Question
The satirical pamphlet Knocking Our Own Ting criticized celebrations of a battle in this country because it promoted division between this country’s mestizo and Kriol populations. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country formerly known as British Honduras, the only modern-day Central American country with English as an official language.
ANSWER: Belize [accept Belizean Creoles; reject “Honduras”]
[10h] Knocking Our Own Ting criticizes celebrations of a 1798 battle named after a saint with this name. The author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa was killed in a car bombing in a capital city named for a person with this name.
ANSWER: George [accept Georgetown or King George III or Saint George or Battle of St. George’s Caye or St. George's Caye Day] (The historian is Walter Rodney.)
[10m] Many refugees settled in British Honduras during a late 19th-century Mayan revolt named for this concept, which also names a system in colonial Spanish America that officially categorized mestizo and mulatto individuals.
ANSWER: caste [or casta; accept casta system or Caste War of Yucatán or ba'atabil kichkelem Yúum]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 20.00 | 100% | 71% | 29% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 43% | 29% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 20.00 | 100% | 86% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 13.00 | 100% | 30% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 90% | 60% | 0% |
Data
| Amherst A | A Brandeis Supreme | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Bowdoin A | Clark A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Diamond Brandeis | BU B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harvard A | Carabrandeis | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northeastern A | Tufts A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT A | Tufts B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Williams A | Bowdoin B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Brandeises Brew | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Boston University A | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale C | Brown A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |