terracotta - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

This material was used for a large collection of ancient sculptures discovered in southern Nigeria that include depictions of a seated “thinker,” a horse and rider, and two people riding a canoe. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this material used to create many sculptures by the West African Nok people. A different ancient civilization used this material for sculptures in a structure that contained flowing rivers of mercury.

ANSWER: terracotta [accept Terracotta Army; prompt on clay or ceramics]

[10e] The Nok civilization may have independently discovered how to work this metal, whose namesake historical “age” traditionally follows the Bronze Age.

ANSWER: iron [accept Iron Age]

[10h] The cultivation of one variety of this staple crop has provided evidence that the Nok migrated from the Sahel. The consumption of this crop in northern China is often contrasted with a different staple crop in southern China.

ANSWER: millets [or xiǎomǐ or siu2 mai5; accept types of millet like pearl millet or finger millet or foxtail millet; prompt on mǐ]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	7	17.14	86%	57%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	6	18.33	83%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	88%	63%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	21.00	100%	90%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	15.00	100%	40%	10%

Data


Columbia B	Hopkins B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Penn State B	10	10	0	20
WashU B	UIUC A	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	WashU D	0	10	10	20
Michigan State B (UG)	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	10	0	10	20
McGill E	Vassar B	10	10	0	20
Mississippi State	Texas B	0	10	0	10
UCF A	UCF B	10	10	0	20
UF C	UF E	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Diamond Brandeis	BU B	0	10	0	10
Carabrandeis	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Stanford L	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Bard A	Princeton A	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Penn State A	Rutgers C	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	Miami	10	10	0	20
Purdue D	UChicago D	0	10	0	10
UChicago A	SIUE A	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	CWRU C (UG)	10	10	10	30
Michigan State C (UG)	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Colorado College	Arkansas	0	0	0	0
Iowa	Central Oklahoma	10	10	0	20
Oregon State	Texas D	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Missouri	10	10	10	30
Florida State University A	UF F	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Durham A	10	10	0	20
Oxford B	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Bristol B	LSE B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt	Durham B	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Northeastern A	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
Bowdoin B	Williams A	0	10	0	10
Brandeises Brew	Yale A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford M	10	10	10	30
Penn A	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
Haverford A	Penn B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame	Purdue C	0	10	0	10
UChicago B	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
CWRU A (UG)	Kenyon B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State C (DII)	CWRU B (UG)	0	10	0	10
NYU A	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Vassar A	Ole Miss	10	10	0	20
Florida Tech A	UF B	0	10	0	10
UF A	Florida Tech B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge D	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Edinburgh	10	10	10	30
Bristol A	Oxford A	10	10	10	30
Southampton A	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Amherst A	A Brandeis Supreme	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin A	Clark A	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Boston University A	10	10	0	20
Yale C	Brown A	0	10	0	10