Packet E: Bonus 14
The explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (“kay-ROYSH”) named Espiritu Santo, this country’s largest island, and intended to create a settlement there called New Jerusalem before his crew mutinied. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Melanesian country whose Pentecost Island was given its name by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. A 3,000-year-old cemetery at the site of Teouma in this country was created by the Lapita culture.
ANSWER: Vanuatu [or Republic of Vanuatu]
[10m] After the mutiny, Queirós’s crew took his ship to Acapulco, leaving this second-in-command to sail the rest of the fleet to Manila. This man may have sighted Australia during that voyage through a strait now named for him.
ANSWER: Luis Váez de Torres
[10e] Seeking Espiritu Santo as a tax haven, the US-based Phoenix Foundation supported a short-lived 1980 rebellion that was put down in a “war” named for this fruit. This fruit’s flesh, copra, is crushed to make oil.
ANSWER: coconuts [or Cocos nucifera]
<DM, Other History> | Packet E - Chicago A, Toronto B, Brandeis B, JHU A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | 12.53 | 61% | 40% | 24% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 25% | 25% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 60% | 40% | 20% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 11.11 | 44% | 22% | 44% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 16.25 | 88% | 38% | 38% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 60% | 20% | 40% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 25% | 50% | 25% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 7 | 10.00 | 57% | 43% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 9.17 | 42% | 33% | 17% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 16.25 | 88% | 50% | 25% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |