ebony - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

At a test kitchen with this name, Freda DeKnight cooked for the column “A Date With a Dish,” which inspired a 2022 Aliko Dangote Hall exhibit curated by Jessica Harris. Panacoco is a “Brazilian” substitute for this material with higher Janka hardness. (-5[1])This material (-5[1])originally named a history museum co-founded by Margaret Taylor-Burroughs that is now called the DuSable. Lerone Bennett Jr. wrote popular history for a magazine named for this material, (-5[1])which competed (10[1])with (10[1])Essence and was published (10[1])with Jet (10[2])by Chicago’s (10[1])John (10[1])H. Johnson. (10[4])A pure kind of this material (10[1])from a Gabonese persimmon tree forms stiffer (10[2])fretboards (10[1])than rosewood. This wood, (10[1])whose name comes (10[1]-5[1])from ancient Egyptian, partly titles a duet by Paul McCartney (10[1])and Stevie Wonder about racial harmony. (-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, what dense wood is the traditional material of a piano’s black keys? ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: ebony [accept “Ebony and Ivory”; accept Ebony magazine or Ebony Test Kitchen; accept Ebony Museum of Negro History and Art; accept hbny, hebni, Gabon ebony, African ebony, Brazilian ebony, or other varieties; prompt on hardwood or timber or logs until “wood” is read; prompt on Diospyros] (The Africa Center’s exhibit was called “African/American.”)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Geoffrey Wu	Columbia A	North Carolina A	41	-5
Nicolas Edwards	McGill	Kentucky	43	-5
Matt Jackson	Chicago A	Minnesota A	71	-5
Lexi Terman	Rutgers	Toronto B	73	10
Chris Sims	Northwestern	NYU	74	10
Matthew Siff	Yale A	Brown	78	10
John John Groger	Columbia B	Virginia	80	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Waterloo	80	10
Henry Cafaro	Chicago B	Stanford	82	10
Anirudh Bharadwaj	Penn	Duke	83	10
David Bass	Johns Hopkins	Michigan	85	10
Mitchell Shadden	Texas	Purdue	85	10
Adrian Wong	Ottawa	WUSTL B	85	10
Ben Sterling	Yale B	Arizona State	85	10
Swapnil Garg	Berkeley A	Toronto A	91	10
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Cornell A	98	10
Sanjay Srihari	Georgia Tech	Maryland	98	10
Jake Greer	Harvard	Chicago D	99	10
Graham Troy	North Carolina B	Berkeley B	103	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Illinois	106	10
Urbas Ekka	Minnesota B	Vanderbilt	106	-5
Dennis Reppen	Chicago C	Cornell B	116	10
Hayden Prather	Florida	Claremont Colleges	122	-5
Akshay Seetharam	Claremont Colleges	Florida	124	10
Cory Smith	Kentucky	McGill	138	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota A	Chicago A	138	10
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Columbia A	138	10
Aidan Fein	Vanderbilt	Minnesota B	138	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	23	100%	0%	22%	99.00