A queen of this city discovered that its enemies’ grass armor could be defeated with fire sticks after volunteering as a slave, then sacrificing her son to Esimirin. Herringbone-patterned potsherds covered the streets of this city during a period in which it honored Queen Moremi. Reverend Samuel Johnson’s magnum opus details the kings claiming descent from this city who built massive eredo ramparts in (*) Ijebu. Artists in this city etched vertical lines onto the faces of naturalistic copper alloy heads using the lost-wax technique. This city’s “rulers of life,” or Ọọ̀ni (“OH-nee”), were the spiritual leaders of a cultural region where temporal power rested with the alaafins of Oyo. For 10 points, the orishas supposedly descended to earth near what holy city and medieval capital of Yoruban civilization? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 30% | 102.88 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 83 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Big is moving to Evanston! | 83 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 83 | 10 |
| Wesley Mathews | Floridovician | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 86 | -5 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 90 | 10 |
| Mike Bentley | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Halifax Shipping Services | 107 | -5 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Do re mi fa serving negs | It's not X, but... defenders | 111 | -5 |
| Sam Macchi | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 114 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | BHSU X | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 116 | 10 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 127 | 10 |
| Cooper Roh | Halifax Shipping Services | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 127 | 0 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | Do re mi fa serving negs | 127 | 10 |
| Vivek Sasse | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | Floridovician | 127 | 0 |