horn AND ivory - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In the Aeneid, Virgil describes how true shadows and the Manes exit separate gates that are each composed of one of these two materials. For 10 points each:

[10h] The Greek translations of what two materials resemble the words for “fulfill” and “deceive,” thereby punning on the notion of “false dreams” and “prophetic dreams” that exit their respective underworld gates?

ANSWER: horn AND ivory (Prophetic dreams pass through the gate of horn, whereas false dreams pass through the ones made of ivory.)

[10e] This woman admits to her disguised husband that a dream about an eagle slaughtering geese is likely a false dream sent through the ivory gate. This mother of Telemachus later asks her husband to uproot their marriage bed.

ANSWER: Penelope

[10m] The ivory gate also sends a false promise of a willing bride to Morrheus, a general from this region, as he wages war against Dionysus in a work by Nonnus. Herodotus relates that this region was home to gold-digging ants.

ANSWER: India [or Indikē or Indoi or Indou]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	50%	75%	25%
Canada	Main Site	Y	11	17.27	100%	55%	18%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	13.33	92%	42%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	21.25	100%	63%	50%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
UCSD C	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
Arizona State	UCSD A	10	10	10	30
UCSD B	UC Santa Barbara	0	0	0	0
Simon Fraser	Brock	0	10	10	20
Guelph	UBC B	10	10	10	30
McGill A	Carleton University	10	10	10	30
Toronto G	McGill B	0	10	0	10
McMaster A	Ottawa	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
Toronto E	Waterloo B	0	10	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	McMaster B	0	10	0	10
Queen's	UBC A	0	10	10	20
Toronto D	Western A	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	Western C	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	10	10	30
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	0	10	10	20
Florida A	Central Florida C	0	10	0	10
Florida C	Florida B	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Michigan State	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Pittsburgh	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Indiana C	0	10	0	10
Chicago C	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Chicago D	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Chicago E	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Indiana B	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Northwestern D	0	10	10	20
Washington A	Carleton College	10	10	0	20
Claremont	Washington B	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Minnesota A	0	0	0	0
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	10	10	20
Alabama B	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Bruin	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Louisville B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Edinburgh A	0	10	10	20
Montpellier	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10
LSE	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Imperial C	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Oxford A	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Oxford C	0	10	0	10
UCL	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Cardiff	City St. George's	0	0	0	0
Durham	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Vassar	10	10	10	30
Swarthmore	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Catholic	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Rutgers A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Cornell C	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Penn State	Cornell B	10	10	10	30
RIT	Cornell A	0	10	10	20