Question
A candidate in this election lost momentum after being targeted with the forged “Canuck letter.” A faithless elector in this election voted for the Libertarian Party’s first candidate, John Hospers. Because of his history of depression, this election’s nominee Thomas Eagleton was replaced by Sargent Shriver. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward documented their investigations of this election’s winning campaign in the book All the President’s Men. In this election, Massachusetts was the only state won by the Democratic nominee, George McGovern. For 10 points, Richard Nixon was re-elected in what election, the subject of the Watergate scandal? ■END■
ANSWER: 1972 US Presidential election [accept 1972 presidential primaries; prompt on ‘72]
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 22% | 53.71 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 65.13 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 59.60 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 58.08 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 44% | 77.13 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 54.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 22% | 68.75 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 33% | 50.88 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Freeman | South Carolina B | Mississippi State A | 16 | 10 |
Cohen Wiegers | Emory A | Georgia Tech B | 17 | 10 |
Kabir Zaman | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech A | 30 | -5 |
Jack Ogletree | Auburn B | Georgia Tech C | 32 | 10 |
Varun Venkatagiri | Georgia A | Clemson B | 45 | 10 |
Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Emory Oxford | 49 | 10 |
Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Auburn A | 53 | 10 |
Gannon Rice | Clemson A | Tennessee B | 61 | 10 |
Britton Webster | Alabama A | Furman | 64 | 10 |
Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Belmont | 64 | -5 |
Ayan Guha | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech E | 69 | 10 |
Pranav Johti | Georgia Tech A | South Carolina A | 97 | 10 |
Justin Hetrick | Belmont | Southern | 97 | 10 |
James Zhao | Vanderbilt B | Auburn C | 97 | 10 |
Brandon Hunt | Auburn C | Vanderbilt B | 97 | 0 |