Valley of the Kings - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about burial grounds found across the ancient world, for 10 points each.

[10e] For centuries, pharaohs of the New Kingdom were buried in rock-cut tombs at this site in Luxor. King Tut was found at this site built near ancient Thebes.

ANSWER: Valley of the Kings [accept Valley of the Gates of the Kings; accept Wādī el-Mulūk]

[10m] Six burial grounds in Bahrain containing almost 12,000 examples of this kind of grave were left by the Dilmun civilization. These burial mounds name a hypothesis regarding the Proto-Indo-European homeland.

ANSWER: kurgans [accept tumulus or tumuli; accept barrows]

[10h] This term for an underground temple or tomb gives its name to a Neolithic complex in Malta whose “Oracle Room” amplifies sound throughout it. This Greek term also designated the complex of tunnels below the Colosseum.

ANSWER: hypogeum [accept Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	33%	100%	33%
Canada	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	5	18.00	80%	80%	20%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Arizona State	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	UC Irvine	0	10	10	20
UCSD A	UCSD B	0	10	0	10
Guelph	Toronto E	10	10	0	20
McGill A	Waterloo B	10	10	0	20
McMaster A	Queen's	10	0	0	10
Toronto B	Ottawa	10	10	0	20
Simon Fraser	Toronto C	10	10	0	20
Waterloo A	UBC A	10	10	0	20
UBC B	Carleton University	10	10	0	20
Toronto G	Western C	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Michigan State	10	10	0	20
CWRU A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Ohio State C	10	0	0	10
Pittsburgh	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
VCU	William and Mary	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Chicago E	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame A	Northwestern C	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame B	Purdue A	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth A	Brandeis A	10	10	0	20
Brown	Dartmouth B	10	0	0	10
Harvard A	Southern Connecticut State	10	10	10	30
Yale	MIT	10	0	0	10
Minnesota A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Claremont	Washington B	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	10	10	0	20
North Carolina A	Duke	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina C	10	10	0	20
South Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	10	0	0	10
Virginia	James Madison A	10	10	0	20
WashU A	Bruin	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Alabama A	Louisville B	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	WashU B	10	10	0	20
Catholic	Maryland B	10	0	0	10
Columbia C	Rutgers B	10	10	0	20
Georgetown	Swarthmore	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins B	John Jay	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	City St. George's	10	10	10	30
LSE	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Imperial C	10	10	0	20
Oxford B	Durham	10	10	10	30
UCL	Imperial A	10	0	0	10
Penn State	RIT	10	10	0	20