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]
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 RIT | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | N | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | N | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | N | 5 | 26.00 | 100% | 100% | 60% |
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | N | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | N | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | N | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | 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 |
Waterloo | Ottawa B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Ottawa C | Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Cornell MATLAB | Cornell R | 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 |