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Question

Concerns have been raised over the decline of this technique around the Kofar Mata Gate in Kano, which has been operating for nearly 500 years. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this technique whose practice among a West African ethnic group provides an English exonym for the Tuareg people, and may have inspired a modern craze. Shibori is an ancient form of this technique from Japan.

ANSWER: tie-dye [accept word form such as tie-dyeing; prompt on dye or dyeing] (The Tuaregs are known as “The Blue People of the Desert.”)

[10m] The indigo dye pits at Kofar Mata are a historical trade for this Muslim ethnic group centered around the town of Daura. These people are often grouped with the nearby Fulani.

ANSWER: Hausa [or Hausawa; accept Hausa-Fulani]

[10e] The cities of Kano and Daura are in the north of this modern-day country, where Hausaland was situated. In the modern day, many Hausa have moved to cities in this country such as Abuja and Lagos.

ANSWER: Nigeria [reject “Niger”]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Michigan A	Ohio State D	10	0	10	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Oberlin	Ohio State C	0	10	10	20
Art of Premature Signaling	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	Caltech	0	0	10	10
girl 15 whale i mean they	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
UCSB	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
UCSD	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
Billy's Bastion	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	0	10	10
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	10	20
Too much from you lately	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	0	10	10	20
Brandeis	BU	10	0	10	20
Brown	Belmont	0	0	10	10
MIT	Harvard	0	10	10	20
RIT	Lexington	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	CWRU	0	0	10	10
Catholic University of America	Georgetown	0	0	10	10
George Mason B	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
George Washington	NYU B	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Haverford A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	George Mason A	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	Haverford B	0	10	10	20
NYU C	Rutgers	0	0	10	10
UW A	Arizona State University B	0	10	10	20
UW B	Alberta	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University A	South Dakota School of Mines	0	0	10	10
Washington Connections	Carleton	0	0	10	10
mongeese	Auburn 2026	0	0	10	10
Gruh	Free Agents 1	0	0	10	10
Goober Gang	Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Illinois Orange	0	10	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	evil women enjoyers	0	0	10	10
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	MSJ	0	0	10	10
we need new names	Quatumvirate	0	10	10	20
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	0	10	10	20
Cambridge	LSE	0	10	10	20
Birmingham	Edinburgh	0	10	10	20
Sheffield A	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Sheffield B	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Lancaster + Sheffield C	Sheffield C	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Warwick C	Manchester	0	10	10	20
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	0	10	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Master and Margaritaville	0	10	10	20
Somehow Paula Deen Returned	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Truman State	0	10	10	20
Illinois C	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
WashU Squirtle	WashU Charmander	0	0	10	10