Question
Stories about ghosts in this city were popularized by Helen Pitkin Schertz, including a tale about how a sultan massacred his brother and many servants here. A poetry collection by Brenda Marie Osbey includes a poem narrated by the ghostly head of Louis Congo, an executioner who died in this city. Delphine Macarty supposedly fled this city after torturing enslaved people at the supposedly haunted (*) LaLaurie (“luh-LOE-ree”) Mansion. A legendary pirate based out of this city and nearby Barataria went on to found the pirate colony of Campeche (“kahm-PAY-chay”) by Galveston. This city’s Mystick Krewe (“KROO”) popularized krewes often named for mythological figures that lead floats during Carnival season. For 10 points, name this former home base of Jean Lafitte (“ZHAHN luh-FEET”), where Marie Laveau (“luh-VOE”) was a leader of Louisiana Voodoo. ■END■
Summary
2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 91.67 |
2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.50 |
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.75 |
2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 85.60 |
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.50 |
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 67.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 38% | 0% | 92.63 |
2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 90.50 |
Buzzes
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Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois B | 50 | 15 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | SIUE | 59 | 15 |
Ved Muthusamy | Oxford School for Quizness | Gressenheller A | 60 | 15 |
Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | UNC B | 60 | 15 |
Zach Joseph | Notre Dame A | Chicago A | 63 | 15 |
Jon Parikh | Pittsburgh | Ohio State C | 65 | 10 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF | UF A | 65 | 10 |
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Columbia | 65 | 10 |
Dwight Solano | TAMU | Texas B | 65 | 10 |
Andre Wong | LSE | The Crying of Team 49 | 65 | 10 |
Elizabeth Jewlal | JHU B | Maryland | 66 | 10 |
Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Stanford | 70 | 10 |
Carter McLean | Princeton | NYU B | 70 | 10 |
Justin Lee | 3HK1MM | Limp Chriskit | 74 | 10 |
Jon Suh | Harvard A | MIT | 84 | 10 |
Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Northwestern A | 86 | 10 |
William Golden | Houston | Texas A | 86 | -5 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 94 | 10 |
Jacob Egol | Duke A | RIT A | 99 | 10 |
Andres Cordoba | Yale B | Brandeis | 105 | 10 |
Matthew Siff | Yale A | BU | 105 | 10 |
Ben LaFond | Say it | Sorted | 105 | 10 |
Ryan Sun | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 107 | 10 |
Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon | Michigan State | 109 | 10 |
Daniel Lian | Michigan B | Ohio State B | 116 | 10 |
Charles Hang | WUSTL | Purdue | 116 | 10 |
Athena Shadden | Texas A | Houston | 116 | 10 |
Vincent Du | UNC A | UNC C | 116 | 10 |
Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame B | Illinois C | 117 | 10 |
Ethan Linn | Tufts | Harvard B | 117 | 10 |
Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame C | Northwestern B | 124 | 10 |
Max Fitz-James | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | See it | 124 | 10 |
Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Chicago B | 126 | 10 |
Leo Law | UF B | UF C | 126 | 10 |