Question
At the first of these events, one politician claimed that another could “prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.” Prior to one of these events in Charleston, spectators held up a large banner reading “Negro Equality,” which showed a white man, a Black woman, and a mixed-race child. Harry Jaffa wrote a 1959 book arguing that these events marked a revival of the Socratic tradition. A participant in these events described another’s ideas as “thin as a (*) homeopathic soup made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that starved to death.” Pitman shorthand allowed reporters to cover these events, which started in a non-Canadian Ottawa and ended in Alton. At the second one of these events, a participant presented his Freeport Doctrine. For 10 points, name these seven 1859 debates that pitted an incumbent Illinois senator against his Republican challenger. ■END■
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Jackson | The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 51 | 15 |
| Aseem Keyal | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | Team Name Think Detail | 62 | 15 |
| Will Alston | Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 66 | 15 |
| Paul Kasiński | The Canadians | I would prefer not to | 79 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | Quasicrystal Silence | 93 | -5 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | In Search of Things Past | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 100 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | remembrance of lost time | 110 | 10 |
| Tejas Raje | BHSU | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 117 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 120 | 10 |
| Doug Simons | Quasicrystal Silence | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 139 | 10 |