Question
In this colony, girls were hired for a short-lived plan to spin spider-silk from golden orb-weavers. Though it was later used in the Maghreb, insurgents in this colony were the first targets of the “oil spot” strategy of an administrator who placed its ethnic groups under a system of indirect rule called the “politics of race,” Joseph Gallieni. Rival ethnic groups in this colony formed the Party for the Disinherited and the MDRM. Frantz Fanon critiqued a book written after the bloody suppression of a 1947 uprising in this colony, (*) Prospero and Caliban by Octave Mannoni. The 1895 “red shawl” rebellion started among a côtier ethnic group in this colony, the Sakalava. This colony was formed after highland members of the Hova caste fought occupiers in a war that ended with their last queen’s exile to Réunion. For 10 points, what colony did the French found by overthrowing Ranavalona III’s Merina Kingdom? ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 100% | 8% | 25% | 120.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Akshar Goyal | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Lisan al-Quib | 43 | -5 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 58 | 15 |
Jason Hong | The Jeam Team | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 66 | -5 |
Colin Stewart | var merchants | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 94 | -5 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | The Oldest Men in the World | 95 | 10 |
Charles Hang | Les Missourables | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 103 | 10 |
Nick Jensen | LMM's LLM MLM | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 106 | 10 |
Robert Wang | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 113 | 10 |
Raymond Wang | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 121 | 10 |
Chris Ray | We Need New Names | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 122 | 10 |
Richard Yu | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 129 | 10 |
Nathaniel Hull | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 145 | 10 |
Emmett Laurie | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | The Jeam Team | 152 | 10 |
Naveed Chowdhury | Lisan al-Quib | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 152 | 10 |
Doug Simons | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | var merchants | 152 | 10 |