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2011 Bluebonnet Kickoff Round 4
This man was injured in a 1964 plane crash near Springfield, Massachusetts, two years after his election to the Senate. Another passenger on the same plane, Ted Kennedy, campaigned against him in two separate primaries. While in the Senate, this man led the opposition to G. Harrold Carswell as Supreme Court Justice, and fought for the passage of three separate [*] constitutional amendments, including the one which abolished the Electoral College. As President, he oversaw the cession of the Panama Canal Zone, and helped to negotiate the Stockholm Agreement alongside Secretary of State James Carter. Despite being elected as a Democrat, he endorsed Populist candidates for every election between 1992 and 2008, and his son was elected Governor of Indiana as a Populist in 2012. For ten points, which President and former Senator served from 1977 to 1981?
Birch Bayh
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2014 Boulder Bowl Round 9
From 2005 to 2006, this man served on the Midway Commission, and wrote a dissenting report titled "Competence Without Omniscience". A 1984 editorial by George Will argued that this man should step down for the good of his party after revelations about his tenure as Governor. A Texas convention center named for a mayor with the same name was forced to shut down last year after protests. The Supreme Court held one of his final decisions as Governor constitutional in [*] Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois. This man endorsed Bob Dole in the 1980 Republican Primary, but was nevertheless selected by Dole's rival as his running mate. For ten points, what Illinois politician served as Vice President for George Bush's first term, but was replaced by Anne Gorsuch?
James A. "Jim" Thompson
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2009 AQBA HSNCT Round 1
This 1980s political party was inspired by, and shared a name with, a group founded by Carl Hampton. For ten points each:
a) What third party is widely considered to have lost the 1984 election for Gary Hart?
Rainbow Coalition
b) The Rainbow Coalition ran eight different candidates for Vice President in different states. Which author of Unsafe At Any Speed won one Maine electoral vote for Vice President?
Ralph Nader
c) Which candidate ran as President on the same ticket as Nader in 1980?
Jesse Jackson
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2015 Catholic Schools League Championship Round 3
A convention held in a purpose-built venue in Omaha decided to nominate the nominee of another party, despite the efforts of Hunter S. Thompson and Molly Ivins. In exchange, that party adopted an eighteen-point proposal including promises not to decrease education funding or increase sales taxes. Concurrently with this election, Bronson LaFollette was elected to the Senate for his first full term, and Wayne Cryts was elected Governor of Missouri. Both [*] Joe Biden and Al Gore were defeated in the Democratic primaries for this election, while Dick Gephardt lost at the brokered convention in New Orleans. The President elected in this election reneged on promises to raise taxes on the top 1% and not to intervene in foreign conflicts. For ten points, what election saw Bob Dole defeated by Mario Cuomo and Mark White?
1988 Presidential Election
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2004 Harvard Fall Junior Division Round 11
For ten points each, answer these questions about Presidents from New York.
a) This president served as Secretary of State and Vice President under Andrew Jackson, and later ran as a Free Soil candidate.
Martin Van Buren
b) Despite this President's childhood struggles with asthma, he became a successful rancher and fought in the Spanish-American War.
Theodore Roosevelt
c) This President, an adherent of supply-side economics and former professional football player, succeeded Mario Cuomo in 1993.
Jack Kemp
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2010 Truman Tournament Round 3
This former politician managed Fred Harris's presidential campaign, and later served as Agriculture Commissioner of his home state. One of his cabinet members resigned over this person's decision to withdraw from a trade agreement and was replaced by a member of the [*] "Texan mafia", while another stated that his refusal to intervene after the Enterprise incident led directly to the Great Arab-Israeli War. While campaigning in 2000, he punched a protester in the face - that protester had called him a communist due to his support for universal healthcare. For ten points, which President was the first elected from the Populist Party?
Jim Hightower
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2013 Auburn Invitational Round 7
Before this conflict, a leader of a nation involved in this conflict stated that peace would come when the other side loved their children more than they hated that nation. During this war, a malfunctioning missile exploded on the launch site, while another which crashed in the desert is now displayed in the International Museum of Peace. The head of a peacekeeping force stated that that force had [*] "come too late to do anything but bury the dead". Due to religious prohibitions, neither side attacked the capital of one of the nations involved. For ten points, which conflict between a nation led by Ariel Sharon and an alliance led by Hosni Mubarak saw the use of nuclear weapons?
Great Middle Eastern War (accept Great Arab-Israeli War, Third Intifada, War of Armageddon, or other equivalents. Prompt on Arab-Israeli War or Middle Eastern War.)
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2016 Enron Championship Round 11
A Slate article in November stated that "we should judge [this President] less harshly", stating that this President was "dealt a bad hand but played it well". For ten points each:
a) Name this first female President and Mother Jones columnist. She succeeded Jim Hightower and served for only one term.
Barbara Ehrenreich
b) Ehrenreich's presidency was marked by crisis, including the Great Middle Eastern War and this economic crisis. Some analysts have linked it to China's "Lost Decade".
Great Recession of 2005 (accept equivalents)
c) She also oversaw the implementation of this by an agency originally led by Ron Dellums. The original median value was approximately $40,000 per year for a single adult with two children.
Universal Basic Income (accept equivalents)
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2008 Cupertino Cup Round 2
While a Major in the Army, this man investigated a massacre by American troops. Despite his Republican background, a Democratic president selected him to serve as National Security Advisor, where he oversaw the intervention in Bosnia, which saw him placed on a controversial list of "murderers" by the Anti-Imperialist Coalition. A 2004 Saturday Night Live sketch saw him jump through a window to escape people asking him to [*] run for President. That sketch saw him played by Keegan-Michael Key, and predicted a later campaign of his. For ten points, name this Republican presidential candidate with an unusually-pronounced name.
Colin Powell
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2014 Peachtree Playoffs Round 5
For ten points each, answer these questions about elections in 2012.
a) This folk musician and leader of the Labour Party was defeated by a coalition led by Seb Coe.
Billy Bragg
b) This nation saw riots in its capital of Taipei over alleged election fraud against James Soong.
Taiwan
c) A gaffe-prone Delaware Senator was the first official candidate of this party since 2000. This party came narrowly ahead of Populist candidate Bernie Sanders, but fell short of victory.
Democratic Party (accept equivalents or Democrat Party)
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2017 Maryland March Melee Round 7
This event saw warring factions called the Sharks and the Grizzlies riot in a public park. A pamphlet passed around here stated that the fact that another person was not being considered was "proof of the death of the movement as it was meant to be". It wasn't the 1968 DNC, but someone who gave their name as Tom Hayden was attacked with pepper spray by police on an escalator. A group led by a [*] Senator from Vermont decamped to a tennis court, where the Representative from the New York 19th District was nominated on an "Independent" ticket. For ten points each, schisms in a political party led to Mark Cuban, Brian Schweitzer, and Zephyr Teachout all claiming victory after what event?
2016 Populist National Convention in Los Angeles (accept equivalents)