Russian empire - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

An 1889 expedition sent by this empire occupied the port of Sagallo in Djibouti, but was forced to withdraw by French troops. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this empire whose “American Company” was urged to conquer Hawaii in the Schäffer affair and established a line of settlements as far south as Fort Ross.

ANSWER: Russian empire

[10h] This Flemish city was the namesake of an 18th-century Austrian company established to trade with China. This company was forced to close in return for British and Dutch recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction.

ANSWER: Ostend Company [or Oostendse Compagnie; or Compagnie d’Ostende]

[10e] Russia and Austria were among the powers that gained no territory at the Berlin Conference, which this “Iron Chancellor” of Germany convened shortly to organize the Scramble for Africa.

ANSWER: Otto von Bismarck

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	100%	88%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	17.50	100%	67%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

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