Packet 16: Bonus 8
A serial killer known as the Midnight Assassin perpetrated a series of eight axe murders in this city three years before Jack the Ripper was active in London. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city, the capital of Texas.
ANSWER: Austin
[10m] During the Jack the Ripper case, London authorities questioned this man’s former employee and cowboy Buck Taylor. This man’s traveling Wild West show also employed the sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
ANSWER: Buffalo Bill [or William Frederick Cody or Buffalo Bill Cody; reject “Wild Bill” or “Wild Bill Hickock”]
[10h] Orange Washington and Gracie Vance were both killed in an Austin residence along a street with this name, a part of which is called “The Drag.” An 1847 treaty negotiated by Nicholas Trist was signed in a Mexican town with this name.
ANSWER: Guadalupe [accept Guadalupe Street; accept Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; accept Colonia Villa de Guadalupe; accept La Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo; prompt on Guad]
<Editors, American History> | Packet B
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 116 | 21.90 | 97% | 68% | 54% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binghamton A | Binghamton C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Binghamton B | RIT B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Cornell B | Cornell D | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| RIT A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Rochester | ESF | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 24.29 | 100% | 71% | 71% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 50% | 50% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 44% | 33% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 11 | 26.36 | 100% | 100% | 64% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 44% | 44% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 12 | 26.67 | 92% | 100% | 75% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 44% | 56% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 75% | 25% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 22.50 | 92% | 67% | 67% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 38% | 50% |
| South Central | US | Y | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 83% | 50% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 23.33 | 100% | 75% | 58% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 100% | 40% |