temples - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

A set of 42 texts named for these places identifies the first known named author, Enheduanna. The symbol É ("eh") prefixes the name of many of these (10[1])places, such as one excavated by Robert (10[1])Koldewey (10[1])called (10[1])Esagila. (10[2])Cyrus the Great’s (10[1])namesake cylinder attests to him restoring (10[2]-5[1])these places, (10[6]-5[2])one of which (10[2])names the historical (10[1])period (10[2])that (10[1])began (10[3])after (10[1])he ended (10[1])the (10[1])Babylonian (10[1])Captivity. (10[13])Three (10[2])bitumen and (10[1]-5[1])mudbrick (10[2])terraces (10[2])once supported (10[2])one of these places (10[1])atop (-5[4])a “great” (10[2]-5[1])structure (10[2]-5[5])from (10[2])the Third (10[2])Dynasty (10[1]-5[3])of (-5[1])Ur. (10[5]-5[4])In Ancient (10[2])Mesopotamia, (10[3]-5[1])these places (10[4]-5[1])were elevated (10[1])with pyramidal (10[2]-5[4])ziggurats. (10[4]-5[2])For 10 (10[1]-5[1])points, (10[1]-5[1])name (-5[1])this (-5[1])general (10[1])type of building where (10[1])figures such as Ishtar (10[2])were worshipped. (10[7])■END■ (10[34]0[3])

ANSWER: temples [accept shrines or sanctuaries; accept Second Temple Period; accept ziggurats until read]

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= Average correct buzz position

Summary


Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	80%	0%	60%	92.50
Southern California	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	14%	76.29
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	80%	0%	80%	93.75
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	22%	90.33
Florida	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	25%	87.50
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	25%	81.75
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	0%	73.67
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	100%	0%	10%	80.50
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	2	100%	0%	50%	77.50
Midwest	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	33%	78.11
North	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	50%	82.50
Northeast	Main	Y	11	100%	0%	9%	71.82
Pacific	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	13%	86.25
South Central	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	29%	69.43
Southeast	Main	Y	13	100%	0%	23%	76.00
Northern California	Main	Y	4	75%	0%	50%	78.67
UK (South)	UK	Y	7	100%	0%	29%	88.57
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	100%	0%	40%	88.60

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Wesley Stine	Clemson A	Chipola College	25	10
Deepanshi Matai	Toronto C	Toronto B	32	10
Zach Majorowicz	St. Thomas	Macalester	33	10
David Black	Illinois Champaign	Iowa B	34	10
Roo Tapia	Louisville B	Ohio State A	35	10
Luke Hasksins	Kansas State B	Kansas State A	35	10
Margaret Withers	George Mason B	Johns Hopkins	38	10
Jiping Fang	Illinois Blue	William Woods University A	44	-5
Colette Giezentanner	WashU Grizzlers	Chicago A	44	10
CJ Sershon	Central Oklahoma B	Tulsa B	44	10
Aedan Cooper	Ottawa A	Ottawa B	46	-5
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	Maryland C	46	10
Sewanth Paudel	Ohio State C	Louisville D	46	-5
Sage Snow	Central Oklahoma A	Tulsa A	46	10
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA C	46	10
Jeremy Katen	George Mason A	Maryland B	46	10
Jackson Price	Dartmouth B	Williams B	46	10
William Edwards	Tennessee A	South Carolina A	46	10
Galen Mueller	McGill B	Ottawa D	49	10
James Haddix	Washington State	British Columbia C	49	10
Luc Vulliez	Amherst A	Tufts A	52	10
Kevin Hendargo	UCSD A	UCSD B	53	10
Cara Leonard	William & Mary C	Liberty A	53	10
Moses Dong	Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech E	54	10
Joe Paterson	Michigan State A	Louisville A	55	10
Hanson Hunynh	Boston University B	Amherst B	55	10
Marc Greco	Williams A	Vermont B	55	10
Arthur Zhang	Purdue C	Iowa A	56	10
Kevin Cronk	Virginia Tech C	UNC D	58	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Waterloo B	59	10
Adam Monusko	Michigan A	Michigan B	60	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	Claremont A	61	10
Tevin Francis	Southampton	Cambridge A	61	10
Youyou Yu	Imperial A	Cambridge D	61	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	RIT A	61	10
Fuller Wray	Virginia Tech A	UNC A	61	10
Nathan Sprouse	Virginia Tech B	Virginia A	61	10
Thomas Wu	Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Little Prince	61	10
Leonard Castine	Penn	Rutgers D	61	10
Jonathan Schnipper	Brandeis Mozart	Boston College A	61	10
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	UConn A	61	10
James O'Reilly	Arizona State A	Washington Sockeye	61	10
Cole Hammans	Nebraska A	Nebraska B	61	10
Steven Pan	Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	61	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	Claremont B	62	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	UCF A	62	10
Valerie Brown	Carleton B	Ottawa C	64	-5
Meredie Cohen	William & Mary A	NCSU A	64	10
Elliot Earley	Sheffield B	Durham C	65	10
Sonya Bates	Washington Atlantic	Alberta A	65	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Brown A	66	10
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Stanford B	66	10
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	CWRU D	68	10
Will Hughes	Auburn A	Tennessee Tech	68	10
Jackson McDonald	Alabama A	Vanderbilt A	72	10
Alex Mayernick	Lehigh A	Rutgers B	73	-5
Peter Smith	Binghamton A	RIT B	73	-5
Tishe Sonuga	Chicago B	Purdue A	73	-5
Ben Stras	Wisconsin C	Michigan Tech	73	-5
Aidan Hoffner	McMaster B	Waterloo C	75	-5
Emmet Ewing	Michigan State B	Ohio State B	75	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Georgia Tech D	75	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	Maryland A	76	-5
Isaiah Schmid	Binghamton B	Cornell C	76	-5
TJ Pickering	Auburn B	Georgia Tech B	76	-5
Valentina Chamandy	McGill E	Carleton A	76	-5
Emily Justak	Indiana B	Illinois Orange	76	-5
Richy Sun	Vanderbilt B	Mississippi State A	76	10
Eoghan Herriot	Durham D	Edinburgh D	76	10
Anurag Shah	Indiana A	WashU Grolars	77	10
Harry Oxley	Imperial C	Bristol	77	10
Ezra Zareba	UNC B	UNC C	79	10
James Horsley	Iowa State	Wisconsin A	79	10
Kyle Saelzler	Harding	Rose State	80	-5
Jack Rabaut	Michigan D	CWRU C	80	-5
Mason Lambert	JMU A	William & Mary B	80	10
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield A	Edinburgh A	80	-5
Henry L'Heureux	Minnesota	Wisconsin B	81	-5
Bryce Myers	Stanford A	UCSC	82	-5
Sparrow Brotman	NYU B	Lehigh B	82	10
Francis Dinh	Illinois Canada	Purdue B	82	10
Derek Li	Cornell A	Cornell D	82	-5
Avery Becker	Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Mighty Miner	82	-5
Anthony Yin	CWRU A	CWRU B	82	10
Neal Tandon	Columbia B	George Mason C	82	10
Jaxsen Melton	Murray State College A	Murray State College B	82	10
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Imperial D	82	-5
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Purdue D	84	10
Nishad Joshi	Kentucky	Pittsburgh	84	10
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Washington Chinook	85	10
Ethan Altshul	Emory A	Georgia A	85	-5
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Tufts B	85	10
Tal Bowen	Durham A	Edinburgh C	85	10
Platon Gorokhov	Toronto E	Guelph A	87	10
Agatha Dahle	WVU A	WVU B	87	10
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Florida Tech A	87	10
Ben Schindelman	Vassar A	Stony Brook	87	10
Alex Miller	Edinburgh B	Durham B	87	-5
Johnathan Ahdout	Princeton	Columbia A	89	10
Surya Dinesh	MIT A	Brown B	91	10
Manobhiram Vegendla	Ohio State D	Michigan State C	91	-5
Lena Jurik	Oklahoma	Nebraska C	91	-5
Anthony Gagliano	McGill A	McGill C	91	-5
Henry Siegler	Toronto D	McMaster A	91	10
Miles Phillips	Florida Tech B	South Florida A	91	-5
Vivienne Ruemler	USC B	UCLA A	92	-5
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Imperial B	92	-5
John Shelley	Clemson B	Montevallo	92	10
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	ERAU Daytona A	92	10
James Zhao	Vanderbilt C	Auburn C	92	10
Molly Oakley	Binghamton C	Rochester	92	10
Andrew Park	Harvard	Brandeis Beethoven	94	-5
Advai Srinivasan	UC Irvine	Claremont C	94	10
Rory Moloney	Cambridge E	Cambridge C	95	10
Brendan Liaw	British Columbia A	Washington Coho	95	-5
Jason Cottle	Clemson C	Sewanne	96	-5
Imtiaz Kidwai	Toronto F	McMaster C	97	-5
Jaden Rupolo	Liberty B	NCSU B	98	10
Aidan Drain	NYU C	Rutgers C	102	10
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Washington Chum	106	10
Peter Kushnir	British Columbia B	Texas	106	10
Jolie Yeh	Warwick	LSE	108	10
Judah Garlic	Cornell C	Binghamton B	108	10
Saju Ramraj	Toronto I	Toronto H	108	10
Malcolm Meyn	McGill C	McGill A	108	10
Will Jones	Michigan State D	Louisville C	108	10
Eric Yang	Purdue A	Chicago B	108	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Sheffield A	108	10
Lorie Au-Yeung	UCSC	Stanford A	109	10
Jacob Cohen	UCLA A	USC B	109	10
Abhay Ariyapappillil	Ottawa B	Ottawa A	109	10
Sam Montgomery	Ottawa C	Carleton B	109	0
Ellie Wang	Brock A	Queen's A	109	10
Jaden Bandy	Rutgers B	Lehigh A	109	10
Xavier Bornhorst	Maryland A	Rutgers A	109	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Illinois Blue	109	10
Will Demos	Wisconsin B	Minnesota	109	10
Kaitlyn Farrin	Brandeis Beethoven	Harvard	109	10
Saleena Livera	Imperial B	Birmingham	109	10
Solomon Blecher	Cornell D	Cornell A	109	0
Hayley Morris	RIT B	Binghamton A	109	10
Lucas Hall	Waterloo C	McMaster B	109	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	Ohio State C	109	10
Eric Cameron	Michigan State C	Ohio State D	109	10
Logan Van Pelt	Washington Coho	British Columbia A	109	10
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Washington Masu	109	10
Anthony Cruz Martinez	Nebraska C	Oklahoma	109	10
Ayden Gates	Rose State	Harding	109	10
Isabel Dent	Sewanne	Clemson C	109	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Emory A	109	10
Arhith Dharaendra	Georgia Tech B	Auburn B	109	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	USC A	109	0
Serena Salfiti	USC A	UCLA E	109	10
Alden Thompson	Carleton A	McGill E	109	10
Adithya Parat	McMaster C	Toronto F	109	10
Kevin He	Toronto A	Waterloo A	109	10
Addison Wiggins	South Florida A	Florida Tech B	109	10
Arjun Saulnier	CWRU C	Michigan D	109	10
Emily Snider	Liberty C	Tusculum A	109	10
Alexander DaGrossa	Rowan	Vassar B	109	10
Sam Alahi	Illinois Orange	Indiana B	109	10
Alex Matchinski	Michigan Tech	Wisconsin C	109	10
Kaushik Jayaprabha	Dartmouth C	Williams C	109	10
Yulia Wolczuk	Durham B	Edinburgh B	109	10
Ollie Glin-Conway	Imperial D	Oxford	109	10

