Question
In a Lascaux cave painting, a man with the head of one of these animals falls toward a bison. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this general type of animal thought to represent the soul in Paleolithic religion. At his baptism, the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus in the form of one of these animals.
ANSWER: birds [or avians or Aves; accept doves or pigeons]
[10h] The soul-as-bird motif from prehistoric shamanistic religion may have survived via tall poles topped by birds built in this region. Villages in this region house totem poles depicting male deities representing heaven and female deities representing the underworld.
ANSWER: Korea [or Korean Peninsula; accept North Korea or Chosŏn or Joseon; accept South Korea or Hanguk or Minguk; accept Chungcheong, Gangwon, Gyeonggi, Gyeongsang, Hamgyong, Hwanghae, Jeolla, or Pyongan; prompt on East Asia] (The bird poles are sotdae and the deity poles are jangseung.)
[10m] A parable about the soul, as represented by the ascending mythical bird Péng (“pung”), appears in the opening “Carefree Wandering” section of this text, in which Huìzǐ challenges its title thinker’s claim that fish can be joyful.
ANSWER: Zhuāngzǐ [or Chuang Tzŭ]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Ohio State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | MIT A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |