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. (10[1])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” were major cotton producers. (10[1])A. K. Fazlul Huq (“huck”) led this region until a 1943 famine sparked by “denial policies” of boats (10[1])and rice. (10[1])This region’s (10[1])Shôhid Minar commemorates a Language Movement that influenced Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Awami League. For 10 points, (10[1])name this region that was partitioned by the eastern part of the Radcliffe Line in 1947 into a state led from Kolkata and a present-day country led from Dhaka. ■END■

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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Chinmay MurthyTexas AMichigan State A2210
Deepak MuthyalaTexas A&M ARice A6210
Roan DowlingIowa ATexas A&M B7910
Dean Ah NowClaremont ASorbonne8110
John ChenUBC AIowa B8310
Sophie HiggsUW AAppalachian State9910

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2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell01/27/2024Y1100%0%100%129.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU01/27/2024Y9100%0%22%101.33
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota01/27/2024Y2100%0%0%79.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska01/27/2024Y6100%0%0%71.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers01/27/2024Y580%0%40%105.75
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt01/27/2024Y5100%0%20%94.00