George Wythe - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

This person’s grand-nephew, George Sweeney, was tried for his murder via arsenic poisoning, but the dismissal of his Black female housekeeper’s testimony against a White man meant that he was acquitted. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this early American politician, lawyer, and mentor to Thomas Jefferson. He was the addressee of John Adams’s “Thoughts on Government,” served as a Virginia Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and outlined the Model Treaty.

ANSWER: George Wythe

[10m] Wythe served as attorney general for Virginia when a politician with this last name was visiting England to appeal Governor Robert Dinwiddie charging fees for land patents. A politician with this last name, who defended George Sweeney during his trial, previously served as the first Attorney General of the United States.

ANSWER: Randolph [accept Edmund Randolph or Peyton Randolph]

[10e] Like many other early American politicians, Wythe opposed this British act that required many paper materials to be printed on taxed paper.

ANSWER: Stamp Act of 1765

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	12.50	88%	38%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	12.50	100%	13%	13%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%

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