Question
One of these structures known as “A Kivi” was significantly less disturbed than others due to being located inland, with statues on it unusually facing the ocean. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these large ceremonial stone platforms atop which moai statues were placed.
ANSWER: ahu [accept Ahu A Kivi]
[10e] Scholars have suggested that only the introduction of sweet potato, which supplanted taro and yam, was sufficient to facilitate the labor needed to build many ahu and moai on this island after 1200 CE.
ANSWER: Easter Island [or Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua]
[10h] This group of islands was where the oldest sweet potato in Polynesia was discovered. Carbonized remains of tubers on Mangaia (“mang-EYE-uh”) in this group predate the settlement of Easter Island.
ANSWER: Cook Islands [or Kūki ‘Airani]
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Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 0% | 17% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Cambridge D | Southampton B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge E | Oxford C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | LSE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Southampton A | NYU C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford A | Cambridge A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford B | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Manchester | Sheffield | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Bristol | Warwick A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Warwick B | Durham | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge C | Cambridge B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |