Question

Members of a political faction with this name gathered at the King of Clubs. That faction with this name revered the martyr Algernon Sidney who was executed for his Discourses Concerning Government. A group of historians with this name praised the “balanced constitutions” described by Thomas Babington Macaulay (10[1])(“muh-CAW-lee”) in his (10[1])The History of England. Herbert Butterfield later criticized that view for promoting “lines of causation” (10[1])in a book titled this name’s “Interpretation of History.” (10[1])The Exclusion Bills were petitioned for by a faction with this name, whose radical members were rounded up after the exposition of the Rye House Plot. Robert Walpole consolidated (10[1])a party with this (10[1])name after the failed Jacobite (10[1])rising of 1715. For 10 points, what party with this name was opposed by the Tories? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Whig [or Whigs; or Old Whigs; or Whiggamores; or accept Whig Party or Old Whig Party; accept Whig history; or Whig historians; or The Whig Interpretation of History; prompt on Country Party or Petitioners by asking “by what name were they later known as?”]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Cooper RohColumbia BColumbia A4710
Nathan ZhangCornell CNYU A4910
Aum MundheRutgers AYale A6410
William HelmanBard APrinceton B7310
Simon EmmanuelRutgers BYale C10210
Lukas KoutsoukosYale BPenn B10610
Ashish KumbhardareRowan APenn A11110
Max HauslerVassarNYU B12810
Austin GuoPrinceton AHaverford12810
Arjun BothraHaverfordPrinceton A1280

Summary

2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia11/11/2023Y9100%0%0%89.78