Question
In a 2018 paper, Ioannis Liritzis calculated Plutarch’s directions to a “great continent” past this island and ended in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this island where Calypso entrapped Odysseus for seven years.
ANSWER: Ogygia (“oh-JIH-jee-uh”)
[10h] The title monk encounters islands of birds and sheep while sailing to present-day America in The Voyage of St. Brendan, a tale in this Irish tradition of heroic sea voyages that inspired the structure of Gulliver’s Travels.
ANSWER: immram [or immrama; or iomramh]
[10e] Conversely, in a story from this tribe about Europe, the goddess Sedna birthed the ancestors of white people, but set them away on a raft over the sea. Deities worshipped by this people include Agloolik and Nanook, a god of polar bears.
ANSWER: Inuit [accept Inuvialuit or Inuvialuk or Iñupiat or Iñupiaq or Tunumiit or Inughuit; accep Canadian Inuit or Greenlandic Inuit; reject “Eskimo”]
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Summary
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Waterloo A | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |