Lee Harvey Oswald - 2025 ACF Fall

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While representing this man’s mother, attorney Mark Lane began investigations informing his book Rush to Judgement. An object this man bought under the alias “A. Hidell” appears in photographs sent (10[1])to his (10[1])friend (10[1])George de Mohrenschildt. (10[5])This man’s responsibility for the killing (-5[1])of J. D. (10[1])Tippit (10[1])was (10[2])concluded (10[1]-5[1])by the (10[1])Warren (-5[1])Commission. (10[10]-5[1])This man (10[2]-5[1])claimed (10[3])“I’m (10[3])just (10[1])a (10[1])patsy!” (10[5])as he (10[1])was (10[2]-5[1])arrested, (10[3]-5[4])two days (10[3]-5[2])before (10[2])a perp (10[1]-5[1])walk (10[2])where he was (10[1])killed (-5[1])by (10[1]-5[1])Jack (10[6])Ruby. (10[28]-5[3])Conspiracy (10[3])theorists (10[4]-5[1])debate (10[2])whether this man (10[2])was (10[1])on the sixth floor of the (-5[1])Texas (10[1])School (10[1])Book Depository (10[4])for a 1963 (10[1])killing in Dallas. For 10 points, name this man who assassinated John (10[1])F. Kennedy. (10[1])■END■ (10[13]0[3])

