American - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

Question

With George Jean Nathan, H. L. Mencken co-founded a newspaper called The [this adjective] Mercury, which eventually fell under far-right leadership. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this adjective in the title of a Mencken book that pays homage to Noah Webster. That book claims that the sentence “who are you talking to” is “doubly” this adjective since it forgoes “whom” and puts a preposition at the end of a sentence.

ANSWER: American [accept The American Mercury or The American Language]

[10m] The Baltimore Sun sent Mencken to cover one of these events in Dayton, Tennessee, where he gave it a famous nickname. That event of this type was fictionalized in the play Inherit the Wind.

ANSWER: trial [accept Scopes trial or Scopes Monkey trial]

[10e] At the end of Inherit the Wind, Henry Drummond picks up a book by Darwin in one hand and this book with the other. Mencken claimed to have coined the term for a “Belt” in the Southern United States named for this text.

ANSWER: the Bible

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	8	22.50	100%	88%	38%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	17.00	100%	60%	10%

Data


UBC A	SFU	0	10	10	20
UW B	UBC B	0	0	10	10
Alberta	UW A	10	0	10	20