bananas - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

American businessman Sam Zemurray was nicknamed after this crop and became president of a company that utilized the “Great White Fleet.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this crop that the United Fruit Company harvested in namesake “republics” across Latin America.

ANSWER: bananas [accept banana republic; accept “Sam the Banana Man”]

[10h] This democratically-elected president’s Decree 900 agrarian reforms gave unused UFC land to peasants, causing the company to lobby the US government to overthrow this Guatemalan leader in Operation PBSuccess (“P-B-success”).

ANSWER: Jacobo Árbenz (“HAH-koh-boh ARR-bens”) [or Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán]

[10m] In 1928, banana workers striking for rights at a UFC plantation in this country were killed by the government of Miguel Abadía Méndez. In 1997, Chiquita laborers were held hostage by FARC, a rebel group in this country that signed a 2016 peace deal.

ANSWER: Colombia [or Republic of Colombia]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	25%	50%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	20.00	100%	57%	43%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
Florida	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	19.00	100%	80%	10%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	67%	22%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	24.44	100%	100%	44%
North	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	24.17	100%	75%	67%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	63%	38%
South Central	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	16.67	92%	67%	8%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%

Data


Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Skeleton King	10	0	0	10
Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Little Prince	10	10	0	20
UCSC	Stanford A	10	0	0	10
Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford B	10	10	10	30
Claremont A	UCLA C	10	10	10	30
UCSD A	UCLA B	10	0	10	20
Claremont C	UCLA D	10	10	0	20
Claremont B	UCLA F	10	0	10	20
UCSD B	USC B	10	0	10	20
USC A	UC Santa Barbara	10	0	0	10
Ottawa A	McGill A	10	0	10	20
McGill C	Ottawa C	10	0	0	10
Ottawa B	McGill B	10	0	0	10
Carleton B	Ottawa D	10	10	10	30
McMaster A	Toronto E	10	0	10	20
Toronto A	McMaster C	10	0	10	20
Toronto C	Brock A	10	0	10	20
Toronto G	Queen's A	10	10	10	30
Guelph A	Toronto H	10	0	0	10
Toronto I	McMaster B	10	0	0	10
Toronto B	Waterloo A	10	10	10	30
Toronto D	Waterloo B	10	0	0	10
Waterloo C	Toronto F	10	0	0	10
ERAU Daytona A	Florida A	10	0	0	10
Florida B	Florida State A	10	0	10	20
South Florida A	Florida Tech A	10	0	0	10
Florida Tech B	UCF A	10	0	0	10
Ohio State C	Louisville B	10	0	0	10
WVU B	Louisville D	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	CWRU B	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Louisville A	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Michigan State C	Louisville C	10	0	10	20
Michigan State A	Ohio State A	10	0	10	20
Michigan D	Ohio State D	10	0	10	20
Pittsburgh	CWRU C	10	0	10	20
WVU A	Michigan State D	10	0	0	10
William & Mary A	JMU B	10	0	10	20
Liberty A	Duke A	10	0	10	20
Virginia A	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
William & Mary B	Liberty C	10	0	10	20
UNC D	NCSU A	10	10	10	30
Tusculum A	NCSU B	10	0	0	10
UNC A	UNC C	10	0	0	10
UNC B	William & Mary C	10	0	10	20
VCU A	JMU A	10	10	0	20
George Mason A	Johns Hopkins	10	10	10	30
Rutgers B	Lehigh B	10	0	0	10
Maryland C	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Rutgers A	Penn	10	0	0	10
Princeton	George Mason B	10	0	0	10
Rutgers C	George Mason C	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Rutgers D	10	0	0	10
Vassar B	Vassar A	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	UC Irvine	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Illinois Blue	Iowa B	10	10	10	30
Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Canada	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Illinois Champaign	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Macalester	10	0	10	20
St. Thomas	Michigan Tech	10	0	0	10
Minnesota	Wisconsin A	10	0	0	10
Wisconsin C	Wisconsin B	10	0	0	10
Amherst A	Boston College B	10	10	10	30
Boston College A	Harvard	10	10	10	30
Boston University A	Brown A	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth A	Brown B	10	0	10	20
Williams B	Dartmouth C	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Boston University B	10	10	10	30
Southern Connecticut State University A	Tufts B	10	0	0	10
Tufts C	Brandeis Bach	10	0	0	10
UConn A	Brandeis Beethoven	10	10	10	30
MIT B	Vermont A	10	0	10	20
Vermont B	Amherst B	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth B	Williams C	10	10	10	30
Alberta A	Arizona State B	10	10	10	30
Washington Pink	Arizona State A	10	10	10	30
British Columbia C	Boise State	10	0	0	10
British Columbia A	British Columbia B	10	0	10	20
Washington Atlantic	Washington Chinook	10	0	10	20
Washington Steelhead	Washington Coho	10	10	10	30
Washington Masu	Washington Chum	10	0	0	10
Alberta B	Washington State	10	0	0	10
Kansas State A	Nebraska C	10	0	10	20
Central Oklahoma A	Nebraska A	10	0	10	20
Nebraska B	Central Oklahoma B	10	0	10	20
Oklahoma	Harding	10	0	10	20
Tulsa A	Kansas State B	10	0	10	20
Tulsa B	Rose State	10	0	0	10
Illinois Urbana	Indiana B	10	10	10	30
WashU Grizzlers	Iowa A	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Purdue D	10	0	10	20
William Woods University A	WashU Grolars	10	0	10	20
Tennessee B	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Auburn B	Vanderbilt B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Auburn C	10	0	10	20
Chipola College	Clemson B	10	10	10	30
Georgia A	Clemson C	10	0	10	20
Emory A	Mississippi State A	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Sewanne	Montevallo	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech E	10	0	10	20
Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech F	10	0	0	10
Clemson A	Vanderbilt C	10	0	10	20
Binghamton A	ESF	10	0	0	10
Binghamton C	Binghamton B	10	0	10	20
Cornell A	Rochester	10	0	10	20
Cornell B	RIT A	10	0	10	20
RIT B	Cornell C	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Illinois Orange	10	0	10	20