Question
A candidate in this election lost momentum after being targeted with the forged “Canuck letter.” A faithless elector in this election voted for the Libertarian Party’s first candidate, John Hospers. Because of his history of depression, this election’s nominee Thomas Eagleton was replaced by Sargent Shriver. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward documented their investigations of this election’s winning campaign in the book All the President’s Men. In this election, Massachusetts was the only state won by the Democratic nominee, George McGovern. For 10 points, Richard Nixon was re-elected in what election, the subject of the Watergate scandal? ■END■
ANSWER: 1972 US Presidential election [accept 1972 presidential primaries; prompt on ‘72]
<American History>
= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 22% | 53.71 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 65.13 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 59.60 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 58.08 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 44% | 77.13 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 54.40 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 22% | 68.75 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 33% | 50.88 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Ge | Cornell D | Cornell E | 14 | 10 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | Liberty C | 14 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Chicago B | 14 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | Chicago A | Iowa A | 14 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina B | Mississippi State A | 16 | 10 |
| Corwin Davidson | UBC A | Boise State | 17 | 10 |
| Cohen Wiegers | Emory A | Georgia Tech B | 17 | 10 |
| Jesse Mindle | NC State | UNC D | 20 | -5 |
| Spencer Ahn | U of Rochester B | Cornell G | 24 | -5 |
| Quinn Whitlow | Illinois D | Illinois C | 25 | 10 |
| Alex Chen (DII) | Claremont C | UCLA D | 27 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan C | 29 | -5 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech A | 30 | -5 |
| Jack Ogletree | Auburn B | Georgia Tech C | 32 | 10 |
| Connor Carlisle | James Madison A | Liberty B | 35 | -5 |
| Terrence Han (DII) | UCLA C | Claremont B | 37 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh (DII) | Penn A (DII) | Penn B (DII) | 37 | 10 |
| Venkat Das (DII) | West Virginia A (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | 39 | 10 |
| Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Columbia J (DII) | 39 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Purdue A | 40 | -5 |
| Deric Wagner | Binghamton B | RIT A | 45 | 10 |
| Varun Venkatagiri | Georgia A | Clemson B | 45 | 10 |
| Theodore Farrell (UG) | Fordham A | Maryland A (DII) | 45 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU B | Iowa B | 45 | -5 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Emory Oxford | 49 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU A | Purdue C | 50 | 10 |
| Claire Wang | RIT C | Binghamton C | 51 | -5 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois A | Northwestern A | 52 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Auburn A | 53 | 10 |
| Joshua Rafaeil | Cornell C | RIT B | 56 | 10 |
| Cole Polley (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | Michigan A (UG) | 56 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy (UG) | UCSD | Claremont A | 56 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 57 | 10 |
| Zoe Brennan | Virginia Tech B | Duke B | 57 | -5 |
| Kieran Freed | U of Rochester A | Cornell B | 58 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Syracuse | 58 | 10 |
| Justin Qian | UBC B | UW Sloth | 58 | 10 |
| Antonio LaNave | Virginia Tech A | Tusculum | 58 | 10 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame A | Notre Dame C | 58 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush (DII) | Michigan State A | Michigan State B | 59 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | UW Pride | UW Chastity | 61 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson A | Tennessee B | 61 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi (DII) | Rutgers B | Lehigh A (UG) | 61 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Furman | 64 | 10 |
| Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Belmont | 64 | -5 |
| Max Khurzman | UNC A | UNC C | 64 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Bard A (UG) | 64 | -5 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana | Illinois B | 64 | -5 |
| Pierce DeCain | Cornell F | Penn State | 65 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson (DII) | Ohio State A (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | 65 | 10 |
| Akshath Srinivasan | UW Lust | Arizona State A | 65 | 10 |
| Ryan Krejcha | UW Envy | Arizona State B | 65 | -5 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy (DII) | USC | UCLA A | 65 | 10 |
| Ayan Guha | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech E | 69 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW Gluttony | 74 | -5 |
| Robert Merriman | VCU | UNC B | 77 | -5 |
| Zaid Asif (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Columbia B | 78 | -5 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell A | ESF | 80 | 10 |
| Connor McClellan (UG) | Miami A (UG) | CWRU B (DII) | 80 | 10 |
| Sam Hicks-Jirkans (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Miami B (UG) | 80 | 10 |
| Claire Wilson (UG) | Lehigh A (UG) | Lehigh B (DII) | 84 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas (DII) | Michigan C | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | 85 | 10 |
| Aarav Kakad (DII) | UCLA E | UCLA B | 87 | 10 |
| Ezra Greenhill (DII) | Bard A (UG) | Maryland B (DII) | 90 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Duke A | 95 | 10 |
| Joseph Cole | UNC B | VCU | 96 | 10 |
| Cameron Wiliams | Appalachian State A | James Madison B | 96 | 10 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton C | RIT C | 97 | 0 |
| Blake Savage | Cornell G | U of Rochester B | 97 | 0 |
| Beck Faletti | UW Gluttony | Alberta | 97 | 0 |
| Taman Truong | Arizona State B | UW Envy | 97 | 10 |
| Pranav Johti | Georgia Tech A | South Carolina A | 97 | 10 |
| Justin Hetrick | Belmont | Southern | 97 | 10 |
| James Zhao | Vanderbilt B | Auburn C | 97 | 10 |
| Brandon Hunt | Auburn C | Vanderbilt B | 97 | 0 |
| Miller Doerr | Liberty B | James Madison A | 97 | 10 |
| Michael Eng | UNC D | NC State | 97 | 10 |
| Michael Li | Duke B | Virginia Tech B | 97 | 0 |
| Jack Stuhlman (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 97 | 0 |
| Neilesh Shroti (UG) | Columbia B | NYU A (UG) | 97 | 10 |
| Sam Millenbach (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | NYU B | 97 | 10 |
| Sidhant Chaliha (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | Lehigh B (DII) | 97 | 0 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | Notre Dame B | 97 | 10 |
| Abigail Zimmerman | Iowa B | WashU B | 97 | 10 |