Bonus
Insults for this class of people often derived from their shoes, including “tenderfeet” in South America and “people with spurs” in Mexico. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these elites at the top of Spanish America’s colonial caste system until the early 1800s. Their name derives from their birth in continental Spain.
ANSWER: peninsular [or peninsulares] (The insults are chapetones and gachupines respectively.)
[10m] Spanish elites born in the Marianas and this other colony were called insulares. Spanish galleons shipped silver between a city in this colony and Acapulco, Mexico.
ANSWER: The Philippines [or the Spanish Philippines] (The city was Manila.)
[10e] At the onset of the Peninsular War, this Venezuelan officer dubbed the “Liberator of South America” rallied Creole elites to overthrow Spanish rule at the Battle of Carabobo.
ANSWER: Simón Bolívar [or Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco]
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 124 | 18.06 | 93% | 36% | 52% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 75% | 25% | 25% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 20.00 | 71% | 43% | 86% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 20% | 40% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 12.22 | 89% | 33% | 0% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 11 | 19.09 | 100% | 9% | 82% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 22% | 33% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 12 | 21.67 | 100% | 58% | 58% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 13% | 25% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 27.50 | 100% | 75% | 100% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 22.50 | 100% | 42% | 83% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 22.50 | 100% | 50% | 75% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 13 | 21.54 | 92% | 62% | 62% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 60% | 20% | 60% |