo CULL-inn”) breaks one of these taboos when he is offered dog meat by an old man.

ANSWER: geasa (“GYAH-sa”) [or geis (“gesh”); or geas]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Florida	Main	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	25%	50%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	13.33	67%	33%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	7	11.43	86%	14%	14%
North	Main	Y	8	13.75	75%	38%	25%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	17.50	100%	33%	42%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	18.18	91%	46%	46%
UK	Main	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%

Data


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