Question
This highway’s nickname comes from the theory that hundreds of thousands of convict laborers who died while building it had their corpses incorporated into the highway. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this highway that ends at the easternmost major city in Asia reachable by road from the rest of the continent. The Anadyr Highway is an ongoing extension of this highway to the Bering Sea.
ANSWER: “Road of Bones” [or Doróga Kostéy; accept R504 Kolyma Highway or R504]
[10m] The Road of Bones connects Nizhny Bestyakh, opposite the Lena River from Yakutsk, with this city, the largest port on the Sea of Okhotsk. This city and the Road of Bones leading to it were built by gulag prisoners for gold mines in Kolyma.
ANSWER: Magadan
[10e] Before the Road of Bones, prisoners reached Magadan by ship via Khabarovsk, where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses this river. This river forms much of the Russia-China border and names the northernmost Chinese province.
ANSWER: Amur River [or Heilong Jiang]
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Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
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