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Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Specific term required. These people, whose oral history was collected in Memoirs of the Maelstrom, wrote contrasting accounts in Strength and Goodness and The Rape of a Country. A caricature of these people advertised the cocoa drink Banania (“ban-ann-YAH”) at a 1931 expo. These people, whose survivors won pensions in 2023, spoke the forofifon (10[1])naspa jargon. These people, who suppressed the Somba, Bélédougou (“bay-lay-doo-GOO”), and Bani revolts, were denied back-pay and killed in the 1944 Thiaroye (10[2])(“tyar-WAH”) massacre. Mosques like Missiri served these people’s winter camps during hivernage (“ee-vair-NAZH”). The “blood tax” killed over 30,000 of these people, including many malgaches (“mall-GOSH”) and Somalis, under Robert Nivelle (“ro-BAIR nee-VELL”). The (-5[1])“Black Horror on the Rhine” (10[1])demonized (-5[1])these soldiers, (-5[2])whom (-5[1])Blaise (-5[1])Diagne (-5[1])(“blayz dee-YAN”) recruited (10[1])as shock troops (10[1])alongside (10[2]-5[1])Maghrebi (-5[1])spahi (“spah-YEE”) cavalry in World War I. For 10 points, name these riflemen from French colonies (10[1]-5[1])like Senegal. ■END■ (10[2]0[12])

ANSWER: tirailleurs (“tee-rah-YURR”) [accept tirailleurs from specific French colonies, like Senegalese tirailleurs; accept turcos or français-tiraillou; prompt on riflemen, sharpshooters, skirmishers, African army, Armée d’Afrique, troupes indigènes, indigenous troops, Armée Coloniale, colonial soldiers, harkis, zouaves, troupes de marine, or synonyms of any; reject “ascaris” or “spahis”] (Clues include Bakary Diallo, Lamine Senghor, the Paris Colonial Exposition, and the petit nègre jargon.)
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Nicholas TunksMinnesota BTruman State120-5
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Todd MaslykMichiganGeorgia Tech123-5
Caleb KendrickMarylandNYU12410
Raymond WangCornell AMinnesota A12710
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Lexi TermanRutgersClaremont Colleges129-5
Justin WytmarIllinoisJohns Hopkins14410
Michael DuWaterlooTexas144-5
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina AChicago A14710
Graham TroyNorth Carolina BChicago C1470
Nermeen RahmanChicago CNorth Carolina B1470
Quentin MotGeorgia TechMichigan1470
Andrew ZengStanfordIndiana1470
Yared TadesseCornell BKentucky1470
Jake GreerHarvardMcGill1470
Sam BakerMcGillHarvard1470
Ben DahlPurdueChicago B1470
Joey SunToronto BArizona State1470
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Amith PunyalaWUSTL BFlorida1470
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