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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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