Question
A hybrid animal that was a cross between a horse and one of these animals, known as Lord Morton’s mare, was cited by Charles Darwin as evidence for telegony (“tuh-LEG-uh-nee”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this subspecies of the plains zebra hunted to extinction by South African settlers. These animals had black and white zebra stripes on the head and neck but brown, horse-like fur on the rest of their bodies.
ANSWER: quagga (“KWAH-hah”) [or Equus quagga quagga; or E. quagga quagga; prompt on equids or equines or Equus]
[10h] Another extinct equid was this hybrid draft animal prized in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BCE. Skeletal evidence suggests that these equids were crosses between female domesticated donkeys and wild male onagers (“ON-uh-jerz”).
ANSWER: kungas
[10e] A more familiar equid hybrid is this widely-used cross between a male donkey and a female horse. They are the reciprocal cross of the hinny.
ANSWER: mules
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| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Brown A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida A | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Texas A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Houston A | Florida B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Iowa State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Michigan A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Indiana A | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Duke A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | McGill A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Claremont A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | MIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | Purdue A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Ohio State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale B | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |