Clarence Thomas hearings - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

Description acceptable. An article written in response to this event recounts two men talking about their sexual conquests while the author attempts to read The Sound and the Fury. Alan Dixon’s political career ended (10[1])after his role in this event prompted a primary challenge by Carol Moseley Braun. A “twilight zone” characterized by competing “Appropriations” of this event (-5[1])are discussed in the essay “Whose Story Is It, Anyway?” from a collection edited by Toni Morrison. Rebecca Walker coined the term for “third wave” feminism in response to this event, (10[1])whose central (10[1])participant headed the EEOC. (10[4])During this event, (10[1]-5[1])Joe Biden (10[1])chaired (10[2])an (10[2])all-White, (10[2])all-male Senate committee to adjudicate testimony (10[4])from a Black (10[1])central participant, (10[1])who used the phrase “high-tech lynching.” (10[1])For 10 points, the subject of what 1991 event was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Clarence Thomas hearings [or Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings, Clarence Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court, or equivalents; accept Anita Hill’s testimony or Anita Hill hearings or similar answers until “Hill” is read; prompt on Clarence Thomas scandal or Clarence Thomas controversy or equivalents] (“Whose Story Is It, Anyway?” appears in Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power.)

= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Sanjay Srihari	Georgia Tech	Northwestern	33	10
Robert Freeman	South Carolina	Vanderbilt	57	-5
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Purdue	88	10
Shiv Seshan	Chicago D	Kentucky	90	10
Nathaniel Hull	Berkeley A	NYU	94	10
Matt Jackson	Chicago A	Columbia A	94	10
Henry Cafaro	Chicago B	Cornell A	94	10
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Waterloo	94	10
Andrew Minagar	Yale A	Illinois	97	-5
Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury	Michigan	Iowa State	97	10
Graham Troy	North Carolina B	Minnesota B	99	10
Max Hodes	Chicago C	Berkeley B	100	10
Caleb Kendrick	Maryland	Johns Hopkins	100	10
Luke Schaarschuch	Virginia	Ottawa	101	10
Dean Ah Now	Claremont Colleges	WUSTL B	101	10
Marcus Forbes-Green	Toronto B	Florida	102	10
Shardul Rao	Minnesota A	Indiana	102	10
Ashish Subramanian	Duke	Columbia B	108	10
Sarod Nori	Cornell B	McGill	108	10
Tim Morrison	Stanford	Texas	108	10
Fred Garvey	Truman State	Harvard	108	10
Jason Hong	Brown	Toronto A	111	10
Lexi Terman	Rutgers	Yale B	113	10
Bryan Ugaz	Arizona State	Penn	119	10
Alan Wu	Vanderbilt	South Carolina	136	10
Justin Wytmar	Illinois	Yale A	137	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	24	100%	0%	8%	101.54