Upstate NY

Main

80%

60%

92.50

Southern California

Main

100%

14%

76.29

Eastern Canada (1)

Main

80%

93.75

Eastern Canada (2)

Main

100%

22%

90.33

Florida

Main

100%

25%

87.50

Great Lakes

Main

100%

25%

81.75

Lower Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

73.67

Upper Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

10%

80.50

Upper Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

50%

77.50

Midwest

Main

100%

33%

78.11

North

Main

100%

50%

82.50

Northeast

Main

100%

71.82

Pacific

Main

100%

13%

86.25

South Central

Main

100%

29%

69.43

Southeast

Main

100%

23%

76.00

Northern California

Main

75%

50%

78.67

UK (South)

100%

29%

88.57

UK (North)

100%

40%

88.60

Player

Team

Opponent

Buzz Position

Value

Wesley Stine

Clemson A

Chipola College

Deepanshi Matai

Toronto C

Toronto B

Zach Majorowicz

St. Thomas

Macalester

David Black

Illinois Champaign

Iowa B

Roo Tapia

Louisville B

Ohio State A

Luke Hasksins

Kansas State B

Kansas State A

Margaret Withers

George Mason B

Johns Hopkins

Jiping Fang

Illinois Blue

William Woods University A

-5

Colette Giezentanner

WashU Grizzlers

Chicago A

CJ Sershon

Central Oklahoma B

Tulsa B

Aedan Cooper

Ottawa A

Ottawa B

-5

Kelvin Ni

NYU A

Maryland C

Sewanth Paudel

Ohio State C

Louisville D

-5

Sage Snow

Central Oklahoma A

Tulsa A

Winston Zuo

UC Santa Barbara

UCLA C

Jeremy Katen

George Mason A

Maryland B

Jackson Price

Dartmouth B

Williams B

William Edwards

Tennessee A

South Carolina A

Galen Mueller

McGill B

Ottawa D

James Haddix

Washington State

British Columbia C

Luc Vulliez

Amherst A

Tufts A

Kevin Hendargo

UCSD A

UCSD B

Cara Leonard

William & Mary C

Liberty A

Moses Dong

Georgia Tech F

Georgia Tech E

Joe Paterson

Michigan State A

Louisville A

Hanson Hunynh

Boston University B

Amherst B

Marc Greco

Williams A

Vermont B

Arthur Zhang

Purdue C

Iowa A

Kevin Cronk

Virginia Tech C

UNC D

Tobias Smerdon

Toronto G

Waterloo B

Adam Monusko

Michigan A

Michigan B

Nikola Wu

UCLA D

Claremont A

Tevin Francis

Southampton

Cambridge A

Youyou Yu

Imperial A

Cambridge D

Gregory Stone

ESF

RIT A

Fuller Wray

Virginia Tech A

UNC A

Nathan Sprouse

Virginia Tech B

Virginia A

Thomas Wu

Berkeley Skeleton King

Berkeley Little Prince

Leonard Castine

Penn

Rutgers D

Jonathan Schnipper

Brandeis Mozart

Boston College A

Jaehyun Park

Boston University A

UConn A

James O'Reilly

Arizona State A

Washington Sockeye

Cole Hammans

Nebraska A

Nebraska B

Steven Pan

Georgia Tech C

Georgia Tech A

Terrence Han

UCLA B

Claremont B

Jacob Ergueta

Florida A

UCF A

Valerie Brown

Carleton B

Ottawa C

-5

Meredie Cohen

William & Mary A

NCSU A

Elliot Earley

Sheffield B

Durham C

Sonya Bates

Washington Atlantic

Alberta A

Elliott Gomes

Dartmouth A

Brown A

Vijay Hans

Berkeley Boss Bandit

Stanford B

Reed Sexton

Michigan C

CWRU D

Will Hughes

Auburn A

Tennessee Tech

Jackson McDonald

Alabama A

Vanderbilt A

Alex Mayernick

Lehigh A

Rutgers B

-5

Peter Smith

Binghamton A

RIT B

-5

Tishe Sonuga

Chicago B

Purdue A

-5

Ben Stras

Wisconsin C

Michigan Tech

-5

Aidan Hoffner

McMaster B

Waterloo C

-5

Emmet Ewing

Michigan State B

Ohio State B

Richard D’Angelo

Tennessee B

Georgia Tech D

Aarav Vasanthan

Rutgers A

Maryland A

-5

Isaiah Schmid

Binghamton B

Cornell C

-5

TJ Pickering

Auburn B

Georgia Tech B

-5

Valentina Chamandy

McGill E

Carleton A

-5

Emily Justak

Indiana B

Illinois Orange

-5

Richy Sun

Vanderbilt B

Mississippi State A

Eoghan Herriot

Durham D

Edinburgh D

Anurag Shah

Indiana A

WashU Grolars

Harry Oxley

Imperial C

Bristol

Ezra Zareba

UNC B

UNC C

James Horsley

Iowa State

Wisconsin A

Kyle Saelzler

Harding

Rose State

-5

Jack Rabaut

