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Question

A serial killer known as the Midnight Assassin perpetrated a series of eight axe murders in this city three years before Jack the Ripper was active in London. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this city, the capital of Texas.

ANSWER: Austin

[10m] During the Jack the Ripper case, London authorities questioned this man’s former employee and cowboy Buck Taylor. This man’s traveling Wild West show also employed the sharpshooter Annie Oakley.

ANSWER: Buffalo Bill [or William Frederick Cody or Buffalo Bill Cody; reject “Wild Bill” or “Wild Bill Hickock”]

[10h] Orange Washington and Gracie Vance were both killed in an Austin residence along a street with this name, a part of which is called “The Drag.” An 1847 treaty negotiated by Nicholas Trist was signed in a Mexican town with this name.

ANSWER: Guadalupe [accept Guadalupe Street; accept Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; accept Colonia Villa de Guadalupe; accept La Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo; prompt on Guad]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	24.29	100%	71%	71%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	17.78	100%	44%	33%
Florida	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	26.36	100%	100%	64%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	44%	44%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	26.67	92%	100%	75%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	20.00	100%	44%	56%
North	Main	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	22.50	92%	67%	67%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	38%	50%
South Central	Main	Y	6	23.33	100%	83%	50%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	23.33	100%	75%	58%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%

Data


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