Question
Ben Hecht (“hekt”) organized the “We Will Never Die” pageant’s premiere at this site to draw attention to the plight of the Jewish people during World War II. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this site that hosted several rallies for the American Jewish Congress in 1933. The German-American Bund’s “Pro American Rally” filled this location with swastikas and a massive portrait of George Washington.
ANSWER: Madison Square Garden [or MSG III (“three”); prompt on the Garden; prompt on New York City, NYC, Manhattan, Hell’s Kitchen, or Theater District; reject “Madison Square” or “Madison Square Park”]
[10h] This Reform rabbi, who declared a boycott of Nazi goods at a Madison Square Garden rally, cofounded the American Jewish Congress. He was the planned recipient of the Riegner (“REEG-ner”) Telegram, which revealed the scope of the Final Solution.
ANSWER: Stephen Wise [or Stephen Samuel Wise]
[10e] Wise cofounded the Congress with Felix Frankfurter and this first Jewish Supreme Court justice, who names a university outside of Boston.
ANSWER: Louis Brandeis (“BRAN-dyce”) [or Louis Dembitz Brandeis; accept Brandeis University]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 11 | 20.00 | 100% | 82% | 18% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Brown | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| North Carolina A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ottawa | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Illinois | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland | NYU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Minnesota A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |