Question
A taboo against the name of this animal led to its English name being derived either from a word for wild animal or for brown. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this animal that was taboo in many Eurasian cultures. However, either the original Proto-Indo-European name for this animal or a very early taboo replacement is likely preserved in its Latin name Ursus.
ANSWER: bears
[10h] That phenomenon makes the word for bear a term described by this originally Māori (“MAH-or-ee”) word, the opposite of taboo.
ANSWER: noa
[10m] The bear taboo of Proto-Indo-Europeans may have come about through contact with speakers of this language family. This language family includes Estonian and the Sámi languages.
ANSWER: Uralic [or Uralian; accept Finno-Ugric]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Social Science>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Carnegie Mellon | Michigan A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |