Morocco - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Maimonides legendarily lived in a house in this country known as Dar al-Magana, or the “House of the Clock.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this modern-day country where the first mellah for Jewish communities was created under the Marinid dynasty.

ANSWER: Morocco [or Kingdom of Morocco; or al-Mamlakah al-Maghribiyah]

[10h] This dynasty’s power was effectively secured by a 1465 massacre of Jews in Fez sparked by Abd al-Haqq II’s appointment of a Jewish vizier. This dynasty succeeded the Marinids and preceded the Saadi in its control over Morocco.

ANSWER: Wattasid dynasty [or al-Waṭṭāsīyūn]

[10e] Under Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Sheikh, the Wattasid dynasty welcomed Jewish refugees following this event. Jews that lived in Morocco prior to this 1492 event, promulgated by the Alhambra decree, were known as Toshavim.

ANSWER: expulsion of Jews from Spain [accept expulsion of Jews by Catholic monarchs; prompt on expulsion of Jews by asking “from where?”; prompt on Reconquista]

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	83%	33%	33%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	40%	40%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	15.00	80%	50%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	14.29	71%	57%	14%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Claremont B	UCLA	0	0	10	10
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	WashU A	10	0	10	20
Chicago C	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge D	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Manchester	Cambridge E	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Durham	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Imperial B	10	10	10	30
UC Berkeley B	Claremont A	0	0	10	10
Florida A	UCF C	10	10	10	30
Florida B	UCF B	10	0	10	20
Valencia A	Florida State A	0	0	0	0
Carnegie Mellon A	Michigan D	10	0	10	20
Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon B	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Kenyon	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Case Western B	10	0	10	20
Michigan State	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
WashU B	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
Missoui S&T	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
Missouri	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Winona State	Carleton	0	0	10	10
Minnesota B	Wisconsin A	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	0	0	10	10
ASU	TAMU	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	0	0
Michigan B	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
William & Mary	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
UNC B	Duke	0	0	10	10
UNC D	South Carolina	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
UNC C	Wake Forest	10	10	10	30
Brandeis B	Dartmouth A	10	0	10	20
Brown A	Harvard A	0	0	0	0
BU	MIT A	10	0	0	10
Harvard B	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
UMass Boston	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
Georgetown A	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	Iowa	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame A	Northwestern B	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Purdue	Stanford B	0	0	0	0
Bristol	LSE	10	0	0	10
NYU C	Cambridge C	10	0	10	20
Warwick A	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
Oxford C	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Sheffield	0	0	0	0
Imperial A	Southampton B	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
George Washington A	George Washington B	0	0	0	0
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
Columbia C	Maryland B	10	0	10	20
Rutgers A	John Jay College	10	10	10	30
Penn A	Vassar A	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Yale A	10	0	10	20
RIT A	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	ESF A	10	0	10	20
RIT B	Cornell D	0	0	10	10