Question
Answer the following about unique West African restaurant genres, for 10 points each.
[10e] Dibiteries, suya joints, and household fourneaux (“foor-NO”) in Senegambia all cook meat with this fuel that is heavily trafficked from Somalia. Ghanaian kilns burn wood to make this fuel’s briquettes for barbecue.
ANSWER: charcoal [prompt on biomass; prompt on black carbon or C or char; reject “coal” or “coke” or “biochar”]
[10m] Patrons face away from the road at this country’s cheap tourne-dos lunch joints, which may serve poulet DG (“poo-LAY day-zhee”). Youth speak an English–French–Pidgin hybrid in this country, which is named for a Portuguese word for prawns.
ANSWER: Cameroon [or Kamerun; or Republic of Cameroon or République du Cameroun] (“DG” stands for Directeur Général. Sailors like Fernão Gomes called the Wouri River the “Rio dos Camarões.” The language is Camfranglais.)
[10h] This suburb of Abidjan hosts many open-air restaurants and dance bars called maquis (“mah-KEE”). It titles a series of bandes dessinés by Marguerite Abouet about the teenage Aya’s social life during the Ivorian miracle.
ANSWER: Yop City [or Yopougon; accept Aya of Yop City, Aya: Life in Yop City, Aya: Love in Yop City, or Aya de Yopougon]
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Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State | Duke | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Texas | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago D | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Indiana | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Iowa State | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | South Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | Georgia Tech | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | McGill | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Florida | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman State | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 04/21/2024 | Y | 24 | 15.83 | 100% | 54% | 4% |