Question
Don Ohadike argued that this crop was popularized in Igboland as a result of the 1918-19 flu pandemic, because it used less labor than yams. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this crop introduced to Africa from Brazil. This stable food is used to produce tapioca.
ANSWER: cassava [or manioc; or yuca]
[10h] Both African cassava mosaic virus and cassava brown streak virus disease were first reported in this country, where the British Labour Party launched a failed groundnut scheme in the late 1940s.
ANSWER: Tanzania [or Tanganyika]
[10m] This ethnic group is most commonly credited with beginning to use cassava to make fufu. This ethnic group was also predominant in the Ashanti Empire, which is named for a subgroup of them.
ANSWER: Akan [or Twi; prompt on New Kwa]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, World History>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 75% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 88% | 25% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 60% | 40% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia B | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UMD A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| John Jay A | JHU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UMD B | NYU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | UMD B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| JHU A | Pitt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| RIT | Swarthmore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell A | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |