Question
Small boats called kwassa-kwassa are often used by illegal immigrants from one of these polities to the other. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two polities that form an archipelago. The only time France used its Security Council veto alone was to condemn a resolution arguing that one of these polities should control the other, instead of France.
ANSWER: The Comoros AND Mayotte [accept Union of the Comoros; or Udzima wa Komori; or Union des Comores; or Jamhuriyat al-Qumur al-Mutahida in place of “Comoros”; accept Department of Mayotte or Département de Mayotte in place of “Mayotte”]
[10e] Both the Comoros and Mayotte are historically part of a culture named for this Bantu group. This group’s namesake language is a major East African lingua franca.
ANSWER: Swahili [or Kiswahili]
[10m] Many Swahili people claim descent from this modern-day country, a claim backed by a 2023 study. Comorian president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi was nicknamed for a leader of this country after studying in its city of Qom (“GOME”).
ANSWER: Iran [or Islamic Republic of Iran; or Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân; or Persia] (His nickname is “Ayatollah”)
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Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 100% | 29% | 14% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Waterloo Miku | Library of Babel School of Continuing Studies | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto Weary | Mixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| La Clique du Château | Toronto Joy | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo Hatsune | Toronto Rofl | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| FSU B | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Florida | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brandeis | Boston College | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard | Brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Tufts | MIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UMD A | Colubmia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UMD B | JHU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Pitt | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| JHU A | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oklahoma A | Rice | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas B | Oklahoma B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas C | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Scottish, Irish, Both or Neither | 3HK1MM | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | John Jay | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Broken Hearts | Tabearnacle | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Edinburgh | Four Neg Omelette | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 Negs that Shook the Quiz | Foucault's Penndulum | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC A | USC A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Old London Town | Betrayed by Rita Izzatdust | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UNC B | UNC C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| USC B | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |