Sophia - 2025 ACF Nationals

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A city named for this concept contains the massive Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and a “triangle of religious tolerance” home to the Saint Nedelya (-5[1])Cathedral. A school of (10[1])thought (10[1])proposing this concept as a fourth hypostasis in the Trinity (10[1])included Vladimir (10[1])Solovyov (10[1])and Sergei (10[1])Bulgakov. (10[2])This concept names the most-visited cathedral in Kyiv and another church whose half-deteriorated Deësis (10[1])(“dee-EE-sis”) Mosaic, featuring Christ Pantocrator (“pan-TOCK-ruh-ter”), marked (10[1])the beginning of the Palaeologan (“pay-lee-AW-luh-gun”) Renaissance. (10[1])Some Gnostics compare this (10[1])figure to a female twin or (10[1])wife of Jesus. (10[2])A cathedral dedicated (10[1])to this concept (10[1])served as the (10[1])episcopal see of the Ecumenical (10[1])Patriarchate for a millennium after it was commissioned by Justinian I. (10[2])For 10 points, what concept (10[1])names the historic religious center of the Eastern Orthodox Church, a cathedral-turned-mosque in Istanbul? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Sophia [or Holy Wisdom or Hagia Sophia or Sancta Sapientia or Chokmah; accept Church of God’s Holy Wisdom or Ayasofya or Ayía Sofía or Naos tēs Hagias tou Theou Sophias; accept Saint Sophia Cathedral or Svyata Sofiya or Sobor Svyatoyi Sofiyi or Svyataya Sofiya or Sobor Svyatoy Sofii; accept Sofia or Saint Sophia Church or tsârkva Sveta Sofiya; accept Sophiology or Sofiologiya; prompt on Logos; prompt on Jesus Christ by asking “what aspect of him?”]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Karan Gurazada	Texas	Iowa State	23	-5
Micah Colman	Waterloo B	Yale	27	10
Danila Kabotyanski	Indiana	North Carolina A	28	10
Qingyu Zhang	Florida	LSE	38	10
Henry Bon	Winona State	Maryland	40	10
Ben Wismath	Toronto C	Johns Hopkins	41	10
Michael Du	Waterloo A	Columbia A	43	10
Mitch McCullar	Penn State	Arizona State	44	10
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford	Illinois A	44	10
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech	Minnesota	58	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan	UCF	63	10
Eve Fleisig	UC Berkeley A	WUSTL A	69	10
Owen Mimno	NYU	UC Berkeley B	73	10
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Chicago A	79	10
Soren Heydari	North Carolina B	Virginia	82	10
Sky Li	Toronto A	Rutgers	82	10
Truman Hill	Vanderbilt	Illinois B	85	10
June Yin	WUSTL B	Georgia State	88	10
Rosa Xia	Cornell A	Toronto B	91	10
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State	RIT	96	10
John Chen	British Columbia	Ottawa	107	10
Michael Kearney	Harvard	MIT	107	10
Elijah Scheinson	Columbia B	Cornell B	112	10
Liam Starnes	Chicago B	Georgia Tech	126	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Texas	127	10

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	24	100%	0%	4%	72.92