Vedas - 2025 NAFTA - Buzzpoints

Packet 5: Bonus 13

These texts can be used to trace the beginnings of urbanism and non-kin-based labor in ancient India. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name these earliest deciphered Indian texts, which give their name to the period from around 1500 to 500 BC and are mainly descriptions of rituals and hymns. The later three of these texts are named Yajur, Sama, and Atharva.

ANSWER: Vedas [or the Vedic Period]

[10h] Michael Witzel argues that the later three Vedas were compiled in this kingdom around modern-day Haryana and Delhi. The Painted Grey Ware archaeological culture is associated with this confederacy and its ally, Pañcāla (“pan-CHA-la”).

ANSWER: Kuru Kingdom [or Kuru Confederacy or Kuru tribal union or Kuru janapada]

[10m] Description acceptable. In the Rigveda, the word for these conflicts, gavishthi, is a synonym for fighting. Most violent conflict in the Vedic period consisted of these campaigns, as they could cause rapid gains and losses of movable wealth.

ANSWER: cattle raids [accept looking for cattle; accept stealing or looting or taking or other synonyms in place of of raids; accept cows or other synonyms in place of cattle; prompt on livestock raids or horse raids or raids or synonyms thereof; reject raids to acquire things that don’t include cattle such as “goat raids” or “slave raids”]

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Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
37	14.86	97%	46%	5%

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Conversion

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

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	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	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%