body snatching - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Public outrage over this practice in New York City led to a 1788 riot during which John Jay was reportedly hit over the head with a rock. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this practice that inspired the passage of “bone bills” in several states, as introduced by the president of the American Chemical Society, John William Draper.

ANSWER: body snatching [accept equivalents like stealing corpses or digging up bodies; or cadaver research; prompt on grave robbing or stealing by asking “what objects were stolen?”]

[10h] In 1878, the body of an Ohio congressman with this surname was snatched by a medical school. A senator with this surname failed to become Indiana’s governor in 1876, partly because he wore gloves to protect against infection.

ANSWER: Harrison [accept John Scott Harrison; accept Benjamin Harrison]

[10e] Legislation was passed allowing schools such as the Winchester Medical School to use the cadavers of executed criminals, though it was burned down after John Brown raided this federal armory in Virginia.

ANSWER: Harpers Ferry

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	11.00	80%	30%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	0%	67%

Data


Claremont B	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
UC Berkeley A	UC Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Carleton	Minnesota B	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin A	10	10	10	30
Winona State	Wisconsin B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Cambridge E	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	Bristol	0	0	0	0
Oxford B	Durham	0	0	10	10
NYU C	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
UCLA	UCSD	0	0	10	10
Florida B	Valencia A	0	0	10	10
Florida A	Florida State A	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UCF C	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	Duke	10	10	10	30
Wake Forest	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
UNC B	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	South Carolina	10	0	10	20
Liberty C	UNC C	0	10	10	20
William & Mary	UNC D	0	0	10	10
UMass Boston	BU	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Brandeis A	10	0	10	20
Brandeis B	Harvard B	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth A	Brown A	0	0	10	10
MIT A	Tufts A	0	0	10	10
Purdue	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Iowa	Georgetown A	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Notre Dame B	10	0	10	20
Stanford B	Notre Dame A	0	0	10	10
LSE	Oxford C	10	0	10	20
Sheffield	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Oxford A	0	0	0	0
Southampton B	Manchester	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois A	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Chicago C	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
WashU B	Missouri	10	0	10	20
WashU A	Missoui S&T	10	0	10	20
ASU	TAMU	10	10	10	30
Texas A	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Bruin A	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Haverford A	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	John Jay College	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Vassar A	10	0	10	20
Penn A	Maryland B	10	0	10	20
Yale A	NYU B	10	0	10	20
George Washington B	Penn B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers A	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Binghamton A	Cornell D	0	10	10	20
RIT A	ESF A	0	0	10	10
RIT B	Cornell C	0	10	10	20