Question
This was the birth surname of an activist who danced in political one-woman street shows on UPenn’s campus before publicly self-immolating in 1996. An author with this surname, who frequently used the phrase “The Power of One,” wrote a profile of an aerospace engineer who was the target of a smear campaign after co-founding Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A park in San Jose honors an author with this surname who is the dedicatee of R. F. Kuang’s grimdark fantasy The Poppy War and a time-travel story by Ken (*) Liu. Hate mail and death threats resulted in the 2004 suicide at age 36 of that author with this surname, who used her own grandparents and the diaries of Minnie Vautrin and John Rabe (“RAH-buh”) as sources for a 1997 bestseller that alleges thousands of mass murders were covered up by Japan’s government. For 10 points, give this surname of the historian who wrote The Rape of Nanking, Iris. ■END■
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 93% | 13% | 13% | 115.57 |