Question

A woman living in this city called Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Louis Agassiz (“AGG-uh-see”) to testify about an alleged forged signature that was then analyzed with statistical forensics by Benjamin and C. S. Peirce (“purse”). This city’s elite joined a volunteer Civil War regiment nicknamed the “Blue-Bloods.” (-5[1])The first Union League Club was founded in this city, where wealthy matriarchs established the Phelps Stokes Fund and Russell Sage Foundation. Hetty Green lived in (-5[1])this city when she became (-5[1])America’s (10[1])richest woman during the Gilded Age. In this city’s 1886 mayoral race, Abram Hewitt defeated the author of Progress (10[1])and Poverty. (10[2]-5[1])Hewitt’s (10[1])father-in-law (10[1])established (-5[1])this city’s tuition-free college, naming (-5[1])it after the inventor of the “Tom Thumb” steam locomotive. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1]-5[1])the Cooper Union (10[4])is (10[1])located (10[1])in what city (10[1])controlled by Tammany Hall? (10[2])■END■ (10[7])

ANSWER: New York City [or NYC] (Henry George wrote Progress and Poverty. Green was called the “Witch of Wall Street.”)
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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y24100%0%29%118.79

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Adrian WongOttawaDuke45-5
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AStanford71-5
Dean Ah NowClaremont CollegesToronto B76-5
Justin HawkinsIndianaChicago A7710
Robert FreemanSouth CarolinaNorth Carolina B9610
Sky LiToronto AYale A98-5
Michael DuWaterlooColumbia A9810
Andrew KelleyKentuckyTruman State9810
Luke SchaarschuchVirginiaWUSTL B9910
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia TechBerkeley A10010
Ben SterlingYale BFlorida101-5
Jaik HavlickArizona StateColumbia B106-5
Ryan SunBerkeley BCornell B11610
James StevensonMichiganIllinois11910
Jason HongBrownNYU119-5
Chinmay MurthyTexasCornell A12210
Conor ThompsonIowa StateMaryland12210
Nikhil ChellamNorthwesternJohns Hopkins12210
Aum MundheRutgersPenn12210
John MarvinChicago BMinnesota A12310
Urbas EkkaMinnesota BChicago C12410
Alan WuVanderbiltHarvard12710
Arthur Delot-VilainYale AToronto A13110
Marcus Forbes-GreenToronto BClaremont Colleges13110
Halle FriedmanNYUBrown13210
Nicolas EdwardsMcGillChicago D13210
Quynh PhungPurdueNorth Carolina A13210
Allan LeeStanfordWUSTL A13210
Simon GorbatyDukeOttawa13210
Graham CopeFloridaYale B13210
John John GrogerColumbia BArizona State13210