American - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

With George Jean Nathan, H. L. Mencken co-founded a newspaper called The [this adjective] Mercury, which eventually fell under far-right leadership. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this adjective in the title of a Mencken book that pays homage to Noah Webster. That book claims that the sentence “who are you talking to” is “doubly” this adjective since it forgoes “whom” and puts a preposition at the end of a sentence.

ANSWER: American [accept The American Mercury or The American Language]

[10m] The Baltimore Sun sent Mencken to cover one of these events in Dayton, Tennessee, where he gave it a famous nickname. That event of this type was fictionalized in the play Inherit the Wind.

ANSWER: trial [accept Scopes trial or Scopes Monkey trial]

[10e] At the end of Inherit the Wind, Henry Drummond picks up a book by Darwin in one hand and this book with the other. Mencken claimed to have coined the term for a “Belt” in the Southern United States named for this text.

ANSWER: the Bible

Back to bonuses

Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	18.75	100%	75%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	8	21.25	100%	88%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	22.22	100%	89%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	17.27	91%	64%	18%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford L	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
UChicago C	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Bristol B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Manchester	10	10	10	30
Durham A	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Bard A	Penn State A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30
Lehigh A	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Penn B	10	10	10	30
Penn State B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Penn State B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Penn State B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Penn State B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Penn State B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Penn State B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Penn State B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Penn State B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	Princeton A	0	10	10	20
Princeton A	Rutgers C	0	10	10	20
Kenyon A	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Michigan D (DII)	CWRU D (DII)	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Kenyon B (DII)	10	10	10	30
Michigan State A	Ohio State B (DII)	0	10	10	20
CWRU C (UG)	Michigan State C (UG)	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	10	20
Michigan State B (UG)	Pitt A	0	10	10	20
UF A	Florida Tech A	0	0	10	10
UF A	Florida Tech A	0	0	10	10
UF A	Florida Tech A	0	0	10	10
UF A	Florida Tech A	0	0	10	10
UF A	Florida Tech A	0	10	10	20
UF A	Florida Tech A	0	10	10	20
UF A	Florida Tech A	0	10	10	20
UF A	Florida Tech A	0	10	10	20
UCF B	Florida Tech B	0	0	10	10
UF D	UF C	0	0	10	10
Florida State University A	UF E	0	10	10	20
UF B	UF F	0	10	10	20
stanford M	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Tennesse A	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Emory B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech F	Auburn C	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Emory A	0	0	10	10
Georgia A	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Tennesse B	Tusculum A	0	10	10	20
UChicago A	UIUC D	10	10	10	30
WashU B	UChicago D	0	10	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	0	10	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	0	10	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	0	10	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	0	10	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	0	10	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	0	10	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	WashU C	0	10	10	20
WashU D	UIUC B	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Arkansas	10	10	10	30
Oregon State	Central Oklahoma	0	10	10	20
Colorado College	Mississippi State	0	10	10	20
Iowa	Ole Miss	0	10	10	20
Vassar B	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
WUSTL A	Texas C	0	10	10	20
Vassar A	Texas D	0	10	10	20
UBC A	SFU	0	10	10	20
UW B	UBC B	0	0	10	10
Alberta	UW A	10	0	10	20
LSE A	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
Birmingham	LSE B	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Cambridge D	0	10	10	20
Southampton A	Cambridge A	0	0	0	0
Southampton A	Durham A	10	0	0	10
Southampton A	Cambridge A	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Durham A	10	0	10	20
Southampton A	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	Durham A	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
Southampton A	Durham A	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt	Bristol A	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Durham B	0	0	10	10
Yale B	Amherst A	0	10	10	20
Boston University A	Williams A	0	10	10	20
A Brandeis Supreme	Bowdoin A	0	10	10	20
BU B	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Brandeises Brew	Tufts A	0	0	10	10
Tufts B	Brown A	0	10	10	20
Diamond Brandeis	Clark A	0	0	10	10
MIT	Harvard A	0	10	10	20
Carabrandeis	Northeastern A	0	0	10	10
Yale C	Yale A	0	0	10	10