Deepwater Horizon oil spill - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

A 2022 environmental study by Denic-Roberts et al. revealed metabolic effects of the mass deployment of the toxic agent Corexit during this event. For 10 points each:

[10m] What largest oil spill in history occurred when a platform on the Macondo Prospect exploded in 2010?

ANSWER: Deepwater Horizon oil spill [accept BP oil spill or British Petroleum oil spill]

[10h] Along with BP and Transocean, this company was found responsible for the Deepwater Horizon explosion. During the Clinton administration, this company’s CEO was Dick Cheney.

ANSWER: Halliburton [or Halliburton Company]

[10e] The Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred two decades after the Exxon Valdez struck a reef off the coast of this state. The longest serving House Republican, Don Young, supported oil drilling in the Arctic in this largest US state.

ANSWER: Alaska

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	29%	29%
Florida	Main	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	20.00	100%	58%	42%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	58%	8%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
North	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	20.91	100%	73%	36%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	18.89	89%	78%	22%
South Central	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	20.00	100%	73%	27%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%

Data


Carleton A	Ottawa C	10	0	10	20
Ottawa A	McGill A	10	0	10	20
McGill B	Ottawa D	10	0	10	20
McGill E	Carleton B	0	0	10	10
Ottawa B	McGill C	10	0	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley Archer Queen	0	0	10	10
USC B	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA B	10	0	10	20
UCLA A	Claremont C	0	0	10	10
UCLA C	Claremont B	10	0	10	20
UCSD A	UCLA D	10	10	10	30
UCLA E	UCLA F	0	0	10	10
UCSD B	Claremont A	0	0	10	10
CWRU C	Kentucky	10	0	10	20
CWRU A	Louisville A	10	10	10	30
CWRU D	Louisville B	10	0	10	20
CWRU B	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Michigan D	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10
Michigan State A	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Michigan State B	0	10	10	20
Michigan State D	Michigan State C	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Louisville D	Pittsburgh	0	0	10	10
Ohio State D	WVU A	10	10	10	30
Louisville C	WVU B	10	0	10	20
William & Mary C	Duke A	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	JMU A	10	0	10	20
UNC A	Virginia A	0	0	10	10
UNC D	UNC B	10	0	10	20
UNC C	VCU A	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	NCSU A	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech B	William & Mary A	0	0	10	10
Rutgers A	George Mason A	10	0	10	20
Penn	George Mason B	10	0	10	20
Stony Brook	Johns Hopkins	10	0	10	20
Lehigh A	Lehigh B	10	0	10	20
Maryland C	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
Princeton	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10
NYU C	Rowan	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Rutgers C	0	0	10	10
Rutgers D	Vassar A	10	0	10	20
George Mason C	Vassar B	0	0	10	10
Guelph A	Waterloo C	0	0	10	10
McMaster A	Waterloo A	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Toronto B	10	0	10	20
Toronto D	Toronto C	0	0	10	10
Toronto E	Toronto G	10	10	10	30
Toronto F	Toronto I	0	10	10	20
McMaster B	Waterloo B	0	0	10	10
Florida A	UCF A	10	10	10	30
WashU Grolars	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Illinois Blue	10	0	10	20
Illinois Canada	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Illinois Champaign	10	0	10	20
William Woods University A	Illinois Urbana	10	0	10	20
Purdue C	Indiana A	0	0	10	10
Iowa A	Rose-Hulman A	0	0	10	10
WashU Grizzlers	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
Indiana B	Purdue D	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin A	10	0	10	20
Vermont B	Amherst A	10	10	10	30
Amherst B	Boston College B	0	0	10	10
Boston College A	Brown B	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth A	Williams A	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth B	Brandeis Mozart	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth C	Brandeis Beethoven	0	0	10	10
MIT B	Harvard	10	0	10	20
Brown A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Brandeis Bach	UConn A	10	0	10	20
Vermont A	Boston University A	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Williams B	10	10	10	30
Alberta A	Washington Chum	0	0	10	10
Washington State	Arizona State B	10	0	10	20
Washington Atlantic	Boise State	10	0	10	20
British Columbia A	British Columbia C	10	0	10	20
British Columbia B	Washington Sockeye	10	10	10	30
Texas	Washington Pink	10	0	10	20
Washington Masu	Washington Chinook	0	0	0	0
Washington Coho	Alberta B	10	0	10	20
Washington Steelhead	Arizona State A	10	10	10	30
Central Oklahoma A	Murray State College B	0	0	10	10
Oklahoma	Nebraska A	10	0	10	20
Nebraska B	Nebraska C	10	0	10	20
Tulsa A	Murray State College A	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt B	Auburn C	0	0	10	10
Emory A	Auburn A	10	10	10	30
Georgia A	Georgia Tech F	0	0	10	10
Chipola College	Georgia Tech A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee Tech	10	10	10	30
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	10	20
Clemson B	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Auburn B	Georgia Tech E	10	0	10	20
Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt C	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Clemson A	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh D	Durham B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Edinburgh B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh C	Sheffield A	0	0	10	10
Sheffield B	Durham A	10	10	10	30
Durham D	York	10	0	10	20
Imperial D	Bristol	10	0	10	20
Cardiff	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Southampton	10	0	10	20
Cambridge D	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Birmingham	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Imperial C	Oxford	0	0	10	10
LSE	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Cambridge E	Warwick	10	0	10	20
Binghamton A	Cornell A	0	0	10	10
ESF	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
Binghamton C	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Cornell D	10	0	10	20
Rochester	Cornell B	10	0	10	20