Boston - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. coined a term for this city’s “Brahmins,” who were often located in Beacon Hill. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this city whose influential families included the Lowells and Coolidges, members of whom often attended Harvard in neighboring Cambridge.

ANSWER: Boston

[10h] A member of this elite Boston family proposed a bill intended to halt disenfranchisement of Black voters and led opposition to the Treaty of Versailles. Another member of this family was Richard Nixon’s running mate in the 1960 election.

ANSWER: Lodge [accept Henry Cabot Lodge; accept Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; prompt on Cabot by asking “what family did that one marry into?”]

[10m] The term “Boston Brahmin” originated from a Holmes poem in this magazine founded by Francis Underwood. This magazine was the first to publish the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essay “A Case for Reparations.”

ANSWER: The Atlantic [accept The Atlantic Monthly]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	6	16.67	83%	50%	33%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	12.22	89%	22%	11%
Florida	Main	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	13.64	91%	18%	27%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	13.33	89%	22%	22%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	17.50	100%	42%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	13.33	100%	0%	33%
North	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	33%	25%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	13.08	92%	23%	15%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%

Data


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