Question
A Tennessee court hung one of these animals named Big Mary after they ruled that she had murdered a human in 1916. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these animals whose Asian species helped put up tents at circuses.
ANSWER: elephants [accept Asian elephants or African forest elephants]
[10h] This elephant was framed as “bad” after killing a drunken zookeeper who fed her a cigar. In 1903, Thomas Edison’s film studio recorded this elephant’s electrocution at Luna Park.
ANSWER: Topsy
[10m] In the early 2000s, residents of Assam named several killer elephants after this person. A wedding tape of this person’s son Hamza was recovered from a safe house he returned to after the death of Benazir Bhutto.
ANSWER: Osama bin Laden [or Usama bin Laden; accept Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden]
<Michael Bentley, Other - Other Academic and General Knowledge> ~20051~ <Editor: Ganon Evans>
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 33 | 15.76 | 94% | 49% | 15% |
Data
Chattahoochee A | Dunbar | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Hunter B | Chattahoochee B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Choate Rosemary Hall | Solon | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Barrington A | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Detroit Catholic Central A | Innovation Academy A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Dallas County | Elkhorn North | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Heights | Mira Loma | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Hinsdale Central | Innovation Academy B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Hunter A | Norman | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Thomas Jefferson B | Irvington A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Lake Highland | Carl Sandburg | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Lincoln-Way East | Detroit Catholic Central B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Midtown | Maggie Walker A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Maggie Walker C | Belmont | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Mexico | Woodland | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Kinkaid | Moberly | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
New Brighton | Rockford Auburn B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Carbondale | Norris | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
William Fremd | Northmont A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Richard Montgomery | Detroit Catholic Central C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Detroit Country Day | Saint Joseph | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
St. Mark's | Northmont B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Stevenson A | Maggie Walker B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Thomas Jefferson A | John Adams B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Mercer County | Thomas Jefferson D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Troy | Thomas Jefferson C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
University Lab | Stevenson B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Belvidere | Walter Payton | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Barrington B | Washington | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Plymouth | Waukee | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Winston Churchill B | West Point | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Hoover B | Winnebago | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Winston Churchill A | Johns Creek B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |