Question

This deity names a vassal king whom Piye (“pee-yay”) relieved at Heracleopolis and a rebel of the Dakhla oasis who alternately titles the Inaros Cycle. This deity names a city whose Sed Festival Gateway depicts a king identified with Zerah the Cushite. (-5[1])This deity’s namesake portal at Karnak’s Temple of Amun records conquests by Shoshenq I that may corroborate Shishak’s sack of Judah in Second Chronicles. Meshwesh pharaohs built up Tanis and this deity’s namesake Nile delta cult center near Zagazig, which alternately names the Libyan 22nd Dynasty. Polyaenus claims that sheep, dogs, ibises, and this deity’s totem shielded Cambyses (-5[1])II’s (-5[1])troops at Pelusium. (10[3])This Egyptian (10[2])goddess was (10[1])called (10[1])“Ailuros” in Greece, where her sacred animal (10[1])supplanted ferrets. (10[1])For 10 points, bones from Cyprus suggest that Egyptians (10[1])did not domesticate (10[1])what (10[2])goddess’s (10[1])sacred (10[1])cats? (10[2])■END■ (10[5]0[1])

ANSWER: Bast [or Bastet, Pasht, bst, B’sst, Baset, or Ubasti; accept Ailuros until read; accept Bubastis, Tell Basta, Poubasti, Per-Bast, Pi-Beset, Bubastite dynasty, Bubastite Portal, Petubastis, or Peftjauawybast; prompt on Sekhmet, Sachmis, Saḫmat, or Sakhmi by asking “which form of Sekhmet?”]
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Summary

2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y22100%0%14%120.82

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Lexi TermanRutgersNYU40-5
Danila KabotyanskiIndianaIowa State98-5
Matt JacksonChicago AArizona State99-5
Liam StarnesChicago CIllinois10210
Andrew KelleyKentuckyBerkeley B10210
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AMinnesota B10210
Joey SunToronto BNorth Carolina B10410
Jason HuangNorthwesternYale B10410
Nathaniel HullBerkeley AWaterloo10610
Jason HongBrownOttawa10710
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia TechCornell B11410
Ashish SubramanianDukeJohns Hopkins11610
Donal RyanTruman StateMaryland12510
Joseph ChambersVirginiaToronto A12810
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltPenn12910
Jeffrey FungHarvardChicago B12910
Andrew ZengStanfordPurdue13010
Andrew MinagarYale ASouth Carolina13110
Conor ThompsonIowa StateIndiana13210
Graham CopeFloridaNorth Carolina A13210
Jack RadoColumbia BChicago D13310
Asha BasuMcGillMinnesota A13310
Skand ParvatikarArizona StateChicago A13310
Amith PunyalaWUSTL BTexas13310
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYURutgers13310
Jisoo YooTexasWUSTL B1330