mud-bricks - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

Centuries-old high-rise buildings made largely of these materials designate the city of Shibam as the “Manhattan of the desert”. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these materials, which are partly made from fermented plant husks. The largest structure made of a type of these materials called barco is located in Djenné (“jen-AY”).

ANSWER: mud-bricks [accept adobe; prompt on mud or bricks]

[10e] That structure in Djenné is the “Great” one of these places. Unusually for its time, six minarets surround the “Blue” one of these locations, whose qibla wall faces the direction of prayer.

ANSWER: mosque [accept the Great Mosque of Djenné; accept Blue Mosque]

[10h] Mud-brick was used for a number of these other locations, whose large portals entered into a rectangular courtyard that may include water for wudu, identical stalls, and an apartment complex.

ANSWER: caravanserai [or caravansary; prompt on roadside inns]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	10.00	88%	13%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%

Data


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