Question
A 1930 essay by Louis Adamic (“ah-DAM-ick”) credits Los Angeles’s growth to Charles Nordhoff, who promoted California as a place for sufferers of this disease. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this disease, whose sufferers were nicknamed “lungers” due to the blood they coughed up. Sanatoriums treated people with this disease.
ANSWER: tuberculosis [or consumption; or TB]
[10m] According to Adamic, one of the key players in California’s “healing industry” was this evangelist, who converted an abandoned church in Echo Park into the Angelus Temple.
ANSWER: Aimee Semple McPherson [or Aimee Elizabeth Semple Kennedy]
[10h] Charles Nordhoff once lent his name to this California town, where Annie Besant founded a branch of the Krotona Institute and developed the 465-acre Happy Valley complex in an attempt to make it a Theosophist utopia.
ANSWER: Ojai (“OH-hye”)
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Summary
2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 24 | 14.58 | 100% | 42% | 4% |
Data
Arizona State | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Chicago A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Virginia Tech | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Columbia B | Ohio State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Toronto B | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Iowa State | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Yale | LSE | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Illinois B | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Minnesota | MIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Ottawa | NYU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
WUSTL A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Winona State | North Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Rutgers | Northwestern | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Georgia State | Penn State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
RIT | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
UC Berkeley A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Johns Hopkins | Texas | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Toronto A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Toronto C | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
UC Berkeley B | Waterloo B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Virginia | UCF | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Vanderbilt | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
WUSTL B | Florida | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Illinois A | Waterloo A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |