Voltumna - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Etruscan or Roman name acceptable. According to Varro’s On the Latin Language, a statue of this deity stood in the “Tuscan Row” because he was the chief god of Etruria. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this chthonic deity whose fanum, possibly in modern-day Orvieto, may have been the meeting place of the Etruscan League. An August festival in Rome recounted the myth of Pomona and this deity’s Roman equivalent.

ANSWER: Voltumna [or Veltha; accept Fanum Voltumnae; accept Vertumnus or Vortumnus or Vertimnus; accept Vertumnalia]

[10m] In Early Rome and the Latins, Andreas Alföldi describes the Voltumna statue standing near a temple to these figures. Zeus made these brothers immortal after fathering one of them with Leda.

ANSWER: Dioscuri [or the Dioskouroi; or Castor AND Pollux; or Polydeuces; accept Gemini or Castores; accept Tyndaridae or Tyndarids]

[10e] The leaders of the Etruscan dodecapoli met at a sacred location containing these plants outside the Fanum Voltumnae. Dryads inhabit a type of these plants sacred to Zeus, material from one of which in Dodona made up the Argo’s prow.

ANSWER: trees [accept oak trees or oaks]

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California	Main	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Canada	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	8.33	83%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	17.00	80%	50%	40%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	16.00	100%	60%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	17.50	83%	83%	8%
UK	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	16.25	88%	63%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Berkeley E	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Stanford C	0	10	10	20
Claremont Scripps	Claremont Pitzer	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	USC	10	10	10	30
UCLA B	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	10	10	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCLA C	0	0	10	10
UCSB	UCLA D	0	10	10	20
UF B	UF E	0	0	10	10
Melbourne B	USF	0	0	10	10
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCI	0	0	10	10
ERAU B	ERAU A	0	0	0	0
Melbourne A	FSU	0	0	10	10
UCF A	FIU	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UF A	0	0	10	10
CWRU D	Pitt B	0	10	10	20
MSU B	Kenyon A	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	MSU A	0	10	10	20
OSU A	OSU D	0	10	10	20
CWRU A	OSU B	0	10	10	20
OSU C	Pitt A	10	10	10	30
Pitt C	Kenyon B	0	0	10	10
James Madison	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
Roanoke	NC State	0	10	10	20
South Carolina B	Virginia B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Virginia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Tusculum	Tennessee B	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	North Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina C	0	0	0	0
Clemson A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Liberty C	Clemson B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Liberty A	10	0	10	20
Columbia A	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
Vassar A	Rutgers C	0	0	0	0
Swarthmore A	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Missouri A	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Truman State	WashU C	0	10	10	20
William Woods	WashU D	0	0	10	10
UIC	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Chicago C	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame D	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Minnesota A	0	10	10	20
St. Thomas	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
Macalester A	Macalester B	10	10	10	30
Minnesota C	Minnesota B	0	0	10	10
Wisconsin	Nebraska	0	0	10	10
BU	Brown C	0	0	0	0
Bowdoin A	BC B	0	10	10	20
Amherst B	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0
MIT B	Brandeis Clemenceau	0	10	10	20
Tufts A	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Wilson	BC A	0	10	10	20
Amherst A	Brown A	0	10	10	20
Brown B	Tufts B	0	10	10	20
Cornell-UG	Williams	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Harvard	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth	Yale A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Orlando	Yale B	0	10	10	20
British Columbia C	Alberta	0	10	10	20
British Columbia A	British Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Simon Fraser	British Columbia D	0	10	10	20
Washington B	Washington A	0	10	10	20
Northwestern C	Iowa	0	10	10	20
McGill D	Alberta B	0	10	10	20
Arizona State A	Northwestern A	10	10	10	30
Texas A	Northwestern B	0	10	10	20
Ohio	UTD B	0	10	10	20
Tulsa	Rose State	0	0	10	10
Texas B	UCO	10	10	10	30
UTD A	Arizona State B	0	0	10	10
Auburn B	Mississippi State A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Bruin A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Huntsville B	Alabama B	10	0	10	20
Alabama A	Sewanee A	0	10	10	20
Huntsville A	UAB A	0	0	10	10
Auburn A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Cornell-DII	0	0	10	10