Vanuatu - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (“kay-ROYSH”) named Espiritu Santo, this country’s largest island, and intended to create a settlement there called New Jerusalem before his crew mutinied. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Melanesian country whose Pentecost Island was given its name by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. A 3,000-year-old cemetery at the site of Teouma in this country was created by the Lapita culture.

ANSWER: Vanuatu [or Republic of Vanuatu]

[10m] After the mutiny, Queirós’s crew took his ship to Acapulco, leaving this second-in-command to sail the rest of the fleet to Manila. This man may have sighted Australia during that voyage through a strait now named for him.

ANSWER: Luis Váez de Torres

[10e] Seeking Espiritu Santo as a tax haven, the US-based Phoenix Foundation supported a short-lived 1980 rebellion that was put down in a “war” named for this fruit. This fruit’s flesh, copra, is crushed to make oil.

ANSWER: coconuts [or Cocos nucifera]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	50%	25%	25%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	11.11	44%	22%	44%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	88%	38%	38%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	60%	20%	40%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	25%	50%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	10.00	57%	43%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	9.17	42%	33%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	88%	50%	25%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%

Data


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