Question

Answer the following about Southeast Asian herbal supplements, for 10 points each.
[10e] In Vietnam, this franchise sells gotu kola, a nootropic juice said to lengthen elephants’ lives. This American convenience store offers many more items in Taiwan and Japan, where it competes with FamilyMart and Lawson’s.
ANSWER: 7-Eleven [or SEI or 7-Eleven, Inc.; accept Seven-Eleven Japan or SEJ or Kabushiki gaisha Sebun Irebun Japan; accept Seven & I Holdings Co.] (The plant is also known as Asiatic pennywort and the juice is called nước rau má.)
[10m] In 2021, Thailand decriminalized this drug, which was banned by Phibun’s (“pee-BOON’s”) military dictatorship in 1943. Several states ban gas stations from selling this stimulant’s red, white, and green strains, which come from Bornean rainforests.
ANSWER: kratom (“KRAY-tum”) [or Mitragyna speciosa; prompt on Mitragyna]
[10h] This city’s kedai kopi brew both a signature margarine-roasted white coffee and kopi jantan with the alleged testosterone booster tongkat ali. Kinta Valley tin mining enlarged this capital of Perak near the Cameron Highlands.
ANSWER: Ipoh (“EE-poh”) [or Ji Bou, Yíbǎo, Î-pó, or Īppō; accept Ipoh white coffee]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Berkeley AToronto A100010
Chicago AMinnesota A100010
Chicago CCornell B100010
Chicago DHarvard100010
Claremont CollegesFlorida100010
Columbia BVirginia1010020
IllinoisIowa State100010
IndianaCornell A1010020
Johns HopkinsMichigan1001020
KentuckyMcGill100010
MarylandGeorgia Tech100010
NYUNorthwestern100010
North Carolina AColumbia A100010
North Carolina BBerkeley B100010
PennDuke100010
South CarolinaTruman State100010
StanfordChicago B100010
TexasPurdue100010
Toronto BRutgers100010
VanderbiltMinnesota B100010
WUSTL AWaterloo100010
WUSTL BOttawa100010
Yale ABrown1010020
Yale BArizona State100010

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2411.67100%13%4%