Buffalo soldiers - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

Theories about how these soldiers acquired their nickname include the winter coats they wore, the texture of their hair, or how fiercely they fought. For 10 points each:

[10m] Give the common nickname of these American units, originally founded in Kansas, who participated in conflicts like the Johnson County War and other frontier conflicts in the late nineteenth century.

ANSWER: Buffalo soldiers

[10e] This officer commanded a troop of the African-American 10th Cavalry buffalo soldiers between 1895 and 1897, resulting in him receiving the originally derogatory nickname “Black Jack” after he became an instructor at West Point. He also commanded the American Expeditionary Forces during World War 1.

ANSWER: John “Black Jack” Pershing

[10h] The founding commander of the 10th Cavalry, Benjamin Grierson, is most famous for his namesake cavalry raid he led as a diversion during this Civil War campaign.

ANSWER: Vicksburg campaign

<GT, American History>

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	10.00	75%	0%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	N	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	N	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	N	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley C	0	10	0	10
Ottawa A	McDouble West-Carleton	0	10	10	20
Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky	Ottawa C	0	10	0	10
Ottawa B	Waterloo	0	10	0	10
Duke	NC State	0	0	0	0
James Madison B	James Madison A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
SGV Capital	I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me	10	10	0	20
Bristol	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Durham	Warwick	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Oxford	Birmingham	10	0	0	10
Chicago B	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Illinois A	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt	Indiana	0	10	0	10
George Washington A	Georgetown	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	George Washington B	10	10	0	20
Kenyon A	Kenyon B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Arizona State	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	0	10	10	20
Farrellmagnetism	MSU A and Friend	10	10	10	30
Ganon Evans Fan Club	Boston College	0	10	0	10
Cornell MATLAB	RIT	0	10	0	10
Syracuse+Rochester	Cornell R	0	0	0	0
HCC	Texas C	0	10	0	10
TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	Texas A	10	10	0	20
TAMU	Texas B	10	10	0	20
Missouri A	Squidward Community College	0	10	0	10
SIUE	WUSTL H2O	10	10	0	20
Missouri B	WUSTL XYZ	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech D	Georgia A	0	10	0	10
Georgia B	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Tennessee A	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10