Question
A board of engineers that oversaw this city in the early 20th century was chaired by Henry Martyn Robert and included Alfred Nobel. The philanthropist Jacob Schiff financed a movement named after this city that diverted Jewish immigrants away from East Coast cities. The history of this city is often separated into a “Golden Era” and an “Open Era”, the latter of which included illegal gambling at the Sam and Rose Maceo-run Balinese Room. The posting of (*) General Order No. 3 in this city by Gordon Granger provides the origin of Juneteenth. This city grew from the colony of Campeche, and was named for the governor of Spanish Louisiana during most of the American Revolution. A 10-mile seawall was built in this city after it was struck by the deadliest natural disaster in US history. For 10 points, name this Texas city hit by a devastating hurricane in 1900. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 53.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 96.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 59.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 134.20 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 92.80 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 33% | 71.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Emmett Laurie | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | Cope is the thing with feathers | 38 | 15 |
Cooper Roh | just one more half-dot bro | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 42 | 15 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 77 | -5 |
Dylan Minarik | BHSU ReFantazio | BHSU Rebirth | 91 | 10 |
Mike Bentley | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 91 | 10 |
Sean Higgins | Clown Senpais | hawk two of | 91 | 10 |
Benjamin Chapman | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 91 | -5 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 91 | 10 |
Liam Starnes | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Northeast by Northwestern | 93 | -5 |
Charles Hang | WashU | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 94 | 10 |
Jonathan Vaysman | Clown Squad | Notre Dame | 97 | 10 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | Walston et. al. | 97 | -5 |
Stefan Vlad | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 97 | -5 |
Patrick Quion | Northeast by Northwestern | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 131 | 0 |
Will Alston | Walston et. al. | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 134 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 134 | 10 |
Rayton Lin | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 148 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 149 | 10 |
Joey Sun | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 149 | 10 |