Question
Scholars have debated whether homosexuality or merely a love of books prevented a ruler from this city from producing an heir until he bestowed a male name and clothes upon his wife Subh. In this city, the enslaved mathematician Lubna is said to have overseen a massive library. A ruler of this city constructed a fortified palace on its outskirts called the “Radiant City.” To align with existing Roman streets, this city’s (*) “Great Mosque” was oriented towards the south. This city’s political demise resulted in the establishment of the taifa kingdoms. After winning the Battle of Musarah, Abd al-Rahman I established a namesake independent emirate ruled from this city. For 10 points, name this foremost city of Ummayad al-Andalus, where a namesake caliphate was later established in 929. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 82.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 113.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 106.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 60% | 116.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 111.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 93.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 116.50 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | N | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 128.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Will Alston | SGV Ventures | Anderson et al. | 47 | 15 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Waterloo Basic | 49 | -5 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto B | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 63 | -5 |
Akshar Goyal | Illinois Orange | Notre Dame | 64 | -5 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina A | 78 | 10 |
Yusuf Baig | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Carleton A | 80 | -5 |
Biniam Alaro | UF A | UCF A | 90 | 10 |
Edward Kim | Johns Creek | Lambert | 90 | -5 |
Liam Starnes | Chicago A | Illinois Blue | 90 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo Aspidistra | Toronto A | 91 | -5 |
Yihong Chen | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Toronto Metropolitan A | 94 | 10 |
Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | LSE B | 95 | 10 |
Graham Cope | UF B | UF C | 96 | 10 |
Jack Mangrum | Innovation Academy A | Milton | 96 | 10 |
Sam McNamee | Notre Dame | Illinois Orange | 96 | 10 |
Justine French | U[C]SD | Jason et al. | 97 | 10 |
Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 99 | -5 |
Kevin Le | Carleton A | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 100 | 10 |
Josh Xu | ALCU | Claremont | 102 | 10 |
Nick Edwards | McGill A | Waterloo Cloze | 104 | 10 |
Nitish Sudhakar | Georgia Tech C | Innovation Academy C | 108 | -5 |
Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Southampton | 108 | 10 |
Terry Tang | Berkeley B | Stanford | 115 | 10 |
Eric Chen | Berkeley Past | Berkeley A | 118 | -5 |
Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Berkeley Past | 118 | 10 |
Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech D | Mississippi State | 118 | 10 |
William Houston | Chicago B | Purdue A | 118 | 10 |
Kabir Zaman | South Carolina | North Carolina B | 121 | 10 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | LSE A | 121 | 10 |
James Byrne | Bristol | Imperial A | 122 | -5 |
Rahim Dina | Imperial A | Bristol | 122 | 10 |
Pranav Srambikkal | Lambert | Johns Creek | 125 | 10 |
Sriram Koritala | Illinois Blue | Chicago A | 127 | 10 |
Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech C | Virginia Tech B | 128 | 10 |
Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech C | 128 | 0 |
Addison Wiggins | USF | Florida Tech | 128 | 0 |
Aidan Bernardo | Florida Tech | USF | 128 | 0 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | UCF B | 128 | 0 |
Anna Barker | UCF B | Valencia | 128 | 0 |
Sky Li | Toronto A | Waterloo Aspidistra | 128 | 10 |
Marcus Forbes-Green | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | Toronto B | 128 | 0 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Basic | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 128 | 0 |
Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 128 | 10 |
Luke Puttnam | Innovation Academy C | Georgia Tech C | 128 | 0 |
David Nickel | Purdue B | SIUE | 128 | 0 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE | Purdue B | 128 | 0 |