sheikh  - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

The descendants of ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhāb are known as the “family of” this title, which honors the Somali clan founders Darod and Ishaak (“iss-HOCK”). For 10 points each:

[10e] What informal title of Arab tribal elders is claimed by the Al Nahyan family? It is still the common English word for emirs of Gulf states like Dubai.

ANSWER: sheikh (“shake”) [or variants of sheik, sheikha, shaykh, cheikh, şekh, or šejh; accept sheikhdom or mashīkhat; accept Al ash-Sheikh or Āl aš-Šaykh]

[10m] Raids by Sheikh Rahmah bin Jābir motivated this protectorate over Arabia’s so-called “Pirate Coast.” These sheikhdoms signed a maritime peace after Oman and British Bombay attacked Ras Al Khaimah’s (“rass al KYE-mah’s”) Wahhābi Al Qasimis (“al KAH-see-meez”).

ANSWER: Trucial States [or Trucial Coast, Trucial Oman, Trucial Arabia, Trucial Sheikhdoms, Al-Imārāt al-Mutaṣāliḥ, Al-Sāḥil al-Mutaṣāliḥ, or Al-Mashīkhat al-Mutaṣāliḥa; accept Perpetual Maritime Truce]

[10h] Abu Dhabi violated the truce when this tribe’s Āl Khalīfah family led an 1867 war against Qaṭar’s Al Thanis (“al THAH-neez”). Sheikh Nasr Al-Madhkur lost Bahrain after a 1783 invasion by this tribe, whose Al Sabah branch founded Kuwait in 1752.

ANSWER: Bani ‘Utbah (“bah-NEE OOT-bah”) [or Bani ‘Utûb, ‘Utbî, Benî ‘Utbe, Uttoobees, or Attoobees]

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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	20	11.00	70%	40%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Chicago D	10	10	20
Chicago A	Georgia Tech	10	10	20
Chicago C	McGill	0	0	0
Brown	Claremont Colleges	0	10	10
Virginia	Florida	0	0	0
Indiana	Berkeley B	10	10	20
Iowa State	Toronto A	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Illinois	0	0	0
Minnesota B	NYU	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Cornell A	10	0	10
Columbia A	Ottawa	10	10	20
Penn	Purdue	10	0	10
Rutgers	Chicago B	10	10	20
South Carolina	WUSTL B	0	0	0
Maryland	Stanford	0	10	10
Arizona State	Texas	10	0	10
Columbia B	Toronto B	10	0	10
Vanderbilt	Truman State	10	0	10
Duke	WUSTL A	10	0	10
Waterloo	Michigan	10	10	20