Question
This country, which debated union with the Bahamas, tacitly endorsed a 2009 coup against Manuel Zelaya (“seh-LAH-yah”) to protect favorable Honduran mining laws. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country where Viola Desmond challenged segregation. This country’s West Indian Domestic Scheme populated enclaves like Little Jamaica and Little Burgundy, the home of jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.
ANSWER: Canada [accept Dominion of Canada] (Little Jamaica is in Toronto and Little Burgundy is in Montreal.)
[10h] Specific word required. The Haitian-Canadian governor-general Michaëlle Jean (“mee-kah-ELL ZHON”) gave a speech on “breaking down” these things. A 1945 Hugh MacLennan novel coined the metaphor that two of these things divide French and English Canada.
ANSWER: solitudes [accept Two Solitudes or Deux solitudes; accept “Briser Les Solitudes” or “Breaking Down Solitudes”]
[10e] This place names a Canadian railway company that recruited many Antiguans (“ann-TEE-guns”) and sent steamships to St. Kitts. It also names an 1872 scandal over John A. MacDonald’s rail contracts.
ANSWER: Pacific Ocean [or Océan Pacifique; accept Pacific scandal or Scandale du Pacifique; accept Canadian Pacific Railway, CPR, Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique, or CP Rail]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 14.17 | 75% | 63% | 4% |
Data
| Brown | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago D | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Indiana | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State | Illinois | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| McGill | Kentucky | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Carolina A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley B | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | Duke | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto B | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vanderbilt | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Ottawa | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale B | Arizona State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |