Umayyad Caliphate - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

The founder of this dynasty once served the Ghassanids and sponsored centers of learning like Kairouan. A member of this dynasty nominated his son (-5[1])Yazid (10[1])as heir, (10[1]-5[1])prompting a conflict (10[1]-5[2])known (-5[1])as the Second (-5[1])Fitna (10[3]-5[1])during which the Dome (-5[1])of the Rock was built. (10[2]-5[3])One ruler from this dynasty (10[2])named (-5[1])Abd al-Rahman (10[1]-5[1])III (10[3]-5[3])founded (10[1])an Islamic (-5[1])state (10[1])in (10[1])al-Andalus (10[5]-5[1])known (10[2])as (10[1])the (10[1]-5[1])Caliphate (10[7]-5[2])of (10[4])Córdoba. (10[19]-5[2])Mu’awiya (10[9]-5[2])I (-5[1])established (-5[1])this dynasty and ruled from its (-5[1])capital at Damascus. (10[1]-5[3])This dynasty succeeded (10[2]-5[2])the Rashidun and flourished (10[2])from 644 (10[1]-5[2])until (10[1])750 (10[2])AD. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, what early Islamic caliphate (10[2])was overthrown (10[1])by the Abbasid (10[1]0[1])Revolution? (10[1])■END■ (10[23]0[14])

ANSWER: Umayyad Caliphate [or Umayyads; accept Omayyads]

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Summary


Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	20%	83.60
Southern California	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	71%	80.71
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	80%	0%	20%	77.50
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	78%	0%	22%	83.71
Florida	Main	Y	4	75%	0%	0%	69.00
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	0%	59.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	89%	0%	56%	80.75
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	2	100%	0%	50%	83.00
Midwest	Main	Y	9	78%	0%	33%	67.57
North	Main	Y	4	50%	0%	25%	62.00
Northeast	Main	Y	10	90%	0%	40%	72.11
Pacific	Main	Y	8	88%	0%	50%	77.86
South Central	Main	Y	7	86%	0%	14%	75.17
Southeast	Main	Y	13	92%	0%	23%	66.50
Northern California	Main	Y	4	75%	0%	25%	57.33
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	75%	0%	38%	61.83
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	60%	0%	20%	76.67

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Jeremy Katen	George Mason A	Maryland A	23	-5
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Cambridge A	24	10
Arthur Zhang	Purdue C	Purdue A	26	-5
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Dartmouth A	26	10
Sam Zavadil	Michigan State D	WVU B	29	10
Johnny Myers	Williams B	Brandeis Mozart	29	-5
Shlok Dev	LSE	Imperial C	29	-5
Ilyas Choukri	Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech B	30	-5
Akif Ismail	Williams C	Harvard	33	-5
Anton Akroush	Michigan State A	Michigan B	34	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Clemson A	34	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Steelhead	34	-5
Nitish Sudhakar	Georgia Tech A	Tennessee A	34	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UCLA D	38	-5
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Mighty Miner	43	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	Kentucky	43	10
David Zaslavsky	Brandeis Bach	Boston University A	43	-5
Scarlet Rutter	Claremont A	Claremont B	43	-5
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	UC Santa Barbara	43	-5
Jacob Cohen	UCLA A	USC A	48	10
James O'Reilly	Arizona State A	Washington State	48	10
Jas Wang	UCLA F	UC Irvine	49	-5
Adam Monusko	Michigan A	CWRU A	51	10
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Washington Masu	51	-5
Galen Mueller	McGill B	McGill A	52	-5
Hayden Willett	Purdue B	Iowa B	52	10
Jonathan Koehler	UCLA C	UCSD B	52	10
Ryan Zhang	British Columbia C	Washington Chum	52	-5
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Southampton	52	10
Youyou Yu	Imperial A	Warwick	52	-5
John Rootham	Ottawa D	Ottawa A	53	10
Christina Popov	Queen's A	Toronto F	55	-5
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	William Woods University A	56	10
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas	British Columbia A	57	10
Aidan Hoffner	McMaster B	Toronto E	58	10
Sage Snow	Central Oklahoma A	Nebraska B	58	10
Arhith Dharaendra	Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech F	58	-5
Neela Perceval-Maxwell	McGill E	Ottawa C	58	10
Sriram Koritala	Illinois Blue	Illinois Champaign	58	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	South Carolina A	58	10
Oliver Thompson	CWRU D	Ohio State B	59	10
Peter Zeng	Ohio State A	Michigan State B	59	10
Sebastian Llaca	Wisconsin A	St. Thomas	60	10
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Louisville B	61	10
John Gamble	NCSU A	UNC A	61	-5
Graham Dirks	Kansas State A	Central Oklahoma B	62	10
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Indiana A	62	10
Merrick Hill	Iowa State	Macalester	62	-5
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	Brandeis Bach	62	10
Ben Kantsiper	JMU B	Liberty B	62	10
Kevin Cronk	Virginia Tech C	UNC C	62	10
William Erwin	William & Mary B	William & Mary C	62	-5
Eames Weeks	Brown A	Amherst A	62	10
Richy Sun	Vanderbilt B	Vanderbilt C	62	10
William Walters	Murray State College B	Nebraska C	63	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Tennessee Tech	63	10
Meredie Cohen	William & Mary A	Virginia A	63	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Tennessee B	63	10
Janghyun Lee	Berkeley Little Prince	Stanford A	64	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	Florida B	64	10
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	South Florida A	64	10
Nolan Travers	Tulsa A	Nebraska A	64	10
Will Hughes	Auburn A	Auburn B	64	10
John Maupin	Chipola College	Alabama A	64	10
Derek Li	Cornell A	ESF	64	10
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	RIT A	64	10
Suhaan Pastakia	Maryland C	Rutgers A	64	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Iowa A	64	10
Ben Stras	Wisconsin C	Minnesota	64	10
Mai Höglund	Claremont B	Claremont A	64	10
Jack Rabaut	Michigan D	Pittsburgh	64	10
John Halsun	UConn A	Tufts B	64	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	Washington Coho	64	10
Annabelle Koopmans	Washington Atlantic	British Columbia B	64	-5
