Question
Dozens of foreign workers in this present-day country were beaten with stirrup irons during an 1883 riot at a racetrack. Robert Towns operated a cotton plantation in this country with the help of accused rapist Henry Ross Lewin. The medical student and journalist George Morrison wrote an account for the newspaper The Age about his experience on a slave ship from this country. A politician from this country called for ending a practice of “veiled slavery” with the introduction of an immigration policy that targeted (*) Kanakas. This country’s indigenous people were enslaved to work as pearling luggers in Broome. Melanesian laborers were kidnapped in a process called blackbirding to work on plantations in this country. For 10 points, name this country where many South Sea Islanders worked in the sugarcane fields of Queensland. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame C | Indiana B | 78 | -5 |
Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | WUSTL | 90 | -5 |
William Houston | Chicago B | Notre Dame A | 98 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | Notre Dame B | 99 | 10 |
Akshar Goyal | Illinois B | Northwestern A | 107 | 10 |
Liam Starnes | Chicago A | Illinois A | 133 | 10 |
John John Groger | WUSTL | Indiana A | 133 | 10 |
Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Illinois C | 133 | 10 |
Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | Notre Dame C | 133 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE | Purdue | 133 | 10 |