Question
A “black” type of these events featuring orphans, the disabled, or beggars used to be held in graveyards to ward off infectious disease epidemics. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these events. Ornately decorated contracts called ketubah are signed during these events.
ANSWER: Jewish weddings [accept kiddushin or erusin; accept chuppah; accept nissuin]
[10e] One interpretation of the black wedding is that it was intended to be this Jewish type of good deed for the couple getting married. This term also refers to one of the 613 commandments of the Torah.
ANSWER: mitzvah [accept mitzvot or mitsve]
[10h] Black weddings were often done alongside burying religious works that had previously been kept in one of these places to store worn-out documents that contain God’s name.
ANSWER: genizah
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Religion>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 60% | 60% | 20% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 67% | 100% | 67% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 80% | 0% |
Data
| Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |