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In this year, vigilante American Legion members lynched Wesley Everest (-5[1])after a Veterans Day parade in Centralia, Washington. The press nicknamed the USAT Buford an “ark” for deporting hundreds at the end of this year. Mayor Ole Hanson (15[1])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 (-5[1])were deported (10[1])and the Galleanists carried out an anarchist mail bomb campaign that nearly killed Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. During this year’s start, (-5[1])Henry Cabot Lodge tanked Congress’s ratification of a treaty agreed to by the “Big Four” powers. For 10 points, name this year when the First Red Scare broke out and the Treaty of Versailles was signed. ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: 1919 (The Buford was nicknamed the “Soviet Ark.”)
<HG, American History>
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Jack MangrumInnovation Academy AMilton9-5
Edward KimJohns CreekLambert3715
Arhith DharanendraGeorgia Tech DMississippi State64-5
Alex ThomasGeorgia Tech CInnovation Academy C6610
Michael ZhouGeorgia Tech BGeorgia Tech A88-5
Aaryan TomarGeorgia Tech AGeorgia Tech B1250
Darren KellisMiltonInnovation Academy A1250

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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