Question
In the 1830s, Connecticut experienced a so-called "mania" for growing this crop. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this fruit that names a "row" of slave quarters at Monticello. Bandits' Roost was a tenement alley off a New York street named for this fruit, photographed by Jacob Riis.
ANSWER: mulberries [or Mulberry Mania; or Mulberry Row; or Mulberry Street; or Morus alba]
[10m] In a failed attempt to start a silk industry, hundreds of mulberry trees were planted in this city's Trustees' Garden. James Oglethorpe created two dozen squares in this city, founded as the capital of a debtors' colony.
ANSWER: Savannah
[10e] As owner of Savannah's Mulberry Grove Plantation, Nathanael Greene's widow Catharine helped Eli Whitney design a gin for processing this other crop.
ANSWER: cotton [or cotton gin]
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Data
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adlai E. Stevenson B | Yukon A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Grosse Pointe South | Downingtown STEM | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Hunter B | Montgomery Blair B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Irvington | Georgetown Day | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Northmont | Fremd | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Northside College Prep | Carmel A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Uni of Illinois Laboratory | Uni School of Nashville A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |