Question
A pioneer in this field named Jacobus Bontius was the first to describe beriberi and the first Westerner to record the term orangutan. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this medical field founded by Patrick Manson. A London school named for hygiene and this field acknowledges its role in “ensuring white men could survive while running the colonies.”
ANSWER: tropical medicine [accept tropical diseases; accept the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]
[10m] After discovering malaria transmission via mosquitos, Ronald Ross chaired a tropical medicine institute in this city. By the end of the 1700s, this British city was the largest port in Europe’s slave trade.
ANSWER: Liverpool [accept the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine]
[10e] German-Dutch physician Franz Junghuhn cultivated quinine-yielding cinchona plantations on this island, where the Dutch East India Company established its capital of Batavia, now modern-day Jakarta.
ANSWER: Java
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Summary
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 33% | 67% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
WashU | Truman | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |