Zamzam Well - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

A dream about this structure reported that it was located “between the dung and the blood, near the nest of the crow with the white leg and the ant’s nest.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this structure rediscovered by Abd al-Mutallib, Muhammad’s grandfather. While unearthing this structure, al-Mutallib uncovered two golden gazelles that had been buried by the Jurhum.

ANSWER: Zamzam Well [or Bi’ru Zamzam]

[10e] Allah created the Zamzam Well to provide water to this woman and her son, Isma’il, during the trek through the desert. This wife of Ibrahim bore him a son before Sarah did.

ANSWER: Hājar [or Hagar]

[10m] The golden gazelles unearthed at Zamzam were given to the Kaaba after divinatory arrows were cast before an idol to this Arabian moon god. This god was worshipped by the Quryash at the Kaaba in pre-Islamic Arabia.

ANSWER: Hubal

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	9.17	58%	17%	17%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	8.89	78%	11%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	88%	25%	25%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	8.75	75%	0%	13%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	8.33	83%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	12.22	78%	22%	22%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley D	Berkeley C	0	0	0	0
Stanford A	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	Arizona State	0	10	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	UCSD C	0	0	0	0
UCLA A	UC Irvine	0	10	0	10
UCSD A	UCSD B	0	0	0	0
Brock	McGill B	0	0	0	0
Guelph	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
McGill A	Waterloo B	10	10	0	20
Queen's	McMaster A	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	Ottawa	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Simon Fraser	0	0	0	0
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto D	0	0	0	0
McMaster B	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Waterloo A	0	10	0	10
UBC B	Carleton University	0	10	0	10
Western B	Western A	0	0	0	0
Western C	Toronto G	10	0	0	10
Central Florida B	Florida C	0	0	0	0
Florida A	Central Florida A	0	10	0	10
Florida B	Central Florida C	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	CWRU B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Liberty A	0	0	0	0
James Madison B	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Virginia	James Madison A	0	10	0	10
NC State B	Wake Forest	0	0	0	0
William and Mary	VCU	0	10	0	10
NC State A	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Duke	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina C	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Brandeis A	Dartmouth A	0	10	0	10
Harvard B	Brandeis B	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth B	Brown	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Southern Connecticut State	0	10	0	10
MIT	Yale	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	Chicago E	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	Indiana C	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern C	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern D	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Purdue A	0	0	0	0
Carleton College	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Minnesota A	0	10	0	10
Claremont	Washington B	0	10	0	10
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	0	0	0
Texas B	Texas A	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Bruin	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Louisville B	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Mississipi State	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee A	0	0	0	0
Tennessee B	Sewanee	0	0	0	0
Louisville A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	City St. George's	0	10	0	10
LSE	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Catholic	0	0	0	0
Columbia C	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore	Georgetown	0	10	0	10
John Jay	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
NYU C	Vassar	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10
Imperial C	Oxford A	0	0	0	0
Oxford B	Durham	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	UCL	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Rochester	0	10	0	10
Penn State	RIT	0	10	10	20