Question
The daughter of this empire’s last ruler founded the first public museum in history and displayed artifacts from the Kassite people. This empire constructed a Processional Way whose gatehouse was made of glazed bricks with images of lions. This empire’s last ruler Nabonidus is sometimes credited as the first archaeologist for restoring the Ziggurat of Ur. In 539 BCE, this empire fell when Belshazzar was defeated by Cyrus the Great, who diverted a river near its capital. This empire’s sack of Judah under its ruler Nebuchadnezzar II (“nebu-kad-nezzar the second”) began a deportation of Jews called its namesake “captivity.” For 10 points, name this empire centered around a capital home to the Hanging Gardens. ■END■
ANSWER: Babylon [or the Babylonian Empire or the Neo-Babylonian Empire or the Second Babylonian Empire; accept Babel or Babylonia or Bābilim or Neo-Babylon; accept the Babylonian captivity] (The first line refers to
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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 44% | 83.38 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 56.63 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 96.33 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 36% | 74.55 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 61.33 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 64.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.75 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 82.11 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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David Nickel | Purdue C | Illinois D | 20 | -5 |
Carson Kessler | UW Lust | UW Pride | 25 | -5 |
Pranet Sirkonda (DII) | Ohio State C (DII) | Miami A (UG) | 30 | -5 |
Connor McClellan (UG) | Miami A (UG) | Ohio State C (DII) | 33 | 10 |
Cade Smith (UG) | Michigan State A | Miami C (DII) | 35 | 10 |
Joshua Garner (DII) | Ohio State A (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 37 | 10 |
Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Mississippi State A | 37 | 10 |
Justin Reeves | VCU | Liberty A | 37 | 10 |
Jiping Fang | Illinois A | Notre Dame A | 39 | -5 |
William Foster | Chicago A | Illinois C | 40 | 10 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | William & Mary | 41 | 10 |
Kritanu Saha | Cornell A | Cornell B | 42 | -5 |
Dylan Bianchi | UW Greed | UBC B | 42 | -5 |
Sumukh Murthy (UG) | UCSD | UCLA C | 42 | 10 |
Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | UW Wrath | 44 | 10 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Emory A | 44 | -5 |
Allen Xu | Georgia Tech E | Auburn C | 44 | 10 |
Bolun Thompson (DII) | UCLA E | Claremont B | 44 | 10 |
Ivan Sumaneev | UNC C | UNC D | 47 | 10 |
Luke Williams | James Madison B | NC State | 48 | 10 |
Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Cornell E | 55 | 10 |
Nathan Wodicka (UG) | Miami B (UG) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | 55 | 10 |
Gannon Rice | Clemson A | Furman | 55 | -5 |
Ben Spirtas (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | NYU B | 55 | 10 |
Chris Scheri | RIT B | Syracuse | 56 | -5 |
Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 56 | 10 |
Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 56 | 10 |
Vivian Fan (DII) | Claremont A | UCLA D | 57 | 10 |
Tai Belke | UBC A | UW Gluttony | 58 | -5 |
Simon Burstein | Virginia | UNC B | 58 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | Purdue B | 58 | -5 |
Alan Fan | UW Envy | Alberta | 60 | -5 |
Sam Hicks-Jirkans (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | CWRU A (UG) | 63 | 10 |
Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Southern | 64 | -5 |
David Zhang | Illinois B | WashU B | 65 | 10 |
Vikas Kothari | Northwestern B | Notre Dame B | 67 | 10 |
Joshua Rafaeil | Cornell C | Cornell D | 69 | 10 |
Claire Chambers | Binghamton B | Binghamton C | 69 | -5 |
Varun Ambalavanan (DII) | CWRU C (UG) | Michigan A (UG) | 69 | 10 |
Rafeed Rahman Turjya | Georgia A | Georgia Tech B | 69 | 10 |
Kabir Zaman | South Carolina A | Tennessee B | 69 | 10 |
Kabir Zaman | South Carolina A | Tennessee B | 69 | 10 |
Jonathan Schneidau | Liberty C | Appalachian State B | 69 | 10 |
Anthony Fangqing Yu (UG) | UCLA A | Claremont C | 69 | 10 |
Saif Virani (UG) | Fordham A | Rutgers A (UG) | 69 | 10 |
Matthew Kelley (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | 70 | 10 |
Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Cornell A | 71 | 10 |
Britton Webster | Alabama A | Vanderbilt B | 71 | -5 |
Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | Appalachian State A | 72 | 10 |
Christopher Joseph | Notre Dame C | Iowa B | 73 | 10 |
Jacob Cohen (UG) | UCLA B | USC | 76 | -5 |
Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | 76 | 10 |
Landon Jett | SIUE | Purdue A | 76 | 10 |
Nicola Illario (DII) | Penn A (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 85 | 10 |
Albert Zeng (DII) | Penn B (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | 85 | 10 |
Spencer Ahn | U of Rochester B | RIT C | 86 | 10 |
Pierce DeCain | Cornell F | ESF | 86 | -5 |
Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Duke A | 86 | 10 |
Conner Yamnitz | WashU A | Iowa A | 86 | 10 |
Ethan Maddox | U of Rochester A | Penn State | 87 | 10 |
Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Georgia Tech D | 87 | 10 |
Jaden Bandy (DII) | Rutgers B | Bard A (UG) | 87 | 10 |
Daniel Huang (DII) | Michigan C | West Virginia A (UG) | 91 | 10 |
Ryan Zhang | UBC B | UW Greed | 91 | 10 |
Blake Savage | Cornell G | RIT A | 94 | 10 |
Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton C | Binghamton B | 94 | 10 |
Diego Almaraz | UNC A | James Madison A | 94 | 10 |
Sam Millenbach (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | 94 | 10 |
Andrew Yang | Columbia B | Columbia J (DII) | 95 | 10 |
Riley Sherman | ESF | Cornell F | 98 | 0 |
Kamil Swiatek | Alberta | UW Envy | 110 | 10 |
Karthik Krishnamurthy (DII) | USC | UCLA B | 110 | 10 |
Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame A | Illinois A | 110 | 10 |
Alec West | Syracuse | RIT B | 111 | 10 |
Euan McCubbin | UW Chastity | Arizona State A | 111 | 10 |
Beck Faletti | UW Gluttony | UBC A | 111 | 10 |
Towa Nakano-Harris | UW Pride | UW Lust | 111 | 10 |
James Zhao | Vanderbilt B | Alabama A | 111 | 10 |
Cohen Wiegers | Emory A | Auburn A | 111 | 10 |
Thomas Hydorn | Furman | Clemson A | 111 | 10 |
Sophia Madrazo | Purdue B | Northwestern A | 111 | 10 |
Owen McCoy | Illinois D | Purdue C | 111 | 10 |