ANSWER: Lee Harvey Oswald

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Vedh Ramesh	Penn	Vassar B	29	10
Sebastian Llaca	Wisconsin A	Macalester	31	10
Matthew Lam	Ohio State A	WVU B	32	10
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Archer Queen	35	10
Ethan Ririe	UCSD B	UCLA D	35	10
Derek Aldridge	William & Mary A	UNC A	35	10
Aidan Drain	NYU C	Lehigh B	35	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Boston College B	35	10
Andrea Owusu	Duke A	William & Mary B	41	-5
Connor Kahn	NCSU A	Virginia Tech B	44	10
Asher Lyons	Maryland B	Rutgers B	45	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Brandeis Mozart	46	10
TJ Pickering	Auburn B	Tennessee Tech	46	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Ohio State B	47	-5
Trenton Burgess	Indiana A	Purdue B	47	10
Matthew Stall	CWRU D	Michigan State A	49	10
Abigail Lee	Virginia Tech C	VCU A	50	-5
Brendan Bridle	Queen's A	McMaster C	51	10
Sai Subramanian	CWRU A	Michigan D	51	10
Andrew Stappenbeck	CWRU C	CWRU B	51	10
Daniel Luebs	Michigan State B	Ohio State C	51	10
Adam Monusko	Michigan A	Michigan State C	51	10
Tanmay Mirashi	Maryland C	Lehigh A	51	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	George Mason B	51	10
Henry Rutherford-Braun	British Columbia B	Alberta A	51	10
Jackson McDonald	Alabama A	Clemson A	51	10
Kamil Boehm	Cambridge A	Southampton	51	10
Sam Barrekette	RIT A	Rochester	51	-5
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Louisville C	53	10
Liam Rojas	Virginia A	Virginia Tech A	53	10
Liam Buck	St. Thomas	Iowa State	53	-5
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	JMU B	54	10
Jackson Price	Dartmouth B	Boston University A	54	10
Jackson Slaughter	Tennessee A	Georgia Tech C	54	10
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	Florida Tech B	55	10
Mica Oestreich	Illinois Canada	Illinois Blue	55	10
Arthur Zhang	Purdue C	Illinois Orange	55	10
William Kiker	Dartmouth A	Amherst B	56	10
Julian Moody	Tufts A	UConn A	57	10
Nick Machin	UCLA A	UCSD A	58	10
Diego Monge	Claremont C	USC B	58	10
Orion Brey	Louisville A	Louisville B	58	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	Iowa A	58	10
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt A	Chipola College	58	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	Florida Tech A	60	10
Stephen Ottewell	Toronto B	Toronto D	61	10
James Meek	George Mason A	Rutgers D	61	-5
Conner Yamnitz	WashU Grizzlers	Chicago B	61	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	UC Irvine	62	-5
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA F	62	10
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Guelph A	62	-5
Peyton Legg	UCF A	Florida B	62	10
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Williams A	62	10
Will Hughes	Auburn A	Georgia Tech B	62	-5
Eoghan Herriot	Durham D	Sheffield A	62	-5
Jacob Chambers	Iowa State	St. Thomas	64	10
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Clemson C	64	-5
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Georgia Tech A	64	-5
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Cambridge C	64	10
Michael Shipman	Cambridge D	Imperial A	64	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	Ohio State D	65	10
Harry Crane	Warwick	LSE	65	10
Will Jones	Michigan State D	Kentucky	67	10
Henry L'Heureux	Minnesota	Michigan Tech	67	-5
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Arizona State A	68	10
Atticus Teter	Durham A	Durham B	68	10
Ben Gardberg	Cornell B	Binghamton B	71	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Georgia Tech D	72	-5
Alan Cai	Amherst A	Williams B	73	-5
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Cambridge E	73	10
Janghyun Lee	Berkeley Little Prince	UCSC	74	10
Nicolaus Derikx	Carleton A	Ottawa C	74	10
Thomas Vukovic	Toronto H	Toronto F	74	10
William Cowperthwait	NCSU B	Tusculum A	74	10
Ethan Skolnick	WashU Grolars	Rose-Hulman A	74	10
Logan Patil	Georgia Tech F	Emory A	74	10
Suren Grigorian	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Stanford B	75	10
Rebecca Li	Ottawa A	McGill A	75	10
Galen Mueller	McGill B	McGill C	75	10
Neela Perceval-Maxwell	McGill E	Carleton B	75	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Waterloo C	75	10
Aleksa Misic	Waterloo B	Toronto E	75	10
Jeffery Austin	UNC D	UNC C	75	-5
Jacob Schildkraut	William & Mary C	JMU A	75	10
Lily Katz	Stony Brook	George Mason C	75	10
Sam Millenbach	Rowan	Columbia B	75	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	Vassar A	75	10
Sparrow Brotman	NYU B	Rutgers C	75	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Illinois Champaign	75	10
James Windle	Purdue D	Iowa B	75	-5
Noah Lang	Wisconsin B	Wisconsin C	75	10
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Boston College A	75	10
Eames Weeks	Brown A	Tufts C	75	10
Kyle Hart	MIT B	Dartmouth C	75	10
David Zaslavsky	Brandeis Bach	Williams C	75	10
Brendan Liaw	British Columbia A	Washington Atlantic	75	10
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas	Arizona State B	75	10
Alice Ton Nu	Washington Coho	Washington Chinook	75	10
James Haddix	Washington State	Washington Pink	75	10
Asheton Wilbanks	Clemson B	Tennessee B	75	10
James Zhao	Vanderbilt C	Mississippi State A	75	-5
Connor Tindall	Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt C	75	10
Thaddeus Holmes	Durham C	Edinburgh A	75	10
Daniel Hobba	Cambridge B	Imperial C	75	10
Vishrut Pisupati	Imperial B	Imperial D	75	10
Connor Yu	Cornell C	Cornell A	75	10
Kieran Freed	Rochester	RIT A	75	10
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Washington Sockeye	76	10
Britt Bernstein	Georgia A	Georgia Tech E	76	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	Cornell D	76	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	Ottawa B	77	10
Xavier Bornhorst	Maryland A	Princeton	77	-5
Kaitlyn Farrin	Brandeis Beethoven	Boston University B	77	10
Pen Hughes	Edinburgh C	Sheffield B	77	10
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Bristol	77	10
Brandom Pham	Berkeley Skeleton King	Stanford A	78	10
Dawson Teu	Waterloo A	Toronto C	78	10
Alexander Rutten	Columbia A	Johns Hopkins	81	10
Harry Fines	York	Edinburgh B	81	10
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield A	Durham D	82	10
Carter Yott	McMaster A	Toronto A	88	-5
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Washington Masu	89	10
Astrid Kelley	RIT B	ESF	90	10
Jackson Crickard	Claremont B	USC A	92	10
Brady Hagan	Ohio State B	Pittsburgh	92	10
Alex Matchinski	Michigan Tech	Minnesota	92	10
Jerry Lin	Vanderbilt B	Auburn C	92	10
Pallas Allen	South Florida A	ERAU Daytona A	95	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	Claremont A	107	10
Kaiden Webb	Chicago A	Indiana B	109	10
Scott Sibley	UC Irvine	UCLA E	110	0
Noah Scattergood	Brock A	Toronto I	110	0
Indiana Gee	Toronto I	Brock A	110	0
Dylan Steptoe	Guelph A	McMaster B	110	10
Kevin He	Toronto A	McMaster A	110	10
Hudson Kee	William & Mary B	Duke A	110	10
Diego Almaraz	UNC C	UNC D	110	10
Micah Williams	VCU A	Virginia Tech C	110	10
Johnathan Ahdout	Princeton	Maryland A	110	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	George Mason A	110	10
Jacob Chaudhry	Iowa B	Purdue D	110	10
Penelope Graham	Williams B	Amherst A	110	10
Andy Truette	Clemson C	Montevallo	110	10
Pranav Jothi	Georgia Tech A	South Carolina A	110	10
Louis Harney	Georgia Tech B	Auburn A	110	10
Sonali Srikanth	Georgia Tech D	Sewanne	110	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	20%	76.60
UK (South)	UK	8	100%	0%	68.00
Northern California	US	4	100%	0%	65.50
Southern California	US	7	86%	14%	68.67
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	0%	75.20
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	89%	22%	79.25
Florida	US	4	100%	0%	68.00
Great Lakes	US	11	100%	9%	56.36
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	33%	73.89
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	17%	67.67
Midwest	US	9	100%	11%	71.56
North	US	4	100%	50%	65.50
Northeast	US	12	100%	8%	66.42
Pacific	US	8	100%	0%	73.00
Southeast	US	13	100%	38%	80.08
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	20%	77.40