Question
These people lick nails and drive them into nkondi reliquary figures so that if a serious offense is committed, they will come to life and bring justice. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these Congolese spirit healers whose name derives from a Bantu word for “medicine.” These people lend their names to the cauldrons used in Palo Mayombe rituals.
ANSWER: nganga [or n’angas; or banganga; accept sangoma or mungoma; accept nyanga]
[10m] Practitioners of this religion from the same country as Palo place sticks into cauldrons when honoring Elegua. Initiates in this religion are given beads and have their heads shaved after omiero washing.
ANSWER: Santería [or Regla de Ocha or Regla Lucumí]
[10e] Ngangas determine how to treat illnesses through this practice by throwing wood pieces called hakata on the ground. In Ifá, kola nuts are used for this practice, whose many methods are denoted by the suffix “-mancy”
ANSWER: divination [or predicting the future; or fortune-telling or similar; accept sortition or casting lots; prompt on magic]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Maryland A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Ohio State A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Claremont A | McGill A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Duke A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Houston A | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | South Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Imperial A | Florida B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| MIT A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU A | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers A | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia A | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |