Question
In Papua, the Mbaham Matta grow a “long” form of this commodity named Myristica argentea. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this hallucinogenic commodity grown on the Banda Islands, whose trade was controlled by local Orang Kaya until Dutch conquest. Nathaniel Courthope’s crew defended the tiny island of Run for four years to give the British a foothold in this commodity’s trade.
ANSWER: nutmeg [accept mace; prompt on spices]
[10e] To secure their monopoly on the nutmeg trade, the Dutch gave this island to Britain in exchange for Run. On this island, the northern boundary of New Amsterdam was once marked by Wall Street.
ANSWER: Manhattan
[10m] The trade occurred as part of a 1667 treaty signed in this Dutch city that ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Spanish capture of this city during the Eighty Years’ War is memorialized in a painting commissioned by Philip IV.
ANSWER: Breda [accept The Surrender of Breda]
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Summary
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 20% | 40% |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
Data
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
In the Mood for Buzz | Paddington in Peru (2024) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Madmen and Specialists | Old and Young | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | The cult of SGA | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
bingy academy | Social credit go vroom | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |