Packet O: Bonus 6
Answer the following about John Quincy Adams’s fascination with exploration, for 10 points each.
[10h] Adams requested funding for the US Exploring Expedition and appointed a commodore with this surname as commanding officer before Charles Wilkes took over. A commander with this surname commanded the CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads.
ANSWER: Jones [accept Thomas ap Catesby Jones; accept Catesby ap Roger Jones]
[10e] Adams approved Jeremiah Reynolds’s expedition to this location after he stopped supporting efforts to travel to the Earth’s center. Roald Amundsen beat Robert Falcon Scott to reaching this location.
ANSWER: South Pole [prompt on Antarctica]
[10m] To improve navigation efforts for military exploration, Adams signed a bill to create this facility in northwest D.C. that collects geopositioning and timekeeping data. The vice president has lived at this facility since the 1970s.
ANSWER: United States Naval Observatory [accept United States National Observatory; accept One Observatory Circle; prompt on Obsevatory]
<NS, American History> | Packet O - Editors 1
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 16.15 | 92% | 69% | 0% |
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| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |