Packet 8: Bonus 17
Indigenous farmers in this country used items like charcoal and bones to create fertile terra preta. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country where Daniel Everett studied the linguistics of the Pirahã people. Most indigenous Amazonians live in this South American country.
ANSWER: Brazil [or Brasil; or Federative Republic of Brazil; or República Federativa do Brasil]
[10h] A book by Napoleon Chagnon (“SHAG-non”) calls this Amazonian group “The Fierce People.” The book Darkness in El Dorado alleges Chagnon initiated violence among these people.
ANSWER: Yanomami [accept Yanomamo or Yanomama]
[10m] This anthropologist’s book Tristes Tropiques (“treest tro-PEEK”) studies Brazil’s Bororo and Caudevo people. A Bororo myth begins the essay “The Raw and the Cooked” from this structural anthropologist’s collection Mythologiques.
ANSWER: Claude Lévi-Strauss
<Editors, Social Science> | Packet H
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 120 | 13.92 | 100% | 31% | 8% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McMaster A | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EH |
| McMaster B | Guelph A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| McMaster C | Queen's A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | Toronto D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto C | Waterloo A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto E | Waterloo B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto F | Toronto H | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo C | Toronto G | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
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 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 63% | 13% |
| Florida | US | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 100% | 33% | 11% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 11 | 11.82 | 100% | 9% | 9% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 38% | 25% |
| North | US | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
| South Central | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 11 | 15.45 | 100% | 46% | 9% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |