lion hunt - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

Answer the following about niello, a black alloy of sulfur that was often used for metalwork and inlaying, for 10 points each.

[10m] A Mycenaean shaft grave was the site of a dagger inlaid with niello that depicts one of these events. In an Assyrian artwork made of alabaster, three registers of low relief show the title figure riding a chariot during one of these events.

ANSWER: lion hunt [accept The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal; accept Lion Hunt Dagger; accept lionesses in place of “lions”; prompt on hunting or equivalents by asking “hunting what animals?”]

[10e] Niello was extensively used in Anglo-Saxon metalwork, like the Fuller Brooch unearthed at this site. King Rædwald (“RAD-wold”) may be the dedicatee of the ship burial unearthed at this East Anglian site.

ANSWER: Sutton Hoo

[10h] Niello inlay was used for a brass baptistère (“bah-tee-STAIR”) from this empire that was used to baptize Louis XIII. Venetian glass was greatly influenced by the enameled and gilded glass created by this empire.

ANSWER: Mamluk Sultanate [or Mamluks; or Salṭanat al-Mamālīk; accept Mamluk Egypt; reject “Egypt”]

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Arizona State	Cornell B	10	0	0	10
Berkeley B	Virginia	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Yale A	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Chicago C	Brown	10	10	0	20
Chicago D	Cornell A	0	0	0	0
Claremont Colleges	Minnesota A	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Waterloo	10	10	0	20
Duke	NYU	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech	WUSTL B	10	10	0	20
Illinois	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Indiana	North Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins	Harvard	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
North Carolina B	Michigan	0	10	0	10
Ottawa	McGill	10	0	0	10
Purdue	Yale B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Penn	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt	Northwestern	0	10	0	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	20	16.50	80%	75%	10%