Question
Titus Salt made Bradford, England a center of processing fiber imported from this country's alpacas. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this coastal Andean country that, with Bolivia, fought the War of the Pacific against its southern neighbor, Chile.
ANSWER: Peru [or Republic of Peru]
[10m] Charles Ledger's scheme to steal a bunch of Peruvian alpacas violated a Peruvian export law that sentenced offenders to hard labor mining this resource, which was harvested on the Chincha Islands.
ANSWER: guano [accept fertilizer or bird poop or manure; prompt on phosphate or nitrogen by asking "what type of product is that used in?"]
[10h] Ledger avoided capture on his alpaca heist by placing this substance in his captor's drink. In the Victorian era, this opium-infused drink was often given to infants and to women suffering from menstrual cramps.
ANSWER: laudanum
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Data
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 20.00 | 95% | 71% | 33% |