Zebulon Pike - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

Answer the following about people who attempted to determine the head of the Mississippi River, for 10 points each.

[10e] James Wilkinson tasked this general with finding the Mississippi’s headwaters. Katherine Bates was inspired to write “America the Beautiful” by his second expedition, in which he encountered a peak in the Colorado Rockies that now bears his name.

ANSWER: Zebulon Pike [or Zebulon Montgomery Pike; accept Pikes Peak]

[10m] This governor led a survey expedition of the Michigan Territory that identified Red Cedar Lake as the Mississippi’s source. He supported popular sovereignty as the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee.

ANSWER: Lewis Cass

[10h] This ethnologist and author of a five-volume Native American history correctly identified the headwaters of the Mississippi and called it Lake Itasca, from the Latin for “true head.” His wife, Jane Johnston, was an early published Ojibwe author.

ANSWER: Henry Schoolcraft [or Henry Rowe Schoolcraft]

<RR, American History>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	8.33	50%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	4	2.50	0%	0%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	N	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Boston College A	BU	10	0	0	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	10	10	0	20
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Carleton A	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Basic	Toronto A	10	0	0	10
Toronto B	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	0	0	0	0
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	0	0	0
RIT	Maryland	10	0	0	10
Pitt	Penn State	0	0	0	0
UF A	UF C	10	10	0	20
UF B	UCF A	10	0	0	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley Past	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	10	10	0	20
Bristol	Warwick A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	LSE A	0	0	0	0
Warwick B	Southampton	0	0	0	0
Harvard	Boston College B	10	10	10	30
Amherst	Bowdoin C	10	0	0	10
MIT	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10
Yale	Clark House	10	0	0	10
North Carolina B	North Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina	Virginia Tech C	10	0	0	10
WashU	Squidward Community College	10	10	0	20
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Old and Young	10	0	0	10
Madmen and Specialists	Paddington in Peru (2024)	10	10	10	30
The cult of SGA	Social credit go vroom	10	0	0	10
In the Mood for Buzz	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	10	10	10	30
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	bingy academy	10	0	0	10
McGill A	Waterloo Cloze	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Lambert	10	10	0	20
Innovation Academy B	Innovation Academy A	10	0	0	10
Johns Creek	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Chicago A	0	0	0	0
Purdue B	Chicago B	10	0	0	10
Illinois Blue	SIUE	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame	Illinois Orange	10	0	0	10