Michigan D

CWRU C

-5

Mason Lambert

JMU A

William & Mary B

Charlie Castleton

Sheffield A

Edinburgh A

-5

Henry L'Heureux

Minnesota

Wisconsin B

-5

Bryce Myers

Stanford A

UCSC

-5

Sparrow Brotman

NYU B

Lehigh B

Francis Dinh

Illinois Canada

Purdue B

Derek Li

Cornell A

Cornell D

-5

Avery Becker

Berkeley Archer Queen

Berkeley Mighty Miner

-5

Anthony Yin

CWRU A

CWRU B

Neal Tandon

Columbia B

George Mason C

Jaxsen Melton

Murray State College A

Murray State College B

Nayaaz Hashim

Oxford

Imperial D

-5

Austin Tran

Rose-Hulman A

Purdue D

Nishad Joshi

Kentucky

Pittsburgh

Alan Fan

Washington Steelhead

Washington Chinook

Ethan Altshul

Emory A

Georgia A

-5

Ben Mowery

Vermont A

Tufts B

Tal Bowen

Durham A

Edinburgh C

Platon Gorokhov

Toronto E

Guelph A

Agatha Dahle

WVU A

WVU B

Matthew Andersen

Florida B

Florida Tech A

Ben Schindelman

Vassar A

Stony Brook

Alex Miller

Edinburgh B

Durham B

-5

Johnathan Ahdout

Princeton

Columbia A

Surya Dinesh

MIT A

Brown B

Manobhiram Vegendla

Ohio State D

Michigan State C

-5

Lena Jurik

Oklahoma

Nebraska C

-5

Anthony Gagliano

McGill A

McGill C

-5

Henry Siegler

Toronto D

McMaster A

Miles Phillips

Florida Tech B

South Florida A

-5

Vivienne Ruemler

USC B

UCLA A

-5

Tom Morris-Jones

Birmingham

Imperial B

-5

John Shelley

Clemson B

Montevallo

Juan Landaeta

Florida State A

ERAU Daytona A

James Zhao

Vanderbilt C

Auburn C

Molly Oakley

Binghamton C

Rochester

Andrew Park

Harvard

Brandeis Beethoven

-5

Advai Srinivasan

UC Irvine

Claremont C

Rory Moloney

Cambridge E

Cambridge C

Brendan Liaw

British Columbia A

Washington Coho

-5

Jason Cottle

Clemson C

Sewanne

-5

Imtiaz Kidwai

Toronto F

McMaster C

-5

Jaden Rupolo

Liberty B

NCSU B

Aidan Drain

NYU C

Rutgers C

102

Luke Simon

Alberta B

Washington Chum

106

Peter Kushnir

British Columbia B

Texas

106

Jolie Yeh

Warwick

LSE

108

Judah Garlic

Cornell C

Binghamton B

108

Saju Ramraj

Toronto I

Toronto H

108

Malcolm Meyn

McGill C

McGill A

108

Will Jones

Michigan State D

Louisville C

108

Eric Yang

Purdue A

Chicago B

108

Harry Sexton

Edinburgh A

Sheffield A

108

Lorie Au-Yeung

UCSC

Stanford A

109

Jacob Cohen

UCLA A

USC B

109

Abhay Ariyapappillil

Ottawa B

Ottawa A

109

Sam Montgomery

Ottawa C

Carleton B

109

Ellie Wang

Brock A

Queen's A

109

Jaden Bandy

Rutgers B

Lehigh A

109

Xavier Bornhorst

Maryland A

Rutgers A

109

Alex Dzurick

William Woods University A

Illinois Blue

109

Will Demos

Wisconsin B

Minnesota

109

Kaitlyn Farrin

Brandeis Beethoven

Harvard

109

Saleena Livera

Imperial B

Birmingham

109

Solomon Blecher

Cornell D

Cornell A

109

Hayley Morris

RIT B

Binghamton A

109

Lucas Hall

Waterloo C

McMaster B

109

Dirk Hay

Louisville D

Ohio State C

109

Eric Cameron

Michigan State C

Ohio State D

109

Logan Van Pelt

Washington Coho

British Columbia A

109

Aaron Bates

Washington Pink

Washington Masu

109

Anthony Cruz Martinez

Nebraska C

Oklahoma

109

Ayden Gates

Rose State

Harding

109

Isabel Dent

Sewanne

Clemson C

109

Martin Brandenburg

Georgia A

Emory A

109

Arhith Dharaendra

Georgia Tech B

Auburn B

109

Joseph Wang

UCLA E

USC A

109

Serena Salfiti

USC A

UCLA E

109

Alden Thompson

Carleton A

McGill E

109

Adithya Parat

McMaster C

Toronto F

109

Kevin He

Toronto A

Waterloo A

109

Addison Wiggins

South Florida A

Florida Tech B

109

Arjun Saulnier

CWRU C

Michigan D

109

Emily Snider

Liberty C

Tusculum A

109

Alexander DaGrossa

Rowan

Vassar B

109

Sam Alahi

Illinois Orange

Indiana B

109

Alex Matchinski

Michigan Tech

Wisconsin C

109

Kaushik Jayaprabha

Dartmouth C

Williams C

109

Yulia Wolczuk

Durham B

Edinburgh B

109

Ollie Glin-Conway

Imperial D

Oxford

109