Question
In the 1850s, the chemist Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville made an extremely expensive breastplate from this material for Napoleon III. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this essential war material, the major profit center of Charles Martin Hall's Pittsburgh Reduction Company.
ANSWER: aluminum [or aluminium or Al]
[10m] Alcoa lends its name to a city in this state's Blount County that's home to an aluminum smelting plant. The Clinton Engineer Works at a "secret city" in this state enriched uranium for the Manhattan Project.
ANSWER: Tennessee [or TN]
[10e] Alcoa left a toxic legacy in Suriname, a country that was a longtime colony of this European country. This modern-day country's East India Company also colonized Indonesia.
ANSWER: The Netherlands [or Kingdom of the Netherlands; accept Dutch East Indies; prompt on VOC]
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Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 29 | 14.83 | 100% | 38% | 10% |