Question
An arrow-like one of these objects was pointed at the ocean by Rāma, after which Váruṇa offered to help him and his army get to Lanka. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this class of super-weapons capable of creating massive destruction in the Hindu epics. Hanumān managed to survive being attacked by one of these weapons because of a boon granted to him by Brahmā.
ANSWER: astras [or asthras; accept Brahmashirshā astra; accept Brahmāstra]
[10e] During the Kurukshetra War, this third-born of the Pandavas used an astra before calling it back at Vyāsa’s insistence. Kṛishṇa served as this prince’s charioteer.
ANSWER: Arjuna [accept Pārtha, Dhanañjaya, Gudākesha, Savyasāchī, Kirītī, or Gāndīvadhārī]
[10h] Earlier in the war, this man used the Nārāyaṇāstra, which caused millions of arrows to appear in the sky and swarm around Bhima. Bhima later used a ruse involving the name of an elephant to trick this man’s father into thinking he had perished.
ANSWER: Ashwathāmā [or Ashvatthāmā; or Drauni; reject “Drona”]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Ohio State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida B | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech B | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Harvard A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Illinois A | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn State A | McGill A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Purdue A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Virginia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |