Question
According to Charles Mann, this people drilled holes into gourds and stuffed them with chili peppers to create an early form of chemical grenade. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Indigenous people of Hispaniola and other Caribbean islands. Some of them on the Bahamas were the first to encounter Christopher Columbus.
ANSWER: Taíno (“tah-EE-no”) [prompt on Arawak; reject “Carib”]
[10e] Mann discusses the Taíno in his two books titled for the years before and after this other year in which Columbus first landed in the Americas.
ANSWER: 1492
[10m] Residents of this island adopted the denonym Boricua from the Taíno word Borinquen. The cacique (“kah-SEE-kay”) Agüeybaná (“ah-GWAY-bah-nah”) rebelled against its first Spanish governor, Ponce de León.
ANSWER: Puerto Rico [or PR]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 22.22 | 100% | 56% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 13% | 88% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 13 | 25.38 | 100% | 62% | 92% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 89% | 44% | 56% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 40% | 80% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 22.22 | 100% | 44% | 78% |
Data
| Auburn A | Belmont | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Emory A | Clemson B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech B | Furman | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech E | Clemson A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech E | Clemson A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech E | Clemson A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech E | Clemson A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech E | Clemson A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech E | Clemson A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech E | Clemson A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech E | Clemson A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia A | Mississippi State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| South Carolina A | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Auburn B | South Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Southern | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tennessee A | Vanderbilt B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |