Brazzaville - 2025 PACE NSC

Question

This city's namesake investigated an incident in which two drunk men celebrated Bastille Day by blowing up an African man. For 10 points each:

[10h] Identify this African city named for an Italian who died on return to France before he could deliver his anti-imperial report.

ANSWER: Brazzaville [accept Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza]

[10m] Although de Brazza is still honored, all cities named for this racist Welsh author of In Darkest Africa have been renamed. This man discovered a doctor on the shores of Lake Tanganyika ("tan-gan-YEE-kuh").

ANSWER: Henry Morton Stanley

[10e] The Republic of Congo's city of Nkayi was once named Jacob after a French engineer who surveyed the route for one of these projects. Cecil Rhodes proposed one of these projects from Cape Town to Cairo.

ANSWER: railway [or railroad]

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Adlai E. Stevenson A	Okemos	10	10	10	30
Audrain County AT	Carl Sandburg	0	10	10	20
Carmel A	Winston Churchill B	0	10	10	20
Carmel B	Thomas Jefferson B	0	10	10	20
Centennial A	Barrington	0	10	10	20
Centennial B	Uni School of Nashville A	0	0	10	10
Chattahoochee A	Virginia	0	10	10	20
Chattahoochee B	Fremd	0	10	10	20
Detroit Catholic Central A	Uni School of Nashville B	0	10	10	20
Detroit Catholic Central C	Great Valley	0	10	0	10
Eastchester	Coronado	10	10	10	30
Edina	Herron	0	0	10	10
Fairfield County AT	Thomas Jefferson A	0	10	10	20
Hinsdale Central A	Hunter B	0	10	10	20
Homewood-Flossmoor	Classen SAS	0	10	10	20
Hunter A	Walter Payton A	10	10	10	30
Innovation Academy A	Russell	0	0	10	10
Innovation Academy B	Belmont	0	0	10	10
Irvington	Grosse Pointe South	0	10	10	20
Johns Creek	Page	0	10	10	20
Lambert B	Thomas Jefferson C	0	0	10	10
Lexington	Solon	0	10	10	20
Lindbergh	Glenbrook South	0	10	10	20
Montgomery Blair A	Lincoln-Way East B	0	10	10	20
Montgomery Blair B	Lambert A	0	10	10	20
Northmont	White Pigeon	0	10	10	20
Northview	Georgetown Day	0	10	10	20
Park Tudor	Alabama Cyber Tech	0	10	10	20
Parkway West	Yukon B	0	10	10	20
Richard Montgomery	Milton	0	0	10	10
Saratoga	Detroit Catholic Central B	10	10	10	30
Seven Lakes	North Quincy	0	10	10	20
Strake Jesuit A	Quince Orchard	0	10	10	20
Strake Jesuit B	Northside College Prep	0	10	10	20
Thomas Jefferson E	Wayzata	0	0	10	10
Uni of Illinois Laboratory	Saint Joseph	0	10	0	10
Walker	Thomas Jefferson D	10	10	10	30
Walter Payton B	Downingtown STEM	0	0	0	0
West Point	Lee's Summit	0	0	10	10
Westwood	Lincoln-Way East A	0	10	10	20
Winston Churchill A	Kane County AT	0	10	10	20
Yukon A	Adlai E. Stevenson B	0	10	10	20

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2025 PACE NSC	06/07/2025	Y	42	18.33	93%	79%	12%