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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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Oxford BBristol B0101020
Cambridge BManchester10101030
Durham ASouthampton B001010
Imperial ACambridge C001010
LSE AWarwick B0101020
BirminghamLSE B0101020
Oxford ACambridge D0101020
Southampton ACambridge A0000
Southampton ADurham A1001020
Southampton ADurham A100010
Southampton ACambridge A001010
Southampton ACambridge A010010
Southampton ADurham A10101030
Southampton ADurham A1010020
Southampton ACambridge A0101020
VanderbiltBristol A0101020
Warwick ADurham B001010