Daniel Noboa - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

In October 2025, this politician claimed to be the target of an assassination attempt by a gift of poisoned chocolate. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this current president of Ecuador. This banana tycoon heir came to power in a 2023 upset and has been criticized for human rights violations as part of his military crackdown on “narco-terrorism.”

ANSWER: Daniel Noboa

[10m] Despite Noboa’s security pledges, Ecuador has faced rising violence, especially in this port city through which most of the world’s cocaine flows. This largest city in Ecuador has seen hundreds of prisoners killed in gang-related incidents since 2021.

ANSWER: Guayaquil [or Santiago de Guayaquil]

[10e] Noboa’s government has also faced strikes and road closures from indigenous groups after the revocation of subsidies for this fuel. Ecuadorian farmers depend on this fuel for tractors, which is heavier than gasoline.

ANSWER: diesel

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California	Main	Y	4	10.00	50%	25%	25%
Canada	Main	Y	6	11.67	50%	50%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	15.71	71%	71%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	11.00	80%	20%	10%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	50%	75%	50%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	13.00	80%	50%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	40%	60%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	18.33	100%	67%	17%
UK	Main	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	13.75	88%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	75%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

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Stanford A	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley E	10	0	10	20
Berkeley D	Berkeley C	0	0	0	0
Stanford B	Stanford C	0	10	0	10
Claremont Pitzer	Claremont Scripps	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	USC	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	10	0	10
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCLA C	0	10	0	10
UCLA D	UCSB	0	0	0	0
UCI	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	10	10	30
ERAU A	ERAU B	0	0	10	10
Melbourne A	FSU	0	0	10	10
FIU	UCF A	0	0	10	10
UF A	UCF B	10	10	10	30
UF B	UF E	0	10	0	10
USF	Melbourne B	0	0	10	10
Pitt B	CWRU D	0	10	0	10
MSU B	Kenyon A	0	0	10	10
MSU A	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
OSU A	OSU D	0	10	10	20
CWRU A	OSU B	10	10	10	30
OSU C	Pitt A	0	10	10	20
Pitt C	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Liberty C	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
James Madison	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
NC State	Roanoke	0	0	10	10
Virginia B	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Tusculum	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina C	Virginia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Rowan A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Rutgers C	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore A	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	WashU A	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	WashU B	10	10	0	20
Truman State	WashU C	10	10	10	30
William Woods	WashU D	0	0	0	0
Chicago B	UIC	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Kentucky	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Illinois C	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Indiana B	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Notre Dame D	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Chicago A	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Purdue B	0	0	0	0
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10
Minnesota A	Carleton	0	0	10	10
St. Thomas	Iowa State	10	0	10	20
Macalester B	Macalester A	10	10	10	30
Minnesota B	Minnesota C	0	0	10	10
Wisconsin	Nebraska	10	10	10	30
Brown C	BU	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin A	BC B	0	0	10	10
Amherst B	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	MIT B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Lloyd George	Tufts A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Wilson	BC A	0	10	10	20
Brown A	Amherst A	0	10	10	20
Brown B	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
Williams	Cornell-UG	0	10	10	20
Harvard	MIT A	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth	Yale A	10	10	10	30
Yale B	Brandeis Orlando	0	10	10	20
Simon Fraser	British Columbia D	10	10	10	30
Alberta	British Columbia C	0	10	10	20
British Columbia B	British Columbia A	0	0	0	0
Washington B	Washington A	0	10	10	20
Northwestern C	Iowa	0	0	0	0
Alberta B	McGill D	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Northwestern B	0	10	10	20
UTD B	Ohio	0	0	10	10
Tulsa	Rose State	0	10	10	20
Texas B	UCO	0	10	10	20
Auburn B	Mississippi State A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Bruin A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Alabama B	Huntsville B	0	0	10	10
Alabama A	Sewanee A	0	10	10	20
UAB A	Huntsville A	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Arizona State A	Northwestern A	0	0	10	10
UTD A	Arizona State B	0	0	10	10
RIT B	Cornell-DII	0	10	10	20