Obama family - 2023 BHSU @ Yale

Question

A member of this family criticized high tourism prices and Asian and European ownership of local restaurants in the paper Problems Facing our Socialism; that person’s western education was funded by Elizabeth Mooney Kirk. While working as a military cook, a member of this family was arrested and tortured in Kamiti prison by the (*) British. An economist from this family was blacklisted from government work due to fallout from the assassination of Tom Mboya. A woman who married into this family helped develop the microcredit program used (10[1])in Indonesia. A memoir by (-5[1])a member of this family describes his ethnically Luo father giving him his first basketball on a visit to Hawaii. For 10 points, name this family that includes (10[1])America’s first Black president. ■END■

ANSWER: Obama family [accept Barack Obama or Hussein Obama or Stanley Ann Obama] (The memoir is Dreams From my Father.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Daniel Sheinberg	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo Bagelry	86	10
Victor Pavao	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	91	-5
Forrest Weintraub	Columbia B	Olmo Bagelry	119	10
Forrest Weintraub	Columbia B	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	125	0
Anson Berns	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	Columbia B	125	0
Halle Friedman	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	125	10
Victor Pavao	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	125	0
Rahul Keyal	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	141	10
Jaimie Carlson	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	141	10

Summary


2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	6	100%	0%	17%	108.00
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	100%	33%	0%	104.00
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	100%	0%	67%	100.67
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	100%	0%	33%	133.67
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	67%	0%	0%	105.50
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	100%	33%	33%	96.33
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	75%	0%	75%	108.33
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	100%	50%	50%	78.50