Question

Two answers required. These two people are the focus of the most recent season of Nat Geo’s Genius, which draws on Peniel Joseph’s book The Sword and the Shield and Jeff Stetson’s play The Meeting. One of these people never actually said that the other has done “a great disservice” according to research by Jonathan Eig for his 2023 biography of one of them. These were the two most recent people to die of the three who are the focus of the unfinished book Remember This House. Opposing quotes by these people, and a photo of them together, appear after the destruction of Sal’s Pizzeria to end (10[1])the film (10[1])Do the Right Thing. One year before going on Hajj, (10[1])one of these people (10[1])mocked (10[1])the other’s “farce (10[1])on Washington.” (10[1])For 10 points, the labels of “militant” and “pacifist” are often given to what Civil Rights (10[1])leaders who were killed in 1965 and 1968? ■END■

ANSWER: Malcolm X AND Martin Luther King Jr. [accept Malcolm X or Malcolm Little or Malik el-Shabbaz in place of “Malcolm”; accept MLK Jr. in place of “Martin Luther King Jr.”] (Remember This House is by James Baldwin and depicts Malcolm X, MLK, and Medgar Evers.)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ben SterlingYale AJohns Hopkins A10610
Nicholas LaneGeorge Washington AColumbia C10810
Taaj RaiGeorge Washington BMaryland A11810
Vikshar AthreyaRutgers ACornell B12210
William GrogerColumbia BJohn Jay College12310
Sam MacchiVassar AHaverford A12610
Ryan RosenbergNYU APenn A12810
Sasha WertimeHaverford BPenn B14410

Summary

Florida2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%118.33
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y6100%0%33%106.50
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y6100%0%0%127.83
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%0%120.83
North2025-02-01Y3100%0%33%116.67
Northeast2025-02-01Y5100%0%0%121.20
Overflow2025-02-01Y5100%0%0%103.20
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%131.50
South Central2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%133.00
Southeast2025-02-01Y4100%0%0%118.75
UK2025-02-01Y10100%0%0%123.60
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y8100%0%0%121.88
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y3100%0%33%136.67