Lee Harvey Oswald - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

While representing this man’s mother, attorney Mark Lane began investigations informing his book Rush to Judgement. An object this man bought under the alias “A. Hidell” appears in photographs sent (10[1])to his (10[1])friend (10[1])George de Mohrenschildt. (10[5])This man’s responsibility for the killing (-5[1])of J. D. (10[1])Tippit (10[1])was (10[2])concluded (10[2]-5[1])by the (10[1])Warren (-5[1])Commission. (10[10]-5[1])This man (10[2]-5[1])claimed (10[3])“I’m (10[3])just (10[1])a (10[1])patsy!” (10[6])as he (10[1])was (10[2]-5[1])arrested, (10[3]-5[4])two days (10[3]-5[2])before (10[2])a perp (10[1]-5[1])walk (10[2])where he was (10[1])killed (-5[1])by (10[1]-5[1])Jack (10[6])Ruby. (10[31]-5[3])Conspiracy (10[4])theorists (10[4]-5[1])debate (10[2])whether this man (10[2])was (10[1])on the sixth floor (10[1])of the (-5[1])Texas (10[1])School (10[1])Book Depository (10[4])for a 1963 (10[1])killing in Dallas. For 10 points, name this man who assassinated John (10[1])F. Kennedy. (10[1])■END■ (10[13]0[3])

ANSWER: Lee Harvey Oswald

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Summary


Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	20%	77.40
Southern California	Main	Y	7	86%	0%	14%	68.67
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	0%	75.20
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	89%	0%	22%	79.25
Florida	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	68.00
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	100%	0%	9%	56.36
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	33%	73.89
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	17%	67.67
Midwest	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	11%	71.56
North	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	50%	65.50
Northeast	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	8%	66.42
Pacific	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	0%	73.00
South Central	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	0%	70.29
Southeast	Main	Y	13	100%	0%	38%	80.08
Northern California	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	65.50
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	100%	0%	0%	68.00
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	100%	0%	20%	76.60

