Question
In a 2007 Leor Halevi book, a city in this modern-day country was said to be “padlocking the women” in it by cracking down on wailing in funerals. Elizabeth Warnock Fernea published a 1965 ethnography of a village in this country, which is also the site of an event often commemorated by beating one’s chest in the practice of matam. This country’s “valley of peace” is often claimed to be the world’s largest cemetery. An event that occurred in this country is recounted in (*) ta’ziyeh passion plays. The first hawza was founded in this modern-day country by Shaykh Tusi. The Arbaeen pilgrimage commemorates Husayn’s death in this country and occurs 40 days after Ashura. For 10 points, the holy city of Najaf is located in what country where Shi’a rituals were banned by Saddam Hussein? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 122.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 107.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 96.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 135.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 92.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 115.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 68.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 29% | 123.14 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 128.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 37.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 119.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 115.80 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 20% | 96.40 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State | 37 | 15 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 59 | -5 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Basic | Toronto A | 59 | 15 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto B | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 61 | -5 |
Ali Hamzeh | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | In the Mood for Buzz | 62 | 15 |
Jason Hong | Madmen and Specialists | Paddington in Peru (2024) | 62 | 15 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley A | 63 | 15 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial A | 71 | 15 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Berkeley B | 73 | 15 |
Michael Du | Waterloo Aspidistra | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 73 | 15 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | SIUE | 75 | 15 |
Ted Gan | Penn State | Pitt | 77 | 15 |
Pranav Srambikkal | Lambert | Georgia Tech C | 80 | -5 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois Orange | Notre Dame | 83 | 15 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | Claremont | 85 | -5 |
Tegan Kapadia | bingy academy | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 88 | 10 |
Lance Hulme | Bowdoin B | Tufts A | 89 | -5 |
Kylan Powell | Squidward Community College | WashU | 89 | -5 |
Alexander Nichols | UCF A | UF B | 89 | 10 |
Nicholas Dai | U[C]SD | ALCU | 98 | -5 |
John Marvin | Chicago A | Purdue A | 100 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Bowdoin A | 103 | 10 |
Nicholas Nguyen | UF C | UF A | 103 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 104 | 10 |
Fahian Joy | Amherst | Bowdoin C | 107 | 10 |
Chris Scheri | RIT | Maryland | 107 | 10 |
Anderson Wang | Anderson et al. | Jason et al. | 107 | 10 |
Kevin Le | Carleton A | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 108 | 10 |
Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Cambridge B | 109 | 10 |
Jack Mangrum | Innovation Academy A | Innovation Academy B | 110 | 10 |
Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech C | Innovation Academy B | 110 | 10 |
Nitin Rao | Harvard | Boston College B | 113 | 10 |
Khumoyun Bakhityarov | Brandeis A | Tufts B | 113 | -5 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Social credit go vroom | The cult of SGA | 113 | -5 |
Addison Wiggins | USF | Florida Tech | 121 | -5 |
Edward Kim | Johns Creek | Georgia Tech A | 121 | -5 |
Zachary Adolph | North Carolina B | North Carolina A | 126 | 0 |
Kevin Park | Claremont | SGV Ventures | 126 | 10 |
Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue B | 128 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 130 | -5 |
Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Warwick C | 131 | 10 |
Aalok Bhattacharya | Boston College A | BU | 134 | 10 |
Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Bristol | 134 | 10 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | Southampton | 134 | 10 |
Issac Meredith | Tufts A | Bowdoin B | 135 | 10 |
Armie Erban | Clark House | Yale | 135 | 10 |
Elliot Roth | Tufts B | Brandeis A | 135 | 10 |
Kabir Zaman | South Carolina | Virginia Tech C | 135 | 10 |
June Yin | WashU | Squidward Community College | 135 | 10 |
Mitchell Hackett | The cult of SGA | Social credit go vroom | 135 | 10 |
Mike Cheyne | Old and Young | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 135 | 10 |
Dominic Heffron | Florida Tech | USF | 135 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | UCF B | 135 | 0 |
Henry Keating | UCF B | Valencia | 135 | 10 |
Joey Sun | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Toronto B | 135 | 10 |
Nameer Qadir | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | Toronto Metropolitan A | 135 | 10 |
Nick Edwards | McGill A | Waterloo Cloze | 135 | 10 |
Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Lambert | 135 | 10 |
Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Milton | 135 | 10 |
Luke Puttnam | Innovation Academy C | Georgia Tech D | 135 | 10 |
Josh Xu | ALCU | U[C]SD | 135 | 10 |