Detailed biographies of this city’s residents were compiled by Ibn Asakir for an eighty-volume biographical dictionary. An envoy’s barb about a palace in this city only being fit for birds and rats legendarily led to the construction of its Khadra Palace. Roman columns, possibly from the Temple of Jupiter, were used to support the Dome of the Treasury in this city. (*) Al-Walid commissioned a building in this city that was constructed over a cathedral housing John the Baptist’s head. The Burid dynasty’s successful 1148 defence of this city ended the Second Crusade. Mu'awiya established his capital in this city after the First Fitna. For 10 points, name this capital of the Umayyad Caliphate, which names a kind of tough, patterned steel. ■END■
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| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 107.50 |
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John John Groger | WashU Kiki | WashU Bouba | 60 | -5 |
| Khang Le | abg academy | New Young Whigs of America | 60 | 15 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Mount Sinai | 60 | -5 |
| Terry Tang | The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now | Stanford B | 60 | 15 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Yale | 61 | -5 |
| Erik Christensen | #OpenToBuzz | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | 61 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 61 | -5 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Knorr Stock Clue | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | 64 | -5 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton A | Toronto G | 67 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | Of Mice and Penn | 70 | -5 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 73 | -5 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | NYU A | 74 | -5 |
| Oscar O’Flanagan | Chimp Brisket | To buzz is to be perceived | 74 | -5 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | UChicago B | 76 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill Fartlets | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | 77 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan A | 78 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | JHU B | 78 | 10 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo you are crooked | McGill B | 78 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's is monitoring the situation | Toronto E | 78 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | Central Oklahoma | Texas B | 78 | 10 |
| Will Alston | rusty shackleford | Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery | 79 | 10 |
| Oli Clarke | Washed Scrubs | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | 81 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Bristold | 87 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | VT A | VT B | 87 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Oklahoma | 87 | -5 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford A | In Search of Lost Clues | 88 | 10 |
| Walter Zhang | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | Harvard | 91 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland B | Swarthmore | 91 | -5 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern B | UChicago A | 91 | -5 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC B | UNC A | 92 | -5 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Purdue A | 92 | -5 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | Guelph perfomative male competition | 94 | 10 |
| Aaron Storr | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | Galactic Ombudsmen | 95 | 10 |
| Abigail Tan | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | Washed Scrubs | 97 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristold | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | 98 | 10 |
| Camden Williams | Truman State | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | 98 | 10 |
| Evan McMullan | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | question mark | 98 | -5 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU | Ohio State B | 101 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | Hail to the Sheaf | 102 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa 67s | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | 107 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | Brown | 111 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Maryland C | 111 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | Of Mice and Penn | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 112 | 10 |
| Ben Newman | Wise Duke | Planck Sinatra | 112 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | JHU A | John Jay | 112 | -5 |
| Justin Wytmar | NYU A | Columbia B | 113 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois | Indiana | 113 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | Knorr Stock Clue | 118 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Free Win | Berkeley C | 118 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | The Bit and the Penndulum | Coughing Baby | 120 | 10 |
| Daoud Jackson | To buzz is to be perceived | Chimp Brisket | 120 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | UChicago A | Northwestern B | 120 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | UNC A | UNC B | 121 | 10 |
| Colette Giezentanner | WashU Bouba | WashU Kiki | 121 | 10 |
| Danny Peelen | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 121 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Maryland B | 121 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | question mark | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 121 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale | MIT B | 121 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Martin | Brandeis | RIT | 121 | 10 |
| Daniel Ma | Mount Sinai | Columbia A | 121 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | JHU A | 121 | 10 |
| Chris Stewart | Oklahoma | Texas A | 121 | 10 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | Purdue B | 121 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | #OpenToBuzz | 121 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 121 | 10 |