Packet 4: Bonus 13
Future Reichstag member Ada Schnee documented her experiences during this war in the colonial memoir Bibi Mkuba. For 10 points each:
[10e] Nationalists lionized Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s defense during what war’s East African campaign? After this war, the United Kingdom began to administer Tanganyika.
ANSWER: World War I [or WWI; or the Great War; or the First World War]
[10m] The majority of early fighting in German East Africa was between askaris, who made up both the German Schutztruppe and this British regiment. Idi Amin served in this auxiliary regiment when it fought the Mau Mau.
ANSWER: King’s African Rifles [or KAR]
[10h] People with this role, such as those in a corps assembled by Jan Smuts, had by far the highest casualty rates in East Africa. The Nyamwezi have been called “a nation of” this role for their central position in 19th-century trade.
ANSWER: carriers [or porters; accept the Carrier Corps or Kariokor; prompt on laborers or noncombatants]
<Editors, World History> | M. Playoffs 4 (Editors 4)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 15.83 | 92% | 42% | 25% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Pittsburgh | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Brown | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bruin | Penn State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge | Texas | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago B | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell | UCF | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Georgetown | Maryland B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Illinois A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Michigan | Stanford B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| NYU A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| NYU B | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Northwestern B | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Virginia Tech | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Swarthmore | North Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | Harvard | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| UC Berkeley B | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Virginia | Ohio State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU | Minnesota | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 15.83 | 92% | 42% | 25% |