purple dye - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

Because of the foul smell caused by processing this good in the sun, Sidon outsourced its workshop producing it to the nearby city of Sarepta. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this good that, according to Pliny the Elder, was made with a mash mixed with salt. Members of the genus murex were killed by the thousands in order to produce a usable portion of this good.

ANSWER: purple dye [or Tyrian Purple; accept royal purple or imperial purple; prompt on dye]

[10e] Purple dye of the Iron Age was produced in Sidon and Tyre by these people of the Mediterranean coast, who created the first alphabet that inspired Greek and Roman writing.

ANSWER: Phoenicians [prompt on Canaanites]

[10h] Trade with glassworkers from Tyre and Sidon also led to the Egyptian form of this material, a form of ceramic with vibrant colors like the bright blues found in a hippo sculpture nicknamed William.

ANSWER: Egyptian faience [prompt on quartz]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	11	14.55	100%	36%	9%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	26.00	100%	100%	60%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Berkeley C	0	10	0	10
Claremont A	Iowa A	10	10	0	20
UBC A	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Rice A	10	10	0	20
Iowa B	Sorbonne	0	10	0	10
Texas A&M A	UW A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Alabama	10	10	0	20
Harding	MTSU	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Tennessee	Vanderbilt A	10	10	0	20
Duke A (UG)	Liberty A (Grad)	10	10	0	20
JMU B (UG)	GWU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Maryland B (UG)	GWU B (Grad)	10	10	0	20
Liberty B (DII)	JMU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
UNC D (DII)	Liberty C (DII)	0	10	0	10
William & Mary A (UG)	Roanoke College A (DII)	10	10	0	20
UNC B (UG)	Maryland A (Grad)	0	10	10	20
Virginia A (UG)	UNC C (UG)	10	10	0	20
Maryland C (DII)	Virginia B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Virginia C (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Virginia C (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Virginia C (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Virginia C (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Virginia C (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Virginia C (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Virginia C (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Virginia C (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Minnesota C	10	10	10	30
Minnesota B	Arizona State	0	10	0	10
Kenyon	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Haverford	10	10	10	30
John Jay	Johns Hopkins	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Stanford C	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	Binghamton	10	10	0	20
RIT A	Cornell A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	RIT B	10	10	0	20
Texas A&M B	Appalachian State	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
NYU A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Penn	10	10	10	30
Columbia C	Rowan	10	10	0	20
Bristol	Sheffield	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Warwick	10	10	0	20
Durham A	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Durham B	Oxford C	10	10	0	20
Geodesic	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20