meteor impact - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

The failed creation of a new Sun following the theft of the old one in the Kalevala may have been inspired by a megatsunami generated following this type of event near the Estonian island village of Kaali. For 10 points each:

[10h] The Syrian village of Abu Hureyra was damaged by what type of event that may have triggered the Younger Dryas’ meltwater pulse? Cape York was the site of another of these events.

ANSWER: meteor impact [accept similar answers like asteroid or comet impact; accept airburst]

[10m] The Cape York meteorite provided iron for the skraeling natives of this island, which also contains the largest-known deposit of free telluric iron. Europeans abandoned the Western and Eastern settlements on this island.

ANSWER: Greenland [or Kalaallit Nunaat or Grønland]

[10e] A menstruating lizard woman and “fire-devils” are fixtures in myths about the Henbury impacts in this country. Various indigenous rock paintings in this country depict the Rainbow Serpent.

ANSWER: Australia [or Commonwealth of Australia]

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	7	15.71	86%	43%	29%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	20.00	80%	60%	60%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


Boston College B	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	0	0	10	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto B	10	10	10	30
McGill A	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	10	10	20
Jason et al.	Anderson et al.	0	10	10	20
U[C]SD	Claremont	10	10	10	30
ALCU	SGV Ventures	0	10	10	20
Penn State	Pitt	0	0	10	10
RIT	Maryland	10	10	10	30
UCF B	USF	0	0	10	10
UF B	UF A	10	10	10	30
UF C	UCF A	0	10	10	20
Florida Tech	Valencia	0	0	0	0
Berkeley A	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Berkeley Past	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	SIUE	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Cambridge A	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	LSE A	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	LSE B	10	10	10	30
Bristol	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
Warwick C	Southampton	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	Brandeis B	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin B	Clark House	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin C	Clark Wilson	0	0	10	10
Amherst	MIT	0	10	10	20
Tufts A	Boston College A	10	10	10	30
Harvard	Yale	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech C	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Truman	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Squidward Community College	WashU	10	0	10	20
In the Mood for Buzz	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	0	0	10	10
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Madmen and Specialists	0	10	10	20
Old and Young	bingy academy	0	10	10	20
Social credit go vroom	Paddington in Peru (2024)	0	10	10	20
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	The cult of SGA	10	10	10	30
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	Waterloo Basic	0	0	10	10
Carleton A	Waterloo Cloze	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Milton	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Mississippi State	Innovation Academy A	0	10	10	20
Innovation Academy B	Innovation Academy C	0	0	10	10
Johns Creek	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Notre Dame	0	10	10	20
Illinois Blue	Illinois Orange	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Purdue B	0	0	10	10