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
<American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 75% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 88% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 22.22 | 100% | 89% | 33% |
| 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 | 30.00 | 200% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 17.27 | 91% | 64% | 18% |
Data
| Kenyon A | CWRU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan D (DII) | CWRU D (DII) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Kenyon B (DII) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan State A | Ohio State B (DII) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| CWRU C (UG) | Michigan State C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A (UG) | Ohio State C (DII) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan State B (UG) | Pitt A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |