An ox-like figure destroys this city in search of beer until he is defeated and sent to live in a ditch in the Tale of Gudam. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city whose second and third rulers had the epithets “the Shepherd” and “the Fisherman” according to the Weld-Blundell Prism. A ruler of this Sumerian city is attacked by the Bull of Heaven for spurning a goddess.
ANSWER: Uruk [or Unug or Warka; reject “Ur”]
[10e] Name this play, which inspired a story where the narrator refers to Shakespeare as Master Chackpaw. A jester’s influence on this play’s title Danish prince is imagined in the story “Yorick.”
ANSWER: Hamlet [or The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark]
[10h] During the Aratta campaign, this soldier falls sick and dreams of the gods in the Mountain Cave. This second king of Uruk contributed the “one-third human” part of his son.
ANSWER: Lugalbanda
[10m] This author’s story “Yorick” is included in the collection East, West. Haroun explores a “sea of stories” in a children’s book by this author.
ANSWER: Salman Rushdie [or Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie]
[10e] It is debated whether this son of Lugalbanda was a real king of Uruk who was posthumously deified. He travels with the “wild man” Enkidu in his namesake epic.
ANSWER: Gilgamesh [accept Epic of Gilgamesh; accept 𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦 or 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌]
[10h] Rushdie heavily alludes to this work in Haroun and the Sea of Stories, including with a houseboat named in reference to it. In a 2015 novel featuring a princess who controls lightning, Rushdie set this work in New York City.
ANSWER: One Thousand and One Nights [or The Arabian Nights or The One Thousand and One Arabian Nights or The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment or Alf Laylah wa-Laylah; accept “The Arabian Nights Plus One”] (The Rushdie novel is Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights.)
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