Question
These events begin with a greeting ceremony called a milni. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these events in which two people take seven steps around a sacred fire representing Agni in the saptapadī ceremony.
ANSWER: Hindu weddings [or marriages or equivalents; accept vivaha, lagna, bibaho, kettu kalyanam, thali kettu, maduve, thirumanam, pelli, or bahagara]
[10m] During a Hindu wedding, a groom parts the bride’s hair with a blade of grass and anoints the part with this vermilion pigment. Wearing a bindi or puttu of this pigment signifies a woman’s married status.
ANSWER: sindoor [or sindura; prompt on red or vermillion or other shades of red]
[10h] Grooms arrive at the milni in one of these festive processions, whose name often refers to the groom’s party as a whole. Increasingly, modern grooms ride a sports car in these processions instead of the traditional horse.
ANSWER: baraat [or varayatra; accept janjh, baryatra, barjatra, varaat, janti, jaan, varghodo, janavasam, dibbana, edurukolu, varanugaman, or bor jatra]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 12.92 | 96% | 17% | 17% |
Data
| Cornell B | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| McGill | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Arizona State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke | Ottawa | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Florida | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maryland | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Truman State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Illinois | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | South Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL B | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |