Spaniards robbed caches of pearls from mortuary temples at this state’s Mulberry Mound site, where the “Lady of Cofitachequi” supposedly outwitted her kidnappers by feigning a pee break. British trader James Adair’s dealings with Red Shoes sparked a civil war in this state among its natives that coincided with a 1747 smallpox epidemic. In this state, fugitive slaves were captured by a tribe of “settlement Indians” called the Cusabo. Deer scarcity and excessive trade debt in this modern-day state instigated a massacre at (*) Pocotaligo that contributed to the ethnogenesis of Florida’s Seminoles. The Yamasee War began in this state, which is home to the majority of the Catawba near Rock Hill. For 10 points, name this state where Eliza Pinckney popularized planting indigo alongside rice. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 102.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emmett Laurie | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Halifax Shipping Services | 27 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 93 | 10 |
| Tejas Raje | BHSU B | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 95 | 10 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | It's not X, but... defenders | 95 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 96 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | Broken Socal Scene | 97 | 10 |
| Dylan Minarik | The RAND Coöperation | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 97 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | BHSU X | 98 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 98 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 104 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Do re mi fa serving negs | Big is moving to Evanston! | 110 | 10 |
| Alexander Nero | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 125 | 10 |
| Cooper Roh | Halifax Shipping Services | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 125 | 10 |