Packet 4: Bonus 13
Arley Gill heads a commission that aims to use this type of payment to mitigate the combined impact of hurricanes, drought, and erosion in Grenada. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this type of payment for historical injustices pursued by Caricom and advocated for by Ta-Nehisi (“TAH nuh-HAH-see”) Coates.
ANSWER: reparations [prompt on financial compensation or word forms of compensate; prompt on damages; prompt on indemnity or indemnities]
[10m] This country’s president Luis Arce proposed both a postcolonial reparations fund and compensation for domestic victims of dictatorship. This country’s new president Rodrigo Paz promised “capitalism for all.”
ANSWER: Bolivia [or Plurinational State of Bolivia, Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, Wuliwya Walja Ayllunakana Marka, Puliwya Achka Aylluska Mamallaqta, or Tetã Hetate’ýigua Volívia]
[10h] The UN Human Rights Committee defended an agreement to provide reparations for people displaced during this conflict by the Chixoy (“chee-shoy”) hydroelectric dam, whose construction precipitated the Río Negro massacres.
ANSWER: Guatemalan genocide [or Genocidio guatemalteco; or Maya genocide, Ixil genocide, Genocidio maya, or Genocidio ixil; accept Silent Holocaust or Holocausto silencioso; prompt on Guatemalan Civil War, Guerra civil guatemalteca, Guerra civil de Guatemala, or Conflicto armado interno de Guatemala]
<Editors, Current Events> | D. Prelims 4 - Toronto B + Harvard + Michigan + Minnesota
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 15.71 | 100% | 52% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | UCF | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago B | Bruin | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech C | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Northwestern B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Indiana | Pittsburgh | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland A | Cornell | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Georgetown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Penn State | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Rutgers | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Swarthmore | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | WashU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | North Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley B | Stanford B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Virginia Tech | Maryland B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 15.71 | 100% | 52% | 5% |