Ted Stevens - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This politician blamed rival senator Mike Gravel’s (“gra-VEL’s”) opposition to a land bill for forcing him to take a flight that crashed and killed his wife Anne. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this longtime Alaska senator who survived that 1978 plane crash at Anchorage’s airport, which is now named for him. This politician later died in a small plane crash in 2010.

ANSWER: Ted Stevens [or Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr.]

[10h] Gravel fought Ted Stevens’s attempt to protect the Tongass National Forest, forcing Jimmy Carter to use this 1906 act that gave the president the authority to create national monuments.

ANSWER: Antiquities Act [or An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities]

[10e] Stevens may be best known for describing this system as a “series of tubes.” Al Gore said that he “took the initiative in creating” this system by expanding ARPANET.

ANSWER: Internet [reject “World Wide Web”]

<Editors, American History>

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California	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	14.00	100%	30%	10%
North	Main	Y	10	16.00	100%	50%	10%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	1	10.00	0%	100%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	15.00	100%	25%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	10.00	83%	17%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	11.25	75%	38%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley F	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley E	10	0	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford B	0	0	10	10
Stanford C	Berkeley D	10	0	10	20
Berkeley A	UCSC	0	0	10	10
Claremont Scripps	UCLA C	0	0	10	10
USC	UCI	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UCSB	10	10	10	30
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCLA D	0	0	10	10
UCSD Vices and Virtues	Claremont Pitzer	10	0	10	20
UCLA A	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	0	10	10
Guelph A	Queen's A	10	0	10	20
McMaster C	McGill A	0	0	10	10
Toronto D	McGill C	0	0	10	10
McMaster A	Toronto F	0	0	10	10
Ottawa	Toronto I	10	0	10	20
McGill B	Toronto J	0	0	10	10
Western Ontario	Guelph B	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Toronto E	10	0	10	20
Toronto G	Toronto H	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Toronto K	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	Queen's B	10	0	10	20
Melbourne A	ERAU A	0	0	10	10
UF A	UCF B	0	0	10	10
UF D	Melbourne B	0	0	10	10
UCF A	UF E	0	0	10	10
FIU	USF	0	0	10	10
CWRU B	MSU B	0	0	10	10
OSU A	CWRU C	10	10	10	30
Pitt A	OSU B	0	0	10	10
OSU C	Kenyon A	10	0	10	20
CWRU D	OSU D	0	0	10	10
MSU A	Pitt B	10	0	10	20
CWRU A	Pitt C	10	0	10	20
Clemson A	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Clemson B	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
James Madison	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
Roanoke	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	NC State	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Virginia A	Tusculum	10	0	10	20
North Carolina C	Virginia B	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10
George Mason A	George Washington B	10	10	10	30
Maryland D	George Washington A	10	0	10	20
George Mason C	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Georgetown A	NYU A	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	NYU B	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame E	Maryland B	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Penn A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins C	Penn B	0	0	10	10
Catholic University	UMBC A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins B	VCU A	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Swarthmore A	Lehigh A	0	0	10	10
Princeton A	Lehigh B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers B	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
Rowan A	Rutgers C	10	0	10	20
WashU C	Missouri B	10	0	0	10
WashU D	Missouri B	0	0	10	10
Truman State	WashU C	0	0	10	10
WashU A	WashU B	10	0	10	20
William Woods	SIUE	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame D	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame B	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	Louisville B	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Kentucky	10	0	10	20
Louisville A	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
Purdue C	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	UIC	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Minnesota A	Macalester B	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	BC A	0	0	10	10
Yale A	Amherst B	10	0	10	20
Brandeis Lloyd George	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Cornell-UG	Brandeis Orlando	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Wilson	Yale B	0	0	10	10
Brown A	Brandeis Clemenceau	0	0	0	0
BU	Brown B	0	0	10	10
Brown C	BC B	0	0	10	10
MIT B	Harvard	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth	Tufts B	10	0	10	20
Williams	Amherst A	0	0	0	0
British Columbia C	British Columbia A	0	0	10	10
British Columbia D	British Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Alberta	Washington A	0	0	10	10
Washington B	Simon Fraser	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Alberta B	0	0	10	10
Arizona State A	Ohio	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	Iowa	10	0	10	20
Northwestern C	UTD A	0	0	10	10
Rose State	Arizona State B	0	0	0	0
UCO	Texas A	10	0	10	20
Northwestern B	Tulsa	0	0	0	0
McGill D	UTD B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Auburn B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Auburn A	10	0	10	20
Alabama B	Huntsville A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State A	10	0	10	20
Bruin A	UAB A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Sewanee A	10	0	10	20
Vanderbilt B	Huntsville B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	10	0	10	20
Binghamton B	ESF	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
Cornell-DII	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Rochester	Syracuse	0	0	10	10
MIT A	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10