Lamashtu - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Depictions of this figure describe her as lion-headed, donkey-teethed, and taloned while also mentioning how she suckles piglets and dogs. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this daughter of Anu who could kill a fetus with seven touches. Pregnant women would wear apotropaic amulets depicting her demonic rival, Pazuzu, to invoke his protection.

ANSWER: Lamashtu [or Kamadme or Dimme]

[10e] Lamashtu is sometimes conflated with this other demoness who encounters Gilgamesh while nesting within the branches of the Huluppu tree. In Judeo-Christian folklore, this demoness was originally the first wife of Adam.

ANSWER: Lilith [or Lilitu or Lilis; accept Ki-sikil-lil-la-ke]

[10m] Yet another child-harming demon is Naamah, who is sometimes conflated with a daughter of Tubal-Cain identified as the wife of this man. In the Qur’an, this man’s son, Yam, refuses to believe his warnings.

ANSWER: Noah [or Nuh]

Back to bonuses

Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	13.33	78%	44%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	11.25	75%	38%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	8.57	86%	0%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	15.83	83%	58%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


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