Question
In one tomb, this archaeologist discovered a headdress made of golden leaves, four stringed lyres, and a golden and lapis lazuli encrusted bull’s head. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this British archaeologist who in 1922 led an excavation of the Sumerian city of Ur.
ANSWER: Leonard Woolley [or Sir Charles Leonard Woolley]
[10e] Woolley excavated a “Great” one of these buildings in Ur. These buildings are temple complexes, and are often step-pyramids.
ANSWER: ziggurat
[10h] Before excavating Ur, Woolley and his assistant T.E. Lawrence worked for British Naval Intelligence monitoring the progress of this project. This project would have satisfied a country’s ambition to have easy access to Mesopotamian oil fields and the Persian Gulf.
ANSWER: Berlin-Baghdad railway
<JW, Ancient/Other History>
Summary
2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 0% | 25% |
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
Data
SIUE A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Chicago B | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Chicago C | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Ohio State C | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Purdue B | Michigan B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Chicago D | Purdue C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Ohio State B | SIUE B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
WUSTL | Missouri | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |