Packet 8: Bonus 16
Statues of Stalin and Karl Marx were replaced by one of this ruler in his namesake square in Tashkent. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this ruler depicted by a colossus in his birthplace of Shahrisabz, which was called Kesh under his medieval empire ruled from Samarkand.
ANSWER: Timur [or Tamerlane, Tamburlaine, Timur the Lame, Timur Lenk, Timur-i Lang, Temür Küregen, or Timūr Gurkānī; accept Timurid dynasty or Timurid empire]
[10h] Timur Malik defended this city, which was once called Leninabad. This second-largest city in Tajikistan is sometimes identified with Alexandria Eschate (“ess-KAH-tay”), as well as the Achaemenid outpost of Cyropolis in Sogdiana.
ANSWER: Khujand [or Khojand or Khodjent or Xo‘jand]
[10m] Khujand’s sister city of Arkadag is in a country named for this ethnicity, whose second-largest city has been called Amul, Chardzhuy (“CHAR-joo-ee”), and Leninsk. Like Kurds, a distinct minority of this name formed enclaves in Erbil and Kirkuk.
ANSWER: Turkmen [or Türkmenler; accept Türkmenistan; accept Iraqi Turkmen or Irak Türkmenleri; accept Türkmenbaşy or Türkmenabat; accept Turkomans; prompt on Turks, Turkish people, Turkic people, or Türkleri; prompt on Oghuz Turks]
<Editors, Geography> | Q. Playoffs 8 (Editors 8)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 14.09 | 96% | 41% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | UCF | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Bruin | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago B | Georgetown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Columbia A | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| Georgia Tech C | MIT | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | British Columbia | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland B | Swarthmore | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Texas | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU B | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern B | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Pittsburgh | Cambridge | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | Penn State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | WashU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley B | Virginia Tech | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 22 | 14.09 | 96% | 41% | 5% |