Question
In the 1990s, this country’s sovereign wealth fund lost millions bankrolling a disastrous West End musical about Leonardo da Vinci. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Pacific island nation, once the richest in the world per capita. This country is suffering environmental and economic disaster after its natural landscape was destroyed by strip-mining.
ANSWER: Nauru (“now-ROO”)
[10m] Nauru’s economic success in the mid-20th century was built on its now-exhausted deposits of this good, a fertilizer rich in phosphates.
ANSWER: guano [prompt on bird feces or bird excrement or bird poop; prompt on bat feces or bat excrement or bat poop; prompt on dung or manure]
[10e] In the 1960s, Nauru rejected this country’s proposed solution to the ecological disaster. That plan proposed resettling Nauru’s population to Curtis Island, located off the coast of this country’s state of Queensland.
ANSWER: Australia
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