Question
In a myth from this country, a peasant tried to cut down the leg of the giant Rapeto (“rah-PAY-too”) thinking it was a tree, thus making the land. In this country, a ritual where bones of ancestors are taken out and paraded around is performed to not violate any fady (“FAH-dih”) taboos. After leaving the island of Johanna, James Misson reportedly settled in this country. This country, the site of the likely fictional (*) “pirate utopia” of Libertalia, is the home of the famadihana (“fah-mah-dee-HAH-nuh”) ritual. Myths of this country tell about a group of small inhabitants known as Vazimba. The son of the god Zanahery (“zah-nah-HAY-rih”) is believed to have descended to earth and begun this country’s Merina dynasty, while other myths combine its Bantu and Austronesian heritage. For 10 points, name this country where many folktales involve lemurs. ■END■
Summary
2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 62.50 |
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.25 |
2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 0% | 68.40 |
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 104.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.67 |
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 95.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 13% | 13% | 90.38 |
2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 82.50 |
Buzzes
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Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Northwestern B | 31 | -5 |
Zac Stapler | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 43 | 15 |
William Golden | Houston | Texas B | 49 | 15 |
Justin Lee | 3HK1MM | LSE | 49 | 15 |
Graham Cope | UF C | UCF | 51 | 15 |
Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Notre Dame C | 62 | 15 |
Omer Keskin | Say it | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | 62 | 15 |
Oliver Hargrave | See it | Limp Chriskit | 62 | 15 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia | Maryland | 72 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE | Chicago A | 73 | 10 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 74 | 10 |
Matthew Andersen | UF B | UF A | 74 | 10 |
Max Neal | Harvard A | Yale A | 74 | 10 |
Dillon Patel | The Crying of Team 49 | Oxford School for Quizness | 74 | 10 |
Vincent Du | UNC A | UNC B | 76 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Indiana B | 77 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | BU | 77 | 10 |
Arthur Stadlin | Ohio State A | Ohio State C | 80 | 10 |
Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Chicago B | 80 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | Notre Dame A | 86 | 10 |
Owyn Noble | Purdue | Notre Dame B | 89 | 10 |
Andrew Zeng | Stanford | Berkeley B | 95 | -5 |
Brendan Bethlehem | Sorted | Gressenheller A | 95 | 10 |
Ethan Linn | Tufts | Brandeis | 114 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | JHU A | Princeton | 114 | 10 |
Athena Shadden | Texas A | TAMU | 116 | 10 |
Jacob Egol | Duke A | Virginia Tech A | 116 | 10 |
Leo Tao | Michigan B | Michigan State | 122 | 10 |
June Yin | WUSTL | Illinois C | 123 | 10 |
Jerry Zhang | Harvard B | Yale B | 132 | 10 |
Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Illinois B | 133 | 10 |
Ryan Sun | Berkeley B | Stanford | 134 | 10 |
Elizabeth Jewlal | JHU B | NYU B | 134 | 10 |
Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Carnegie Mellon | 135 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT A | UNC C | 135 | 10 |