Battle of Blair Mountain - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

This event was sparked by the murder of “Smilin’ Sid” Hatfield in revenge for a gunfight in Matewan. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this event in which 3,000 “Logan Defenders” were joined by troops sent by Warren Harding. It’s considered the largest US armed uprising since the Civil War.

ANSWER: Battle of Blair Mountain

[10e] At age 84, this Irish-American labor activist showed up to Blair Mountain to rally coal miners. She names a major progressive magazine in the US.

ANSWER: “Mother” Jones [or Mary G. Harris Jones]

[10h] Two of these geographic features name a violent, 14-month-long West Virginia strike led by Mother Jones that began in 1912. Another of these features names a 1894 strike in which the Colorado state militia was called out to support striking gold miners.

ANSWER: creeks [accept Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike; accept Cripple Creek strike; prompt on streams or bodies of water]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	67%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	33%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	9	11.11	67%	33%	11%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	13.33	67%	50%	17%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	12.00	40%	40%	40%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	5.00	38%	13%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	8.00	20%	40%	20%
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	33%	33%	67%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Cornell C	Cornell A	0	0	0	0
Binghamton	RIT A	10	0	10	20
GWU A (UG)	Virginia B (UG)	0	10	0	10
GWU B (Grad)	Liberty B (DII)	10	0	0	10
Rice A	UBC A	0	0	0	0
Michigan State A	Sorbonne	0	10	0	10
Penn	John Jay	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Durham B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge C	KCL	0	0	0	0
Geodesic	Tennessee	10	10	10	30
Harding	Kentucky	0	0	0	0
Dartmouth A	Dartmouth B	0	0	0	0
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Stanford B	Stanford C	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	RIT B	0	10	0	10
Kenyon	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Kiel	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Sheffield	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Alabama	0	0	0	0
MTSU	Vanderbilt A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina	Georgia Tech A	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Harvard B	10	10	10	30
Tufts A	Tufts B	0	0	10	10
William & Mary A (UG)	JMU A (UG)	10	10	0	20
UNC B (UG)	Liberty C (DII)	0	10	0	10
Maryland A (Grad)	Maryland C (DII)	0	10	0	10
Maryland B (UG)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	0	10
UNC C (UG)	Roanoke College A (DII)	0	0	0	0
Liberty A (Grad)	UNC D (DII)	0	0	0	0
Virginia A (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	10	10	10	30
Claremont A	Iowa B	10	10	0	20
Iowa A	Appalachian State	0	0	0	0
Texas A&M A	Texas A&M B	10	10	0	20
Texas A	UW A	10	10	10	30
Haverford	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Rowan	NYU A	0	0	0	0
Vassar	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Oxford C	Bristol	0	0	0	0
Cambridge B	Oxford B	0	0	0	0
Durham A	Warwick	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Edinburgh	0	0	0	0