terra preta - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

The Marajoara (“mah-rah-ZHO-ah-rah”) culture of Marajó (“mah-rah-ZHO”) Island likely produced this material by midden formation. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this type of soil found in the Amazon, whose black color comes from high charcoal content.

ANSWER: terra preta [or terra preta de Índio; accept Amazonian dark earth or black earth]

[10h] This archaeologist argued that low agricultural productivity drove Marajó (“mah-rah-ZHO”) to decline in her theory of environmental limitations. With her husband Clifford Evans, she argued for a trans-Pacific origin of Valdivia pottery.

ANSWER: Betty Meggers [or Betty Jane Meggers]

[10e] The Marajoara (“mah-rah-ZHO-ah-rah”) people principally lived on examples of these structures built due to seasonal flooding. A group of Native American cultures named for building these structures founded Cahokia.

ANSWER: mounds [accept mound builders]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Brandeis	MIT B	0	0	10	10
Brown	RIT	0	0	10	10
Yale	Harvard	0	0	10	10
MIT A	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	CWRU	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	JHU B	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	John Jay	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	Maryland C	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
Mount Sinai	NYU B	10	10	10	30
JHU A	Swarthmore	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Central Oklahoma	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Oklahoma	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	Illinois	10	0	10	20
Northwestern B	UChicago C	0	0	10	10
UChicago B	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Indiana	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
abg academy	New Young Whigs of America	10	0	10	20
Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	rusty shackleford	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	#OpenToBuzz	0	0	10	10
Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	Guelph perfomative male competition	10	0	10	20
Ottawa 67s	McGill B	10	0	10	20
McGill Fartlets	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	0	0	10	10
Queen's is monitoring the situation	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	0	0	10	10
Carleton A	Toronto Operation PBSuccess	10	0	10	20
Waterloo you are crooked	Toronto G	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Stanford A	Free Win	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	In Search of Lost Clues	0	0	10	10
Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	To buzz is to be perceived	10	0	10	20
Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	Coughing Baby	0	0	10	10
Hail to the Sheaf	Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Knorr Stock Clue	Chimp Brisket	0	0	10	10
Of Mice and Penn	Bristold	0	0	10	10
Washed Scrubs	Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	10	0	10	20
The Bit and the Penndulum	Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	0	0	10	10
Galactic Ombudsmen	question mark	0	0	10	10
why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	0	0	10	10
UNC A	Planck Sinatra	0	0	10	10
VT A	UNC B	10	0	10	20
VT B	Wise Duke	0	0	10	10
VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	Truman State	0	0	10	10
WashU Bouba	WashU Kiki	0	0	10	10