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 (-5[1])of an immigration policy that targeted (*) Kanakas. This country’s indigenous people were (-5[1])enslaved to work as pearling luggers in Broome. (10[1])Melanesian (10[1])laborers were kidnapped in a process called blackbirding (10[1])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■ (10[5])

ANSWER: Australia [or Commonwealth of Australia]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ben KoberleinNotre Dame CIndiana B78-5
Danila KabotyanskiIndiana AWUSTL90-5
William HoustonChicago BNotre Dame A9810
Joel MilesMinnesotaNotre Dame B9910
Akshar GoyalIllinois BNorthwestern A10710
Liam StarnesChicago AIllinois A13310
John John GrogerWUSTLIndiana A13310
Stephen WalshNorthwestern BIllinois C13310
Trenton BurgessIndiana BNotre Dame C13310
Logan MathisSIUEPurdue13310

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y8100%0%25%121.13