Question
On a holiday named for this character, the town of Dogpatch is saved from a bomb because the town’s founder, a Confederate general, was so inept that Abraham Lincoln credited him for the Union’s victory. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character whose namesake holiday’s race and festivities were portrayed as a “ballet” in the comic strip-based musical Li’l Abner.
ANSWER: Sadie Hawkins [or Sadie Hawkins; accept Sadie Hawkins Day or Sadie Hawkins Dance or Sadie Hawkins Race or “Sadie Hawkins Day Ballet”]
[10e] The spread of real-life Sadie Hawkins festivities is partially due to the filming of an event at Morris Harvey College, which is located in this capital city of West Virginia.
ANSWER: Charleston
[10m] Sadie Hawkins Day was also spread in a 1940 Li’l Abner film starring this man as a racist Native American caricature. This silent film actor narrowly avoided being crushed by a falling house façade in Steamboat Bill Jr.
ANSWER: Buster Keaton [or Joseph Frank Keaton]
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Summary
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