Petra - 2025 NAFTA - Buzzpoints

Packet 2: Bonus 14

Answer the following about Roman purveyors of perfumes and other pleasing pungent products, for 10 points each.

[10e] Roman demand for incense enriched this city in modern-day Jordan, which controlled trade routes to southern Arabia. This city with many buildings cut from rose sandstone was the capital of the Nabataean Kingdom.

ANSWER: Petra [or Al-Batrā or Raqmu or Raqemo]

[10m] Coins of the city of Cyrene featured this plant, which Roman merchants imported to use in perfume and cooking. The resin of this unidentified plant may have been used as birth control before its extinction in the first century.

ANSWER: silphium [or laserwort; or laserpicium; or lasarpicium; accept sílphion]

[10h] Pliny the Elder mentions that a plant used for perfume called saliunca grew in this Roman province and its eastern neighbor Pannonia. After its conquest, Romans continued to use this province’s ancient Hallstatt salt mine.

ANSWER: Noricum [accept Noricum Ripense or Noricum mediterraneum]

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Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
38	17.37	100%	66%	8%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	Execute Order 6 7	10	10	0	20	EM
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	10	0	20	EM
BHSU	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	10	10	0	20	EM
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	0	20	EM
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	10	0	20	EM
C R A B S	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	10	10	0	20	EM
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	10	10	0	20	EM
Chicago !A	Invective Against Swans	10	0	0	10	E
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Team 7	10	10	0	20	EM
David Foster Gromit	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	10	10	0	20	EM
Dour Straits	No Country for Old Quizzers	10	0	0	10	E
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20	EM
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	Dielectrical Materialism	10	10	0	20	EM
Indiana	1000000 Delinquents	10	10	0	20	EM
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Copán Seethe	10	10	0	20	EM
JHU	Catholic University A	10	0	0	10	E
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Contessa Dora	10	10	0	20	EM
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	10	10	10	30	EMH
Noah Sheidlower	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	10	0	20	EM
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	10	0	0	10	E
Rosslyn Academic Team	Mike and Psmith	10	10	0	20	EM
Say It Ain't Zhou	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	10	10	0	20	EM
Shipping Down from Ballston	Habitat 67	10	10	0	20	EM
Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	NYU A	10	0	0	10	E
St. Marx	Maybe Ever	10	10	0	20	EM
Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	The Fire Neg Time	10	10	0	20	EM
Team 8	Not Old! (Old)	10	0	0	10	E
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	Vacuous Tortoise	10	10	10	30	EMH
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Northwestern	10	0	0	10	E
UBC A	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	10	0	0	10	E
UBC B	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	10	0	0	10	E
UNC Charity	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	10	0	0	10	E
Untitled Keyal Team	The "C" Team	10	0	0	10	E
W&L+Friend	Lex	10	0	0	10	E
WashU	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	10	10	0	20	EM
[Redacted]	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	10	0	0	10	E
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	10	10	30	EMH
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Penn State	10	10	0	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✕	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✕	1	20.00	0%	100%	100%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%