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Packet 10: Bonus 15

In 1839, librarians discovered “Manuscript 512,” an account of a 1753 expedition that legendarily discovered a city with Greco-Roman architecture in this region. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this region where the Lost City of Z was legendarily located. Henry Ford built an industrial town called Fordlandia near this region’s city of Santarém.
ANSWER: Amazon rainforest [or Amazon jungle; accept Amazon River or Amazon River Basin; prompt on Brazil] (The city is Manaus)
[10h] While using Manuscript 512 to try to find the Lost City of Z, an explorer with this surname disappeared. A NUWSS founder with this surname led a commission investigating concentration camps.
ANSWER: Fawcett [accept Percy Fawcett or Percy Harrison Fawcett; accept Millicent Fawcett or Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett]
[10e] The unknown explorers in Manuscript 512 claimed to have discovered a coin made of this material. The Muisca’s ("moo-EE-skas") use of this metal's “dust” form may have sparked the El Dorado legend.
ANSWER: gold
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HeardPPBE %M %H %
3118.39100%65%19%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Cheese SandwichBella Vista001010E
MartingroveRenert10101030MHE

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