Question
The daughter of this empire’s last ruler founded the first public museum in history and displayed artifacts from the Kassite people. This empire constructed a Processional Way whose gatehouse was made of glazed bricks with images of lions. This empire’s last ruler Nabonidus is sometimes credited as the first archaeologist for restoring the Ziggurat of Ur. In 539 BCE, this empire fell when Belshazzar was defeated by Cyrus the Great, who diverted a river near its capital. This empire’s sack of Judah under its ruler Nebuchadnezzar II (“nebu-kad-nezzar the second”) began a deportation of Jews called its namesake “captivity.” For 10 points, name this empire centered around a capital home to the Hanging Gardens. ■END■
ANSWER: Babylon [or the Babylonian Empire or the Neo-Babylonian Empire or the Second Babylonian Empire; accept Babel or Babylonia or Bābilim or Neo-Babylon; accept the Babylonian captivity] (The first line refers to
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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 44% | 83.38 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 56.63 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 96.33 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 36% | 74.55 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 61.33 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 64.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.75 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 82.11 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Mississippi State A | 37 | 10 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Emory A | 44 | -5 |
Allen Xu | Georgia Tech E | Auburn C | 44 | 10 |
Gannon Rice | Clemson A | Furman | 55 | -5 |
Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 56 | 10 |
Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 56 | 10 |
Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Southern | 64 | -5 |
Rafeed Rahman Turjya | Georgia A | Georgia Tech B | 69 | 10 |
Kabir Zaman | South Carolina A | Tennessee B | 69 | 10 |
Kabir Zaman | South Carolina A | Tennessee B | 69 | 10 |
Britton Webster | Alabama A | Vanderbilt B | 71 | -5 |
Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Georgia Tech D | 87 | 10 |
James Zhao | Vanderbilt B | Alabama A | 111 | 10 |
Cohen Wiegers | Emory A | Auburn A | 111 | 10 |
Thomas Hydorn | Furman | Clemson A | 111 | 10 |