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Vedh Ramesh	Penn	Vassar B	29	10
Sebastian Llaca	Wisconsin A	Macalester	31	10
Matthew Lam	Ohio State A	WVU B	32	10
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Archer Queen	35	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Boston College B	35	10
Derek Aldridge	William & Mary A	UNC A	35	10
Ethan Ririe	UCSD B	UCLA D	35	10
Aidan Drain	NYU C	Lehigh B	35	10
Andrea Owusu	Duke A	William & Mary B	41	-5
Connor Kahn	NCSU A	Virginia Tech B	44	10
Asher Lyons	Maryland B	Rutgers B	45	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Brandeis Mozart	46	10
TJ Pickering	Auburn B	Tennessee Tech	46	10
Trenton Burgess	Indiana A	Purdue B	47	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Ohio State B	47	-5
Jaxsen Melton	Murray State College A	Nebraska B	47	10
Matthew Stall	CWRU D	Michigan State A	49	10
Abigail Lee	Virginia Tech C	VCU A	50	-5
Brendan Bridle	Queen's A	McMaster C	51	10
Kamil Boehm	Cambridge A	Southampton	51	10
Sam Barrekette	RIT A	Rochester	51	-5
Sai Subramanian	CWRU A	Michigan D	51	10
Andrew Stappenbeck	CWRU C	CWRU B	51	10
Jackson McDonald	Alabama A	Clemson A	51	10
Daniel Luebs	Michigan State B	Ohio State C	51	10
Adam Monusko	Michigan A	Michigan State C	51	10
Tanmay Mirashi	Maryland C	Lehigh A	51	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	George Mason B	51	10
Henry Rutherford-Braun	British Columbia B	Alberta A	51	10
Liam Buck	St. Thomas	Iowa State	53	-5
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Louisville C	53	10
Liam Rojas	Virginia A	Virginia Tech A	53	10
Jackson Slaughter	Tennessee A	Georgia Tech C	54	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	JMU B	54	10
Jackson Price	Dartmouth B	Boston University A	54	10
Mica Oestreich	Illinois Canada	Illinois Blue	55	10
Arthur Zhang	Purdue C	Illinois Orange	55	10
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	Florida Tech B	55	10
William Kiker	Dartmouth A	Amherst B	56	10
Julian Moody	Tufts A	UConn A	57	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	Iowa A	58	10
Nick Machin	UCLA A	UCSD A	58	10
Orion Brey	Louisville A	Louisville B	58	10
Sage Snow	Central Oklahoma A	Oklahoma	58	10
Diego Monge	Claremont C	USC B	58	10
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt A	Chipola College	58	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	Florida Tech A	60	10
Stephen Ottewell	Toronto B	Toronto D	61	10
Conner Yamnitz	WashU Grizzlers	Chicago B	61	10
James Meek	George Mason A	Rutgers D	61	-5
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Guelph A	62	-5
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	UC Irvine	62	-5
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Williams A	62	10
Will Hughes	Auburn A	Georgia Tech B	62	-5
Eoghan Herriot	Durham D	Sheffield A	62	-5
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA F	62	10
Peyton Legg	UCF A	Florida B	62	10
Jacob Chambers	Iowa State	St. Thomas	64	10
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Cambridge C	64	10
Michael Shipman	Cambridge D	Imperial A	64	10
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Georgia Tech A	64	-5
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Clemson C	64	-5
Harry Crane	Warwick	LSE	65	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	Ohio State D	65	10
Henry L'Heureux	Minnesota	Michigan Tech	67	-5
Will Jones	Michigan State D	Kentucky	67	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Arizona State A	68	10
Atticus Teter	Durham A	Durham B	68	10
Ben Gardberg	Cornell B	Binghamton B	71	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Georgia Tech D	72	-5
Alan Cai	Amherst A	Williams B	73	-5
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Cambridge E	73	10
Thomas Vukovic	Toronto H	Toronto F	74	10
Ethan Skolnick	WashU Grolars	Rose-Hulman A	74	10
William Cowperthwait	NCSU B	Tusculum A	74	10
Janghyun Lee	Berkeley Little Prince	UCSC	74	10
Nicolaus Derikx	Carleton A	Ottawa C	74	10
Logan Patil	Georgia Tech F	Emory A	74	10
Suren Grigorian	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Stanford B	75	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Waterloo C	75	10
Aleksa Misic	Waterloo B	Toronto E	75	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Illinois Champaign	75	10
James Windle	Purdue D	Iowa B	75	-5
Noah Lang	Wisconsin B	Wisconsin C	75	10
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Boston College A	75	10
Eames Weeks	Brown A	Tufts C	75	10
Daniel Hobba	Cambridge B	Imperial C	75	10
Vishrut Pisupati	Imperial B	Imperial D	75	10
Connor Yu	Cornell C	Cornell A	75	10
Kieran Freed	Rochester	RIT A	75	10
Jeffery Austin	UNC D	UNC C	75	-5
Lily Katz	Stony Brook	George Mason C	75	10
Sam Millenbach	Rowan	Columbia B	75	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	Vassar A	75	10
David Zaslavsky	Brandeis Bach	Williams C	75	10
Brendan Liaw	British Columbia A	Washington Atlantic	75	10
James Haddix	Washington State	Washington Pink	75	10
CJ Sershon	Central Oklahoma B	Rose State	75	10
Graham Dirks	Kansas State A	Harding	75	10
Rebecca Li	Ottawa A	McGill A	75	10
Galen Mueller	McGill B	McGill C	75	10
Neela Perceval-Maxwell	McGill E	Carleton B	75	10
Jacob Schildkraut	William & Mary C	JMU A	75	10
Sparrow Brotman	NYU B	Rutgers C	75	10
Kyle Hart	MIT B	Dartmouth C	75	10
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas	Arizona State B	75	10
Alice Ton Nu	Washington Coho	Washington Chinook	75	10
Auburn Carter	Murray State College B	Nebraska A	75	10
Asheton Wilbanks	Clemson B	Tennessee B	75	10
James Zhao	Vanderbilt C	Mississippi State A	75	-5
Connor Tindall	Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt C	75	10
Thaddeus Holmes	Durham C	Edinburgh A	75	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	Cornell D	76	10
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Washington Sockeye	76	10
Mason Evans	Tulsa A	Nebraska C	76	10
Britt Bernstein	Georgia A	Georgia Tech E	76	10
Kaitlyn Farrin	Brandeis Beethoven	Boston University B	77	10
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Bristol	77	10
Xavier Bornhorst	Maryland A	Princeton	77	-5
Pen Hughes	Edinburgh C	Sheffield B	77	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	Ottawa B	77	10
Brandom Pham	Berkeley Skeleton King	Stanford A	78	10
Dawson Teu	Waterloo A	Toronto C	78	10
Alexander Rutten	Columbia A	Johns Hopkins	81	10
Harry Fines	York	Edinburgh B	81	10
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield A	Durham D	82	10
John Henry Roberson	Tulsa B	Kansas State B	86	10
Carter Yott	McMaster A	Toronto A	88	-5
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Washington Masu	89	10
Astrid Kelley	RIT B	ESF	90	10
Alex Matchinski	Michigan Tech	Minnesota	92	10
Brady Hagan	Ohio State B	Pittsburgh	92	10
Jerry Lin	Vanderbilt B	Auburn C	92	10
Jackson Crickard	Claremont B	USC A	92	10
Pallas Allen	South Florida A	ERAU Daytona A	95	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	Claremont A	107	10
Kaiden Webb	Chicago A	Indiana B	109	10
Noah Scattergood	Brock A	Toronto I	110	0
Indiana Gee	Toronto I	Brock A	110	0
Dylan Steptoe	Guelph A	McMaster B	110	10
Kevin He	Toronto A	McMaster A	110	10
Jacob Chaudhry	Iowa B	Purdue D	110	10
Penelope Graham	Williams B	Amherst A	110	10
Scott Sibley	UC Irvine	UCLA E	110	0
Diego Almaraz	UNC C	UNC D	110	10
Micah Williams	VCU A	Virginia Tech C	110	10
Johnathan Ahdout	Princeton	Maryland A	110	10
Pranav Jothi	Georgia Tech A	South Carolina A	110	10
Louis Harney	Georgia Tech B	Auburn A	110	10
Sonali Srikanth	Georgia Tech D	Sewanne	110	10
Hudson Kee	William & Mary B	Duke A	110	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	George Mason A	110	10
Andy Truette	Clemson C	Montevallo	110	10

Upstate NY

Main

100%

20%

77.40

Southern California

Main

86%

14%

68.67

Eastern Canada (1)

Main

100%

75.20

Eastern Canada (2)

Main

89%

22%

79.25

Florida

Main

100%

68.00

Great Lakes

Main

100%

56.36

Lower Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

33%

73.89

Upper Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

17%

67.67

Midwest

Main

100%

11%

71.56

North

Main

100%

50%

65.50

Northeast

Main

100%

66.42

Pacific

Main

100%

73.00

South Central

Main

100%

70.29

Southeast

Main

100%

38%

80.08

Northern California

Main

100%

65.50

UK (South)

100%

68.00

UK (North)

100%

20%

76.60

Player

Team

Opponent

Buzz Position

Value

Vedh Ramesh

Penn

Vassar B

Sebastian Llaca

Wisconsin A

Macalester

Matthew Lam

Ohio State A

WVU B

Vijay Hans

Berkeley Boss Bandit

Berkeley Archer Queen

Ben Mowery

Vermont A

Boston College B

Derek Aldridge

William & Mary A

UNC A

Ethan Ririe

UCSD B

UCLA D

Aidan Drain

NYU C

Lehigh B

Andrea Owusu

Duke A

William & Mary B

-5

Connor Kahn

NCSU A

Virginia Tech B

Asher Lyons

Maryland B

Rutgers B

David Ciardella

Vermont B

Brandeis Mozart

TJ Pickering

Auburn B

Tennessee Tech

Trenton Burgess

Indiana A

Purdue B

Zac Stapler

Pittsburgh

Ohio State B

-5

Jaxsen Melton

Murray State College A

Nebraska B

Matthew Stall

CWRU D

Michigan State A

Abigail Lee

Virginia Tech C

VCU A

-5

Brendan Bridle

Queen's A

McMaster C

Kamil Boehm

Cambridge A

Southampton

Sam Barrekette

RIT A

Rochester

-5

Sai Subramanian

CWRU A

Michigan D

Andrew Stappenbeck

CWRU C

CWRU B

Jackson McDonald

Alabama A

Clemson A

Daniel Luebs

Michigan State B

Ohio State C

Adam Monusko

Michigan A

Michigan State C

Tanmay Mirashi

Maryland C

Lehigh A

Kelvin Ni

NYU A

George Mason B

Henry Rutherford-Braun

British Columbia B

Alberta A

Liam Buck

St. Thomas

Iowa State

-5

Reed Sexton

Michigan C

Louisville C

Liam Rojas

Virginia A

Virginia Tech A

Jackson Slaughter

Tennessee A

Georgia Tech C

Gabriel Dodds

Liberty C

JMU B

Jackson Price

Dartmouth B

Boston University A

Mica Oestreich

Illinois Canada

Illinois Blue

Arthur Zhang

Purdue C

Illinois Orange

Juan Landaeta

Florida State A

Florida Tech B

William Kiker

Dartmouth A

Amherst B

Julian Moody

Tufts A

UConn A

Samarth Majmudar

Illinois Urbana

Iowa A

Nick Machin

UCLA A

UCSD A

Orion Brey

Louisville A

Louisville B

Sage Snow

Central Oklahoma A

Oklahoma

Diego Monge

Claremont C

USC B

Yuxuan Lu

Vanderbilt A

Chipola College

Jacob Ergueta

Florida A

Florida Tech A

Stephen Ottewell

Toronto B

Toronto D

Conner Yamnitz

WashU Grizzlers

Chicago B

James Meek

George Mason A

Rutgers D

-5

Michael Xu

McMaster B

Guelph A

-5

Joseph Wang

UCLA E

UC Irvine

-5

Christopher Bradley

Southern Connecticut State University A

Williams A

Will Hughes

Auburn A

Georgia Tech B

-5

Eoghan Herriot

Durham D

Sheffield A

-5

Winston Zuo

UC Santa Barbara

UCLA F

Peyton Legg

UCF A

Florida B

Jacob Chambers

Iowa State

St. Thomas

Tom Morris-Jones

Birmingham

Cambridge C

Michael Shipman

Cambridge D

Imperial A

Trey Lewis

South Carolina A

Georgia Tech A

-5

Andrew Wilson

Montevallo

Clemson C

-5

Harry Crane

Warwick

LSE

Dirk Hay

Louisville D

Ohio State D

Henry L'Heureux

Minnesota

Michigan Tech

-5

Will Jones

Michigan State D

Kentucky

Alan Zhang

British Columbia C

Arizona State A

Atticus Teter

Durham A

Durham B

Ben Gardberg

Cornell B

Binghamton B

Nelson Adams-Riley

Sewanne

Georgia Tech D

-5

Alan Cai

Amherst A

Williams B

-5

Nayaaz Hashim

Oxford

Cambridge E

Thomas Vukovic

Toronto H

Toronto F

Ethan Skolnick

WashU Grolars

Rose-Hulman A

William Cowperthwait

NCSU B

Tusculum A

Janghyun Lee

Berkeley Little Prince

UCSC

Nicolaus Derikx

Carleton A

Ottawa C

Logan Patil

Georgia Tech F

Emory A

Suren Grigorian

Berkeley Mighty Miner

Stanford B

Tobias Smerdon

Toronto G

Waterloo C

Aleksa Misic

Waterloo B

Toronto E

Alex Dzurick

William Woods University A

Illinois Champaign

James Windle

Purdue D

Iowa B

-5

Noah Lang

Wisconsin B

Wisconsin C

Dylan Tanouye

Tufts B

Boston College A

Eames Weeks

Brown A

Tufts C

Daniel Hobba

Cambridge B

Imperial C

Vishrut Pisupati

Imperial B

Imperial D

Connor Yu

Cornell C

Cornell A

Kieran Freed

Rochester

RIT A

Jeffery Austin

UNC D

UNC C

-5

Lily Katz

Stony Brook

George Mason C

Sam Millenbach

Rowan

Columbia B

Aarav Vasanthan

Rutgers A

Vassar A

David Zaslavsky

Brandeis Bach

Williams C

Brendan Liaw

British Columbia A

Washington Atlantic

James Haddix

Washington State

Washington Pink

CJ Sershon

Central Oklahoma B

Rose State

Graham Dirks

Kansas State A

Harding

Rebecca Li

Ottawa A

McGill A

Galen Mueller

McGill B

McGill C

Neela Perceval-Maxwell

McGill E

Carleton B

Jacob Schildkraut

William & Mary C

JMU A

Sparrow Brotman

NYU B

Rutgers C

Kyle Hart

MIT B

Dartmouth C

Keerthana Krishnan

Texas

Arizona State B

Alice Ton Nu

Washington Coho

Washington Chinook

Auburn Carter

Murray State College B

Nebraska A

Asheton Wilbanks

Clemson B

Tennessee B

James Zhao

Vanderbilt C

Mississippi State A

-5

Connor Tindall

Mississippi State A

Vanderbilt C

Thaddeus Holmes

Durham C

Edinburgh A

Owen Linder

Binghamton A

Cornell D

Bryce Younger

Boise State

Washington Sockeye

Mason Evans

Tulsa A

Nebraska C

Britt Bernstein

Georgia A

Georgia Tech E

Kaitlyn Farrin

Brandeis Beethoven

Boston University B

Oliver Morten

Cardiff

Bristol

Xavier Bornhorst

Maryland A

Princeton

-5

Pen Hughes

Edinburgh C

Sheffield B

John Rootham

Ottawa D

Ottawa B

Brandom Pham

Berkeley Skeleton King

Stanford A

Dawson Teu

Waterloo A

Toronto C

Alexander Rutten

Columbia A

Johns Hopkins

Harry Fines

York

Edinburgh B

Charlie Castleton

Sheffield A

Durham D

John Henry Roberson

Tulsa B

Kansas State B

Carter Yott

McMaster A

Toronto A

-5

Luke Simon

Alberta B

Washington Masu

Astrid Kelley

RIT B

ESF

Alex Matchinski

Michigan Tech

Minnesota

Brady Hagan

Ohio State B

Pittsburgh

Jerry Lin

Vanderbilt B

Auburn C

Jackson Crickard

Claremont B

USC A

Pallas Allen

South Florida A

ERAU Daytona A

Terrence Han

UCLA B

Claremont A

107

Kaiden Webb

Chicago A

Indiana B

109

Noah Scattergood

Brock A

Toronto I

110

Indiana Gee

Toronto I

Brock A

110

Dylan Steptoe

Guelph A

McMaster B

110

Kevin He

Toronto A

McMaster A

110

Jacob Chaudhry

Iowa B

Purdue D

110

Penelope Graham

Williams B

Amherst A

110

Scott Sibley

UC Irvine

UCLA E

110

Diego Almaraz

UNC C

UNC D

110

Micah Williams

VCU A

Virginia Tech C

110

Johnathan Ahdout

Princeton

Maryland A

110

Pranav Jothi

Georgia Tech A

South Carolina A

110

Louis Harney

Georgia Tech B

Auburn A

110

Sonali Srikanth

Georgia Tech D

Sewanne

110

Hudson Kee

William & Mary B

Duke A

110

Alex Wong

Rutgers D

George Mason A

110

Andy Truette

Clemson C

Montevallo

110