George Canning AND Lord Castlereagh - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

Note to players: Two answers required. These two politicians quarreled over whether the Walcheren Expedition should be sent to the Netherlands or Portugal. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these two politicians. In a duel on Putney Heath, one of these two politicians shot the other in the leg after the latter wildly missed his shot, allegedly because he never fired a pistol before.

ANSWER: George Canning AND Lord Castlereagh [accept Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh in place of “Lord Castlereagh”]

[10m] After that duel, Canning was passed up as Prime Minister in favor of this man. A few months later, this politician would become the first and only British Prime Minister to be assassinated.

ANSWER: Spencer Perceval

[10e] This politician called for a doctor when Castlereagh fell ill, while Canning passed over this politician to become Prime Minister. Earlier, this British general defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.

ANSWER: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington [or Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	12.86	86%	43%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Michigan B	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Oberlin	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State D	Pittsburgh	0	0	10	10
Claremont A	UCSD	0	0	10	10
Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	Billy's Bastion	0	0	10	10
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Too much from you lately	0	10	10	20
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	10	10	10	30
Lexington	Brandeis	0	10	10	20
Brown	Harvard	0	0	10	10
MIT	Belmont	0	0	10	10
Boston University	RIT	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	George Mason B	0	0	10	10
CWRU	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
Georgetown	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins B	Haverford B	0	0	0	0
Haverford A	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Rutgers	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University A	Alberta	0	0	10	10
Arizona State University B	Carleton	0	0	10	10
UW B	South Dakota School of Mines	0	10	10	20
Washington Connections	UW A	0	10	10	20
Quatumvirate	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	0	10	10	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Free Agents 1	0	0	10	10
Auburn 2026	Goober Gang	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	MSJ	0	10	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	mongeese	0	0	10	10
evil women enjoyers	Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	10	10	10	30
Gruh	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	0	0	10	10
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	we need new names	0	0	10	10
Sheffield C	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
Cambridge	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh	Imperial B	0	0	0	0
LSE	Lancaster	0	0	10	10
Manchester	Sheffield A	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Sheffield B	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Warwick C	0	0	10	10
UBC	Mac A	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	McGill A	0	0	10	10
Ottawa A	McGill B	0	0	10	10
Waterloo A	Simon Fraser	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Toronto B	0	0	10	10
Toronto D	Guelph	0	0	10	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Waterloo B	0	10	10	20
Waterloo C	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
Art of Premature Signaling	girl 15 whale i mean they	0	0	10	10
Jason B	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	Caltech	0	10	10	20
UCSB	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Master and Margaritaville	0	0	10	10
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	10	10	30
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Truman State	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Missouri	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
SIUE	WashU Bulbasaur	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	WashU Squirtle	0	0	10	10