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% |
Data
| Cambridge A | Bristol A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Imperial A | Cambridge B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge C | Manchester | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge D | Southampton A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Birmingham | Durham | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Warwick A | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford A | LSE A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Oxford B | Southampton B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |