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In 1944, researchers found Dutch duits and coins with text in this language on Marchinbar Island in Australia. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language. Though Offa of Mercia spoke Old English, he unusually minted a coin that copied text in this language from an Abbasid dinar.
ANSWER: Arabic [or al-ʿarabiyyah]
[10m] The Arabic coins from Marchinbar Island are thought to be from this polity. A namesake chronicle claims that this polity on the Swahili Coast was founded by the Shirazi prince Ali ibn al-Hassan.
ANSWER: Kilwa Sultanate [accept Kilwa Chronicle]
[10h] Two silver Arabic coins found in Rhode Island may be part of this pirate’s lost treasure. According to a 2024 book by Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan, this pirate is thought to have become a royal spy after looting a Mughal fleet and triggering the first worldwide manhunt.
ANSWER: Henry Avery [or Henry Every; accept Jack Avery, John Avery, Benjamin Bridgeman, or Long Ben] (The book is The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy.)
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StatePenn State100010E
Chicago BGeorgia Tech100010E
Columbia AWaterloo A1010020EM
Columbia BCornell B1010020EM
Cornell AToronto B1010020EM
FloridaLSE1010020EM
HarvardMIT1010020EM
IndianaNorth Carolina A10101030EMH
MichiganUCF1010020EM
NYUUC Berkeley B1010020EM
NorthwesternChicago A1010020EM
Ohio StateRIT1010020EM
OttawaBritish Columbia1010020EM
StanfordIllinois A1010020EM
TexasIowa State100010E
Toronto ARutgers1010020EM
Toronto CJohns Hopkins100010E
UC Berkeley AWUSTL A1010020EM
VanderbiltIllinois B1010020EM
VirginiaNorth Carolina B1010020EM
Virginia TechMinnesota1010020EM
WUSTL BGeorgia State1010020EM
Waterloo BYale1001020EH
Winona StateMaryland100010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2418.33100%75%8%