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Question

This language’s similarity to the Ma’anyan language suggests that its speakers were descended from settlers from the Malay archipelago. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this language which, along with French, is one of two official languages of Madagascar.

ANSWER: Malagasy

[10m] The Kibusha dialect of Malagasy is spoken on this island, which was conquered by King Andriantsoly in the 1800s. As a result of a 1974 referendum, this island voted to remain a French overseas department and not join Comoros.

ANSWER: Mayotte [or Maore; or Maori; accept Department of Mayotte]

[10h] English loan words entered Malagasy thanks to members of this profession, who settled Nosy Baraha. David Graeber’s final published work examines Ratsimilaho, a queen descended from a member of this profession.

ANSWER: pirates [or piracy; prompt on sailors] (Graeber’s book is Pirate Enlightenment, or the New Libertalia.)

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Summary


2024 ESPN @ Brown	04/06/2024	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ESPN @ Cambridge	04/06/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 ESPN @ Chicago	03/23/2024	Y	6	21.67	100%	33%	83%
2024 ESPN @ Columbia	03/23/2024	Y	6	25.00	100%	83%	67%
2024 ESPN @ Duke	03/23/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ESPN @ Online	06/01/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ESPN @ Stanford	03/09/2024	N	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%

Data


The Present King of James is Bald	Cleo: 5/7 movie	10	10	0	20
Houston Junior College	Riley et al.	10	0	0	10
Free-ish Agents	Williams et al.	10	10	0	20
Free-ish Agents	Williams et al.	10	10	0	20
Free-ish Agents	Williams et al.	10	10	0	20
Free-ish Agents	Williams et al.	10	10	0	20
Free-ish Agents	Williams et al.	10	10	0	20
Clark B	Jason Lovers	10	10	0	20
Jeffrey and Dahmers	Triple Round Robin Lovers	10	10	0	20
Labour's Lost Lovers	Clark A	10	10	10	30
Heat-Oppressed Brains	Eugene o'Negging	10	0	0	10
You, Me and the Big G	A VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	10	0	10	20
2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind	Oh the Missouri	10	0	10	20
Charlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawline	purdoobie brothers	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Michigan	10	0	10	20
Noli Me Tangerine	BHSU	10	10	0	20
Chicago A Minus Minus	>:3	10	10	10	30
Nobodaddy but you	malcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1)	10	0	10	20
NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess)	1.g4 Test Mixture	10	0	0	10
JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz	Naocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse	10	10	10	30
Parden the Interruption	JJaryland	10	10	10	30
bruh	Sandmännchen im Helikopter	10	10	10	30
chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia	protobowling for soup	10	10	0	20
mnemonists	The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola	10	10	10	30
UNC A	UNC B	10	10	0	20
Duke	UNC Hunny	10	10	0	20
Free-ish Agents	Williams et al.	10	10	0	20
Free-ish Agents	Williams et al.	10	10	0	20
Free-ish Agents	Williams et al.	10	10	0	20