Question

Two schoolgirls from this region shot a magistrate while pretending to start a swimming competition for the fitness club/militant group Jugantôr in 1931. An anti-Semitic freedom fighter from this region died in a plane crash in Taiwan while leading this region’s namesake Volunteers during World War II. Scots set up large jute mills in this region, whose “hill tracts” (10[1])were major cotton producers. A. K. Fazlul Huq (“huck”) led this region until a 1943 famine sparked by “denial policies” of boats and rice. This region’s Shôhid Minar (10[1])commemorates a Language Movement that influenced Sheikh (10[1])Mujibur Rahman’s Awami League. (10[1])For 10 points, name this region that was partitioned by (10[1])the eastern part (10[1])of the Radcliffe Line (-5[1])in 1947 (10[1])into a state led from Kolkata (-5[1])and (10[1])a present-day country led from Dhaka. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Bengal [or Bangla or Bôngô; accept People’s Republic of Bangladesh or Gônoprojatontri Bangladesh; accept West Bengal or Pôshchim Bôngô; accept East Bengal or Purbô Bôngô; accept Bengal Presidency or Province of Bengal; accept Chittagong Division or Chôṭṭôgram Bibhag or Chittagong Hill Tracts or Parbôttô Chôṭṭôgram; accept Odisha or Orissa or Oṛisha; prompt on East India; prompt on South Asia]
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2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell01/27/2024Y1100%0%100%129.00
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Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford (DII)UNC A (Grad)GWU B (Grad)5810
Vedang Singhal (DII)UNC D (DII)Maryland A (Grad)8510
Rasheeq Azad (UG)UNC B (UG)Maryland C (DII)9210
Diego Almaraz (UG)UNC C (UG)Virginia C (UG)9610
Andrew Amygdalos (UG)GWU A (UG)Liberty A (Grad)10610
Joseph Chambers (DII)Virginia A (UG)Roanoke College A (DII)10910
Logan Mitchell (UG)JMU B (UG)Virginia B (UG)113-5
Jacob Martin (UG)Maryland B (UG)JMU A (UG)11510
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Brian Lai (DII)Virginia B (UG)JMU B (UG)12910