sertão - 2023 BHSU - Buzzpoints App

Question

People in this region venerate the defrocked priest Padre Cicero as a saint, and celebrate his miracle of turning communion wine into blood within his congregant's mouth. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this Portuguese term for the backlands region of Northeastern Brazil. This rural region is the setting of many Brazilian folk tales and legends.

ANSWER: sertão [or sertão nordestino]

[10h] This is the primary biome in the sertão. This dry forest biome, whose name is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" and which is unique to Brazil, is characterized by thorny trees and large cacti.

ANSWER: caatinga (KAH-ching-uh)

[10e] This other biome is the primary one in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and extends southwards into Uruguay and Argentina. Buenos Aires is located in this fertile grassland region.

ANSWER: pampas

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2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	6	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	N	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	N	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	It's Joever	10	0	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford A	0	0	10	10
[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
Maryland B+	Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them	0	0	10	10
Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Rutgers Diaspora	The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs	10	0	10	20
Amartya Senpai Notice Me	WUSTL	10	0	10	20
Northwestern	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Maryland B-	Michigan	10	10	10	30
Mojo Shojo	Epic Games	10	10	10	30
Illinois+	Ohio State	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Purdue	10	0	10	20
Cornell C++	Dr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq	0	0	10	10
Hutto Hippos	Cornell B-	10	0	10	20
Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	Houston and friends	10	0	10	20
The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	10	10	0	20
Broken Imperial Nomads	Buzzers Karamazov	0	0	10	10
Oxford Hornets	Magisters Ludi	10	10	10	30
Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style	Parth et al.	10	0	10	20
The Passion According to C.H.	Milan et al.	10	0	10	20
The Vulture's Guide to Buzz	Cameron et al.	0	0	10	10