Question
The lyrics to this song describe the good fortune brought by the characteristic knocking sound of the title beetle. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this traditional wedding song popularized by Miriam Makeba. Its common English title is a reference to its difficult pronunciation.
ANSWER: “Click Song” [or “Qongqothwane” (“KONG-oh-twah-nay”)]
[10e] The “Click Song” comes from the traditions of this Bantu people of Southern Africa. After the Zulu, they are the largest Nguni (“ung-GOO-nee”) ethnic group.
ANSWER: Xhosa (“KAW-suh”) [or AmaXhosa]
[10m] Xhosa weddings often feature the mouth- or gourd-resonated uhadi, which belongs to this class of chordophones. The berimbau used in capoeira (“cap-uh-WAY-ruh”) music is one of these instruments.
ANSWER: musical bow [or string bow; prompt on bar zither or string instrument; reject “bowed instrument” or “zither”]
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McGill | Brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Minnesota A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Claremont Colleges | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Michigan | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Cornell A | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Harvard | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Ottawa | Illinois | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Florida | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Toronto A | Kentucky | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Minnesota B | Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NYU | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Berkeley A | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Stanford | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Maryland | Penn | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Truman State | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Chicago A | South Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Texas | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Vanderbilt | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Virginia | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Yale A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |