California gold rush - 2025 ACF Fall

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This event is the subject of a book by H. W. Brands on the “New American Dream.” 150 Wintu people were killed during this event in the Bridge (10[1])Gulch massacre. (10[1])Cornelius (10[1])Vanderbilt’s (10[1])Accessory Transit Company began operating (10[1])in Nicaragua during this event. The Fugitive Slave Act (-5[1])was passed following (-5[1])this (-5[1])event (-5[2])in exchange (-5[2])for its location’s (-5[4])admission (-5[1])to the Union. (10[3]0[1]-5[20])This (-5[1])event (10[1]0[1]-5[5])was (-5[1])caused (10[1]-5[4])by (-5[1])a discovery (10[2]-5[1])by John Marshall (10[1]-5[2])on land (10[3]-5[1])owned (10[1])by (10[2])Swiss-American (10[1]-5[1])businessman John (10[1]-5[1])Sutter. Tens (10[1])of thousands (10[4])of “forty-niners” (10[7])travelled (10[3])to participate (10[9])in this event. (10[10]0[1])For 10 points, (10[1]0[1])name this (10[1])event (10[1])in which (10[1])prospectors (10[1])flocked (10[1])to a Western state (10[1])in search (10[1])of a precious (10[3])metal. (10[1])■END■ (10[20]0[3])

ANSWER: California gold rush [or 1848 gold rush or 1849 gold rush; prompt on gold rush by asking “in what location or year?”]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Pranav Jothi	Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	27	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UCSD B	29	10
Ian Hatcher	Chipola College	South Carolina A	30	10
Enina Edosomwan	CWRU A	Michigan B	31	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	Rutgers A	36	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Brown A	45	-5
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Amherst B	48	-5
Andrew Stappenbeck	CWRU C	Louisville D	49	-5
James Haddix	Washington State	British Columbia B	50	-5
William Edwards	Tennessee A	Clemson A	50	-5
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Maryland A	52	-5
Sparrow Brotman	NYU B	Lehigh A	52	-5
Jaden Bandy	Rutgers B	Columbia A	55	-5
Aidan Drain	NYU C	George Mason C	55	-5
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	Penn	55	-5
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Boston College B	55	-5
Misty Chen	Purdue C	WashU Grolars	56	-5
Annika Larson	Claremont A	UC Santa Barbara	59	-5
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	McMaster B	59	-5
Orion Brey	Louisville A	Michigan A	59	-5
Joseph Strom	Louisville B	Ohio State B	59	-5
Aiden Hart	Kentucky	Michigan D	59	-5
Matthew Stall	CWRU D	Michigan State B	59	-5
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	Michigan State D	59	10
Nathan Woolery	Louisville C	WVU A	59	-5
Venkat Das	WVU B	Michigan State C	59	-5
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	Liberty B	59	-5
Max Kurzman	UNC D	VCU A	59	-5
Antonio LaNave	Virginia Tech C	UNC B	59	-5
Asher Lyons	Maryland B	Maryland C	59	-5
Nico Lotto	Vassar B	Columbia B	59	10
Mica Oestreich	Illinois Canada	Illinois Urbana	59	-5
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Orange	59	-5
Elizabeth Bowling	Indiana B	Iowa B	59	10
Jack Granahan	Brandeis Mozart	Brown B	59	-5
Madeline Strauss	Tufts A	Dartmouth A	59	-5
Ayaan Jajodia	Dartmouth B	MIT A	59	-5
Malvin Tsetse	MIT A	Dartmouth B	59	0
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Pink	59	-5
Kevin Liu	Texas	Arizona State A	59	-5
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	59	-5
Miles Spieler	Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	60	-5
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	Claremont B	61	-5
Brian Hobmann	UCLA F	UCLA A	61	-5
Chase Moss	WVU A	Louisville C	61	0
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Indiana A	61	-5
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Arizona State B	61	-5
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Washington Chum	61	10
Ethan Altshul	Emory A	Georgia Tech B	61	-5
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	Cornell B	62	-5
Shreyansh Satapurthy	UCLA D	UCLA C	63	-5
Caedmon Holland	Lehigh B	Princeton	63	-5
Matthew Kohn	Williams A	Amherst A	63	-5
Kyle Hart	MIT B	Dartmouth C	63	-5
Brayden Zhang	Vanderbilt B	Vanderbilt C	63	10
Tishe Sonuga	Chicago B	William Woods University A	64	-5
Eli Young	Vassar A	George Mason B	66	-5
Sriram Koritala	Illinois Blue	WashU Grizzlers	66	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn A	Georgia Tech F	66	10
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Ohio State A	69	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Brandeis Bach	69	-5
Brandon Hunt	Auburn B	Georgia A	69	-5
Jack Marguiles	Stony Brook	Rutgers D	71	10
Davis Johnson	Purdue A	Purdue B	71	10
Ethan Skolnick	WashU Grolars	Purdue C	71	10
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Boston University A	71	-5
Simarya Ahuja	Washington Sockeye	British Columbia A	72	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	Claremont C	73	10
Anton Akroush	Michigan State A	CWRU B	73	10
Miriam Lee	Queen's A	Toronto I	74	-5
Zachary Leblang	Penn	Johns Hopkins	74	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech E	76	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	RIT A	76	-5
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Toronto C	78	10
Thomas Vukovic	Toronto H	McMaster C	80	10
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	Tufts B	80	10
Eames Weeks	Brown A	Vermont B	80	10
Sri Lnu	Clemson B	Sewanne	80	10
Katherine Mack	UC Irvine	USC A	82	10
Stephen Ottewell	Toronto B	Waterloo A	82	10
Platon Gorokhov	Toronto E	Waterloo C	82	10
Mason Lambert	JMU A	Duke A	82	10
Nathan Redford	Liberty A	William & Mary B	82	10
John Shelly	Rowan	Rutgers C	82	10
William Henley	Illinois Champaign	Iowa A	82	10
Kevin He	Toronto A	Toronto D	83	10
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Toronto G	83	10
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	Binghamton B	83	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	CWRU C	85	10
Alex Grigoriades	Lehigh A	NYU B	85	10
Salil Jain	Williams B	Boston College A	85	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	British Columbia C	85	10
James O'Reilly	Arizona State A	Texas	85	10
Annabelle Koopmans	Washington Atlantic	Washington Masu	85	10
Logan Van Pelt	Washington Coho	Boise State	85	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	Binghamton C	85	10
Derek Li	Cornell A	RIT B	85	10
Jacob Cohen	UCLA A	UCLA F	88	10
Samuel Zheng	Toronto F	Brock A	88	10
Gentry Dowdy	Liberty B	Liberty C	88	10
Becca Wu	JMU B	Tusculum A	88	10
Luc Vulliez	Amherst A	Williams A	88	10
Nico Miller	Brown B	Brandeis Mozart	88	10
Kaushik Jayaprabha	Dartmouth C	MIT B	88	10
David Zaslavsky	Brandeis Bach	Vermont A	88	0
Eleanor Arron	Williams C	Brandeis Beethoven	88	10
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Washington Chinook	88	10
Madeline Painter	Georgia Tech D	Clemson C	88	10
Hafsa Shaikh	Toronto I	Queen's A	91	0
Louis Harney	Georgia Tech B	Emory A	91	10
Ben Gardberg	Cornell B	Cornell C	93	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Tufts A	94	10
Ethan Erickson	Boston College B	Tufts C	96	10
Danny Cutbill	RIT A	Binghamton A	97	10
Matthew Bray	Auburn C	Mississippi State A	98	10
Ben Lanahan	Clemson A	Tennessee A	102	10
Ba Loc Dinh	Illinois Urbana	Illinois Canada	104	10
Sam Alahi	Illinois Orange	Rose-Hulman A	107	10
Joyann Hua	British Columbia B	Washington State	107	10
Peter Randall	Georgia A	Auburn B	107	10
Ben Spirtas	Maryland C	Maryland B	108	10
Jackson Crickard	Claremont B	UCSD A	109	10
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	Claremont A	109	10
Aarav Kakad	UCLA C	UCLA D	109	10
Aleksa Misic	Waterloo B	Guelph A	109	0
Dylan Steptoe	Guelph A	Waterloo B	109	0
Sarah Dong	Michigan A	Louisville A	109	10
Andrew McKenzie	Ohio State B	Louisville B	109	10
Gary Wang	Michigan D	Kentucky	109	10
Daniel Luebs	Michigan State B	CWRU D	109	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	109	10
Eric Cameron	Michigan State C	WVU B	109	10
Andy Campbell	VCU A	UNC D	109	10
Vivian Adolph	UNC B	Virginia Tech C	109	10
Andrew Wu	Columbia A	Rutgers B	109	10
Daniel Kim	Maryland A	George Mason A	109	10
Rose Phipps	George Mason B	Vassar A	109	10
Brayden Whitlow	George Mason C	NYU C	109	10
Johnathan Ahdout	Princeton	Lehigh B	109	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Chicago B	109	10
Tobias Cortes	Indiana A	Chicago A	109	10
Bokei Thompson	Amherst B	Southern Connecticut State University A	109	10
Daniel Lu	Washington Pink	Alberta A	109	0
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	109	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
Southern California	US	7	100%	57%	85.57
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	78%	22%	82.29
Great Lakes	US	12	92%	67%	88.27
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	6	100%	50%	93.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	67%	88.33
Midwest	US	9	100%	56%	86.44
Northeast	US	12	83%	83%	89.60
Pacific	US	9	89%	44%	83.50
Southeast	US	12	100%	33%	78.08
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	40%	88.60