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 (-5[1])set up large jute mills in this region, whose “hill tracts” were major cotton producers. (10[2])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 commemorates a Language Movement that influenced Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Awami League. (10[1])For 10 points, name this region that was partitioned by the eastern part of the Radcliffe Line in 1947 into a state led from Kolkata (10[1])and 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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Andrew KelleyKentuckyMTSU47-5
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech AGeodesic6210
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth CarolinaVanderbilt B6210
Rohan DalalGeorgia Tech BVanderbilt A9610
Danny TranTennesseeAlabama12110
Jack LewisMTSUKentucky12910

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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