Question

This city was formerly home to a cemetery called “the field of thorny trees.” One text states that this city will have seven gates, each guarded by two angels, to prevent entry of the Dajjal. A document named for this city says that each of nine tribes was responsible for its own blood money and ransom payments. A building in this city was the first of its kind to have two niches. Another building in this city has a Green Dome on its southeast corner above several graves. This city is called by its original name of Yathrib (-5[1])in a text (-5[1])discussing (10[1])the Battle of the Trench, (10[1])which took place just outside (-5[1])it. The beginning of the Islamic calendar is marked (10[1])by a pilgrimage to this city called the Hijrah. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Muhammad and his followers fled to what second-holiest city in Islam after Mecca? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Medina [or Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah or Yathrib until read]
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Summary

2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia11/11/2023Y8100%0%50%126.13

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Austin GuoPrinceton AColumbia B97-5
Sam MacchiVassarColumbia A100-5
Omar MahmoodNYU BNYU A10110
Anirudh BharadwajPenn APenn B10610
Ashish KumbhardareRowan ABard A111-5
Karsten RynearsonYale APrinceton B12010
William HelmanBard ARowan A12910
Cooper RohColumbia BPrinceton A12910
Arjun BothraHaverfordYale C129-5
Simon EmmanuelRutgers BCornell C13210
William GrogerColumbia AVassar14610
Yixi YangYale CHaverford14610