Grand Trunk Road - 2025 VAULT II

Packet 5: Bonus 3

The policy of Dhamma ordered the planting of banyan trees and mango groves along this structure, which legendarily had a well every 800 meters. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Ancient Indian road network that stretches from modern day Bangladesh to Kabul. Chandragupta Maurya ordered the construction of the eastern stretch of this road.

ANSWER: Grand Trunk Road [or Uttarapath; accept Sarak-e-Azam or Badshahi Sarak or Shah Rah-e-Azam or Sarak-e-Sher Shah or Badshahi Sadak; accept Long Walk]

[10e] Expansions on the Grand Trunk Road were ordered by this third Mauryan emperor, who converted to Buddhism after the brutal Kalinga War.

ANSWER: Ashoka the Great [or Ashoka Maurya; accept Asoka]

[10m] Ashoka ordered the planting of Banyan Trees on the Road in the seventh of these things. These inscriptions were often signed with the phrase “Beloved of the Gods."

ANSWER: rock edicts of Ashoka [or pillar edicts of Ashoka]

<History - Ancient, Charan Shreekumar> | VAULT II Packet 05

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
44	15.91	91%	46%	23%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Albanian Rift in the Sky	Heauton Timorumenos	0	10	10	20	EM
An even worse idea	Mountain Dew is Better	0	10	0	10	E
Bella Vista	Northern	10	10	10	30	HEM
Belmont B	Belmont A	0	10	0	10	E
Birmingham A	Bath	0	10	0	10	E
Birmingham B	Cambridge	0	10	0	10	E
Booz Allen Interns	Not Just Biking	0	10	10	20	EM
Burlington Trojans	Glebe	0	0	0	0
California	North Carolina	10	10	0	20	HE
Chapel Hill A	Chapel Hill B	0	10	10	20	EM
Chattahoochee B	Hoover	10	10	0	20	HE
Cheese Sandwich	Abbey Park	0	10	0	10	E
Chimera	Manchester B	0	10	0	10	E
Don't Ever Take Sides Against the Family	Big Brown Ballers	0	10	0	10	E
Eden Prairie	Minnetonka B	0	10	0	10	E
Exhibition	Chattahoochee A	10	10	10	30	HEM
Georgia B	Texas A	0	10	0	10	E
Hoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?	Michael Touse-Squid	0	10	0	10	E
I have no buzzer and I must neg	The Young Jits	0	10	0	10	E
Innovation A	Northview B	0	10	10	20	EM
Innovation B	Northview A	10	10	0	20	HE
Johns Creek	Lambert A	0	10	10	20	EM
Kentucky	Georgia A	0	0	0	0
Leif Eriksen's Striking Appearance	Always Set the Kurve	10	10	10	30	HEM
Lexington A	Waltham B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Lexington B	Waltham A	0	10	10	20	EM
Manchester A	Sheffield B	0	10	10	20	EM
Mansfield B	Wellesley	0	10	0	10	E
Martingrove	Renert	10	10	10	30	HEM
Midnight Bus to Vista	Taman's Nepo Babies	10	10	10	30	HEM
Midtown	Lambert B	0	0	0	0
Minnetonka A	Providence	0	10	10	20	EM
Minnetonka C	Burnsville	0	10	0	10	E
PC Chris Master Race	Ted Offensive	0	10	10	20	EM
Sheffield A	Edinburgh	0	10	10	20	EM
Southampton	Oxford	0	10	10	20	EM
Tantaene Animis Caelestibus Irae	Cary Academy	0	10	10	20	EM
Texas B	Georgia C	0	10	0	10	E
They fuck you up your buzz and neg	Jeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutu	0	10	0	10	E
They'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days	Armand duplantis fan club	0	10	10	20	EM
Virginia Tech	Ostia Orcas	0	10	10	20	EM
Warperial	Southperial	0	10	0	10	E
Washington	New York	10	10	0	20	HE
whatever	With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience	0	0	0	0

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech	2026-01-24	✓	6	18.33	83%	50%	50%
Triangle Cup	2026-03-13	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS	2026-03-13	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
VAULT II at McGill	2026-03-13	✓	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
VAULT II at UCSB	2026-03-13	✓	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%
VAULT II Northern UK	2026-04-24	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
VAULT II Southern UK	2026-04-24	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
VAULT II at Harvard	2026-04-30	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
VAULT II at MINT	2026-06-19	✓	5	12.00	80%	0%	40%
VAULT II Stanford Online	2026-07-17	✓	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%