Agni - 2024 Chicago Open - Buzzpoints App

Question

In 1975, the theorist of rituals as “rules without meaning,” Frits Staal, was allowed to meticulously document the Nambūdiri’s performance of a sacrifice named for this deity. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this deity who is the namesake of an ancient 12-day ritual conducted on top of altars made of 10,800 bricks in the shape of a bird.

ANSWER: Agni [accept agnicayana]

[10e] The agnicayana sacrifice might include the sprinkling of darbha grass or this liquid on the altar. This psychoactive drink was made by pressing the stalks of an unidentified plant.

ANSWER: soma

[10h] King Janaka discussed the more prosaic agnihotra ritual with this sage, who reduced the number of gods from 3,003 to 33 to 1.5 to 1. This husband of Maitreyi is repeatedly challenged to explain the world’s “weave” in a dialogue with the female philosopher Gargi in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

ANSWER: Yajñavalkya (“YAHG-nyuh-vull-kyuh”)

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Total
Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	0	0	0
Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	0	10	10
Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	10	10	20
LMM's LLM MLM	BHSU B	0	10	10
Les Missourables	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	0	10	10
Lisan al-Quib	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	10	10	20
Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	0	10	10
Punished "Venom" BHSU	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	0	10	10
SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	The Jeam Team	0	10	10
The Empire Bikes Back	The Dyatlov Passement incident	0	0	0
The Oldest Men in the World	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	0	10	10
There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	10	10	20
We Need New Names	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	0	10	10
it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	0	10	10
var merchants	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	0	10	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	15	10.67	87%	20%	0%