Question
Charles and Mary Beard have deemed the 37th US Congress, which convened during this decade, the key to the “Second American Revolution” for passing economic legislation like the Revenue Act. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this decade during which the Republican Party first wielded control of both houses of Congress in support of President Abraham Lincoln.
ANSWER: 1860s [prompt on 60s]
[10h] During the most recent time that Republicans had a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress, they exacerbated a “long depression” triggered in part by the failure of a company owned by this person. This investment banker was forced into bankruptcy after advancing money for the Northern Pacific Railway.
ANSWER: Jay Cooke
[10m] A later Republican Congress doled out generous pensions for Civil War veterans and passed the Sherman Antitrust Act and the McKinley Tariff, leading opponents to give it this nickname.
ANSWER: Billion Dollar Congress
<GP, American History>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me | Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | James Madison A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NC State | James Madison B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley C | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| McDouble West Carleton | Ottawa B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto Ray Of Sun In The Sky | Ottawa A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Waterloo | Ottawa C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Emory A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Georgia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia B | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech D | Tennessee A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Birmingham | Cambridge B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Edinburgh | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Durham | Oxford | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Bristol | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Warwick | Imperial B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois B | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Purdue A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame A | Notre Dame B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue B | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland B | George Washington B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgetown | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UMD A | GW A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Kenyon B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Kenyon A | Michigan B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| OSU A | OSU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina B | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | HCC | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas B | TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas C | TAMU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Squidward Community College | Missouri B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Missouri A | WUSTL H2O | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| SIUE | WUSTL XYZ | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ganon Evans Fan Club | Arizona State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Boston College | Farrellmagnetism | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Zen and the Art of Buzzing | MSU A and Friend | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Syracuse+Rochester | Cornell MATLAB | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| RIT | Cornell R | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |