This politician blamed rival senator Mike Gravel’s (“gra-VEL’s”) opposition to a land bill for forcing him to take a flight that crashed and killed his wife Anne. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this longtime Alaska senator who survived that 1978 plane crash at Anchorage’s airport, which is now named for him. This politician later died in a small plane crash in 2010.
ANSWER: Ted Stevens [or Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr.]
[10h] Gravel fought Ted Stevens’s attempt to protect the Tongass National Forest, forcing Jimmy Carter to use this 1906 act that gave the president the authority to create national monuments.
ANSWER: Antiquities Act [or An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities]
[10e] Stevens may be best known for describing this system as a “series of tubes.” Al Gore said that he “took the initiative in creating” this system by expanding ARPANET.
ANSWER: Internet [reject “World Wide Web”]
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