Bonus
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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Conversion
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
British Columbia | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Columbia A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Cornell A | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Florida | Waterloo B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Georgia State | LSE | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Illinois B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Indiana | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Johns Hopkins | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Maryland | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Michigan | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Minnesota | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Northwestern | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Ohio State | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Penn State | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Stanford | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Texas | MIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Toronto A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Toronto B | Toronto C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
UC Berkeley B | Yale | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
UCF | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Virginia Tech | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
WUSTL B | Arizona State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Waterloo A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Winona State | RIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 18.33 | 96% | 71% | 17% |