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In the 1690s, four epidemics hit this city’s corregimiento (“kor-RAY-heem-YEN-toh”). The pucará (“poo-kah-RAH”) of Rumicucho predated this city, where colonists like Juan de Velasco mythologized Queen Quilago (“kee-LAH-go”) of Cochasquí (“ko-chah-SKEE”) and Paccha Duchicela. Eugenio Espejo’s (“yoo-HEN-ee-oh ess-PAY-ho’s”) New Lucian satirized this city’s real audiencia (“RAY-ahl ow-dee-EN-see-ah”), which, like Charcas’s, fell in 1809 to an anti-Bourbon criollo (“cree-OH-yo”) junta. Repartamiento (-5[1])(“ray-par-tahm-YEN-toh”) of Otavalo people staffed this city’s obraje (“oh-BRAH-hay”) textile mills, whose sheep grazed on Riobamba’s (-5[1])páramo. (10[2])This modern capital city names the baroque art school (-5[1])of El (-5[1])San Francisco’s polychrome Virgin. After Huayna (-5[1])Cápac (10[1])died in this northernmost (-5[1])city (10[1]-5[1])of Chinchay Suyu, (10[1])Huáscar (10[1])fought Atahualpa. Two years before (-5[1])Ayacucho, (10[1])Antonio (10[1])José de Sucre took this capital city after a (-5[1])battle on a nearby volcano. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, Pichincha overlooks what Andean (10[1])capital north of (10[1])Cuenca and Guayaquil? (10[2])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: Quito (“KEE-toh”) [or Kitu; accept Quiteños, Quito School, Escuela Quiteña, Virgin of Quito, La Virgen de Quito, Real Audiencia de Quito, Royal Audience of Quito, Presidency of Quito, Presidencia de Quito, Kingdom of Quito, Reino de Quito, Quitu culture, The New Lucian of Quito, or El nuevo Luciano de Quito] (Bernardo de Legarda sculpted the Virgin.)
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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y2090%0%50%106.11

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jason HongBrownChicago C50-5
Graham TroyNorth Carolina BMichigan64-5
Ashish SubramanianDukeNYU6510
Ben SterlingYale BPurdue6510
Jakob MyersIndianaNorth Carolina A74-5
Claire JonesChicago AYale A76-5
David BassJohns HopkinsHarvard82-5
Robert CondronChicago BWUSTL A8310
Skand ParvatikarArizona StateCornell B87-5
Mattias EhatammWaterlooColumbia B88-5
Lexi TermanRutgersMinnesota B8810
Chris SimsNorthwesternVanderbilt9110
Conor ThompsonIowa StateKentucky9210
Moses KitakuleColumbia AIllinois97-5
Jacky XuCornell AChicago D9810
Andrew ZengStanfordPenn9910
Akshay SeetharamClaremont CollegesMinnesota A108-5
Joseph ChambersVirginiaBerkeley B11310
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia TechWUSTL B11310
Sam BakerMcGillOttawa113-5
Karsten RynearsonYale AChicago A12010
Joel MilesMinnesota AClaremont Colleges12310
Michael HundingIllinoisColumbia A12610
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina AIndiana12610
Yared TadesseCornell BArizona State12710
John John GrogerColumbia BWaterloo12710
Jake GreerHarvardJohns Hopkins12710
James StevensonMichiganNorth Carolina B1270
Adrian WongOttawaMcGill12710