Question
In October 2023, a country closed all of its diesel power plants after Shema Power [this lake] opened the world’s largest methane extraction system on it. The term “mazuku” is most associated with deaths around this lake. Until 12,000 years ago, this lake emptied north towards Lake Edward. The March 23 Movement and most active “Mai-Mai” militias operate in a region named for this lake. Bukavu lies on the south end of this lake, while many invasions have occurred on the road between Gisenyi and (*) Goma to its north. The Ruzizi River drains this lake into Lake Tanganyika and the Congo River system. This lake is the largest believed capable of having limnic eruptions of carbon dioxide. A conflict commonly named for this lake is a continuation of the Second Congo War. For 10 points, what African Great Lake west of Rwanda names two provinces of the DRC? ■END■
ANSWER: Lake Kivu [accept Shema Power Lake Kivu] (“Mazuku” refers to deaths caused by carbon dioxide in a limnic eruption.)
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 98.67 |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 100% | 112.00 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 0% | 101.00 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 20% | 84.60 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 81.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 67% | 17% | 33% | 91.25 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 93.50 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Mukherjee | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | 37 | -5 |
| Rohan Shelke | Berkeley | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 39 | -5 |
| Natan Holtzman | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 40 | 15 |
| Elijah Mandelbaum | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 42 | 15 |
| Albert Zhang | Walston et. al. | just one more half-dot bro | 43 | 15 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Limp Franceskit | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 50 | -5 |
| Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 54 | 15 |
| John Chen | UBC | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 55 | -5 |
| Neil Gurram | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Stanford+ | 56 | 15 |
| Emmett Laurie | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 57 | 15 |
| Sean Higgins | Clown Senpais | Clown Squad | 64 | 15 |
| Michael Du | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 64 | 15 |
| Adil Haider | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 64 | -5 |
| Zach Joseph | Notre Dame | Northeast by Northwestern | 65 | -5 |
| Micah Colman | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 81 | 15 |
| Arjun Vijaykumar | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | Thompson et al. | 82 | -5 |
| Daoud Jackson | Defying Suavity | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 88 | 10 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 88 | 10 |
| Hari Parameswaran | Cry of the Common Loon | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 92 | 10 |
| William Houston | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | hawk two of | 96 | 10 |
| Tejas Raje | BHSU Rebirth | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 97 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge | Simple Vibes | 99 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU | BHSU ReFantazio | 108 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 125 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 144 | 10 |
| Walter Zhang | Import Pandas | Banned from ARGOS | 148 | 0 |
| Adam Silverman | |madam| | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 148 | 10 |
| Jaimie Carlson | Banned from ARGOS | Import Pandas | 148 | 0 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northeast by Northwestern | Notre Dame | 148 | 0 |
| Adam Fine | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 148 | 0 |
| Joseph Collins | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Limp Franceskit | 148 | 0 |
| Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 148 | 10 |
| Eric Chen | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Berkeley | 148 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Thompson et al. | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 148 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | UBC | 148 | 10 |