Question
Before attending this event, a central figure forgave the debts of James Augustus Hicky, who had earlier attacked that figure’s wife, the Baroness Imhoff, in his gazette. Philip Francis instigated this event as his “final revenge” for losing a duel, according to one book. The playwright Richard Sheridan gave two impassioned speeches during this event against a figure called the “captain-general of iniquity.” According to William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy, the subject of this event constructed a giant granary known as the Golghar, and encouraged William Jones to found the Asiatic Society. A philosopher gave a four-day-long speech during this event that decried such actions as the execution of Mahārājā Nandakumār. For 10 points, Edmund Burke led what event, which ended with the acquittal of the first governor-general of Bengal? ■END■
Summary
2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 23 | 35% | 0% | 22% | 96.38 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Andrew Zeng | Stanford | Illinois A | 57 | 10 |
Chris Sims | Northwestern | Chicago A | 68 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan | UCF | 74 | -5 |
Jaik Havlick | Arizona State | Penn State | 83 | -5 |
Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers | Toronto A | 88 | 10 |
Biniam Alaro | Florida | LSE | 90 | 10 |
Colin Veevers | Ottawa | British Columbia | 103 | -5 |
Jakob Myers | Indiana | North Carolina A | 108 | -5 |
Amogh Kulkarni | Georgia State | WUSTL B | 109 | 10 |
Cooper Roh | Columbia A | Waterloo A | 109 | 10 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo B | Yale | 124 | 10 |
Nitin Rao | Harvard | MIT | 126 | 10 |
Chris Scheri | RIT | Ohio State | 127 | -5 |
Teigue Kelly | Penn State | Arizona State | 129 | 0 |
John Chen | British Columbia | Ottawa | 129 | 0 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech | Chicago B | 129 | 0 |
Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Georgia Tech | 129 | 0 |
Jonathan Shauf | North Carolina A | Indiana | 129 | 0 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto C | Johns Hopkins | 129 | 0 |
David Bass | Johns Hopkins | Toronto C | 129 | 0 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | Virginia Tech | 129 | 0 |
Ryan Sun | UC Berkeley B | NYU | 129 | 0 |
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU | UC Berkeley B | 129 | 0 |
Graham Troy | North Carolina B | Virginia | 129 | 0 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia | North Carolina B | 129 | 0 |
Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State | RIT | 129 | 0 |
Karan Gurazada | Texas | Iowa State | 129 | 0 |
Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Texas | 129 | 0 |
Jacky Xu | Cornell A | Toronto B | 129 | 0 |
Joey Sun | Toronto B | Cornell A | 129 | 0 |
Truman Hill | Vanderbilt | Illinois B | 129 | 0 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Vanderbilt | 129 | 0 |
Charles Hang | WUSTL A | UC Berkeley A | 129 | 0 |
Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | WUSTL A | 129 | 0 |
Henry Bon | Winona State | Maryland | 129 | 0 |
Patrick Torre | Maryland | Winona State | 129 | 0 |