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Durham A	64	10
Leo Neve	Durham D	Edinburgh B	64	10
Sam Eddon	Cambridge C	Imperial B	64	-5
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Cambridge B	64	10
Fintan Thomas	Cambridge E	Imperial D	64	10
Adrian Li	Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford B	65	10
Will Marcotte	Toronto D	Waterloo A	65	10
Colette Giezentanner	WashU Grizzlers	Indiana B	65	-5
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Amherst B	65	10
Artem Vovchenko	Ohio State C	CWRU C	65	10
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	Louisville C	65	10
Cara Leonard	William & Mary C	William & Mary B	65	10
Ayaan Jajodia	Dartmouth B	Brown B	65	10
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Georgia Tech D	65	10
Ethan Altshul	Emory A	Georgia Tech E	65	-5
Megan Rowe	Cambridge D	Bristol	65	10
Roy Yang	WashU Grolars	Purdue D	66	-5
Walter Carson	NCSU B	Liberty C	67	-5
John Shelley	Clemson B	Clemson C	73	-5
Thomas Wu	Berkeley Skeleton King	UCSC	76	-5
Zack Wiffen	Waterloo B	Waterloo C	76	-5
Kyle Chua	CWRU B	Louisville A	76	10
David Ropp	Duke A	Liberty A	76	-5
Dominic Heffron	Florida Tech A	UCF A	79	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	Chicago B	79	10
Kyle Hart	MIT B	Brandeis Beethoven	79	-5
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield A	Durham B	79	-5
Hafsa Shaikh	Toronto I	McMaster C	83	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Guelph A	83	10
Jaxsen Melton	Murray State College A	Oklahoma	85	-5
Ariyan Miah	Binghamton B	Rochester	85	-5
Gavin Morrow	Washington Steelhead	Alberta A	85	10
Ben Gardberg	Cornell B	Binghamton C	86	10
Moses Dong	Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech B	87	10
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Washington Sockeye	87	10
Vivienne Ruemler	USC B	UCLA E	88	-5
Charlie Weaver	Virginia Tech B	Virginia Tech A	88	10
Ethen Sun	Toronto C	Toronto A	95	10
Shreyansh Satapurthy	UCLA D	UCLA B	95	10
Valerie Brown	Carleton B	Carleton A	97	10
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Toronto B	100	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	NCSU B	100	0
Surya Dinesh	MIT A	Boston College A	101	10
Imtiaz Kidwai	Toronto F	Queen's A	102	10
Thomas Vukovic	Toronto H	Brock A	102	0
Elena Thai	Waterloo C	Waterloo B	102	0
Miles Phillips	Florida Tech B	ERAU Daytona A	102	0
Yishak Kelkay	ERAU Daytona A	Florida Tech B	102	0
Cassidy McIntyre	Rose State	Kansas State B	102	0
Luke Hasksins	Kansas State B	Rose State	102	0
Nathan Coble	Oklahoma	Murray State College A	102	10
Kyle Saelzler	Harding	Tulsa B	102	10
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Auburn C	102	10
Jake Scoville	RIT B	Cornell D	102	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	Binghamton B	102	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	USC B	102	10
Scott Sibley	UC Irvine	UCLA F	102	10
Charlie Ruff	McGill A	McGill B	102	10
Malcolm Meyn	McGill C	Ottawa B	102	0
Anjali Rao	Ottawa B	McGill C	102	0
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	George Mason A	102	10
Matthew Westley	Purdue A	Purdue C	102	10
Adam Chilbert	Macalester	Iowa State	102	0
Luke Sauer	Michigan Tech	Wisconsin B	102	0
Will Demos	Wisconsin B	Michigan Tech	102	0
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UCSD A	102	10
James Mickel	Michigan State C	WVU A	102	10
Nathan Redford	Liberty A	Duke A	102	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	NCSU A	102	10
Vivian Adolph	UNC B	VCU A	102	10
Jack Yesner	Brandeis Beethoven	MIT B	102	10
Steve Gaughan	Brandeis Mozart	Williams B	102	10
Henry Rutherford-Braun	British Columbia B	Washington Atlantic	102	10
George Matsumura	Washington Chum	British Columbia C	102	10
Harper Royal	Georgia Tech E	Emory A	102	10
James Bramley	Durham C	Edinburgh C	102	10
Harry Fines	York	Edinburgh D	102	0
Vishrut Pisupati	Imperial B	Cambridge C	102	10
Harry Crane	Warwick	Imperial A	102	0
Siheon Lee	Imperial C	LSE	102	0

