Taíno - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

According to Charles Mann, this people drilled holes into gourds and stuffed them with chili peppers to create an early form of chemical grenade. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Indigenous people of Hispaniola and other Caribbean islands. Some of them on the Bahamas were the first to encounter Christopher Columbus.

ANSWER: Taíno (“tah-EE-no”) [prompt on Arawak; reject “Carib”]

[10e] Mann discusses the Taíno in his two books titled for the years before and after this other year in which Columbus first landed in the Americas.

ANSWER: 1492

[10m] Residents of this island adopted the denonym Boricua from the Taíno word Borinquen. The cacique (“kah-SEE-kay”) Agüeybaná (“ah-GWAY-bah-nah”) rebelled against its first Spanish governor, Ponce de León.

ANSWER: Puerto Rico [or PR]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	4	22.50	100%	50%	75%
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	22.22	100%	56%	67%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	22.22	100%	44%	78%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	7	20.00	100%	43%	57%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	20.00	100%	13%	88%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	10	26.00	100%	60%	100%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	18.89	89%	44%	56%

Data


UCLA A	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UCLA B	UCLA C	10	10	10	30
UCLA D	UCLA E	0	10	0	10
Claremont C	UCSD	10	10	10	30
RIT B	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	ESF	10	10	10	30
Penn State	Cornell A	0	10	10	20
U of Rochester B	RIT A	0	10	0	10
RIT C	Binghamton B	10	10	10	30
Illinois D	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
Iowa B	Illinois A	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Indiana	10	10	0	20
Iowa A	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
WashU A	SIUE	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame C	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Binghamton A	10	10	10	30
Cornell G	Binghamton C	10	10	0	20
Cornell E	Syracuse	10	10	10	30
U of Rochester A	Cornell F	10	10	0	20
Lehigh B	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
Princeton A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers B	Rowan A	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Penn A	Fordham A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	NYU A	10	10	10	30
Penn B	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30
CWRU A	Miami C	10	10	0	20
Michigan D	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Miami A	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
Jefferson County Scholars	West Virginia A	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	West Virginia B	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	Miami B	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Michigan State B	10	10	10	30
Auburn A	Belmont	10	10	10	30
Emory A	Clemson B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Georgia A	Mississippi State A	10	10	0	20
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Auburn B	South Carolina B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Southern	10	10	10	30
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20
Appalachian State A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
William & Mary	Appalachian State B	10	10	10	30
Duke B	James Madison A	10	10	10	30
Liberty B	James Madison B	0	10	0	10
NC State	UNC C	10	10	0	20
Tusculum	Liberty A	0	0	0	0
UNC A	UNC D	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	UNC B	0	10	10	20
Duke A	Virginia	0	10	0	10