Packet 8: Bonus 3
This city is the largest where cheaply built Ugsarmal bair apartment buildings were built to house a rapidly growing population in the 1970s and 80s. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city, where more than half of residents live in ger districts. During the winter, this city can become the most polluted in the world due to the heavy reliance on coal burning and poor air circulation in the Tuul valley.
ANSWER: Ulaanbaatar
[10h] Original language term required. Many rural Mongols are forced to move to Ulaanbaatar when these climate events kill off their livestock through extreme cold temperatures, a lack of snowfall, or too much snowfall.
ANSWER: zud [or dzud; accept dzhut or zhut or djut or jut]
[10e] Residents of the coal mining center of Nalaikh in Ulaanbaatar are predominantly of this ethnicity. This ethnicity names the world’s largest land-locked country, the end point of the Ural River at the Caspian Sea.
ANSWER: Kazakhs [or Qazaqtar]
<EC, Geography> | NAFTA-Packet-8
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✕ | 4 | 7.50 | 75% | 0% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✕ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✕ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✕ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✕ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✕ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✕ | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✕ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |