Question

A set of “Annals” of a polity based in this city were transcribed by the first Russian to circumnavigate the globe, Adam Johann Krusenstern. A man named Jebat rebelled in this city after believing that his friend, the laksamana, was executed. A king legendarily founded this city after one of his hunting dogs was kicked into a river by a mouse-deer. This city (10[1])is the setting of the Hikayat Hang Tuah. Control of this city hyperbolically afforded control over Venice according to the Suma Oriental of Tomé (-5[1])Pires (10[1])(“toe-may pee-reesh”), who spent two years (10[1])in this city after arriving from Goa. This city was founded by Parameswara of Singapura, (10[1])who later converted to Islam and took the name Iskandar Shah. (10[1])This city was captured in 1511 (10[1])by Afonso de Albuquerque. (10[3]-5[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what city’s namesake sultanate (10[1])controlled the spice (-5[3])trade (-5[1])through a namesake strait between (10[1])Sumatra (10[2])and the (10[1])Malay (10[1])Peninsula? ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: Malacca [or Melaka; or Malacca City or Bandaraya Melaka or Kota Melaka; accept Straits of Malacca; accept Malacca Sultanate or Kesultanan Melaka; reject “Molucca” or “Maluku”] (The first sentence refers to the Malay Annals.)
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2190%0%33%126.42

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ASouth Carolina A6210
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AFlorida A86-5
Stevie MillerMaryland AHarvard A8710
Matt JacksonChicago APenn A9110
Nikhil ChellamNorthwestern ABrown A10610
Hari ParameswaranGeorgia Tech AMIT A11710
Elijah ScheinsonColumbia AUC Berkeley B12310
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins AChicago B12710
Jonathan TranCornell AVirginia A12710
Aiden DartleyRutgers AVanderbilt A12710
Matthew SiffYale BPurdue A127-5
Justin WytmarIllinois AMichigan A127-5
Jacob EgolDuke AChicago C13010
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BMinnesota B13410
Yared TadesseCornell BNYU A137-5
John BroussardHouston AMinnesota A137-5
Brad MacLaineTexas AWUSTL B137-5
Swapnil GargUC Berkeley AImperial A138-5
Daniel MaYale AOhio State A14310
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BIndiana A14410
Tracy MirkinFlorida AToronto A14410
Conor ThompsonIowa State ANorth Carolina A14610
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BTexas A14710
Shardul RaoMinnesota AHouston A1490
Halle FriedmanNYU ACornell B14910
Todd MaslykMichigan AIllinois A14910
Michael MaysImperial AUC Berkeley A14910