Assyrian Empire - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

The problematic collection of the British Museum includes many reliefs from this empire discovered by Austen Henry Layard. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this empire of the ancient Near East home to the Library of Ashurbanipal in its capital of Nineveh.

ANSWER: Assyrian Empire [accept Neo-Assyrian Empire]

[10m] While conducting excavations in Assyria, Layard found many of these statues of winged human headed bulls, which were often found in pairs at the entrances of buildings. Their male counterparts are called shedu.

ANSWER: lamassu

[10h] This ethnically Assyrian archaeologist worked as Layard’s assistant during the excavations of Nimrud and Nineveh. He is credited with discovering the clay tablets containing the text of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

ANSWER: Hormuzd Rassam

<SM, Ancient History>

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	67%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	13.75	88%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%

Data


Pittsburgh	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Michigan D	10	0	0	10
Ohio State B	Oberlin	10	10	0	20
Ohio State D	Ohio State A	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
Art of Premature Signaling	UCSD	10	10	0	20
Billy's Bastion	Too much from you lately	10	10	0	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	10	10	10	30
Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	10	0	10
Claremont B	Caltech	10	10	0	20
Brandeis	Belmont	10	10	0	20
Brown	BU	10	10	0	20
Lexington	Harvard	10	10	0	20
MIT	RIT	10	10	0	20
NYU A	George Mason A	10	10	0	20
CWRU	Haverford A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers	George Mason C	10	10	0	20
Claremont A	P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	10	0	0	10
Alberta	Arizona State University A	10	10	0	20
Arizona State University B	Carleton	10	0	0	10
UW B	UW A	10	0	0	10
Washington Connections	South Dakota School of Mines	10	0	0	10
girl 15 whale i mean they	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
Illinois Orange	Auburn 2026	10	10	10	30
Free Agents 1	evil women enjoyers	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Goober Gang	10	0	0	10
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	Mahjonng Masters	10	10	0	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	10	0	0	10
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	10	10	0	20
Quatumvirate	mongeese	10	0	0	10
we need new names	Gruh	10	10	0	20
Sheffield A	Cambridge	0	10	0	10
Manchester	LSE	10	10	0	20
Sheffield B	Edinburgh	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Sheffield C	10	0	0	10
Birmingham	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
Warwick B	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Lancaster	Warwick C	10	0	0	10
UCSB	UCLA A	10	0	0	10
Ottawa A	Guelph	10	0	0	10
Simon Fraser	Waterloo C	10	10	0	20
Toronto C	Toronto A	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Waterloo A	10	10	0	20
Mac A	Toronto D	0	0	0	0
Toronto Metropolitan	McGill B	10	0	0	10
UBC	Toronto E	10	0	0	10
Waterloo B	McGill A	10	10	0	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	10	0	0	10
Master and Margaritaville	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	10	10	0	20
Somehow Paula Deen Returned	Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	10	10	0	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago A	10	0	0	10
Illinois B	Chicago B	10	0	0	10
Missouri	Truman State	10	10	0	20
WashU Charmander	WashU Squirtle	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Iowa State	10	10	10	30