1860s - 2023 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

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

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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


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	10	0	10
McDouble West Carleton	Ottawa B	10	0	10
Toronto Ray Of Sun In The Sky	Ottawa A	10	10	20
Waterloo	Ottawa C	10	0	10
I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me	Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University	10	0	10
Duke	South Carolina A	10	0	10
North Carolina B	James Madison A	10	0	10
NC State	James Madison B	10	0	10
South Carolina B	North Carolina A	10	0	10
Emory A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia A	10	0	10
Georgia B	Georgia Tech C	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee A	10	0	10
Birmingham	Cambridge B	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Edinburgh	10	0	10
Durham	Oxford	10	10	20
Imperial A	Bristol	10	0	10
Warwick	Imperial B	10	0	10
Illinois B	Chicago A	10	10	20
Illinois A	Chicago B	10	0	10
Indiana	Purdue A	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Notre Dame B	10	0	10
Purdue B	Vanderbilt	10	0	10
Maryland B	George Washington B	10	0	10
Georgetown	Johns Hopkins	10	0	10
UMD A	GW A	10	10	20
Michigan A	Kenyon B	10	10	20
Kenyon A	Michigan B	10	0	10
OSU A	OSU B	10	0	10
Ganon Evans Fan Club	Arizona State	10	10	20
Boston College	Farrellmagnetism	10	0	10
Zen and the Art of Buzzing	MSU A and Friend	10	0	10
Syracuse+Rochester	Cornell MATLAB	10	0	10
RIT	Cornell R	10	0	10
Texas A	HCC	10	0	10
Texas B	TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	10	0	10
Texas C	TAMU	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	Missouri B	10	0	10
Missouri A	WUSTL H2O	10	0	10
SIUE	WUSTL XYZ	10	0	10