Question
Examples of these objects called waka or va’a (“vah-ah”) evolved from designs of the Lapita culture. In 1975, a performance-accurate one of these things was built, named Hōkūleʻa (“HOH-koo-LAY-uh”), after the Hawaiian name for the star Arcturus. People using these objects were guided by stick charts bent to resemble swells. Indigenous Philippine examples of these objects called bangka were used for war and resemble other Austronesian outrigger designs. Thor Heyerdahl argued that South Americans could have traveled with a type of these objects similar to his Kon-Tiki. For 10 points, Polynesian wayfarers settled the Pacific by traveling on what objects? ■END■
ANSWER: boats [or ships or catamarans; accept canoes or war canoes or outrigger canoes or kayaks; accept rafts; prompt on vessels or vehicles or watercraft]
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 57.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 71.33 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 58.14 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 68.86 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 62.89 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 43.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 43% | 72.29 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 51.22 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Nitish Sudhakar | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 43 | 10 |
Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Auburn A | 44 | 10 |
Braeden Laroche | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech E | 47 | 10 |
Daniel Chen | Emory Oxford | South Carolina B | 53 | -5 |
Rafeed Rahman Turjya | Georgia A | Auburn B | 63 | 10 |
John Shields | Clemson B | Furman | 65 | 10 |
Jackson Hopper | Mississippi State A | Emory A | 65 | 10 |
Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson A | Southern | 65 | 10 |
Brady Pinter | Belmont | Vanderbilt B | 65 | 10 |
Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech B | 66 | -5 |
Dylan Missal | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 77 | 10 |
Dylan Missal | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 77 | 10 |
Dylan Missal | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 77 | 10 |
Robert Freeman | South Carolina B | Emory Oxford | 80 | 10 |
Anna Hinkle | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt A | 98 | 10 |
Coy Mier | Auburn C | Tennessee B | 98 | 10 |