Standard Oil Company - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

A “dynamite squad” vetoed proposed bills taxing a successor to this company. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this company whose successors were accused of financing Bolivia during the Gran Chaco War. A 1911 Supreme Court antitrust case dissolved this company founded by John D. Rockefeller.

ANSWER: Standard Oil Company [accept Standard Oil Louisiana, Standard Oil New Jersey, Standard Oil Ohio, or similar]

[10m] This politician called Standard Oil “foreign murderers” for their perceived role in the Gran Chaco War. Conflict over oil taxes led a “Square Deal Association” opposing this politician to seize a Baton Rouge courthouse.

ANSWER: Huey Long [or Huey Pierce Long, Jr.; accept the Kingfish]

[10h] Long also attacked this Postmaster General for allegedly using his General Builders’ Supply Corporation to supply firms in the WPA. This politician later predicted that Franklin Roosevelt would lose Maine and Vermont.

ANSWER: James Farley [or James Aloysius Farley]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	18.89	100%	89%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	13.00	80%	50%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley B	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Stanford M	Stanford L	10	10	0	20
A Brandeis Supreme	Boston University B	10	10	0	20
Amherst A	Williams A	10	0	0	10
Yale B	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Brown A	Carabrandeis	10	0	0	10
Bowdoin B	Clark A	10	0	0	10
Diamond Brandeis	Boston University A	10	0	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeises Brew	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Northeastern A	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Tufts B	10	0	0	10
Tufts A	Yale C	10	10	0	20
Auburn C	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Georgia A	Emory B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Emory A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Bard A	Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Penn State B	Penn B	10	10	0	20
Penn A	Penn State A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers C	Lehigh A	10	0	0	10
Princeton A	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame	WashU D	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	UIUC B	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	Purdue D	10	10	0	20
UChicago B	SIUE A	10	10	0	20
UIUC D	UChicago D	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	UIUC A	10	10	0	20
UIUC C	UChicago A	10	10	0	20
WashU B	UChicago C	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	WashU C	10	0	0	10
CWRU B	CWRU D	10	0	0	10
Michigan C	Kenyon B	10	10	0	20
Kenyon A	Michigan State B	10	0	0	10
CWRU A	Michigan State C	10	10	0	20
Ohio State C	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
Pitt A	Michigan D	10	10	0	20
Pitt B	Ohio State B	10	0	0	10
McGill E	Arkansas	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Central Oklahoma	10	10	0	20
Vassar B	Mississippi State	10	0	0	10
Missouri	Texas B	10	10	0	20
Ole Miss	WUSTL A	10	0	0	10
Texas A	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Texas C	Texas D	10	10	0	20
Oregon State	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
UW B	UBC A	10	10	0	20
Alberta	UBC B	10	0	0	10
SFU	UW A	10	10	0	20
UF B	UF A	10	10	10	30
UCF A	UF C	10	0	0	10
UF D	Florida Tech B	10	10	0	20
UF E	Florida Tech A	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
LSE B	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
LSE A	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Team 1	10	0	0	10
Bristol A	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Bristol B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Southampton B	10	0	0	10
Durham B	Cambridge D	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh	Durham A	10	0	0	10