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Round 5: Tossup 10

Description acceptable. A ruler from this period, whose name is rendered as “Jinassi-Ad” or “the father has elevated him,” may be identified with an improbably long-lived king named Iannas (“YAN-nas”) who reportedly ruled for 50 years. A graffito at the Tura quarry mentions “oxen from Palestine” possibly introduced after a three-year siege at the [emphasize] end of this period, won by “he of the South.” In Against Apion, Josephus quoted an ahistorical claim (-5[1])that this period ended when a group fled the Assyrians and founded (-5[1])Jerusalem. (-5[2])In this period, (-5[1])rulers like Nebiryraw (10[1])I fought opponents who buried equids (10[1])at Tell (-5[1])el-Dab’a. So-called “shepherd-kings” (-5[1])that (-5[1])dominated this period lost (10[1])the fortress of Sharuhen (-5[1])to Ahmose I, (10[1])who (-5[1])conquered (-5[1])their capital of Avaris. (10[1])For 10 points, identify this period (10[1])of foreign Semitic-Asiatic (10[1])rule over northern Egypt in the Second Intermediate Period. (10[1])■END■ (10[9]0[5])

ANSWER: the Hyksos period [accept Fifteenth Dynasty; accept the contemporaneous Sixteenth Dynasty or Seventeenth Dynasty; accept answers with heqau khasut in place of “Hyksos”; accept equivalents like “the time Egypt was ruled by the Hyksos”; prompt on Second Intermediate Period until read by asking “under what people’s rule?”] (Josephus quoted Manetho.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Jacob Puthipiroj	Northwestern A	Bruin	70	-5
Sam Konkel	Chicago B	Stanford A	82	-5
Brandon Weiss	Columbia B	Pittsburgh	83	-5
Tianyu Xu	Georgia Tech A	Ohio State	83	-5
James McCurley	Harvard	Texas	86	-5
Brendan Bethlehem	Cambridge	North Carolina	89	10
Evan Gniadek	Purdue	Penn State	95	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Toronto B	97	-5
Nathaniel Hull	UC Berkeley A	UCF	100	-5
Cole Hartung	Georgetown	Chicago A	101	-5
Ethan Bosita	Stanford B	Brown	105	10
Jaskaran Singh	UCLA	Virginia Tech	109	-5
Pranaav Senthilkumar	Cornell	NYU B	112	10
John Chen	British Columbia	Rutgers	113	-5
Justin Wytmar	NYU A	Illinois A	114	-5
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Columbia A	118	10
Sky Li	Toronto A	Minnesota	124	10
Michael Du	Waterloo	Maryland A	127	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Columbia B	136	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Northwestern A	137	0
Claire Jones	Chicago A	Georgetown	137	10
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State	Georgia Tech A	137	10
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	NYU A	137	0
Joshua Koch	Michigan	Illinois B	137	0
Shardul Parthasarathy	Illinois B	Michigan	137	10
August Vanskike	Maryland B	Georgia Tech B	137	10
Aiden Dartley	Rutgers	British Columbia	137	10
Allan Lee	Stanford A	Chicago B	137	10
Joey Sun	Toronto B	Georgia Tech C	137	10
Alexander Nichols	UCF	UC Berkeley A	137	10
David Bass	Johns Hopkins	UC Berkeley B	137	0
Vinu Harihar	UC Berkeley B	Johns Hopkins	137	0
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech	UCLA	137	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
Main Site	2026-04-17	✓	21	81%	52%	125.82