Question
This phrase originates from the continued usage of the term “na” to refer to a country whose name translates to the “borderlands” as a territory instead of “v” (“vuh”) to designate it as a nation-state. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this English phrase, a correction to which is the first correction listed by the #CorrectUA (“hashtag Correct U-A”) movement.
ANSWER: The Ukraine [or descriptions like “Ukraine with The before it”; prompt on The by asking “In front of what word?”]
[10e] Karelian people have tried to correct the repetitive addition of the Russian word “Ozero” (“OH-zyih-ruh”) to these geographic features, like Ladoga near Saint Petersburg.
ANSWER: lakes [accept Lake Ladoga]
[10m] Members of this ethnic group have criticized the translation of Yamantau in the Urals as being “Mount Evil Mountain” in Russian. Ufa (“UH-fuh”) is the capital of a republic named for these descendants of the Kipchaks who appear in Leo Tolstoy’s story “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”
ANSWER: Bashkirs [or Başqorttar; accept Bashkortostan; accept Bashkiria]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 24 | 15.83 | 96% | 25% | 38% |
Data
| Chicago B | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia A | MIT A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Houston A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UC Berkeley A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill A | Virginia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| North Carolina A | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | Michigan A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Florida A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |