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Sonia Purnell’s 2024 biography Kingmaker re-examines the legacy of a woman with this surname, who helped launch Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this surname, also shared by a 1950s governor of New York who later served as a prominent diplomat in the Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy administrations, and negotiated the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
ANSWER: Harriman [accept Pamela Harriman or W. Averell Harriman; prompt on Digby or Churchill]
[10e] A 2005 book by C. David Heymann profiles Pamela Harriman alongside Katharine Graham, the owner of this newspaper. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein helped this newspaper expose the Watergate scandal.
ANSWER: The Washington Post [accept WaPo; prompt on The Post]
[10m] Pamela Harriman later helped Richard Holbrooke negotiate this treaty. The Wright-Patt Air Force Base hosted talks between Franjo Tuđman (“TOOJ-man”) and others that preceded this agreement.
ANSWER: Dayton Accords [or Dayton Peace Agreement; or General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina]
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TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2418.3396%71%17%