Wendell Lewis Willkie - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

During a visit to China, this man was infatuated by Soong Mei-Ling and may have had an affair with her. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this man who, as a representative for the utility corporation C&S, spent 7 years arguing against the TVA. This man unsuccessfully ran for president against FDR in 1940.

ANSWER: Wendell Lewis Willkie [or Lewis Wendell Willkie]

[10e] Willkie became one of the most prominent White politicians to address this civil rights group in 1942. This group, which was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois, is one of the most prominent activist groups for Black people.

ANSWER: NAACP [or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]

[10h] Willkie eventually beat out several other candidates, including Thomas Dewey, Robert Taft, and this senator from Michigan and former president pro tempore. This politician helped secure bipartisan support for the Marshall Plan and the creation of NATO with his namesake resolution.

ANSWER: Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg Sr.

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	5	24.00	100%	80%	60%

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Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	10	0	0	10
BU	Brandeis	10	10	0	20
MIT	Harvard	0	10	0	10
Lexington	RIT	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
girl 15 whale i mean they	Art of Premature Signaling	10	10	0	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Billy's Bastion	0	10	0	10
Too much from you lately	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Rutgers	10	10	0	20
Arizona State University A	UW A	10	10	0	20
Carleton	South Dakota School of Mines	0	10	0	10
UW B	Alberta	10	10	0	20
Washington Connections	Arizona State University B	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Cambridge	10	10	0	20
Birmingham	LSE	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Sheffield A	0	10	0	10
Sheffield B	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh	Sheffield C	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Lancaster	10	10	10	30
Imperial B	Warwick C	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	Toronto C	10	10	10	30
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	10	10	0	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	Master and Margaritaville	0	10	0	10
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Missouri	10	10	10	30
SIUE	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Truman State	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	WashU Charmander	10	10	0	20
Brown	Belmont	0	0	0	0
Haverford A	Catholic University of America	10	10	0	20
George Mason A	George Mason B	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	George Washington	10	10	0	20
CWRU	Haverford B	10	10	0	20
Georgetown	NYU A	10	10	10	30