American flag - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

A 1976 Stanley Forman photograph shows a mounted example of this object used to attack lawyer Ted Landsmark during anti-integration protests in Boston. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this object, which titles both that photo and the most famous photo by Joe Rosenthal. In Rosenthal’s photo, several men hold another mounted version of this object on Mount Suribachi.

ANSWER: American flag [or US flag or United States flag or USA flag or flag of the United States of America; prompt on flag; prompt on Old Glory; prompt on Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima; prompt on The Soiling of Old Glory]

[10e] A group of firefighters raises a flag over a pile of rubble in a photo taken at “Ground Zero” shortly after this event.

ANSWER: 9/11 [or September 11, 2001 attacks; or 9/11 attacks; accept destruction of the World Trade Center; reject “World Trade Center bombing”; reject “Pentagon attacks”]

[10h] A flag appears in the background of a photograph by this photographer taken in Washington D.C. This photographer captured janitor Ella Watson holding a broom and map in that photo.

ANSWER: Gordon Parks [or Gordon Parks Sr.; reject “Gordon Parks Jr.”]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	18.00	90%	80%	10%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	22.22	100%	100%	22%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	14.44	89%	56%	0%
North	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	19.17	100%	75%	17%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
South Central	Main	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	20.00	100%	83%	17%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


UCSD B	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UC Irvine	UCSD A	0	10	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	Claremont C	10	10	0	20
UCLA C	UCLA A	10	10	0	20
Claremont A	UCLA E	10	10	0	20
UCLA F	USC B	0	10	0	10
USC A	UCLA D	0	10	0	10
Berkeley Little Prince	Berkeley Boss Bandit	10	10	0	20
Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Skeleton King	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley Archer Queen	UCSC	10	10	0	20
Carleton B	Carleton A	0	10	0	10
Ottawa A	McGill C	10	10	0	20
Ottawa B	McGill B	10	10	0	20
Ottawa C	McGill E	0	10	0	10
UCF A	Florida A	10	10	0	20
South Florida A	Florida B	10	10	0	20
Florida State A	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
ERAU Daytona A	Florida Tech B	10	10	0	20
Michigan State C	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B	CWRU C	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
Louisville D	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Louisville C	10	10	0	20
Michigan State B	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Michigan D	CWRU D	10	10	0	20
CWRU A	Michigan State A	10	0	0	10
WVU A	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Ottawa D	10	10	0	20
JMU A	UNC A	10	10	0	20
JMU B	Virginia Tech A	10	10	0	20
William & Mary C	Liberty A	10	10	0	20
Liberty B	UNC D	10	10	0	20
Liberty C	NCSU A	10	10	0	20
UNC B	William & Mary A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	UNC C	10	10	10	30
NCSU B	VCU A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech C	William & Mary B	10	10	10	30
NYU B	George Mason C	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Princeton	10	10	0	20
Penn	Lehigh B	10	10	0	20
Rowan	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers D	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers C	Stony Brook	0	0	0	0
Vassar B	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin A	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin C	Macalester	10	10	0	20
St. Thomas	Minnesota	10	10	0	20
Michigan Tech	Wisconsin B	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Beethoven	Tufts A	10	10	0	20
Amherst B	Brandeis Mozart	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Bach	Boston University A	10	10	0	20
Vermont A	Dartmouth C	10	10	10	30
Southern Connecticut State University A	Harvard	0	10	0	10
MIT B	Amherst A	10	10	0	20
Williams C	Tufts C	0	10	0	10
Williams A	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
MIT A	UConn A	10	10	0	20
Vermont B	Brown B	0	10	0	10
Williams B	Boston College B	10	10	0	20
Brown A	Dartmouth B	10	10	0	20
Arizona State B	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	Alberta B	10	10	0	20
Washington Chum	Washington Sockeye	0	10	0	10
Washington Atlantic	Washington Coho	10	10	0	20
Washington State	Washington Masu	10	10	10	30
Washington Pink	Boise State	10	10	0	20
Texas	Washington Steelhead	10	10	0	20
British Columbia B	Washington Chinook	10	10	0	20
Central Oklahoma B	Kansas State B	10	10	0	20
Tulsa B	Kansas State A	10	10	0	20
Oklahoma	Murray State College B	10	10	0	20
Nebraska A	Nebraska C	10	10	0	20
Harding	Nebraska B	0	10	0	10
Murray State College A	Rose State	10	10	10	30
Emory A	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Chipola College	Auburn B	10	10	10	30
Auburn C	Tennessee B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt C	10	10	0	20
Clemson C	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Montevallo	Georgia Tech F	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Tennessee A	Sewanne	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Tennessee Tech	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Georgia A	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	Rochester	10	10	0	20
RIT A	Binghamton B	10	10	0	20
Cornell A	Binghamton C	10	10	0	20
RIT B	Cornell B	10	10	0	20
Cornell D	Cornell C	10	10	0	20