Question

These objects facilitated the use of tathlum, an object made of the blood of toads, bears, and vipers and mixed with the sand of the Armorian and Red Seas. One of these objects and a calcified body part of Mesgegra (“mess-JEG-ruh”) made a king unable to overexert himself for seven years. Upon hearing of Christ’s death, Conchobar (10[1])mac Nessa (“KONG-koh-wer mac NESS-uh”) became so angry that he reopened a wound caused by one (-5[1])of these weapons (-5[1])and died. (10[1]-5[2])To avenge his mother’s (10[1])death, Furbaide used one of these weapons (-5[1])and a piece of cheese (-5[1])to kill (10[1])Medb (“mave”). It’s not a (-5[1])spear, but during the Battle of Mag Tuired (“MY TEER-uh”), Lugh (“loo”) used one of these weapons to kill the (-5[1])Fomorian giant Balor, striking him in his destructive eye. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this weapon of choice of many Irish heroes, (10[1]-5[2])which David used to stun (10[1])Goliath (10[5])before decapitating him with a sword. ■END■ (10[9])

ANSWER: slings [or slingshots; accept slingstones; prompt on stones or brain balls or rocks or projectiles by asking “fired by what?”]
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2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y20100%0%55%128.80

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew WangIllinois AVirginia5510
Annabelle YangWUSTL AMIT68-5
Micah ColmanWaterloo BArizona State71-5
Tiffany ZhouFloridaIllinois B7310
Sinecio MoralesJohns HopkinsGeorgia State73-5
Truman HillVanderbiltLSE73-5
Anthony LovegrenUCFOhio State7710
Jim FanNorth Carolina AWaterloo A84-5
Eshan PantNYUPenn State89-5
James McCurleyHarvardMaryland9110
Rohan DalalGeorgia TechToronto A95-5
Nathan ZhangCornell AOttawa112-5
Moses KitakuleColumbia AWUSTL B124-5
Danila KabotyanskiIndianaIowa State133-5
Todd MaslykMichiganMinnesota133-5
Matt SchiavoneNorthwesternStanford13310
Joey SunToronto BWinona State13810
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawaCornell A13910
Conor ThompsonIowa StateIndiana13910
Crow HeNorth Carolina BTexas13910
Parth JagtapToronto CRIT13910
Julian BushlowCornell BYale13910
Sky LiToronto AGeorgia Tech14610
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateJohns Hopkins14610
Cormac BeirneLSEVanderbilt14610
Yrwin BatanMITWUSTL A14610
Shardul RaoMinnesotaMichigan14610
Mitch McCullarPenn StateNYU14610
Collin NadarajahWUSTL BColumbia A14610
Michael DuWaterloo ANorth Carolina A14610
Bryan UgazArizona StateWaterloo B14610