Uruk - 2024 PLAYTIME - Buzzpoints App

Question

An ox-like figure destroys this city in search of beer until he is defeated and sent to live in a ditch in the Tale of Gudam. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this city whose second and third rulers had the epithets “the Shepherd” and “the Fisherman” according to the Weld-Blundell Prism. A ruler of this Sumerian city is attacked by the Bull of Heaven for spurning a goddess.

ANSWER: Uruk [or Unug or Warka; reject “Ur”]

[10h] During the Aratta campaign, this soldier falls sick and dreams of the gods in the Mountain Cave. This second king of Uruk contributed the “one-third human” part of his son.

ANSWER: Lugalbanda

[10e] It is debated whether this son of Lugalbanda was a real king of Uruk who was posthumously deified. He travels with the “wild man” Enkidu in his namesake epic.

ANSWER: Gilgamesh [accept Epic of Gilgamesh; accept 𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦 or 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%

Data


P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	UCSD	0	0	10	10
Art of Premature Signaling	UCLA A	10	0	10	20
Claremont A	UCSB	0	0	10	10
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
UW B	Washington Connections	10	0	10	20
Brown	BU	0	0	10	10
MIT	Lexington	10	0	10	20
Quatumvirate	Egypt Airlines Haters	0	0	10	10
we need new names	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	0	0	10	10
Mahjonng Masters	Goober Gang	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Gruh	0	0	10	10
Illinois Orange	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	0	0	10	10
Free Agents 1	MSJ	10	0	10	20
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Auburn 2026	10	10	10	30
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	10	0	10	20
mongeese	evil women enjoyers	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Imperial A	10	0	10	20
LSE	Warwick B	10	0	10	20
Simon Fraser	McGill A	10	0	10	20
Waterloo B	Toronto B	10	10	10	30
Waterloo A	Toronto C	0	0	10	10
Toronto D	Waterloo C	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
WashU Squirtle	Truman State	0	0	10	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	10	0	10	20
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	WashU Charmander	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Missouri	SIUE	10	10	10	30