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A 1930 essay by Louis Adamic (“ah-DAM-ick”) credits Los Angeles’s growth to Charles Nordhoff, who promoted California as a place for sufferers of this disease. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this disease, whose sufferers were nicknamed “lungers” due to the blood they coughed up. Sanatoriums treated people with this disease.
ANSWER: tuberculosis [or consumption; or TB]
[10m] According to Adamic, one of the key players in California’s “healing industry” was this evangelist, who converted an abandoned church in Echo Park into the Angelus Temple.
ANSWER: Aimee Semple McPherson [or Aimee Elizabeth Semple Kennedy]
[10h] Charles Nordhoff once lent his name to this California town, where Annie Besant founded a branch of the Krotona Institute and developed the 465-acre Happy Valley complex in an attempt to make it a Theosophist utopia.
ANSWER: Ojai (“OH-hye”)
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateBritish Columbia1010020EM
Chicago AIndiana1010020EM
Columbia BOhio State100010E
Georgia StatePenn State1010020EM
Illinois AWaterloo A100010E
Illinois BMichigan100010E
Iowa StateHarvard100010E
Johns HopkinsTexas100010E
MinnesotaMIT1010020EM
OttawaNYU1010020EM
RITMaryland100010E
RutgersNorthwestern1001020EH
Toronto AColumbia A1010020EM
Toronto BGeorgia Tech100010E
Toronto CCornell A100010E
UC Berkeley AStanford1010020EM
UC Berkeley BWaterloo B100010E
VanderbiltCornell B100010E
VirginiaUCF100010E
Virginia TechChicago B100010E
WUSTL ANorth Carolina A1010020EM
WUSTL BFlorida100010E
Winona StateNorth Carolina B1010020EM
YaleLSE1010020EM

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2414.58100%42%4%