authenticité - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Ritual flogging was a key portion of the yondo ritual that François Tombalbaye (“tohm-bahl-BYE”) forced his people to undergo as part of a program with this name. For 10 points each:

[10m] Give this French-language term also used by Mobutu Sese Seko. This term describes the process of changing personal and place names to reject Western influence.

ANSWER: authenticité [accept authenticity]

[10e] As part of his authenticité program, Mobutu renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo to this name, which he promoted as the first of the “Three Zs.”

ANSWER: Zaire [or Republic of Zaire]

[10h] This leader founded the record label Syliphone as part of his own authenticité program more focused on the arts. This leader’s nephew oversaw a facility in which this leader implemented the “black diet,” Camp Boiro.

ANSWER: Ahmed Sékou Touré [or Sheku Turay; or Sheku Ture] (Touré was the first president of Guinea. His nephew was Siaka Touré.)

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Florida B	UCF C	10	10	0	20
Florida A	Valencia A	10	10	0	20
Carnegie Mellon A	Case Western A	0	10	0	10
Michigan D	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan State	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Case Western B	0	10	0	10
Florida State A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
Duke	Liberty B	10	10	0	20
South Carolina	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC B	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	UNC C	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	UNC D	0	10	0	10
William & Mary	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin A	Winona State	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin B	Carleton	0	10	0	10
BU	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Harvard B	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	Brown A	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	UMass Boston	10	10	10	30
Georgetown A	Notre Dame A	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Georgetown B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Notre Dame C	0	10	0	10
Iowa	Purdue	10	10	0	20
Alberta	UW A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Manchester	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge D	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Cambridge E	0	10	0	10
NYU C	Durham	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Oxford C	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Oxford B	10	10	0	20
LSE	Sheffield	0	10	0	10
UBC	UW B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Penn B	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	George Washington A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	Haverford A	10	10	0	20
John Jay College	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Haverford B	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	ESF A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
RIT A	RIT B	0	10	0	10