Question
In 2006, this European country faced backlash for sending over 500 tons of toxic waste to be offloaded in Abidjan aboard the Probo Koala, causing hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country. It’s not the United Kingdom, but Ogoni environmental activists like Ken Saro-Wiwa were executed while protesting in the Niger Delta against an oil company from this country in 1995.
ANSWER: Netherlands [or Nederland; accept Kingdom of the Netherlands or Koninkrijk der Nederlanden; prompt on Holland; prompt on Royal Dutch Shell]
[10h] The 1991 Bamako Convention banned environmental dumping in Africa by invoking a 1980 “Plan of Action” named for this city. After ordering half of the world’s cement to this city in 1974, a leader was overthrown by Murtala Muhammed.
ANSWER: Lagos [accept Lagos Plan of Action] (The leader was Yakubu Gowon of Nigeria.)
[10e] Accra’s district of Agbogbloshie (“ag-bog-BLOH-shee”) is the largest dump for Western e-waste today, due to increased electronics use that followed the 1960s completion of the Akosombo Dam under this first president of Ghana.
ANSWER: Kwame Nkrumah [or Francis Kwame Nkrumah]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 83% | 67% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 33% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 63% | 38% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
Data
| Cornell A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell C | RIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Binghamton | RIT B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |