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In this year, vigilante American Legion members lynched Wesley Everest after a Veterans Day parade in Centralia, Washington. The press nicknamed the USAT Buford (15[1])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. In this year, Mother Earth journal activists Alexander Berkman and Emma (*) Goldman were deported and the Galleanists (-5[1])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, (-5[1])name this year when the First Red Scare broke out and the Treaty of Versailles was signed. ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

ANSWER: 1919 (The Buford was nicknamed the “Soviet Ark.”)
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Khanh NguyenUF BUF C69-5
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Ryan GomesFlorida TechUSF1250
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2024 ARCADIA at Duke2024-12-06Y3100%0%0%96.33
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech2024-12-06Y450%25%50%74.00
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley2024-12-06Y250%50%50%25.00
2024 ARCADIA at GT2024-12-06Y540%20%60%51.50
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick2024-12-06Y4100%0%50%124.50
2024 ARCADIA Online2025-05-17Y1100%0%100%125.00