Question
For 10 points each, answer the following about recent findings on the Black Death.
[10e] Ole Benedictow argued that the Black Death originated near the Caspian, rather than in this country. The bacteria causing the plague was isolated following an 1890s outbreak in this country’s Yunnan province.
ANSWER: China [or Zhōngguó]
[10m] Hannah Barker disputes that Mongol biological warfare against this city caused the plague, instead arguing that embargoes of grain shipments resulting from the siege of this Crimean port delayed the plague’s spread.
ANSWER: Caffa [or Kaffa; or Keffe; or Feodosia; or Theodosia]
[10h] In her article “The Four Black Deaths,” Monica Green asserts that the original vector for the plague was not rats but this rodent, which was transported from China by Mongol grain shipments to the 1258 Siege of Baghdad.
ANSWER: gray marmots [or marmota; or ground squirrels; reject “marmosets”]
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 100% | 17% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 67% | 67% | 100% |
Data
| Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | Parth et al. | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Milan et al. | The Passion According to C.H. | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The Vulture's Guide to Buzz | Cameron et al. | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |