Question
When a chief of Ndakaaru attempted to sell slaves to the French, they told him they only wanted this crop, so the chief used the slaves to produce it instead. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this crop that titles a 2022 book by Jori Lewis. John Strachey backed the conversion of Sherman tanks into tractors called “shervicks” as part of a failed venture to produce this crop.
ANSWER: peanuts [or groundnuts or Bambara nuts or ground peas; or goober peas; or Arachis hypogaea; or Vigna subterranea; accept Tanganyika groundnut scheme or East African groundnut scheme; accept Slaves for Peanuts; prompt on nuts or legumes or Vigna]
[10m] Peanuts were exported from this island’s House of Slaves, where the “Door of No Return” symbolized the Atlantic slave trade.
ANSWER: Gorée Island [or Île de Gorée]
[10e] In the 1830s, the British freed slaves working on peanut plantations in the Bijagós (“bee-JAH-gose”) Islands, which are now part of this modern-day country. Amílcar Cabral led independence movements in Cabo Verde and this country that borders a similarly-named former French colony.
ANSWER: Guinea-Bissau [or Republic of Guinea-Bissau or República da Guiné-Bissau; prompt on Portuguese Guinea; reject “Guinea,” “Guinea-Conakry,” or “French Guinea”]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Florida A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Harvard A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Illinois A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Imperial A | Houston A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| MIT A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| McGill A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Carolina A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Northwestern A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Iowa State A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Purdue A | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UC Berkeley A | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Florida B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Claremont A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |