natural rubber - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The need to import this resource motivated an unsuccessful Nazi German research program into producing it with specially bred dandelions. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this resource. E. D. Morel exposed a system for extracting this resource from Landolphia owariensis that included use of the chicotte (“shee-KUT”) hippopotamus hide whip on the local population.

ANSWER: natural rubber

[10h] The rubber supplies in this region, at the time part of Bolivia, led to Brazilian settlers declaring it an “independent state” in 1899. After a war named for this region, Brazil annexed it in the 1903 Treaty of Petrópolis.

ANSWER: Acre (“AH-kree”)

[10e] In 1926, Firestone received a 99-year lease in this country to create what is today the world’s largest rubber plantation. The US aided in negotiations due to this country’s historic founding by American ex-slaves.

ANSWER: Liberia [or Republic of Liberia]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	22.50	100%	50%	75%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	18.89	100%	67%	22%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	22.00	100%	60%	60%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	19.17	92%	67%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UC Irvine	10	10	10	30
UCLA A	UCSD C	10	0	10	20
UCSD A	UC Santa Barbara	0	10	10	20
Arizona State	UCSD B	0	10	10	20
Brock	UBC B	10	0	10	20
Florida C	Central Florida B	10	10	10	30
Central Florida A	Florida A	0	0	10	10
Central Florida C	Florida B	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	Michigan State	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State C	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	Pittsburgh	10	0	10	20
CWRU B	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
William and Mary	James Madison B	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	James Madison A	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	NC State A	10	10	10	30
NC State B	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
Liberty B	North Carolina C	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	North Carolina B	10	0	10	20
South Carolina B	North Carolina A	10	0	10	20
VCU	Duke	10	0	10	20
Virginia	Wake Forest	10	0	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	0	10	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	0	10	20
Northwestern D	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Chicago E	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Notre Dame B	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Indiana C	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern C	Northwestern B	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Notre Dame A	10	10	10	30
Yale	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth A	Dartmouth B	10	0	10	20
Harvard B	Bowdoin B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis A	Southern Connecticut State	10	10	10	30
Claremont	Minnesota A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Missouri A	10	0	10	20
Missouri B	Carleton College	10	0	10	20
Washington A	Iowa State	10	0	10	20
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Texas B	10	0	10	20
Harvard A	Brown	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	WashU B	10	0	10	20
WashU A	Kentucky	10	0	10	20
Louisville A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Mississipi State	0	0	10	10
Alabama B	Sewanee	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	10	20
Louisville B	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Cardiff	0	0	0	0
Montpellier	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Warwick A	10	0	10	20
City St. George's	Cambridge C	10	0	10	20
Oxford B	Imperial C	10	0	10	20
UCL	LSE	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Manchester	10	10	10	30
Warwick B	Oxford C	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh B	Durham	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	Catholic	10	0	10	20
Maryland C	Columbia A	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
John Jay	NYU C	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Rutgers A	10	0	10	20
Georgetown	Rutgers B	10	10	10	30
Swarthmore	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
NYU B	Vassar	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	Binghamton B	10	0	10	20
Penn State	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	RIT	10	10	10	30
Binghamton A	Rochester	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Southampton A	0	10	10	20