Question
American veteran and expatriate Harry Crosby described this man as the “new Christ,” and he invented a “perfusion pump” to allow organs to survive outside the body with Alexis Carrell. Antoine de Saint-Exupery supposedly had an affair with this man’s wife, who wrote the book Gift from the Sea about shell collecting. This husband of Anne Morrow gave a speech during a “Peace and Preparedness Mass Meeting” in which he spoke out against the (*) Lend-Lease Act. This official spokesman for the America First Committee was Time’s first Person of the Year in 1928, and Bruno Hauptmann was arrested for kidnapping this man’s son. For 10 points, name this pilot of the Spirit of St. Louis who made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris. ■END■
ANSWER: Charles Lindbergh [or Charles Augustus Lindbergh]
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Summary
2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 99.67 |
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.88 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell Fire | 83 | 10 |
Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Chicago C | 83 | 10 |
Henry Cafaro | Chicago B | Missouri | 84 | 10 |
Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | SIUE A | 84 | 10 |
Reilly Melville | Purdue C | Michigan B | 84 | 10 |
Vedul Palavajjhala | WUSTL | SIUE B | 86 | 10 |
Spencer Ahn | Rochester A | Columbia Ly-α | 87 | -5 |
Julian Bushlow | Cornell Earth | Rochester B | 90 | 10 |
Robert Condron | Chicago A | Chicago D | 93 | 10 |
Ben Dahl | Purdue B | Ohio State C | 102 | 10 |
Quynh Phung | Purdue A | Michigan A | 103 | 10 |
Forrest Weintraub | Columbia Ly-α | Rochester A | 126 | 10 |