Question
C. L. R. James’s story “Triumph” examines one of the communal yards within these structures that housed poor laborers in Port of Spain. For 10 points each:
[10m] What cramped buildings at St. Ann’s housed Bridgetown’s WIR (“W-I-R”)? Africans were imprisoned in a type of these structures that titles Zora Neale Hurston’s embellished account of Cudjoe Lewis, who survived America’s last slave ship.
ANSWER: barracks [or barraques or barracas; accept barracoons, barracón, barracones, or barracãos; accept barrack-yard, barracks-yard, yard-barracks, barrack ranges, or front barracks; accept West India Barracks or Stone Barracks; prompt on Saint Ann’s Garrison; prompt on dormitory, dormitories, huts, or cabins by asking “what were they called in this context?”; reject “ships” or “boats”] (The WIR were the West India Regiments. Lewis was transported on the Clotilda.)
[10h] Haitian braceros lived in these wooden barracks on Dominican sugar estates. They share their name with Puerto Rican meeting spaces, Taíno ball courts, and Cuban millyards similar to engenhos (“en-ZHAIN-yoos”).
ANSWER: bateys (“bah-TAYS”) [or bateyes; accept batu]
[10e] Part of this Caribbean country’s national museum is housed in 18th-century barracks in St. George’s, which Eric Gairy renovated before his overthrow by Maurice Bishop.
ANSWER: Grenada [or Gwenad; accept Grenada National Museum]
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Summary
2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 14.17 | 83% | 50% | 8% |
Data
Berkeley A | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Chicago A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
North Carolina B | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Claremont Colleges | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Columbia A | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Michigan | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Stanford | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Illinois | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Cornell B | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
NYU | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
McGill | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Cornell A | Minnesota A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Truman State | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Purdue | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
South Carolina | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Northwestern | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Toronto B | Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Berkeley B | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Virginia | Penn | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Florida | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Texas | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Yale A | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Duke | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Columbia B | Ottawa | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |