turnip - 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida

Question

A Nigel Harvey history documenting the introduction of this crop to another nation is partly titled The Coming of the Swede. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this crop that was promoted by Secretary of State Charles Townshend, who was married to Dorothy Walpole. During a 1926 winter named for this crop, sailors revolted and caused the trial of the Socialist Wilhelm Dittmann.

ANSWER: turnip [or white turnip; or rutabaga; or Brassica napus; or Swedish turnip; or neep; accept Turnip Winter or Stechrubenwinter; accept Charles “Turnip” Townshend, Second Viscount Townshend]

[10e] Townshend’s promotion of the Norfolk four-course system involved growing turnips, wheat, barley, and clover as part of this agricultural practice in which different plants take turns being grown in the same area.

ANSWER: crop rotation

[10m] This Berkshire (“BARK-shur”) agronomist and rival of Stephen Switzer ended the need for manual broadcasting and harrowing by developing a turnip seed drill that could mitigate damage from the turnip fly.

ANSWER: Jethro Tull

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	100%	14%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	9	12.22	100%	11%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	100%	14%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	8	23.75	100%	75%	63%
2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)	02/23/2024	N	5	20.00	80%	80%	40%
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)	03/09/2024	N	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)	03/02/2024	N	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)	03/09/2024	N	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)	02/23/2024	N	4	27.50	100%	100%	75%

Data


UCF A	Florida State University A	0	10	0	10
UF B	UCF B	10	10	0	20
UF E	UF F	0	0	0	0
UF D	Florida Tech A	0	10	10	20