Question
This man persisted with using Manchurian ponies instead of stronger light or dark ones, but they all ended up dying anyway. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this man who ended his diary with the line “For God’s sake look after our people.” This man also wrote in his diary that Lawrence Oates marched to his death after saying “I am just going outside and may be some time.”
ANSWER: Robert Scott [or Robert Falcon Scott]
[10e] Robert Scott’s diary recounted the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition, which reached this location one month after Roald Amundsen made it in December 1911.
ANSWER: the South Pole [or 90 degrees South; prompt on pole]
[10h] In this memoir, Apsley Cherry-Garrard describes coming across the frozen bodies of Scott’s party just miles away from a supply cache at One Ton Depot, which they were unable to reach due to a blizzard.
ANSWER: The Worst Journey in the World
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| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 2.50 | 25% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
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| Lehigh B | Bard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | NYU C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lehigh A | Princeton | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |