cockfighting - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

The prevalence of this activity in the turn-of-the-20th-century Dominican Republic caused the Blue Party and the Red Party to be nicknamed the “tailless one” and the “long-tailed ones.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this sporting activity popular among bettors in state-sponsored Cuban arenas despite its illegality in most of the world.

ANSWER: cockfighting [or cock match or bird fighting; or pelea de gallos or riña de gallos; accept gamecocks]

[10h] The term rabiblancos, literally meaning “white-tailed,” was used in this country to derogatively refer to rich elites of European descent. José de Fabrega convinced those elites in this country to join an eastern neighbor.

ANSWER: Panama [or Republic of Panamá; or República de Panamá] (The eastern neighbor was Gran Colombia.)

[10m] This Caribbean dictator claimed his grip on power was as “firm as a monkey tail” despite the Reagan Administration announcing his flight to France in 1986; he was exiled a week later.

ANSWER: Jean-Claude Duvalier [accept “Baby Doc” or “Bebe Dòk”; prompt on Duvalier or Doc; reject “François Duvalier” or “Papa Doc”]

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	24	9.58	79%	17%	0%

Data


WUSTL A	Chicago B	10	10	20
Claremont A	Rutgers A	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Columbia A	10	0	10
Imperial A	Minnesota B	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Purdue A	10	0	10
McGill A	Illinois A	10	10	20
Penn State A	South Carolina A	10	0	10
Michigan A	Rutgers B	0	0	0
Stanford A	Chicago A	10	0	10
Texas A	MIT A	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	NYU A	10	0	10
Yale B	Virginia A	10	0	10
Cornell A	Brown A	0	0	0
Harvard A	Northwestern A	10	0	10
Iowa State A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10
Toronto A	North Carolina A	10	10	20
UC Berkeley B	Houston A	0	0	0
Chicago C	Indiana A	10	0	10
Florida A	Duke A	10	10	20
Columbia B	Florida B	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Yale A	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Maryland A	0	0	0
Penn A	WUSTL B	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	Cornell B	0	0	0