blankets - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

Valuable examples of these objects are called hanoolchaadi and exemplify the first phase style of simple black and white designs. For a 2011 performance piece, the artist Rebecca Belmore had Ming Hon appear on one of these objects in a snowy landscape. A wooden door was built into one of these objects called the “Witness” that toured Canada in 2019. (-5[1])Francis Chardon was targeted by the Arikara and Mandan people for stealing one of these objects from a deckhand (-5[1])on the Missouri River. Bands made from cochineal, as well as diamond and rectangle designs, appear on the “chief” type of these (-5[1])objects created by the Navajo. (10[1])Marks (-5[1])called (10[1])“points” indicated the size of these objects when traded for beaver pelts. (-5[3])During the Siege of Fort Pitt, Jeffrey Amherst (10[3])suggested (-5[2])sending a handkerchief (10[2])and these objects (10[3])to Native (10[1])emissaries. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, the Lenape (“luh-NAH-pay”) were given what (-5[1])objects formerly owned by smallpox victims? (10[4])■END■ (10[8])

ANSWER: blankets [accept sheets; accept smallpox blankets; accept chief blankets or point blankets; accept Witness Blanket; prompt on cloth or wool; prompt on quilts or rugs or coverings; prompt on fomites by asking “in the form of what type of object?”]

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2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	24	100%	0%	46%	139.58

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Daniel Ma	Yale A	Georgia Tech A	59	-5
Chris Ray	Ohio State A	Maryland A	78	-5
Christopher Sims	Northwestern A	Harvard A	100	-5
Claire Jones	Chicago A	Stanford A	105	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Chicago B	106	-5
Cormac Beirne	McGill A	Illinois A	107	10
Ashish Subramanian	Duke A	Florida A	119	-5
Jonathan Tran	Cornell A	Brown A	119	-5
Lexi Terman	Rutgers B	Michigan A	119	-5
Alex Schmidt	Penn State A	South Carolina A	127	10
Ryan Sun	UC Berkeley A	Cornell B	127	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota A	Columbia A	127	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State A	Georgia Tech B	128	-5
Gareth Thorlakson	Toronto A	North Carolina A	128	-5
Frederick Rivas-Giorgi	Yale B	Virginia A	131	10
William Groger	Columbia B	Florida B	131	10
Karan Gurazada	Texas A	MIT A	134	10
Henry Cafaro	Chicago C	Indiana A	134	10
Sean Doyle	Houston A	UC Berkeley B	134	10
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	Penn A	WUSTL B	136	10
Benjamin Weiner	Minnesota B	Imperial A	137	-5
Jonathan Lau	Johns Hopkins A	Purdue A	137	10
Aiden Dartley	Rutgers A	Claremont A	145	-5
Mazin Omer	Harvard A	Northwestern A	151	10
Hari Parameswaran	Georgia Tech A	Yale A	151	10
Tegan Kapadia	Georgia Tech B	Iowa State A	151	10
Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	Claremont A	Rutgers A	151	10
Halle Friedman	NYU A	Vanderbilt A	152	10
Enoch Yuen	Imperial A	Minnesota B	152	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan A	Rutgers B	152	10
Jonathan Shauf	North Carolina A	Toronto A	152	10
Jason Hong	Brown A	Cornell A	152	10
John Marvin	Chicago B	WUSTL A	152	10
Caleb Kendrick	Maryland A	Ohio State A	152	10
Tracy Mirkin	Florida A	Duke A	152	10