Question
During an annual ceremony, residents of this building’s town compete to spread it with banco, a mixture that includes shea butter, baobab tree powder, and rice husks. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this building made of ferey bricks, the largest mud-brick building in the world. The facade of this building is studded with toron, bundles of palm fronds that jut out and serve as scaffolding.
ANSWER: Great Mosque of Djenné [or mosque at Djenné; or Grande Mosquée de Djenné; accept masjid or jāmi in place of “mosque”]
[10e] The Great Mosque of Djenné is located in this modern-day country, which also contains the Tomb of Askia Muhammad.
ANSWER: Mali [or Republic of Mali or Republik bu Maali or Jumhūriyyet Māli]
[10h] The square minarets of Djenné’s Great Mosque and Mauritania’s Chinguetti Mosque are topped with these objects, which symbolize fertility. According to legend, three of these objects hung in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque to ward off spiders.
ANSWER: ostrich eggs [prompt on eggs]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 21.25 | 100% | 83% | 29% |
Data
| Arizona State | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan | Brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago C | Chicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida | Duke | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| South Carolina | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Illinois | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Kentucky | Minnesota B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | Maryland | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley B | McGill | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Truman State | North Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ottawa | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Texas | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Minnesota A | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |