The Dark Day of 1780 - 2024 Penn Bowl

Question

Abraham Davenport gained fame for preventing the Connecticut legislature from adjourning during this event, requesting that candles be brought instead. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this event that many New Englanders interpreted as the Day of Judgement. This event caused Mother Ann Lee’s Shakers to begin preaching publicly.

ANSWER: The Dark Day of 1780 [or New England’s Dark Day]

[10e] The most likely explanation for the Dark Day of 1780 is that it was caused by one of these events. Another of these events in Chicago was supposedly started by a cow owned by Catherine O’Leary.

ANSWER: fire [accept forest fire]

[10m] One record of the Dark Day comes from this letter writer’s correspondence with James Lovell. A proposal by this writer was met with a response that it would create a “despotism of the petticoat.”

ANSWER: Abigail Adams [prompt on Adams]

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest	10/12/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


WUSTL	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
UCF	UF A	0	10	0	10
UF C	UF B	0	10	0	10
Harvard B	Harvard A	0	10	10	20
Yale A	MIT	0	10	0	10
Tufts	BU	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Stanford	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame C	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Minnesota	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Purdue	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
SIUE	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Maryland	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Columbia	0	10	10	20
JHU A	Princeton	0	10	10	20
Ill-Advised Buzz	Oh you like geography? Name every Forrest.	0	10	10	20
Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl Editors	Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas	10	10	10	30
Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co	TOAD	0	10	0	10
bruh	we jopping	0	10	10	20
Texas B	TAMU	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Houston	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Carnegie Mellon	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan State	0	10	0	10
Ohio State C	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Pittsburgh	0	10	10	20
3HK1MM	Gressenheller A	10	10	10	30
Four Times I Have Despised My Soul	Limp Chriskit	0	10	0	10
Say it	Oxford School for Quizness	0	10	0	10
The Crying of Team 49	See it	0	10	0	10
LSE	Sorted	0	10	0	10
UNC A	Duke A	0	10	0	10
UNC C	UNC B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Brandeis	0	10	0	10