Packet E: Bonus 12
The need to import this resource motivated an unsuccessful Nazi German research program into producing it with specially bred dandelions. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this resource. E. D. Morel exposed a system for extracting this resource from Landolphia owariensis that included use of the chicotte (“shee-KUT”) hippopotamus hide whip on the local population.
ANSWER: natural rubber
[10h] The rubber supplies in this region, at the time part of Bolivia, led to Brazilian settlers declaring it an “independent state” in 1899. After a war named for this region, Brazil annexed it in the 1903 Treaty of Petrópolis.
ANSWER: Acre (“AH-kree”)
[10e] In 1926, Firestone received a 99-year lease in this country to create what is today the world’s largest rubber plantation. The US aided in negotiations due to this country’s historic founding by American ex-slaves.
ANSWER: Liberia [or Republic of Liberia]
<Chicago A, World History> | Packet E - Chicago A, Toronto B, Brandeis B, JHU A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | 19.73 | 99% | 71% | 28% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 50% | 75% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 67% | 22% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 7 | 14.29 | 100% | 43% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 19.17 | 92% | 67% | 33% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |