Packet 9: Bonus 12
Rumors emerged around a 3.6 billion dollar Chinese loan made to this country when an auditor incorrectly labeled a transit institution as a borrower. For 10 points each:
[10h] What country has used loans from China’s Exim Bank to replace its “Lunatic Express” with a standard gauge railway? It’s not Saudi Arabia, but this country aspires to reach middle income status through its Vision 2030 program.
ANSWER: Kenya [or the Republic of Kenya]
[10e] The first section completed of Kenya’s SGR runs the same route as a colonial-era railway that connects Nairobi to this city, the country’s most valuable port.
ANSWER: Mombasa
[10m] The East African Development Bank has helped fund one of these projects at Lake Turkana. By far the largest of these projects is located in China’s Gānsù province, and a small one is located in Aberdeen Bay.
ANSWER: wind farm [or wind power plants; accept offshore wind farms or wind turbines; prompt on turbine or power plants]
<EC, Modern World> | NAFTA-Packet-9
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 12.38 | 91% | 10% | 24% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 0% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 75% | 0% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 0% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 20% | 40% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 0% | 40% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 0% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |