Bonus
This historian won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History for the second part of a biography divided into The Prairie Years and The War Years. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this historian and poet who wrote the six-volume biography Abraham Lincoln. Those books by this historian inspired Robert Sherwood’s play Abe Lincoln in Illinois.
ANSWER: Carl Sandburg [or Carl August Sandburg]
[10e] Sandburg devoted much of The War Years to the congressional plot against this Secretary of State under Lincoln, whose work to purchase Alaska was called his “Folly.”
ANSWER: William Seward [or William Henry Seward]
[10h] In an Atlantic review, Stephen Vincent Benét cited this politician as one of many “Congressmen, cranks, [and] soldiers” whom Sandburg depicted. The Birchard Letter addressed this politician’s arrest for violating General Order 38.
ANSWER: Clement Vallandigham (“vuh-LAN-dig-um”) [or Clement Laird Vallandigham]
<NS, American History>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 52 | 13.27 | 100% | 25% | 8% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 0% | 17% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 17% | 50% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 38% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |