“Road of Bones” - 2024 ARGOS

Question

This highway’s nickname comes from the theory that hundreds of thousands of convict laborers who died while building it had their corpses incorporated into the highway. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this highway that ends at the easternmost major city in Asia reachable by road from the rest of the continent. The Anadyr Highway is an ongoing extension of this highway to the Bering Sea.

ANSWER: “Road of Bones” [or Doróga Kostéy; accept R504 Kolyma Highway or R504]

[10m] The Road of Bones connects Nizhny Bestyakh, opposite the Lena River from Yakutsk, with this city, the largest port on the Sea of Okhotsk. This city and the Road of Bones leading to it were built by gulag prisoners for gold mines in Kolyma.

ANSWER: Magadan

[10e] Before the Road of Bones, prisoners reached Magadan by ship via Khabarovsk, where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses this river. This river forms much of the Russia-China border and names the northernmost Chinese province.

ANSWER: Amur River [or Heilong Jiang]

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Summary


2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


Cambridge	Cien Años de Quizboledad	0	0	10	10
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	Simple Vibes	0	0	0	0
Limp Franceskit	Defying Suavity	0	10	10	20
"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	Import Pandas	0	0	10	10
Hu up Jinning they Tao	Pahkin' the Ahgo	0	0	10	10
\|madam\|	Banned from ARGOS	0	0	10	10
BHSU ReFantazio	Music to Help You Stop Smoking	0	0	10	10
Clown Senpais	Northeast by Northwestern	0	10	10	20
Clown Squad	That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	0	0	10	10
The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	Notre Dame	0	10	10	20
WashU	hawk two of	0	0	10	10
Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	BHSU Rebirth	0	0	0	0
UBC	Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	0	0	10	10
Thompson et al.	CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	10	10	10	30
throw away your cards, rally in the streets	I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	0	0	10	10
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	12 Litres of Green Tea	0	0	10	10
Walston et. al.	Cope is the thing with feathers	0	0	10	10
NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	just one more half-dot bro	0	0	10	10
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	0	10	10	20
Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	0	0	10	10
You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	0	0	10	10
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	0	0	10	10
as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	0	10	10	20
Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	0	10	10	20
number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	Berkeley	0	0	10	10
Cry of the Common Loon	Stanford+	0	0	10	10