Question
An excavation of this city was restarted in 1978 after a stone disc portraying the death of a moon goddess was discovered by utility workers. During an attack on this city, one general destroyed an aqueduct designed with two ducts that provided spring water from “grasshopper hill.” This city’s 4 camps were built around its central sacred precinct, the site of the House of the Eagles. Over 200,000 people likely lived in this city’s 20 (*) calpulli districts. This city's “great speaker” received tribute like cacao from canoes that traveled past its floating chinampa gardens. This capital of the Triple Alliance was built on an island in Lake Texcoco where settlers allegedly saw an eagle eating a snake atop a cactus. For 10 points, name this Mesoamerican city that became Mexico City. ■END■
Summary
2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 103.50 |
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 25% | 63.75 |
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 93.00 |
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 66.17 |
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.50 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Zoë Kaperonis | Bard | Gatherer | 24 | -5 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Bust | Ottawa | 24 | 15 |
Sky Li | Toronto Penguin World War | Toronto Pilk | 24 | 15 |
Ani Perumalla | Penn State A | Vassar | 30 | 15 |
Andrew Zeng | Stanford | Ohio | 56 | 15 |
Brady Pinter | Belmont | Vanderbilt A | 75 | -5 |
Cooper Roh | Columbia A | Lehigh B | 76 | 10 |
Justin Kenny | Iowa State | Michigan B | 76 | 10 |
Elie Aoun | Case Western | Michigan A | 76 | 10 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto cDNA | Toronto Sprout | 76 | 10 |
Eddie Fuhrer | Lehigh A | NYU C | 78 | 10 |
Charles Hang | WUSTL | Michigan C | 79 | 10 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia B | NYU A | 80 | -5 |
Graham Troy | North Carolina | Penn State B | 80 | 10 |
Joey Sun | Toronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl | Waterloo Cali | 84 | -5 |
Alan Wu | Vanderbilt B | USN A | 92 | 10 |
Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 92 | 10 |
Sebastian Pujet | WUSTL J | WUSTL C | 92 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont | Georgia Tech C | 93 | 10 |
Ryan Happel | SIUE | Squidward Community College | 93 | 10 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Belmont | 95 | 10 |
Jasin Cekinmez | Princeton | NYU B | 96 | 10 |
Andrew Minagar | Yale | Rutgers | 110 | 10 |
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Columbia B | 130 | 10 |
Sam Shottes | Gatherer | Bard | 131 | 10 |
Liam Kusalik | Waterloo Cali | Toronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl | 131 | 10 |