Question
A board of engineers that oversaw this city in the early 20th century was chaired by Henry Martyn Robert and included Alfred Nobel. The philanthropist Jacob Schiff financed a movement named after this city that diverted Jewish immigrants away from East Coast cities. The history of this city is often separated into a “Golden Era” and an “Open Era”, the latter of which included illegal gambling at the Sam and Rose Maceo-run Balinese Room. The posting of (*) General Order No. 3 in this city by Gordon Granger provides the origin of Juneteenth. This city grew from the colony of Campeche, and was named for the governor of Spanish Louisiana during most of the American Revolution. A 10-mile seawall was built in this city after it was struck by the deadliest natural disaster in US history. For 10 points, name this Texas city hit by a devastating hurricane in 1900. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 77 | -5 |
Benjamin Chapman | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 91 | -5 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 91 | 10 |
Stefan Vlad | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 97 | -5 |
Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 134 | 10 |
Rayton Lin | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 148 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 149 | 10 |
Joey Sun | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 149 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 134.20 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 92.80 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 33% | 71.33 |