brown bears - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

Question

Sacrificing one of these animals allows its divine spirit to return home to find gifts from humanity. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these animals that were traditionally sacrificed by being shot with arrows in the Iomante (“ee-oh-mahn-tay”) “send off” ceremony.

ANSWER: brown bears [or kuma or kamuy; accept kumaokuri or kumamatsuri]

[10m] The Iomante ceremony is practiced by this Asian ethnic group, who traditionally worship divine beings known as kamuy.

ANSWER: Ainu [or Utari]

[10e] In a creation myth from this region, the bear Ungnyeo (“OONG-nyuh”) turns into a human after staying out of the sun for 100 days. Her son Dangun (“DAHN-goon”) legendarily founded this peninsula’s ancient Joseon (“JO-sun”) dynasty.

ANSWER: Korean peninsula [or Hanguk or Chosŏn or Chosŏnbando or Hanbando]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	20.00	100%	78%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	88%	63%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	16.00	100%	20%	40%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	9	18.89	100%	67%	22%

Data


Alberta	SFU	0	10	10	20
UBC B	UBC A	0	10	10	20
UW A	UW B	10	10	10	30