Cleve Jones - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

This activist recounts campaigning against the Briggs Initiative in the memoir When We Rise, which inspired a 2017 docuseries by Dustin Lance Black with the same name. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this activist who devised the idea for the NAMES project, a quilt memorializing those who have died from AIDS that is often displayed on the National Mall.

ANSWER: Cleve Jones

[10m] Two answers required. Jones conceived the NAMES project after these two politicians were assassinated by Dan White in 1978.

ANSWER: Harvey Milk AND George Moscone (“muh-SKO-nee”) [accept answers in either order; accept Harvey Bernard Milk in place of “Harvey Milk”; accept George Richard Moscone in place of “George Moscone”]

[10e] Milk earlier encouraged Gilbert Baker to create this symbol to replace the pink triangle. Due to difficulty obtaining some fabric, this symbol did not include a pink section when it was first displayed at the Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco.

ANSWER: rainbow flag [accept gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag or LGBT flag; prompt on rainbow or flag; reject “progress pride flag”]

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	20	16.50	90%	75%	0%

Data


Chicago A	Houston A	10	10	20
Virginia A	Chicago B	10	10	20
Stanford A	Claremont A	10	10	20
Columbia B	South Carolina A	0	10	10
Cornell B	Georgia Tech B	10	10	20
MIT A	Illinois A	10	10	20
Florida A	Indiana A	10	10	20
Imperial A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10
Maryland A	Vanderbilt A	10	10	20
Brown A	Minnesota B	10	10	20
Northwestern A	NYU A	10	10	20
Harvard A	Penn A	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Columbia A	10	10	20
Purdue A	Toronto A	0	0	0
North Carolina A	UC Berkeley A	0	10	10
Yale A	UC Berkeley B	10	10	20
McGill A	Texas A	0	10	10
Cornell A	Iowa State A	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Florida B	10	10	20
Chicago C	Penn State A	10	10	20