In 2012, this archipelago’s town of Old Massett allowed geoengineer Russ George to dump over 100 tons of iron-rich dust in the ocean to restore fish stocks. A national park reserve that combines the second word in this archipelago’s name with Haanas was established due to indigenous anti-logging demonstrations on Lyell Island. Passengers like Dogfish Woman are guided by a shaman as part of a sculpture titled for the (*) “Spirit” of this archipelago by Bill Reid. A former hub of the sea otter pelt trade in this archipelago, Skidegate, inspired many paintings by Emily Carr. The indigenous people of this archipelago speak a language isolate and historically sent war canoe parties to raid the nearby Tsimshian and Tlingit. For 10 points, the Hecate Strait separates what archipelago from the mainland of British Columbia? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 100% | 30% | 20% | 83.40 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corry Wang | Broken Socal Scene | BHSU X | 41 | 15 |
| Natan Holtzman | The RAND Coöperation | Floridovician | 44 | 15 |
| Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | BHSU B | 55 | 15 |
| Adam Fine | Halifax Shipping Services | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 70 | 10 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 74 | 10 |
| Stephen Liu | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Big is moving to Evanston! | 75 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 90 | 10 |
| Kenji Shimizu | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | It's not X, but... defenders | 94 | 10 |
| John Marvin | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 100 | 10 |
| Iain Carpenter | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Do re mi fa serving negs | 120 | -5 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Do re mi fa serving negs | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 133 | 10 |
| Halle Friedman | Big is moving to Evanston! | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 133 | 10 |