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Question

The flag of Vanuatu (“VAN-oo-AH-too”) depicts cycad (“SYE-kad”) fronds encircled by one of this animal’s tusks, which were grown for years as badges of rank for male custodians of kastom. For 10 points each:

[10e] Hawaiʻi’s kapu system restricted women from eating the meat of what animal, which comes last in the Chinese zodiac?

ANSWER: pigs [or hogs, swine, boars, sows, porcines, suids, or zhū]

[10m] Hawaiians raised mullet as “sea pigs” to provide men with the mana of this agricultural god, who manifests as the shapeshifting hog-man Kamapuaʻa (“kuh-MAH-poo-WAH-uh”). Captain Cook reached Hawaiʻi during this great god’s Makahiki festival.

ANSWER: Lono

[10h] The war god ʻOro possesses docile pigs and turns them into man-eaters at one of these sites called Taputapuātea (“tapu-tapu-uh-TAY-uh”), where the Arioi Society keeps sacred pigs. These stone enclosures serve as Polynesian temples.

ANSWER: marae (“muh-RYE”) [or ahu; or malae or malaʻe or meʻae]

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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	23	9.13	78%	9%	4%

Data


Claremont Colleges	Arizona State	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Cornell A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech	Illinois	10	0	0	10
Harvard	Kentucky	10	0	0	10
Iowa State	Johns Hopkins	10	0	0	10
Maryland	Toronto A	10	0	0	10
Minnesota B	Chicago D	0	0	0	0
Michigan	NYU	10	0	0	10
North Carolina B	Cornell B	10	0	0	10
Brown	Northwestern	10	0	0	10
Ottawa	Penn	0	0	0	0
Purdue	Indiana	0	0	0	0
Florida	Rutgers	10	0	0	10
McGill	South Carolina	10	0	0	10
Minnesota A	Stanford	10	0	0	10
Texas	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Duke	10	0	0	10
Berkeley B	Truman State	10	0	0	10
Virginia	Yale B	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	WUSTL A	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	WUSTL B	10	0	0	10
Chicago B	Waterloo	10	0	0	10
Berkeley A	Yale A	0	0	0	0