hyenas - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In Somalia, evil warlocks can supposedly transform themselves into these animals by rubbing themselves with a magic stick. For 10 points each:

[10h] What animal acts as the guise of many wicked African therianthropes like the graverobbing Ethiopian buda and Somalia’s Qoria Ismaris? The leucrocotta’s voice-imitating capabilities may have been inspired by this animal’s vocalizations.

ANSWER: hyenas [or jib; or waraabe; or dabu; accept werehyenas]

[10m] In a strange case of blood libel, male Ethiopian Jews may be identified as buda that consume Christian corpses because they work with this material. In Yoruba courts, witnesses may kiss this material to swear by Ogun.

ANSWER: iron [or barzel; or biret; or irin; prompt on metal]

[10e] In the myths of Kenya’s Meru people, the hyena’s threats to the mole led mankind to suffer from this concept. Zulu myths tell of how the lizard brought the message of this concept, which also titles an Egyptian “Book.”

ANSWER: death [or mawt; or kuthirirwa moyo; or ukufa; accept Book of the Dead]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	22.50	100%	25%	100%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	20.00	100%	20%	80%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	0%	100%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	88%	13%	50%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	100%	25%	63%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	18.00	100%	0%	80%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	25%	75%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	88%	25%	63%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	20.83	92%	33%	83%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	22.50	100%	50%	75%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley A	10	0	10	20
Arizona State	UC Irvine	10	0	10	20
UCLA A	UC Santa Barbara	10	0	10	20
UCSD A	UCSD C	10	10	10	30
UCLA B	UCSD B	10	0	10	20
Toronto C	Brock	0	10	10	20
Carleton University	Simon Fraser	10	0	10	20
Guelph	Toronto F	10	0	10	20
Ottawa	McGill A	10	0	10	20
McGill B	Western A	10	0	10	20
Queen's	Western B	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	Toronto G	10	0	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto B	0	0	10	10
UBC A	Western C	10	0	10	20
Waterloo A	UBC B	10	10	10	30
Central Florida C	Central Florida A	10	0	10	20
Florida B	Central Florida B	0	0	10	10
Florida A	Florida C	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	CWRU B	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Michigan C	10	0	10	20
Michigan State	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	10	0	10	20
Ohio State C	CWRU A	10	0	10	20
Virginia	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	James Madison B	10	0	10	20
South Carolina A	NC State B	0	0	0	0
VCU	NC State A	10	0	10	20
Duke	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech B	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
North Carolina B	Wake Forest	10	10	10	30
North Carolina C	William and Mary	10	0	10	20
Illinois C	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Illinois B	Chicago D	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Indiana A	10	0	10	20
Northwestern D	Indiana C	0	0	10	10
Northwestern C	Chicago C	10	0	10	20
Chicago E	Notre Dame A	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	Northwestern B	0	10	10	20
Brown	Brandeis A	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth A	Brandeis B	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth B	MIT	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Harvard B	10	0	10	20
Yale	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	10	20
Berkeley D	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Iowa State	10	0	10	20
Minnesota A	Carleton College	10	0	10	20
Missouri A	Missouri B	10	10	10	30
Washington B	Washington A	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Texas A&M A	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Murray State A	0	0	10	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	10	20
Louisville A	Alabama B	0	0	10	10
Bruin	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30
WashU A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Kentucky	Tennessee B	10	0	10	20
Mississipi State	Vanderbilt B	0	0	0	0
WashU B	Sewanee	10	0	10	20
Birmingham	Edinburgh B	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Bristol	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Durham	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Manchester	10	0	10	20
UCL	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
LSE	Montpellier	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Cambridge A	10	0	10	20
Oxford B	Cardiff	10	10	10	30
Oxford C	Imperial C	10	0	10	20
City St. George's	Southampton B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
Penn State	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
Cornell C	Binghamton B	10	0	10	20
Cornell A	Cornell B	10	10	10	30
RIT	Rochester	10	0	10	20