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Question

In Papua, the Mbaham Matta grow a “long” form of this commodity named Myristica argentea. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this hallucinogenic commodity grown on the Banda Islands, whose trade was controlled by local Orang Kaya until Dutch conquest. Nathaniel Courthope’s crew defended the tiny island of Run for four years to give the British a foothold in this commodity’s trade.

ANSWER: nutmeg [accept mace; prompt on spices]

[10e] To secure their monopoly on the nutmeg trade, the Dutch gave this island to Britain in exchange for Run. On this island, the northern boundary of New Amsterdam was once marked by Wall Street.

ANSWER: Manhattan

[10m] The trade occurred as part of a 1667 treaty signed in this Dutch city that ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Spanish capture of this city during the Eighty Years’ War is memorialized in a painting commissioned by Philip IV.

ANSWER: Breda [accept The Surrender of Breda]

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	80%	20%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%

Data


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