Question
A series of statues excavated from a city with this name depicts people with pustule-like spheres, such as a seated man twisting over his knee. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this name of a city in the Inland Niger Delta whose guild of masons annually organizes community restorations of a massive mud brick mosque with three towers.
ANSWER: Djenné [or Jenné; accept Djenné Djenno; accept the Great Mosque of Djenné]
[10e] Pascal James Imperato theorized the pustules could be from blackfly bites or this disease, whose variolation was taught by the enslaved man Onesimus. Edward Jenner created a vaccine for this eradicated disease.
ANSWER: smallpox [or variola or variola vera; prompt on a pox or the red plague]
[10m] Djenné-Djenno was less socially stratified than this other site, whose elites lived in homesteads called muzidna. This stone city built by the Shona people names a Southern African country.
ANSWER: Great Zimbabwe [prompt on Zimbabwe]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 89% | 11% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 75% | 63% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 19.17 | 83% | 92% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 56% | 44% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 88% | 75% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 100% | 33% | 11% |
Data
| Binghamton A | ESF | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Binghamton B | Syracuse | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| RIT C | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell F | Cornell C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell E | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell D | Cornell G | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State | RIT B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| U of Rochester A | RIT A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| U of Rochester B | Binghamton C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |