Question
James Hall led one of the first professional archaeological digs in America when he excavated the homestead of this ancestor of his in 1856. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this signer of the Mayflower Compact and military advisor for the Plymouth Colony. His supposed rivalry with John Alden was fictionalized in a narrative poem.
ANSWER: Myles Standish [or Miles Standish; accept “The Courtship of Miles Standish”]
[10m] A Massachusetts contemporary of Hall also named James Hall founded the Geological Society of America in this state, where Charles Willson Peale earlier exhumed a full Mastodon skeleton before bringing it to Pennsylvania.
ANSWER: New York [or NY]
[10e] A contemporary of Hall and Hall also named James Hall wrote his story “The Indian Hater” while living near this river in Cincinnati. The pro-slavery “butternuts” lived north of this river that formed the Northwest Territory’s southern border.
ANSWER: Ohio River
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley Past | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |