Question

The steamboat Liberal transported this resource for a company that imprisoned Walter Hardenburg, who criticized that company’s production of this resource as a “devil’s paradise.” Attempts to improve the efficiency of transporting this resource led to the discovery of the Fitzcarrald isthmus. This resource was transported via the “Devil’s (-5[1])Railroad,” whose construction began after the Treaty of Petrópolis granted a country a territory rich in this resource, Acre (“AH-kree”). Julio César Arana used “boys of trust” to torture workers producing this (10[2])resource, (10[1])resulting (10[1])in the Putumayo genocide. The “Island of Innocence” was built for an artificial city established to secure this resource, Fordlândia. (10[2])For 10 points, the growth of Manaus (10[1])resulted from its export of what resource extracted from trees in the Amazon? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: rubber [or caucho; accept India rubber; accept latex; accept Amazonian rubber]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ben SterlingYale AHaverford A48-5
Vikshar AthreyaRutgers ANYU B7910
Chauncey LoColumbia CVassar A7910
Zachary LeblangPenn BMaryland A8010
Owen MimnoNYU AGeorge Washington B8110
Nathan ZhangCornell BGeorge Washington A10110
Ian ParsonsMaryland BJohn Jay College10110
Anirudh BharadwajPenn AHaverford B10810
Arjun BothraHaverford AYale A12210

Summary

California2025-02-01Y3100%0%33%113.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%102.67
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%50%86.33
Northeast2025-02-01Y5100%0%20%87.40
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%100%113.00
South Central2025-02-01Y2100%0%50%102.00
Southeast2025-02-01Y1100%0%0%55.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y8100%0%13%93.88