Sassanid Empire - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

While fighting against this empire in the Battle of Samarra, Julian the Apostate fatally took a spear to the neck. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this Zoroastrian empire that was led in that battle by Shapur II. This empire’s monarch Khosrau forced a costly and temporary eternal peace with the Byzantine Empire.

ANSWER: Sassanid Empire [or Sasanian Empire or Sasan]

[10e] Zend−hapet was a Sassanid title given to a commander who led a corps of soldiers mounted on these large animals. Hannibal lost to Scipio Africanus in spite of his use of these animals at the Battle of Zama.

ANSWER: war elephants

[10h] These units were used alongside Azadan and Deqhan to make up the majority of the Sassanid military force. The later Persian aswārān units were made up of these heavily armored cavalry who typically wielded kontos lances.

ANSWER: cataphracts [or kataphraktos]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	23.33	100%	78%	56%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	23.33	100%	83%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	20.00	88%	75%	38%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


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