horn AND ivory - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet H: Bonus 13

In the Aeneid, Virgil describes how true shadows and the Manes exit separate gates that are each composed of one of these two materials. For 10 points each:

[10h] The Greek translations of what two materials resemble the words for “fulfill” and “deceive,” thereby punning on the notion of “false dreams” and “prophetic dreams” that exit their respective underworld gates?

ANSWER: horn AND ivory (Prophetic dreams pass through the gate of horn, whereas false dreams pass through the ones made of ivory.)

[10e] This woman admits to her disguised husband that a dream about an eagle slaughtering geese is likely a false dream sent through the ivory gate. This mother of Telemachus later asks her husband to uproot their marriage bed.

ANSWER: Penelope

[10m] The ivory gate also sends a false promise of a willing bride to Morrheus, a general from this region, as he wages war against Dionysus in a work by Nonnus. Herodotus relates that this region was home to gold-digging ants.

ANSWER: India [or Indikē or Indoi or Indou]

<KT, Mythology> | Packet H - Yale A, Ohio State C, Illinois C, Virginia Tech B, MIT A

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
69	17.10	93%	58%	20%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Alabama B	WashU B	0	10	10	20	EM
Arizona State	UCSD A	10	10	10	30	HEM
Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Berkeley B	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20	EM
Bruin	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20	EM
CWRU A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20	HE
CWRU B	Michigan State	0	10	10	20	EM
Cambridge A	Bristol	0	10	0	10	E
Cardiff	City St. George's	0	0	0	0
Catholic	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10	E
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	0	10	10	20	EM
Chicago A	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20	HE
Chicago B	Indiana C	0	10	0	10	E
Chicago C	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20	EM
Chicago D	Purdue A	0	10	10	20	EM
Chicago E	Purdue B	0	10	0	10	E
Claremont	Washington B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Columbia A	NYU B	0	10	10	20	EM
Cornell C	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10	E
Durham	Birmingham	0	10	0	10	E
Florida A	Central Florida C	0	10	0	10	E
Florida C	Florida B	0	0	10	10	M
Georgetown	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Georgia Tech A	Missouri B	0	10	10	20	EM
Guelph	UBC B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Illinois A	Northwestern D	0	10	10	20	EM
Illinois B	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10	E
Imperial A	Edinburgh A	0	10	10	20	EM
Indiana B	Indiana A	0	10	0	10	E
Iowa State	Minnesota A	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	10	10	10	30	HEM
Kentucky	Louisville A	0	10	0	10	E
LSE	Imperial B	0	10	10	20	EM
Louisville B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10	E
Manchester	Oxford A	0	10	10	20	EM
Maryland B	Columbia C	0	10	0	10	E
McGill A	Carleton University	10	10	10	30	HEM
McMaster A	Ottawa	0	10	0	10	E
Michigan B	Pittsburgh	0	10	10	20	EM
Montpellier	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10	E
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	10	10	20	EM
NYU A	Vassar	10	10	10	30	HEM
Ohio State A	Michigan A	0	10	10	20	EM
Oxford B	Oxford C	0	10	0	10	E
Penn State	Cornell B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Queen's	UBC A	0	10	10	20	EM
RIT	Cornell A	0	10	10	20	EM
Rutgers A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20	EM
Simon Fraser	Brock	0	10	10	20	EM
Southampton B	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10	E
Stanford A	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20	EM
Swarthmore	Maryland A	10	10	0	20	HE
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20	EM
Tennessee B	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10	E
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20	EM
Toronto C	Western C	0	10	10	20	EM
Toronto D	Western A	0	10	0	10	E
Toronto E	Waterloo B	0	10	0	10	E
Toronto G	McGill B	0	10	0	10	E
Toronto Metropolitan	McMaster B	0	10	0	10	E
UCL	Southampton A	0	10	10	20	EM
UCLA A	UCLA B	0	10	10	20	EM
UCSD B	UC Santa Barbara	0	0	0	0
UCSD C	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10	M
Warwick A	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20	EM
Warwick B	Imperial C	0	10	0	10	E
WashU A	Alabama A	10	10	10	30	HEM
Washington A	Carleton College	10	10	0	20	HE
Waterloo A	Toronto B	0	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	15.00	50%	75%	25%
Canada	Main Site	✓	11	17.27	100%	55%	18%
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	✓	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
UK	Main Site	✓	12	13.33	92%	42%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	21.25	100%	63%	50%
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%