Adonis - 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell

Question

While mourning this figure, Athenian women planted small gardens on their rooftops, which were symbols of impermanence and waste because the plants withered and died quickly. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this figure whose mother Myrrha was the namesake of a plant. This figure’s blood mixed with tears to make the anemone flower.

ANSWER: Adonis

[10e] Golden apples grow in the garden named for these nymphs, which Heracles visits in his eleventh labor.

ANSWER: Hesperides (“heh-SPARE-id-eez”)

[10h] This mythical king’s neatly-tended gardens lie near a sacred grove of Athena and bear fruit all year round from a four-acre orchard. Queen Arete (“uh-REE-tee”) gives hospitality to a man who arrives in this king’s palace shrouded in mist.

ANSWER: Alcinous (“al-SIN-oh-us”)

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

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