Ahiyawwā - 2024 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

The Hittite king Mursili II summoned idols of gods from this kingdom and Lazpa to cure his illness. For 10 points each:

[10h] Identify this Hittite term likely used to refer to the early Myceneans who contested the Hittites for influence in Western Anatolia by supporting rebellious warlords like Piyama-Radu.

ANSWER: Ahiyawwā (“a-HI-ya-WA”)[or Ahhiyā]

[10e] Piyama-Radu has been conflated with this king of Troy from Greek myth, whose son Paris is sometimes conflated with the Wilusan king Alaksandu.

ANSWER: Priam

[10m] Bedřich (“bed-REEK”) Hrozný, the decipherer of the Hittite language, proposed that the Ahhiyawa (“a-HI-ya-WA”) ruled from this island. Chares of Lindos built a bronze sculpture to commemorate Demetrius I’s failed siege of this island.

ANSWER: Rhodes [or Ródos; accept Colossus of Rhodes]

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	11.25	75%	38%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	50%	75%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	N	6	15.00	83%	50%	17%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	N	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	N	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


Bowdoin C	BU	0	0	0	0
Boston College B	Clark Wilson	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin A	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis A	Clark House	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	Harvard	0	10	10	20
MIT	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Yale	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
Amherst	Boston College A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Truman	Squidward Community College	10	10	0	20
North Carolina B	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
The cult of SGA	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	0	10	0	10
Old and Young	In the Mood for Buzz	0	10	0	10
Paddington in Peru (2024)	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	0	10	10	20
Social credit go vroom	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	10	0	20
bingy academy	Madmen and Specialists	0	10	10	20
Pitt	Maryland	0	10	0	10
Penn State	RIT	0	10	0	10
UF A	Florida Tech	0	10	10	20
UF C	USF	10	0	0	10
UCF A	Valencia	0	10	10	20
UF B	UCF B	0	0	10	10
Berkeley Past	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Milton	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Lambert	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Innovation Academy B	0	10	0	10
Johns Creek	Innovation Academy C	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State	Georgia Tech C	0	0	0	0
Cambridge B	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Warwick C	0	10	10	20
LSE A	LSE B	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Southampton	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Imperial B	0	10	10	20