Question
This event was moved from its eponymous location in 2008 after the murder of four French tourists in Aleg. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this event whose last occurrence in South America in 2019 involved a road trip between Lima and Tacna. This event run by the Groupe Amaury (“ah-moh-REE”) has been dominated by Nasser Al-Attiyah using a modified Hilux (“HYE-lux”).
ANSWER: Dakar Rally [or The Dakar; accept Paris–Dakar Rally prompt on rallying or rally raid]
[10e] Hosting the Dakar Rally is the latest sportswashing scheme by this Middle Eastern kingdom that hosts the WWE’s Crown Jewel event and sponsors the LIV (“liv”) Golf Tour.
ANSWER: Saudi Arabia [or Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; or Al-Mamlakah al-ʿArabīyah as-Saʿūdīyah; or KSA; prompt on Arabia]
[10h] Thierry Sabine started the Dakar Rally after getting lost in this region that forms a nature reserve with the Aïr (“ah-EER”) Mountains in Niger (“nee-ZHAIR”). In 1973, a possibly drunk driver took out a lone tree in this region that was the most isolated tree in the world.
ANSWER: Ténéré [or Tiniri; accept Tree of Ténéré; accept Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve; prompt on the Sahara or aṣ-ṣaḥra’ al-Kubrá]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Harvard A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech A | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech B | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Duke A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Houston A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| South Carolina A | Iowa State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | MIT A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |