Packet 11: Bonus 13
Groats and fat are eaten on this god’s February 11th or 24th festival, coinciding with a similar-sounding Holy Helper’s feast day. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this underworld god who represents Nav in Prav-Yav-Nav cosmology. A Rodnover “Book” named for this deity and written on “ancient” wooden planks is likely a 20th-century forgery.
ANSWER: Veles [or Volos or Weles or Wołos or Vialies] (The Holy Helper is Saint Blaise.)
[10m] February 1st is the Imbolc festival and the feast day of this saint of Kildare, whom pagans and wiccans equate to a similarly named deity and child of the Dagda. Straw crosses and boxty potato pancakes are made for this saint’s day.
ANSWER: Saint Brigid of Kildare [or Saint Brigid of Ireland; accept Brigit or Bríd or Brighid or Brigida]
[10e] In the 1950s, a restaurant owner in this country popularized and secularized the Thorrablót festival, which is celebrated ending in February with buffets of Thorramatur food like this country’s hákarl fermented shark.
ANSWER: Iceland [or Ísland]
<LR, Beliefs> | NAFTA-Packet-11
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 18.33 | 92% | 75% | 17% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA | Ana Pauker? I hardly know her! | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |