dreadnoughts - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

The construction of these vessels in the US began earlier than their British counterparts, but due to budgetary issues, they were not commissioned until 1910. For 10 points each:

[10e] Identify these battleships named after a prototypical 1906 British vessel. These ships’ “all-big-gun” design and other innovations made previous battleships obsolete and accelerated the early 20th-century naval arms race.

ANSWER: dreadnoughts [accept HMS Dreadnought]

[10h] Despite being of five different classes, 13 American battleships ordered between 1911 and 1916 compose this “type,” which was characterized by “All or Nothing” armor schemes to allow them to function as a single line.

ANSWER: Standard Type Battleships

[10m] The battleships that were supposed to replace the Standard Type battleships were canceled after this 1922 arms reduction conference, which set the US and Royal Navies equal to each other in battleship tonnage.

ANSWER: Washington Naval Conference

<GT, American History>

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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	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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