This soldier was ridiculed for giving an interview in which he claimed the “tariff question is a local question.” George Custer accompanied this soldier on an 1867 punitive expedition against Cheyenne and Lakota villages in Kansas that hastened the Medicine Lodge Treaty. This soldier undid Philip Sheridan’s governance of the Fifth Military District by issuing General Order No. 40, making him popular in Reconstruction-era Texas and Louisiana. This general’s counterattack at the Battle of (*) Williamsburg made George McClellan call him “superb.” This commander of the Second Corps at Gettysburg held Cemetery Ridge against Pickett’s Charge. This man won the 1880 Democratic presidential nomination before losing to James Garfield. For 10 points, what general was named for an earlier soldier nicknamed “Old Fuss and Feathers”? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 8% | 42% | 105.92 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Zhou | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Floridovician | 20 | 15 |
| Emmett Laurie | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 63 | -5 |
| Mike Bentley | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 79 | -5 |
| Alexander Nero | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 82 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | The RAND Coöperation | 99 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | BHSU B | 101 | 10 |
| Naveed Chowdhury | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 104 | 10 |
| Doug Simons | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | BHSU X | 104 | -5 |
| Rob Carson | BHSU X | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 105 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Do re mi fa serving negs | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 112 | -5 |
| Cooper Roh | Halifax Shipping Services | Big is moving to Evanston! | 121 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Broken Socal Scene | 121 | 10 |
| Adrian Wong | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 122 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Do re mi fa serving negs | 123 | 10 |
| Kenji Shimizu | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 124 | 10 |
| Dylan Minarik | The RAND Coöperation | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 124 | 10 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 124 | 10 |