Kingdom of Dahomey - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

This kingdom was ruled back to back by the brothers Akaba and Agaja. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this nation that exalted some of its women to high status as kpojito. This polity was ruled by the likes of King Ghezo, during whose reign Francisco Félix de Sousa yielded great influence.

ANSWER: Kingdom of Dahomey

[10e] Dahomey is perhaps best known for an all-female unit of soldiers by this name. This name also refers to a tribe of elite female warriors in Greek mythology.

ANSWER: Amazons [or Agojie or Agoji or Mino or Minon]

[10h] This empire eventually established hegemony over the Kingdom of Dahomey in spite of Dahomey’s fortifications and possession of firearms until a rebellion by King Ghezo. This Yoruban empire was ruled by an Alaafin and established influence over much of modern-day Nigeria.

ANSWER: Oyo Empire

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	0%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	11.11	89%	11%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	20%	40%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%

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