Cahokia - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

Caitlin Rankin discovered soil underdisturbed by erosion until the 1800s at this site, calling into question the idea it was abandoned earlier due to deforestation. For 10 points each:

[10m] The Murdoch and Monk’s Mounds were part of what ancient city in modern-day Illinois, the largest from Pre-Columbian North America?

ANSWER: Cahokia [or Cahokia Mounds]

[10h] In September 2025, this tribe regained the Sugarloaf Mound, one of the few remaining in St. Louis after years of destruction and erosion. A 2017 David Grann book examines murders orchestrated by William Hale in this tribe’s guardian system.

ANSWER: Osage [or Osage Nation] (The book is Killers of the Flower Moon.)

[10e] Erosion from rising sea levels and hurricanes have damaged mounds of the Calusa people in this state. The Seminole are native to this state, where their reservation was built in the Everglades.

ANSWER: Florida [or FL]

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Southern California	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	22%	44%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	22.50	100%	92%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	18.33	92%	50%	42%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	22.22	100%	89%	33%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	21.67	100%	75%	42%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	56%	33%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	19.17	100%	58%	33%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%

Data


UCSD A	Claremont B	10	0	10	20
Claremont A	UC Santa Barbara	10	0	10	20
UCLA A	UCLA F	10	0	10	20
UCLA C	UCLA D	10	0	10	20
Claremont C	UCLA E	0	0	10	10
UCSD B	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
USC A	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Guelph A	0	10	10	20
McMaster A	Toronto C	10	10	10	30
Toronto A	Toronto D	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Waterloo A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo C	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
Toronto F	Brock A	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Toronto G	10	0	10	20
Toronto H	McMaster C	0	0	10	10
Queen's A	Toronto I	0	10	10	20
CWRU A	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Michigan State A	CWRU B	10	10	10	30
JMU A	Duke A	10	0	10	20
Liberty B	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
JMU B	Tusculum A	0	0	10	10
UNC D	VCU A	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech C	UNC B	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	William & Mary B	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Louisville B	Ohio State B	10	10	10	30
CWRU C	Louisville D	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	Ohio State A	10	0	10	20
Michigan D	Kentucky	10	0	10	20
Michigan State B	CWRU D	10	0	10	20
Ohio State D	Michigan State D	10	0	10	20
Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	10	0	10	20
Louisville C	WVU A	10	10	10	30
WVU B	Michigan State C	10	0	10	20
Rutgers B	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	George Mason A	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
NYU C	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
Penn	Johns Hopkins	10	10	10	30
Lehigh B	Princeton	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Lehigh A	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30
Rowan	Rutgers C	0	0	10	10
Rutgers D	Stony Brook	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Vassar B	0	0	0	0
William Woods University A	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
WashU Grizzlers	Illinois Blue	10	10	10	30
Illinois Urbana	Illinois Canada	10	10	10	30
Illinois Champaign	Iowa A	10	0	10	20
Illinois Orange	Rose-Hulman A	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Indiana B	Iowa B	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Purdue A	10	0	10	20
WashU Grolars	Purdue C	10	0	10	20
Williams A	Amherst A	10	10	10	30
Boston College A	Williams B	10	0	10	20
British Columbia B	Washington State	0	10	10	20
Arizona State A	Texas	10	10	10	30
Washington Masu	Washington Atlantic	10	0	10	20
Washington Chinook	Alberta B	0	0	10	10
Washington Chum	Washington Steelhead	10	0	10	20
Washington Coho	Boise State	0	0	10	10
Auburn A	Georgia Tech F	10	10	10	30
Emory A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Georgia A	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	10	0	10	20
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Clemson C	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech E	Tennessee Tech	10	10	10	30
Mississippi State A	Auburn C	0	0	10	10
Clemson B	Sewanne	10	0	10	20
Chipola College	South Carolina A	10	0	10	20
Clemson A	Tennessee A	10	0	10	20
Vanderbilt C	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Mozart	Brown B	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth A	Tufts A	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Dartmouth B	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth C	MIT B	0	0	10	10
Amherst B	Southern Connecticut State University A	10	10	10	30
Tufts C	Boston College B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Bach	Vermont A	10	0	10	20
Vermont B	Brown A	10	10	10	30
Williams C	Brandeis Beethoven	0	0	10	10
Alberta A	Washington Pink	10	10	10	30
British Columbia C	Arizona State B	10	0	10	20
British Columbia A	Washington Sockeye	0	0	10	10
Binghamton A	RIT A	10	0	10	20
Cornell D	Binghamton B	10	10	10	30
ESF	Binghamton C	10	10	10	30
Cornell C	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Boston University A	Tufts B	10	0	10	20