Question
A book by Roland B. Dixon records a creation myth from this region in which the cosmic spider Areop-Enap squeezes into a mussel shell and creates the world with help from a profusely sweating worm. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this cultural region home to the sky god Luk and his son Olofat, a trickster figure who upsets children by giving spines to the previously-harmless scorpionfish while visiting the heavens.
ANSWER: Micronesia [accept Nauru; accept Caroline Islands or Gilbert Islands; accept Mariana Islands; accept Federated States of Micronesia; accept Pelew Islands; accept Yap; prompt on the Pacific Ocean; prompt on Oceania]
[10e] Olofat’s dual role as hero and trickster parallels that of this figure from Polynesian mythology, who slowed down the sun by beating it with the jawbone of his grandmother.
ANSWER: Māui
[10m] While in heaven, Olofat altered some docile pets by equipping them with these objects. Māui was killed by obsidian examples of these objects belonging to the night goddess Hine-nui-te-pō.
ANSWER: teeth [or tooth; accept shark teeth; accept vagina dentata]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia B | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Houston A | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois A | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Imperial A | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | MIT A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Johns Hopkins A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill A | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |