Packet 1: Bonus 4
Name these locations of African mining railways, for 10 points each.
[10e] A popular stunt for travel influencers is to ride this country’s Desert Trains, which carry iron ore from the Saharan town of Zouérat to the port of Nouadhibou just south of Western Sahara.
ANSWER: Mauritania [or Islamic Republic of Mauritania; or al-Jumhūriyyah al-Islāmiyyah al-Mūrītāniyyah]
[10m] A railway named for this Angolan city ships Katanga’s copper to the port of Lobito. The colonial town of Moçâmedes (“mo-SAH-meh-dees”) is cooled by a current named for this city that causes fog in the Namib Desert.
ANSWER: Benguela [accept Benguela Current or Corrente de Benguela]
[10h] Gabonese manganese once left Mbinda on a Congolese railway named for this place, which links Brazzaville to Pointe-Noire. J. P. Daughton’s book In the Forest of No Joy recounts the Gbaya people’s Kongo-Wara rebellion over that deadly project named for this place.
ANSWER: the ocean [or the sea; accept Congo-Océan Railway or Chemin de fer Congo-Océan; accept Atlantic Ocean, Océan Atlantique, Atlantic Ocean, or Océan Atlantique; accept In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism]
<Waterloo, Geography> | A. Prelims 1 - Waterloo + Toronto A + Georgia Tech B
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 12.27 | 96% | 27% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | MIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Cornell | Pittsburgh | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland B | Minnesota | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern A | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Purdue | Virginia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Illinois B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Northwestern B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Swarthmore | WashU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Ohio State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | Bruin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| UC Berkeley A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley B | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCF | North Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | Penn State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Vanderbilt | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia | British Columbia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 22 | 12.27 | 96% | 27% | 0% |