peninsular - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

Insults for this class of people often derived from their shoes, including “tenderfeet” in South America and “people with spurs” in Mexico. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these elites at the top of Spanish America’s colonial caste system until the early 1800s. Their name derives from their birth in continental Spain.

ANSWER: peninsular [or peninsulares] (The insults are chapetones and gachupines respectively.)

[10m] Spanish elites born in the Marianas and this other colony were called insulares. Spanish galleons shipped silver between a city in this colony and Acapulco, Mexico.

ANSWER: The Philippines [or the Spanish Philippines] (The city was Manila.)

[10e] At the onset of the Peninsular War, this Venezuelan officer dubbed the “Liberator of South America” rallied Creole elites to overthrow Spanish rule at the Battle of Carabobo.

ANSWER: Simón Bolívar [or Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco]

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Northern California	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	20.00	71%	43%	86%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	20%	40%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	12.22	89%	33%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	19.09	100%	9%	82%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	15.56	100%	22%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	21.67	100%	58%	58%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	13.75	100%	13%	25%
North	Main	Y	4	27.50	100%	75%	100%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	22.50	100%	42%	83%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	22.50	100%	50%	75%
South Central	Main	Y	7	12.86	86%	0%	43%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	21.54	92%	62%	62%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	12.50	75%	25%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	14.00	60%	20%	60%

Data


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