makeup palettes - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

The British Museum and the Louvre each hold parts of a broken one of these objects depicting a group of men hunting lions. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these objects often found in excavations at Hierakonpolis. An unusually large one of these objects depicts two feline-snake hybrid animals with twisting necks and a man raising a mace above a captive who he is gripping by the hair.

ANSWER: makeup palettes [or cosmetics palettes]

[10m] The existence of this pharaoh is attested to by a namesake palette that depicts him with two crowns. This pharaoh was the unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt.

ANSWER: Narmer [or Menes; accept Narmer Palette]

[10e] A possible alternate name for Narmer, Menes, comes from a label made of this material that depicts the royal title Aha. This material’s name derives from the Egyptian term for elephant, whose tusks this material is carved from.

ANSWER: ivory

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
Canada	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	13	16.92	100%	62%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	13.00	90%	40%	0%
North	Main	Y	11	17.27	100%	55%	18%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	50%	17%
South Central	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	18.18	100%	46%	36%
UK	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	75%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	10	15.00	100%	40%	10%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
Berkeley F	Berkeley E	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
UCSC	Stanford C	0	0	10	10
UCI	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	10	10	20
UCLA D	UCLA C	0	10	10	20
UCSB	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	10	20
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	USC	0	10	10	20
UF C	FIU	0	10	10	20
FSU	UF E	0	0	10	10
UF A	Melbourne A	0	0	10	10
Melbourne B	UCF A	0	0	10	10
UCF B	USF	0	0	10	10
UF D	UF B	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	OSU D	10	10	10	30
CWRU C	Kenyon B	0	0	10	10
CWRU D	Kenyon A	0	0	10	10
Pitt B	MSU B	0	10	10	20
OSU A	Pitt A	0	10	10	20
MSU A	OSU B	0	0	10	10
CWRU B	OSU C	0	0	10	10
Virginia B	Clemson A	0	0	10	10
Clemson B	Tusculum	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	James Madison	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
NC State	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	North Carolina C	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
Tennessee B	Roanoke	0	10	10	20
Carleton	McMaster C	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Guelph A	0	10	10	20
McGill A	McMaster A	0	10	10	20
McGill C	Toronto K	0	10	10	20
McMaster B	Western Ontario	0	0	10	10
Waterloo	Queen's B	0	0	10	10
Ottawa	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
Toronto E	Guelph B	0	0	10	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto F	0	10	10	20
Queen's A	Toronto H	0	0	10	10
McGill B	Toronto I	10	10	10	30
Toronto J	Toronto G	0	0	10	10
Maryland D	George Mason A	0	0	10	10
Penn A	George Mason B	0	10	10	20
Penn B	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
Lehigh A	Columbia A	0	0	10	10
Princeton A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Lehigh B	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore A	Rutgers C	0	10	10	20
Rowan A	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	Truman State	0	0	10	10
WashU A	William Woods	0	10	10	20
Catholic University	Georgetown B	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
Georgetown A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins C	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	10	30
NYU B	UMBC A	0	10	10	20
George Washington A	Notre Dame E	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	VCU A	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Chicago C	Kentucky	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame C	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Indiana A	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
Illinois B	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
Purdue C	Notre Dame D	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Louisville B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	UIC	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
WashU C	SIUE	0	0	10	10
Macalester B	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Minnesota A	0	10	10	20
Amherst B	Brown B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Orlando	BC A	0	0	10	10
BC B	Brandeis Wilson	0	0	10	10
BU	Brown A	10	10	10	30
Brandeis Clemenceau	MIT A	0	0	10	10
Harvard	Brown C	10	10	10	30
Amherst A	MIT B	10	10	10	30
Bowdoin B	Tufts A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Lloyd George	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth	Williams	0	10	10	20
Yale A	Cornell-UG	0	0	10	10
British Columbia D	British Columbia A	0	10	10	20
British Columbia C	British Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Washington A	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Alberta	Washington B	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Bruin A	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Huntsville A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Alabama B	Mississippi State A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Sewanee A	0	10	10	20
Huntsville B	UAB A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt B	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Birmingham A	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Bristol B	LSE A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Edinburgh A	0	0	10	10
Sheffield A	Cambridge D	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	City St George's A	10	10	10	30
Durham A	Southampton B	0	10	10	20
Manchester A	Imperial C	0	10	10	20
Sheffield C	Oxford A	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Durham B	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
Cornell-DII	Binghamton B	10	10	10	30
RIT A	Syracuse	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	Rochester	0	0	10	10
RIT B	ESF	0	0	10	10