Question

In this year, vigilante American Legion members lynched Wesley Everest after a Veterans Day parade in Centralia, Washington. (15[1])The press nicknamed the USAT Buford an “ark” for deporting hundreds at the end of this year. Mayor Ole Hanson embarked on a national speaking tour after cracking down on this year’s Seattle General Strike. (15[2])In this year, Mother Earth journal activists Alexander Berkman and Emma (*) Goldman were deported and the Galleanists carried out an anarchist mail bomb campaign that nearly killed Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. During this year’s start, Henry Cabot Lodge tanked Congress’s ratification of a treaty agreed to by the “Big Four” powers. For 10 points, name this year in which the First Red Scare broke out, one year after the Treaty of Versailles (10[1])was signed. ■END■

ANSWER: 1919 (The Buford was nicknamed the “Soviet Ark.”)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
William HoustonChicago BPurdue A1715
Liam StarnesChicago AIllinois Blue5215
Akshar GoyalIllinois OrangeNotre Dame5215
Owyn NoblePurdue BSIUE12510

Summary

2024 ARCADIA at Claremont2024-11-02Y3100%33%0%81.33
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo2024-11-09Y667%33%50%76.75
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois2024-11-09Y4100%75%0%61.50