While invading a neighbor, this kingdom received valuable information from the escaped slave Wuld Kirinfil, though royal chronicler al-Fishtali claims he was actually a prince in disguise. A general of this kingdom intentionally launched a doomed attack at Almina Walu to avoid being brought back to his capital to be executed. That general of this kingdom was Mahmud ibn Zarqun. The Tarikh al-Sudan describes how guerrilla leader Nuh arranged resistance to this kingdom and used the remnants from an empire that this kingdom subjugated to found the (*) Dendi Empire. Arquebusiers from this kingdom successfully resisted a cattle charge to win a battle during which they were led by a blue-eyed eunuch general. For 10 points, name this kingdom whose general Judar Pasha won the Battle of Tondibi. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 108.38 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akshar Goyal | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 63 | -5 |
| Sky Li | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Do re mi fa serving negs | 93 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 93 | 10 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 97 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Floridovician | 102 | -5 |
| Dylan Minarik | The RAND Coöperation | Broken Socal Scene | 108 | 10 |
| Tejas Raje | BHSU B | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 111 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 111 | 10 |
| Eric Bobrow | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 124 | -5 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 125 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | BHSU X | 127 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 127 | 0 |
| Wesley Mathews | Floridovician | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 127 | 0 |
| Emmett Laurie | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 127 | 10 |