dikes - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

A foundling and a cat legendarily survived the Saint Elizabeth’s Flood on one of these structures, which initiated Beemster’s recovery from the “water wolf.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name these structures that enclosed reclaimed polders managed by water boards in the Dutch Republic.

ANSWER: dikes [or dijken; or levees; or embankments or flood banks or stop banks; accept Kinderdijk; prompt on banks]

[10h] In 1730, dike inspectors publicized a “plague” of these animals, which stoked fears of another Christmas Flood and led to sodomy trials in Utrecht. These animals inspired Marc Isambard Brunel’s tunneling shield.

ANSWER: shipworms [or Teredo navalis or T. navalis; prompt on clams, bivalves, mollusks, or Mollusca; prompt on worms]

[10m] Since the eastern Baltic is too cold for shipworms, it preserved the wrecks of the Gribshunden and this intact 17th-century warship. An archaeologist-king sponsored this ship’s salvage for its namesake Stockholm museum.

ANSWER: Vasa [or Wasa; accept Vasamuseet or Vasa Museum] (The king was Gustaf VI Adolf.)

Back to bonuses

Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	20	16.50	85%	80%	0%

Data


Arizona State	Cornell B	0	10	10
Virginia	Berkeley B	10	0	10
Chicago C	Brown	10	10	20
Columbia A	Illinois	10	10	20
Waterloo	Columbia B	10	10	20
Chicago D	Cornell A	10	10	20
Duke	NYU	10	10	20
WUSTL B	Georgia Tech	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Harvard	10	10	20
Iowa State	Kentucky	10	10	20
North Carolina B	Michigan	10	10	20
Minnesota A	Claremont Colleges	10	10	20
Rutgers	Minnesota B	0	10	10
North Carolina A	Indiana	10	10	20
McGill	Ottawa	10	10	20
Stanford	Penn	10	0	10
Northwestern	Vanderbilt	10	10	20
Chicago B	WUSTL A	10	10	20
Yale A	Chicago A	0	10	10
Purdue	Yale B	10	0	10