Northwest Territory - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

Nathaniel Deutsch debunked a book claiming that this historical political territory was annually traversed in a triangular migration by a “tri-racial” group partly composed of Fulani pastoralists, the Ben-Ishmael tribe. This territory was seen as a testing ground for “ward republics” by a man who wanted to divide it into areas like Assenisipia and Metropotamia. Zane’s Trace (15[1])cut through this territory, where the “French 500” arrived to settle Gallipolis after William Duer sold them worthless deeds. A (*) university named for this territory created the title Dean of Women for the “do everything” activist Frances Willard. (10[1])This territory was (10[1])established (-5[1])by the successor to an act that created a survey system based on 6-mile-wide grids called townships. (-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])the formation of states in what territory (10[1])was governed by a namesake (10[1])act (10[1])passed after Thomas Jefferson’s Land (10[1]0[1])Ordinance? ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Northwest Territory [or Old Northwest; accept Northwest Ordinance or Northwestern University; prompt on Ohio Lands or Indiana Territory by asking “what territory was that part of during the events clued?”; reject “Northwest Territories”] (The Ishmael family was cast as an Islamic “Fugitive ‘Nation’ of the Old Northwest” in a book by Hugo Prosper Leaming.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Naveed Chowdhury	Lisan al-Quib	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	56	15
Christopher Sims	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	BHSU B	94	10
Ved Muthusamy	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	97	10
Matt Weiner	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	Les Missourables	98	-5
Matt Lafer	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	LMM's LLM MLM	115	-5
Swapnil Garg	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	118	-5
Robert Wang	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	125	10
Doug Simons	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	130	10
Justin Hawkins	We Need New Names	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	131	10
Dillon Robertson	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	136	0
Rob Carson	Punished "Venom" BHSU	var merchants	136	10
Matt Jackson	LMM's LLM MLM	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	138	10
Charles Hang	Les Missourables	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	138	10
Tracy Mirkin	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	The Dyatlov Passement incident	138	10
Gareth Thorlakson	The Empire Bikes Back	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	138	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	12	92%	8%	25%	120.09