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Question

Abdul Rahman’s monumental Cities of Salt quintet depicts how lower-class Bedouins in the oasis town of Wadi al-Uyoun grapple with the discovery of this resource by Western imperialists. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this commodity. An Upton Sinclair novel titled for this resource loosely inspired Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 film There Will Be Blood.

ANSWER: oil [or petroleum or gasoline]

[10h] This Indian academic, who coined the term “petrofiction” in an essay on Cities of Salt, criticized the role of imperialism in causing climate change in The Great Derangement. This man wrote the 2008 novel Sea of Poppies.

ANSWER: Amitav Ghosh

[10m] The consequences of Western oil exploration in this country are chronicled in Helon Habila’s petrofiction novel Oil on Water. An environmental activist against Royal Dutch Shell in this country also wrote the novel Sozaboy.

ANSWER: Nigeria [or Federal Republic of Nigeria] (The activist is Ken Saro-Wiwa.)

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	1	10.00	0%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	N	6	16.67	83%	83%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	N	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	N	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


BU	Boston College A	10	0	0	10
Harvard	Boston College B	10	0	10	20
Tufts A	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Bowdoin C	Amherst	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	North Carolina B	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech C	South Carolina	10	0	0	10
WashU	Squidward Community College	10	0	10	20
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Old and Young	10	0	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	Paddington in Peru (2024)	10	10	10	30
The cult of SGA	Social credit go vroom	10	0	0	10
In the Mood for Buzz	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	10	10	10	30
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	bingy academy	10	0	10	20
RIT	Maryland	10	0	0	10
Penn State	Pitt	10	0	10	20
Valencia	UCF B	10	0	0	10
UF A	UF C	10	0	10	20
UCF A	UF B	10	0	10	20
USF	Florida Tech	0	0	0	0
MIT	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	20
Brandeis A	Tufts B	10	0	0	10
Yale	Clark House	10	10	10	30
Berkeley Past	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Stanford	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State	Georgia Tech B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	Innovation Academy B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	Innovation Academy B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Lambert	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Lambert	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Innovation Academy C	10	0	10	20
Innovation Academy A	Innovation Academy B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Johns Creek	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Milton	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Innovation Academy B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	Innovation Academy B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Lambert	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Lambert	10	0	10	20
Bristol	Warwick A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Cambridge A	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	LSE A	10	0	10	20
Warwick B	Southampton	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Warwick C	10	0	10	20