Packet 22: Bonus 14
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. coined a term for this city’s “Brahmins,” who were often located in Beacon Hill. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city whose influential families included the Lowells and Coolidges, members of whom often attended Harvard in neighboring Cambridge.
ANSWER: Boston
[10h] A member of this elite Boston family proposed a bill intended to halt disenfranchisement of Black voters and led opposition to the Treaty of Versailles. Another member of this family was Richard Nixon’s running mate in the 1960 election.
ANSWER: Lodge [accept Henry Cabot Lodge; accept Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; prompt on Cabot by asking “what family did that one marry into?”]
[10m] The term “Boston Brahmin” originated from a Holmes poem in this magazine founded by Francis Underwood. This magazine was the first to publish the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essay “A Case for Reparations.”
ANSWER: The Atlantic [accept The Atlantic Monthly]
<Editors, American History> | Packet H
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 118 | 14.49 | 93% | 29% | 23% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JMU A | William & Mary C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| JMU B | Liberty C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NCSU B | Tusculum A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| UNC A | William & Mary A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UNC C | UNC D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EH |
| Virginia Tech A | Virginia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia Tech B | NCSU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EH |
| Virginia Tech C | VCU A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| William & Mary B | Duke A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 50% | 33% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 12.22 | 89% | 22% | 11% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 25% | 25% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 11 | 13.64 | 91% | 18% | 27% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 89% | 22% | 22% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 12 | 17.50 | 100% | 42% | 33% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 15.83 | 100% | 33% | 25% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 38% | 25% |
| South Central | US | Y | 7 | 11.43 | 86% | 29% | 0% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 13 | 13.08 | 92% | 23% | 15% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |