Question
A dispute with Honduras concerned an 1856 act that claimed this resource in Jarvis and Tokelau soon after their surveys on the US Exploring Expedition. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this resource whose Black miners led the 1889 Navassa Revolt. France and Mexico disputed the Clipperton case over this resource, which sparked Namibia’s Ichaboe (“EACH-uh-bo”) rush and Peru’s Chincha War.
ANSWER: guano [or bird feces, dung, excrement, nitrogenous waste, or equivalents; accept Guano Islands Act or Guano Rush; prompt on fertilizer, nitrates, nitrogen, phosphates, phosphorus, potassium, NPK, NPK, or NPK by asking “obtained from what source?”; prompt on “white gold”]
[10h] An author with this surname traced “territorial pointillism” to the Guano Islands Act. A pacifist chemist with this surname was the first woman to receive a PhD from Breslau University.
ANSWER: Immerwahr [accept Clara Immerwahr or Clara Helene Immerwahr; accept Daniel Immerwahr] (Daniel Immerwahr, whose great-grandfather was Clara Immerwahr’s cousin, wrote How to Hide an Empire.)
[10e] Clara Immerwahr killed herself after this husband of hers weaponized chlorine gas at Ypres (“EEP-ruh”). This scientist ended Europe’s reliance on guano by industrially fixing nitrogen with a founder of IG Farben.
ANSWER: Fritz Haber [accept Haber process or Haber–Bosch process]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 21 | 19.52 | 100% | 81% | 14% |
Data
| Chicago A | Arizona State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Brown | Ottawa | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Florida | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Berkeley B | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland | Truman State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | McGill | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Texas | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |