Nellie Bly - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

This woman documented her journey in a chronicle inspired by a Jules Verne novel. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this woman who wrote about her travels in Around the World in Seventy-Two Days, as well as an exposé written during her time at Blackwell’s Island.

ANSWER: Nellie Bly [or Elizabeth Jane Cochran; or Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman]

[10e] Bly’s muckraking career took off with her publication of “Ten Days in [one of these places].” These places were used to house people with illnesses like depression.

ANSWER: asylums [or mental asylums; or insane asylums; or lunatic asylums; accept mental hospitals; accept psychiatric hospitals; accept lunatic hospitals; accept psychiatric wards; accept Ten Days in a Mad-House or madhouses; prompt on hospitals]

[10m] Nellie Bly worked for this publisher, whose yellow journalism-filled New York World competed with William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal.

ANSWER: Joseph Pulitzer [or Pulitzer József]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	17.50	88%	63%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	11.67	67%	33%	17%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	11	10.00	73%	9%	18%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	14.44	89%	33%	22%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	17.50	100%	50%	25%

Data


Binghamton A	RIT C	10	10	10	30
Binghamton B	Cornell E	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	Cornell D	0	10	10	20
RIT A	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
Cornell F	Penn State	0	10	0	10
ESF	Cornell G	0	10	0	10
U of Rochester A	Syracuse	0	10	10	20
RIT B	U of Rochester B	0	10	0	10
CWRU A (UG)	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
CWRU C (UG)	CWRU B (DII)	0	10	0	10
Miami C (DII)	West Virginia A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Ohio State C (DII)	Michigan B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan D (UG)	Michigan A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Michigan State A	Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State B	Ohio State B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Miami A (UG)	West Virginia B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Arizona State B	Alberta	0	0	10	10
Boise State	UW Gluttony	0	10	0	10
UW Lust	UW Greed	0	10	0	10
UBC B	UW Pride	0	10	0	10
Arizona State A	UW Sloth	0	0	0	0
UBC A	UW Wrath	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Auburn C	0	10	0	10
Emory Oxford	Emory A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech A	Furman	0	10	0	10
Belmont	Georgia Tech C	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Missisippi State	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Mississippi State A	10	10	0	20
Southern	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
Auburn B	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
VCU	Appalachian State B	0	10	0	10
UNC B	Duke A	0	10	10	20
James Madison B	UNC D	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	Tusculum	10	10	10	30
NC State	Virginia Tech B	0	0	0	0
UNC A	Duke B	10	10	10	30
Appalachian State A	UNC C	0	10	0	10
Virginia	William & Mary	0	10	0	10
UCLA C	Claremont C	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCLA E	0	10	0	10
Claremont A	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
UCSD	UCLA D	0	10	10	20
Claremont B	USC	10	10	10	30
Bard A (UG)	Columbia A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Columbia J (DII)	Lehigh B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Fordham A	Maryland B (DII)	10	10	10	30
Lehigh A (UG)	Penn A (DII)	0	10	0	10
Maryland A (DII)	NYU B	10	10	0	20
NYU A (UG)	Rowan A (DII)	0	10	10	20
Penn B (DII)	Princeton A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Cornell C	Binghamton C	0	10	10	20