Question
The slang term “bloke” probably came from this ethnic group’s cryptolect Shelta, which they keep secret from “Buffers.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this ethnic group whose weddings historically featured a “grabbing” courtship ritual in which boys try to forcefully kiss girls. Traditionally, these nomads engaged in bare-knuckle boxing and worked as tinsmiths throughout the British Isles.
ANSWER: Irish Travellers [or Mincéirs; or Mincéirí; or Pavees; or an lucht siúil; prompt on just Travellers; prompt on just Irish; reject slurs]
[10m] The Travelling community regularly attends the world’s oldest horse fair in Ballinasloe, this West Irish county’s second- largest city. This county in Connacht Province contains the majority of the Gaeltacht population, and its namesake and largest city is dubbed “Ireland’s cultural heart.”
ANSWER: County Galway [or Galway County; or Contae na Gaillimhe]
[10e] Irish Travellers are often conflated with this distinct itinerant ethnic group that also attends the Appleby Horse Fair but have origins in the Indian subcontinent.
ANSWER: Roma [or Romani; prompt on Gypsy or Gypsies by asking “What is the generally preferred term?”]
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Summary
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| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 67% | 100% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 33% | 100% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 20% | 80% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 33% | 100% |
Data
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |