Question
The Lažijada (“lah-ZHEE-ah-TAH”) is a lie-telling competition along the banks of this river, whose old name of Zelenika refers to its rich green color. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this river that passes through Višegrad (“VEE-shah-grahd”), where it is crossed by the Mehmed Paša Sokolović (“MEH-med PAH-shah soh-KOH-loh-vitch”) Bridge at the center of a 1945 novel.
ANSWER: Drina River [accept The Bridge on the Drina]
[10e] The Drina separates Serbia and this other country partially named for the southern region of Herzegovina.
ANSWER: Bosnia [accept Bosnia and Herzegovina]
[10m] The Drina flows through the Sutjeska (“soot-YES-ka”) National Park, a hotspot for a goat-like relative of these animals called the chamois (“sha-mee”). The nyala and impala are species of these animals that have spiral horns and are native to Africa.
ANSWER: antelopes [accept goat-antelopes; accept Caprini or Caprinae or Caprine; accept Aepyceros; prompt on bovids or ungulates or artiodactyls or ruminants; prompt on deer]
<Ganon Evans, Geography - Europe> ~21217~ <Editor: Ganon Evans>
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 14.86 | 86% | 57% | 6% |
Data
Dunbar | Barrington A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Belmont | Canyon Crest | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Carbondale | Midtown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chattahoochee A | West Point | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Detroit Catholic Central C | Chattahoochee B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Choate Rosemary Hall | Kinkaid | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Winston Churchill B | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Johns Creek B | Dallas County | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Detroit Catholic Central A | Belvidere | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Detroit Country Day | Parkway West | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
William Fremd | Hunter B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Hunter A | Irvington A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
John Adams A | Norris | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Detroit Catholic Central B | John Adams B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Johns Creek A | Winnebago | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Maggie Walker B | Solon | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Maggie Walker C | Carl Sandburg | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Mercer County | Stevenson B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Lincoln-Way East | Mexico | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Moberly | Stevenson A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
New Brighton | Elkhorn North | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Northmont A | Richard Montgomery | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Plymouth | Thomas Jefferson C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Rockford Auburn A | Maggie Walker A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Hoover B | Saint Joseph | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Innovation Academy A | St. Mark's | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Mira Loma | Thomas Jefferson D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Troy | Innovation Academy B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Heights | University Lab | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Northmont B | Walter Payton | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Washington | Thomas Jefferson B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Hinsdale Central | Waukee | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Rockford Auburn B | Winston Churchill A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Thomas Jefferson A | Woodland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Barrington B | Norman | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |