Ifugao rice terraces - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

Description acceptable. A once-popular estimate that these places are over 2,000 years old was made by Henry Otley Beyer and disputed by Felix Keesing. Trees grow to cover these places during the three years that Aliguyon and his rivals spend throwing spears at each other in the four-part chanted epic Hudhud. Threats to these places such as the export of lauan mahogany, the golden apple snail, and pheretima worms are detailed in the “coda” of Charles C. Mann’s book 1493, which also covers the marketing of their products by the company (*) Eighth Wonder. The Halsema Highway is a popular road for viewing these (10[1])places, for which (-5[1])carabao serve as draft animals in Bontoc and Benguet provinces. These places were carved (-5[1])out of the (10[1])Cordillera region’s mountains by people once known by the exonym Igorot (“ee-go-ROTE”). For 10 points, (-5[1])identify these (10[1])earthworks used (-5[1])for wet rice (-5[1])cultivation on the (10[1]-5[1])island of Luzon. (10[6]0[2])■END■

ANSWER: Ifugao rice terraces [or Banaue rice terraces; accept descriptions of rice terraces in the Philippines, in the Philippine Cordilleras until “Cordillera” is read, or in Luzon until “Luzon” read; prompt on rice terraces by asking “in what country?”; prompt on rice paddies or fields]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Daniel Ma	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	BHSU B	102	10
Isaac Kirk-Davidoff	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	105	-5
Kevin Wang	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	We Need New Names	119	-5
Nick Jensen	LMM's LLM MLM	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	122	10
Victor Pavao	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	136	-5
Walter Zhang	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	138	10
Matt Weiner	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	Les Missourables	140	-5
Colin Stewart	var merchants	Punished "Venom" BHSU	143	-5
Natan Holtzman	Lisan al-Quib	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	146	10
Ryan Rosenberg	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	The Empire Bikes Back	146	-5
Amogh Kulkarni	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	149	10
Dillon Robertson	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	149	0
Eve Fleisig	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	149	10
Rob Carson	Punished "Venom" BHSU	var merchants	149	10
Eric Bobrow	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	149	10
William Golden	The Dyatlov Passement incident	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	149	10
Henry Atkins	The Empire Bikes Back	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	149	0
Chris Ray	We Need New Names	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	149	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	12	83%	0%	50%	140.20