Upstate NY

Main

100%

20%

83.60

Southern California

Main

100%

71%

80.71

Eastern Canada (1)

Main

80%

20%

77.50

Eastern Canada (2)

Main

78%

22%

83.71

Florida

Main

75%

69.00

Great Lakes

Main

100%

59.00

Lower Mid-Atlantic

Main

89%

56%

80.75

Upper Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

50%

83.00

Midwest

Main

78%

33%

67.57

North

Main

50%

25%

62.00

Northeast

Main

90%

40%

72.11

Pacific

Main

88%

50%

77.86

South Central

Main

86%

14%

75.17

Southeast

Main

92%

23%

66.50

Northern California

Main

75%

25%

57.33

UK (South)

75%

38%

61.83

UK (North)

60%

20%

76.67

Player

Team

Opponent

Buzz Position

Value

Jeremy Katen

George Mason A

Maryland A

-5

Nayaaz Hashim

Oxford

Cambridge A

Arthur Zhang

Purdue C

Purdue A

-5

David Ciardella

Vermont B

Dartmouth A

Sam Zavadil

Michigan State D

WVU B

Johnny Myers

Williams B

Brandeis Mozart

-5

Shlok Dev

LSE

Imperial C

-5

Ilyas Choukri

Virginia Tech A

Virginia Tech B

-5

Akif Ismail

Williams C

Harvard

-5

Anton Akroush

Michigan State A

Michigan B

Emerson Patmore

Georgia Tech C

Clemson A

Anne Fjeld

Alberta A

Washington Steelhead

-5

Nitish Sudhakar

Georgia Tech A

Tennessee A

Terrence Han

UCLA B

UCLA D

-5

Vijay Hans

Berkeley Boss Bandit

Berkeley Mighty Miner

Dirk Hay

Louisville D

Kentucky

David Zaslavsky

Brandeis Bach

Boston University A

-5

Scarlet Rutter

Claremont A

Claremont B

-5

Cliodora Selyuzhitsky

UCSD A

UC Santa Barbara

-5

Jacob Cohen

UCLA A

USC A

James O'Reilly

Arizona State A

Washington State

Jas Wang

UCLA F

UC Irvine

-5

Adam Monusko

Michigan A

CWRU A

Bryce Younger

Boise State

Washington Masu

-5

Galen Mueller

McGill B

McGill A

-5

Hayden Willett

Purdue B

Iowa B

Jonathan Koehler

UCLA C

UCSD B

Ryan Zhang

British Columbia C

Washington Chum

-5

Tom Morris-Jones

Birmingham

Southampton

Youyou Yu

Imperial A

Warwick

-5

John Rootham

Ottawa D

Ottawa A

Christina Popov

Queen's A

Toronto F

-5

Austin Tran

Rose-Hulman A

William Woods University A

Keerthana Krishnan

Texas

British Columbia A

Aidan Hoffner

McMaster B

Toronto E

Sage Snow

Central Oklahoma A

Nebraska B

Arhith Dharaendra

Georgia Tech B

Georgia Tech F

-5

Neela Perceval-Maxwell

McGill E

Ottawa C

Sriram Koritala

Illinois Blue

Illinois Champaign

Darren Kellis

Vanderbilt A

South Carolina A

Oliver Thompson

CWRU D

Ohio State B

Peter Zeng

Ohio State A

Michigan State B

Sebastian Llaca

Wisconsin A

St. Thomas

Reed Sexton

Michigan C

Louisville B

John Gamble

NCSU A

UNC A

-5

Graham Dirks

Kansas State A

Central Oklahoma B

Brian Qian

Illinois Canada

Indiana A

Merrick Hill

Iowa State

Macalester

-5

Jaehyun Park

Boston University A

Brandeis Bach

Ben Kantsiper

JMU B

Liberty B

Kevin Cronk

Virginia Tech C

UNC C

William Erwin

William & Mary B

William & Mary C

-5

Eames Weeks

Brown A

Amherst A

Richy Sun

Vanderbilt B

Vanderbilt C

William Walters

Murray State College B

Nebraska C

Martin Brandenburg

Georgia A

Tennessee Tech

Meredie Cohen

William & Mary A

Virginia A

Nelson Adams-Riley

Sewanne

Tennessee B

Janghyun Lee

Berkeley Little Prince

Stanford A

Jacob Ergueta

Florida A

Florida B

Juan Landaeta

Florida State A

South Florida A

Nolan Travers

Tulsa A

Nebraska A

Will Hughes

Auburn A

Auburn B

John Maupin

Chipola College

Alabama A

Derek Li

Cornell A

ESF

Vincent Misterkiewicz

Cornell C

RIT A

Suhaan Pastakia

Maryland C

Rutgers A

Saswat Sasha Tripathi

Chicago A

Iowa A

Ben Stras

Wisconsin C

Minnesota

Mai Höglund

Claremont B

Claremont A

Jack Rabaut

Michigan D

Pittsburgh

John Halsun

UConn A

Tufts B

Skand Parvatikar

Arizona State B

Washington Coho

Annabelle Koopmans

Washington Atlantic

British Columbia B

-5

Harry Sexton

Edinburgh A

Durham A

Leo Neve

Durham D

Edinburgh B

Sam Eddon

Cambridge C

Imperial B

-5

Oliver Morten

Cardiff

Cambridge B

Fintan Thomas

Cambridge E

Imperial D

Adrian Li

Berkeley Archer Queen

Stanford B

Will Marcotte

Toronto D

Waterloo A

Colette Giezentanner

WashU Grizzlers

Indiana B

-5

Thomas Newill

Tufts C

Amherst B

Artem Vovchenko

Ohio State C

CWRU C

Ishan Chahande

Ohio State D

Louisville C

Cara Leonard

William & Mary C

William & Mary B

Ayaan Jajodia

Dartmouth B

Brown B

Andrew Wilson

Montevallo

Georgia Tech D

Ethan Altshul

Emory A

Georgia Tech E

-5

Megan Rowe

Cambridge D

Bristol

Roy Yang

WashU Grolars

Purdue D

-5

Walter Carson

NCSU B

Liberty C

-5

John Shelley

Clemson B

Clemson C

-5

Thomas Wu

Berkeley Skeleton King

UCSC

-5

Zack Wiffen

Waterloo B

Waterloo C

-5

Kyle Chua

CWRU B

Louisville A

David Ropp

Duke A

Liberty A

-5

Dominic Heffron

Florida Tech A

UCF A

Samarth Majmudar

Illinois Urbana

Chicago B

Kyle Hart

MIT B

Brandeis Beethoven

-5

Charlie Castleton

Sheffield A

Durham B

-5

Hafsa Shaikh

Toronto I

McMaster C

Tobias Smerdon

Toronto G

Guelph A

Jaxsen Melton

Murray State College A

Oklahoma

-5

Ariyan Miah

Binghamton B

Rochester

-5

Gavin Morrow

Washington Steelhead

Alberta A

Ben Gardberg

Cornell B

Binghamton C

Moses Dong

Georgia Tech F

Georgia Tech B

Aaron Bates

Washington Pink

Washington Sockeye

Vivienne Ruemler

USC B

UCLA E

-5

Charlie Weaver

Virginia Tech B

Virginia Tech A

Ethen Sun

Toronto C

Toronto A

Shreyansh Satapurthy

UCLA D

UCLA B

Valerie Brown

Carleton B

Carleton A

Christian Humeniuk

McMaster A

Toronto B

100

Gabriel Dodds

Liberty C

NCSU B

100

Surya Dinesh

MIT A

Boston College A

101

Imtiaz Kidwai

Toronto F

Queen's A

102

Thomas Vukovic

Toronto H

Brock A

102

Elena Thai

Waterloo C

Waterloo B

102

Miles Phillips

Florida Tech B

ERAU Daytona A

102

Yishak Kelkay

ERAU Daytona A

Florida Tech B

102

Cassidy McIntyre

Rose State

Kansas State B

102

Luke Hasksins

Kansas State B

Rose State

102

Nathan Coble

Oklahoma

Murray State College A

102

Kyle Saelzler

Harding

Tulsa B

102

Towery McNeil

Mississippi State A

Auburn C

102

Jake Scoville

RIT B

Cornell D

102

Aidan Keenan

Rochester

Binghamton B

102

Joseph Wang

UCLA E

USC B

102

Scott Sibley

UC Irvine

UCLA F

102

Charlie Ruff

McGill A

McGill B

102

Malcolm Meyn

McGill C

Ottawa B

102

Anjali Rao

Ottawa B

McGill C

102

Gannon Smith

Maryland A

George Mason A

102

Matthew Westley

Purdue A

Purdue C

102

Adam Chilbert

Macalester

Iowa State

102

Luke Sauer

Michigan Tech

Wisconsin B

102

Will Demos

Wisconsin B

Michigan Tech

102

Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran

UC Santa Barbara

UCSD A

102

James Mickel

Michigan State C

WVU A

102

Nathan Redford

Liberty A

Duke A

102

Nick Smemoe

UNC A

NCSU A

102

Vivian Adolph

UNC B

VCU A

102

Jack Yesner

Brandeis Beethoven

MIT B

102

Steve Gaughan

Brandeis Mozart

Williams B

102

Henry Rutherford-Braun

British Columbia B

Washington Atlantic

102

George Matsumura

Washington Chum

British Columbia C

102

Harper Royal

Georgia Tech E

Emory A

102

James Bramley

Durham C

Edinburgh C

102

Harry Fines

York

Edinburgh D

102

Vishrut Pisupati

Imperial B

Cambridge C

102

Harry Crane

Warwick

Imperial A

102

Siheon Lee

Imperial C

LSE

102