Jimmy Hoffa - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

An urban legend claims that this person is buried under Section 107 of Giants Stadium. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this person whose death is central to I Heard You Paint Houses, a supposed biography of hitman Frank Sheeran. Thus far, searches for this person’s body in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, have not been fruitful.

ANSWER: Jimmy Hoffa (I Heard You Paint Houses was adapted into The Irishman.)

[10e] Hoffa led this large union, which primarily represents drivers and warehouse workers.

ANSWER: Teamsters Union [or International Brotherhood of Teamsters]

[10h] Hoffa was probably murdered by the Mafia, whose connections with the Teamsters were investigated by this Senate select committee in the late 1950s. This committee was headed by a namesake Senator from Arkansas.

ANSWER: McClellan Committee [or United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	9	14.44	78%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Cornell A	Binghamton	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
RIT B	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Virginia B (UG)	Duke A (UG)	0	0	0	0
GWU A (UG)	UNC D (DII)	10	10	0	20
GWU B (Grad)	William & Mary A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Virginia C (UG)	JMU A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Maryland C (DII)	Liberty A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Virginia A (UG)	Liberty B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Maryland A (Grad)	Liberty C (DII)	10	10	0	20
Roanoke College A (DII)	Maryland B (UG)	10	10	0	20
JMU B (UG)	UNC B (UG)	0	0	0	0
Iowa State	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
Arizona State	Minnesota C	10	10	0	20
Kenyon	Cedarville	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Haverford	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
NYU A	John Jay	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Penn	10	10	0	20
Rowan	Vassar	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Oxford C	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	KCL	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Kiel	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Sheffield	10	10	0	20
Warwick	Durham B	0	10	0	10
MTSU	Alabama	0	10	0	10
Geodesic	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt A	Harding	10	10	0	20
South Carolina	Tennessee	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
Boston University	Brandeis A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis B	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Harvard B	10	10	0	20