Question
This holiday’s four main sites are the places where the four pieces of a jar of immortality-granting amrit landed. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this religious observance that occurs every three years and completes a cycle approximately every twelve years, based on the revolutions of Jupiter.
ANSWER: Kumbh Mela [or Kumbha Mela; prompt on Mela]
[10e] The sites of the Kumbh Mela are on these natural features. One of the sites, Prayagraj (“pray-YAHG-RAHJ”), is at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and Saraswati examples of these features.
ANSWER: rivers [prompt on bodies of water]
[10m] The incident with the jar of amrit legendarily occurred during this event, in which the naga Vasuki was wrapped around a mountain. Shiva’s throat turned blue after he swallowed the poison halahala generated during this event.
ANSWER: the Churning of the Ocean of Milk [or Samudra Manthana or Sāgara manthana or Kshirasāgara manthana or Amruta Manthana; accept equivalents like “churning of the sea of milk”]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 44% | 11% |
Data
| Bard A | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Haverford | Vassar | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn B | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Princeton A | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell C | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton B | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |