1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet N: Tossup 19

Description acceptable. J. M. Powell’s book Bring Out Your Dead chronicled Matthew Clarkson’s role in responding to this event, despite the departure of some Common Council members. The Guardians of the Poor assisted people during this event, during which a man who used the pseudonym Anthony Benezet called for Black residents to (10[1])“offer your services.” (10[2])During this event, which provided the backdrop to Charles Brockden Brown’s novel Arthur Mervyn, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (10[1])helped organize (10[1])Black workers, (10[1])who were falsely (10[1])believed to have medical immunity. (10[1])Thousands (10[1])fled (10[1]-5[1])from (10[1])neighborhoods (-5[1])like Society (10[1])Hill (10[1])during this 1793 (-5[1])event, (10[3])in which (10[1])Benjamin (10[2]-5[1])Rush (-5[1])treated people (10[1]-5[2])in the US’s first capital. For 10 (10[1])points, (-5[1])name this epidemic that killed over 5,000 people (10[1]-5[1])bitten by mosquitoes (-5[1])in (-5[1])Pennsylvania. (10[1]-5[1])■END■ (10[3]0[14])

ANSWER: 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic [accept answers indicating the yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia; prompt on Philadelphia epidemic by asking “of what condition?”; prompt on 1793 yellow fever epidemic by asking “where?”]

<NS, American History> | Packet N - Simon Fraser A, Carleton A, Georgia Tech A, Claremont A, Warwick A, Columbia B

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Rayton Lin	Waterloo B	UBC A	51	10
Jaskaran Singh	UCLA B	UCLA A	54	10
James McCurley	Harvard A	MIT	54	10
Jared He	Waterloo A	Brock	73	10
Robert Wang	Columbia A	Johns Hopkins B	75	10
Sam Kemeny	Brandeis B	Southern Connecticut State	77	10
Aryan Desarapu	Michigan B	Michigan C	80	10
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU A	Maryland C	85	10
Sumukh Murthy	UCSD A	UCSD B	86	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Bowdoin B	87	10
Mattias Ehatamm	Maryland A	John Jay	87	-5
Aiden Dartley	Rutgers A	Maryland B	88	10
Matthew Stall	CWRU B	CWRU A	89	-5
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU B	Rutgers B	91	10
Nabhaan Farooqi	McGill A	Toronto D	92	10
Sriram Susarla	UBC B	McMaster B	95	-5
Stefan Vlad	Ottawa	Toronto C	96	10
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State A	Michigan State	96	10
Zach Foster	City St. George's	UCL	96	10
Prahalad Rao	Ohio State B	Ohio State C	98	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Toronto Metropolitan	99	10
Joey Sun	Toronto B	Western B	99	-5
Joshua Koch	Michigan A	Pittsburgh	99	10
Nico Lotto	Vassar	Catholic	100	-5
Max Neal	Harvard B	Dartmouth B	102	10
Paige Crawley	Oxford B	Imperial A	102	-5
Sinecio Morales	Johns Hopkins A	Swarthmore	102	-5
Ian Theysmeyer	Queen's	Toronto G	109	10
Adil Haider	McMaster A	Western A	110	-5
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State	UCSD C	118	10
Mehmet Tatoglu	Oxford A	LSE	118	-5
Jay Misuk	Western C	Guelph	121	-5
Pranay Malhotra	NYU C	Columbia C	122	-5
Neiman Mocombe	Bowdoin A	Brandeis A	123	-5
Dennis Reppen	Imperial A	Oxford B	123	10
Ashlee Bacconi	UC Santa Barbara	UC Irvine	124	0
Luke Sloan	McGill B	Toronto F	124	10
Yusuf Baig	McMaster B	UBC B	124	0
Noah Lee	Western A	McMaster A	124	0
Jake Meltzer	CWRU A	CWRU B	124	10
David Zaslavsky	Brandeis A	Bowdoin A	124	0
Rafael Castro	Imperial C	Bristol	124	0
Francesca O'Connor	Bristol	Imperial C	124	0
Aisling Skeet	Durham	Cambridge B	124	0
Jacob Price	Cambridge B	Durham	124	0
Ted Harrison	Edinburgh B	Cambridge C	124	0
Tok Shing Henry Wong	Cambridge C	Edinburgh B	124	0
Albert Nyang	LSE	Oxford A	124	0
Andrew Massaro	Catholic	Vassar	124	0
Brandon Weiss	Columbia C	NYU C	124	0
Jerry Vinokurov	John Jay	Maryland A	124	0
Ben Hellman	Swarthmore	Johns Hopkins A	124	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	75%	0%	86.00
Canada	Main Site	✓	11	64%	36%	92.00
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	100%	20%	99.40
Northeast	Main Site	✓	5	80%	20%	80.00
UK	Main Site	✓	6	33%	33%	109.50
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	63%	50%	92.60