Question

Competition between high-ranking women in this country for the affection of a European whaler escalated into the Girls’ War. (10[1])The first exercise of one (10[1])law code in this country was the execution of a 17-year-old boy who took the name (-5[1])Wiremu for killing 5 settlers. A treaty signed in this country included a term (10[1])that can be translated as both “unqualified (10[2])chieftainship” (10[2])or “absolute (10[2])sovereignty.” (10[6])A tribal (10[3])chief in this (10[1])country repeatedly cut down the Union Jack (10[4])near the Bay of (10[1])Islands, (10[4])triggering (10[1])the (10[2])Flagstaff War. (10[2])In 1840, (10[1])James Busby and William (10[1])Hobson drafted a treaty that recognized indigenous land ownership in this country; (10[1])that treaty was signed by chiefs called Rangatira (10[1])but opposed by Musket Wars veteran Hōne (10[1])Heke. (10[2])For 10 points, name this country colonized by the British after the Treaty of Waitangi. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: New Zealand [or Aotearoa]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jacob Martin (UG)Maryland B (UG)UNC A (Grad)1810
Omer KeskinOxford AWarwick2310
Deepak MuthyalaTexas A&M AIowa B39-5
Karthik PrasadCornell BCornell A5310
Nathaniel HullBerkeley ABerkeley C6010
Michał GerasimiukStanford AStanford B6010
Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury (UG)Michigan AOhio State A6110
Cooper Roh (DII)Columbia ARowan6110
Noah Dean (DII)KenyonCedarville6310
Albert Zhang (UG)Columbia CJohns Hopkins6310
Minh Nguyen (DII)Virginia A (UG)GWU B (Grad)6410
Andy Yu (DII)Maryland A (Grad)JMU B (UG)6410
Chinmay MurthyTexas ASorbonne6410
Michael MaysImperial AEdinburgh6410
Ian DewanKielBristol6410
Alessandro BogoKCLSheffield6410
Graham Troy (DII)UNC B (UG)Duke A (UG)6610
Sam Macchi (DII)VassarJohn Jay6610
Elliot CosnettOxford BDurham B6610
Kai MadgwickDurham AImperial B6910
Ryan SunBerkeley BStanford C7610
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt (DII)NYU AHaverford7610
Amogh KulkarniGeodesicKentucky7610
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech AGeorgia Tech B7610
Jack LewisMTSUVanderbilt B8010
Julian BushlowCornell CRIT A8110
Duncan Griffiths (UG)William & Mary A (UG)Virginia C (UG)8110
Truman FillbrandtUW ATexas A&M B8110
Dean Ah NowClaremont AUBC A8110
Zaid Asif (DII)NYU BPenn8210
Roan DowlingIowa ARice A8310
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AAlabama8310
Perry O'Connor (Grad)Liberty A (Grad)Liberty C (DII)8510
Harrison WhitakerCambridge ACambridge B8510
Elijah ScheinsonOxford CCambridge C8710
Leo Tao (UG)Michigan CMichigan B9110
Caleb Hines (DII)Liberty B (DII)UNC C (UG)10310
Andrew Amygdalos (UG)GWU A (UG)Maryland C (DII)11110
Cameron WilliamsAppalachian StateMichigan State A11810
Matthew ChristianBinghamtonRIT B11910
Jack ObermanSouth CarolinaHarding11910
Aleks Kozlowski (DII)Roanoke College A (DII)JMU A (UG)13410
Charlotte Goeb (UG)Virginia B (UG)UNC D (DII)13510
Ryan DunnIowa BTexas A&M A13510