Question
This woman documented her journey in a chronicle inspired by a Jules Verne novel. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this woman who wrote about her travels in Around the World in Seventy-Two Days, as well as an exposé written during her time at Blackwell’s Island.
ANSWER: Nellie Bly [or Elizabeth Jane Cochran; or Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman]
[10e] Bly’s muckraking career took off with her publication of “Ten Days in [one of these places].” These places were used to house people with illnesses like depression.
ANSWER: asylums [or mental asylums; or insane asylums; or lunatic asylums; accept mental hospitals; accept psychiatric hospitals; accept lunatic hospitals; accept psychiatric wards; accept Ten Days in a Mad-House or madhouses; prompt on hospitals]
[10m] Nellie Bly worked for this publisher, whose yellow journalism-filled New York World competed with William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal.
ANSWER: Joseph Pulitzer [or Pulitzer József]
<American History>
Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 44% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 88% | 63% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 67% | 33% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 10.00 | 73% | 9% | 18% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 89% | 33% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
Data
| VCU | Appalachian State B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UNC B | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| James Madison B | UNC D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty C | Tusculum | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NC State | Virginia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UNC A | Duke B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Appalachian State A | UNC C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia | William & Mary | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |