African railroad - 2023 PACE NSC

Question

J.P. Daughton’s book In The Forest of No Joy studies one of these projects that, (20[1])along with rubber harvesting, triggered the War of the Hoe Handle. One of these projects from the 1970s was an early foreign investment by the PRC and is called (0[1])TAZARA. The CGR (0[1])managed these (0[1])projects prior to the formation of the SAR using the “Cape” standard. (0[1])Portugal’s (20[1])“Pink Map” (0[1])created (20[1]0[1])problems for one of these (0[2])projects (20[1]0[2])proposed by (20[1])the founder of (*) De Beers. (10[3]0[5])A political (0[2])cartoon in (10[1])Punch (10[1])of a man holding a telegraph (0[1])line while standing (10[1])across (10[1])Africa (0[1])symbolized (10[1])Cecil Rhodes’s (10[1])vision of building one of these (10[1])projects across Africa. (10[1])For 10 points, Rhodes planned to link Cape Town to Cairo with what (10[1])type of transportation (10[1])infrastructure? (10[4])■END■ (10[12]0[1])

ANSWER: African railroad [accept equivalents like railway; accept train network; accept Cape to Cairo railroad; prompt on transportation project; reject “road”]

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2023 PACE NSC	06/10/2023	Y	35	97%	14%	0%	101.71

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Shreyas Singh	University Lab	Dallas County	14	20
Colin Stewart	Barrington A	Hunter A	43	0
Grace Liu	Thomas Jefferson B	Maggie Walker A	46	0
Merrick Hill	Winnebago	New Brighton	48	0
Yaj Jhajhria	Canyon Crest	Dunbar	60	0
Sam Macchi	Belmont	Rockford Auburn A	61	20
Joshua Fan	Richard Montgomery	Troy	63	0
Cole Hartung	Kinkaid	Plymouth	64	20
Ethan Bosita	St. Mark's	Thomas Jefferson A	64	0
Pranav Aiyar	William Fremd	Mira Loma	69	0
Aaron Zhou	Winston Churchill A	Detroit Country Day	69	0
Joy An	Choate Rosemary Hall	Parkway West	70	0
Will Carstens	Detroit Catholic Central A	Solon	70	20
Kaushik Gollamudi	Barrington B	Innovation Academy A	70	0
Ave Rieger	Northmont A	Heights	72	20
Camden Williams	Mexico	Chattahoochee A	77	10
Edward Kim	Johns Creek B	Hinsdale Central	77	0
Anthony Zhao	Thomas Jefferson C	Irvington A	77	10
Aryan Pathak	Lake Highland	Elkhorn North	77	0
Kritanu Saha	Mercer County	West Point	77	0
C. Schenkel	Washington	Stevenson B	77	0
Sam McNamee	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson B	77	10
Miles Sierra	Waukee	John Adams A	77	0
Brenden Stremler	Maggie Walker C	Carl Sandburg	79	0
JT Baysinger	Moberly	Innovation Academy B	79	0
Charles Heydt	Midtown	Carbondale	81	10
Sam Konkel	Johns Creek A	Woodland	82	10
Hari Veginati	Stevenson A	Walter Payton	88	0
Alan Fan	Thomas Jefferson D	Winston Churchill B	91	10
Eric Hu	Maggie Walker B	Detroit Catholic Central B	92	10
Keefer Lin	Chattahoochee B	Lincoln-Way East	93	0
David Bertolasi	Belvidere	Saint Joseph	94	10
Fahian Joy	Hunter B	Cincinnati Hills Christian	96	10
Luke Snyder	Rockford Auburn B	Detroit Catholic Central C	102	10
Aristuto Paul	Parkway West	Choate Rosemary Hall	105	10
Brandon Torres	Carl Sandburg	Maggie Walker C	118	10
Chakri Gudlavalleti	Dunbar	Canyon Crest	121	10
John Hines-Shah	Hinsdale Central	Johns Creek B	122	10
Jack Mangrum	Innovation Academy A	Barrington B	122	10
Anila Moparthi	Lincoln-Way East	Chattahoochee B	122	10
Vishesh Verma	Troy	Richard Montgomery	122	10
Russell Dillak	Northmont B	Hoover B	123	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	Hunter A	Barrington A	123	10
Charlie Bork	Elkhorn North	Lake Highland	123	10
Brady Laughlin	West Point	Mercer County	123	10
Aatreyo Bhattacharyya	Mira Loma	William Fremd	123	10
Luke Puttnam	Innovation Academy B	Moberly	123	10
Geo Beach	New Brighton	Winnebago	123	10
Mason Severson	Norris	John Adams B	123	10
Matias Roa	Walter Payton	Stevenson A	123	10
Grace Sun	Stevenson B	Washington	123	0
Andrew Shi	Thomas Jefferson A	St. Mark's	123	10
Max Kolda	John Adams A	Waukee	123	10
Costas Pavlou	Detroit Country Day	Winston Churchill A	123	10