Question
This project was delayed by a landslide in the Culebra Cut. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this project that was enabled by the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty and resulted in the elimination of yellow fever in the area. Gustave Eiffel was put on trial for a failed French attempt at this project in the 1880s.
ANSWER: Panama Canal [or Canal de Panamá; accept word forms such as a canal through Panama or the Isthmus of Panama; prompt on canal]
[10e] Control over the Panama Canal was transferred over to Panama in a series of 1977 treaties named for Omar Torrijos and this US President, who hosted the Camp David Accords with Israel and Egypt.
ANSWER: Jimmy Carter [or James Earl Carter Jr.; accept the Torrijos-Carter Treaties or Tratados Torrijos-Carter]
[10m] Early plans for a canal included one through this other Central American country, where the Contras and Sandinistas feuded in the 1980s.
ANSWER: Nicaragua [or the Republic of Nicaragua]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 5 | 28.00 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
Data
| Columbia A | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Swarthmore A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU B | Swarthmore B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| University of Delaware A | Penn | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | University of Delaware B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |