Question

Note to players: Description acceptable. After participating in this action, one man composed the song “I am Going to the Lordy.” (10[1])James (10[1])Parker tried to prevent a man from performing this action while standing in a queue for the Temple of Music. Emma Goldman was arrested for supposedly (10[1])planning one instance of this action, (10[1])and was ostracized after refusing to condemn it. After performing this action in a Washington D.C. railroad station, a man declared that he was “a Stalwart of the Stalwarts.” (10[3])For 10 points, what criminal action was successfully performed by (10[1])Charles Guiteau against James (10[1])Garfield and by Leon Czolgosz (“chol-GOSH”) against William McKinley? ■END■

ANSWER: assassinating the President of the United States [or equivalent descriptions like shooting the President or killing or murdering the President; accept assassination of James Garfield or assassination of William McKinley; prompt on assassinations or murders or shootings or equivalents]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Owen AshbrookIowa BIllinois B2010
William FosterChicago APurdue A2110
Noah McRedmondNotre Dame BPurdue C4710
Trenton BurgessIndianaNorthwestern A5310
Jonah HubertNotre Dame AChicago B8210
Brielle RachIowa AIllinois C8210
Vikas KothariNorthwestern BSIUE8210
Sriram KoritalaIllinois ANotre Dame C9210
Quinn WhitlowIllinois DWashU A9610

Summary

2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY9100%0%44%86.22
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY989%0%22%66.88
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY786%0%43%82.83
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY14100%0%14%73.07
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY9100%0%22%74.22
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY1100%0%0%20.00
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY7100%0%43%85.43
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY9100%0%0%63.89