toadstones - 2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror

Question

Edward Topsell recommended obtaining these objects by placing their namesake animal on a red cloth and waiting for them to cough these objects up. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these objects, which were often placed into rings and may have actually been fish teeth. These objects were believed to be found in their namesake animal’s head and change color in the presence of poison.

ANSWER: toadstones

[10m] Due to their coiled appearance, these fossils were often known as snakestones and used for protection against snakebites. Shaligrams are types of these fossils representing Vishnu, which are ritually married to the tulsi plant.

ANSWER: ammonites

[10e] Stones with holes in them, such as the adder-stones worn by these people according to Pliny, also had protective properties. These religious leaders sacrificed bulls as part of the ritual of oak and mistletoe.

ANSWER: druids [prompt on Celts; or Gauls; or priests]

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 2	Part 3	Total
2 Indiscernible Broke Girls	Knox et al	10	10	20
2 Indiscernible Broke Girls	Knox et al	10	10	20
2 Indiscernible Broke Girls	Knox et al	10	10	20
2 Indiscernible Broke Girls	Knox et al	10	10	20
2 Indiscernible Broke Girls	Knox et al	10	10	20
2 Indiscernible Broke Girls	Knox et al	10	10	20
2 Indiscernible Broke Girls	Knox et al	10	10	20
2 Indiscernible Broke Girls	Knox et al	10	10	20
Goldman & Jackson	Fable of the Miis	10	10	20
The Chard Problem of Consciousness	Yesodei HaTorah 2:7	0	10	10
Water Buffalo	Three Cantabrigians	10	0	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror	05/31/25	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
2025 RMP Fest Carleton Mirror	07/13/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 RMP Fest CO Mirror	08/10/25	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%