Rothschild family - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

A member of this family named Lionel was denied seating in the House of Commons three times since he refused to take a Christian oath. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this European family who, in collaboration with the Baring Brothers, imported foodstuff into Ireland during the famine between 1845 and 1849 and founded the British Relief Association.

ANSWER: Rothschild family [accept Lionel Rothschild]

[10m] Lionel’s grandson, Walter Rothschild, was the addressed recipient of this document, which Gertrude Bell called a “nightmare” and Lord Curzon opposed over language regarding a proposed “national home.”

ANSWER: Balfour Declaration

[10e] Lionel Rothschild loaned the British government money to purchase Egyptian shares in a company that operated this structure, which linked maritime trade from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.

ANSWER: Suez Canal [or Qanāt es-Suwais]

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	26.00	100%	100%	60%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	N	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	N	5	20.00	60%	80%	60%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	N	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	N	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Ottawa A	McDouble West-Carleton	0	10	10	20
Duke	James Madison A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina B	James Madison B	10	10	10	30
NC State	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Waterloo	Ottawa B	0	10	10	20
Ottawa C	Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	Georgia B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Bristol	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Durham	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Warwick	10	10	10	30
Oxford	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
George Washington A	George Washington B	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Georgetown	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	Johns Hopkins	0	10	10	20
Kenyon A	Kenyon B	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20
OSU B	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Arizona State	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	0	10	10	20
Ganon Evans Fan Club	Boston College	0	0	10	10
Farrellmagnetism	MSU A and Friend	10	10	10	30
Cornell MATLAB	Cornell R	0	0	10	10
Texas A	tag magnet: taylor's version	0	10	10	20
Texas B	TAMU	0	0	10	10
HCC	Texas C	0	0	10	10
Squidward Community College	Missouri A	0	0	10	10
WUSTL H2O	SIUE	10	10	10	30
WUSTL XYZ	Missouri B	0	10	10	20