Nekhen - 2025 NAFTA - Buzzpoints

Packet 7: Bonus 12

James Quibell invented the term “Dynasty Zero” after poorly excavating this city. For 10 points each:

[10h] Two decorated maceheads whose catfish/chisel and scorpion symbols identify two early kings were found in what city? This city contains the most ancient tomb to have a painted mural, which depicts funerary barques.

ANSWER: Nekhen [or Hierakonpolis or nḫn or el-Kom el-Ahmar]

[10e] The so-called “0 Dynasty” ends and the First Dynasty begins with Narmer unifying these two regions. The Narmer Palette found at Hierakonpolis shows him wearing the red and white crowns of these two regions.

ANSWER: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt [accept Upper and Lower Egypt; accept the Sedge and the Bee]

[10m] The term “00 (“zero zero”) Dynasty” was first seriously used by Edwin van der Bink for finds at Abydos, which names one of these texts that is used alongside ones named for Saqqara and Turin to reconstruct early Egyptian history.

ANSWER: king-lists [or regnal lists; accept descriptions of lists of the reigns of kings or pharaohs]

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Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	12.79	100%	28%	0%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
1000000 Delinquents	Chicago !A	10	0	10	E
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	No Country for Old Quizzers	10	10	20	EM
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC A	10	10	20	EM
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	10	20	EM
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	10	0	10	E
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Berkeley B	10	0	10	E
Contessa Dora	UNC Charity	10	0	10	E
Copán Seethe	David Foster Gromit	10	0	10	E
Dour Straits	C R A B S	10	0	10	E
Execute Order 6 7	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	10	0	10	E
Guelph Cloze	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	10	0	10	E
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	Vacuous Tortoise	10	0	10	E
Habitat 67	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	10	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	10	0	10	E
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	10	10	20	EM
Indiana	Invective Against Swans	10	0	10	E
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	10	10	20	EM
JHU	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	10	0	10	E
Licence to Bill	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	0	10	E
Licence to C. Wright Mill	I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	10	10	20	EM
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Rosslyn Academic Team	10	0	10	E
Maybe Ever	W&L+Friend	10	0	10	E
NYU A	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	10	10	20	EM
Northwestern	BHSU	10	10	20	EM
Penn State	Mike and Psmith	10	0	10	E
Shipping Down from Ballston	Untitled Keyal Team	10	0	10	E
St. Marx	Lex	10	0	10	E
Stanford A	Not Old! (Old)	10	10	20	EM
Stanford B	Team 7	10	10	20	EM
Team 8	Berkeley A	10	0	10	E
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	10	0	10	E
The "C" Team	Noah Sheidlower	10	0	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	10	0	10	E
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	Dielectrical Materialism	10	10	20	EM
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Say It Ain't Zhou	10	0	10	E
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	10	0	10	E
UBC B	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	10	0	10	E
Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	10	10	20	EM
WashU	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	10	0	10	E
Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	You Don't Have the Cards	10	0	10	E
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	0	10	E
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	[Redacted]	10	0	10	E
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Catholic University A	10	0	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%