Packet 4: Bonus 4
While in prison in 1946, this man lost 200 pounds while being weaned off a morphine addiction he developed after the Beer Hall Putsch. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Nazi Reichsmarshall, who was Hitler’s successor until being dismissed in April 1945. The Monuments Men tracked thousands of works of art this leader plundered from Jewish art dealers.
ANSWER: Hermann Göring (“gurr-ing”) [or Hermann Wilhelm Göring]
[10e] Göring “cheated the hangman” by swallowing cyanide after being convicted of war crimes at post-World War II trials in this city that prosecuted Nazis like Joachim von Ribbentrop for their role in atrocities like the Holocaust.
ANSWER: Nuremberg [or the Nuremberg Trials]
[10m] Göring fell out of favor amidst the failure of this aerial division of Germany’s military to stop Allied bombings. The RAF resisted this air force’s efforts during the Blitz and Battle of Britain.
ANSWER: Luftwaffe ("LOOFT-vah-fuh")
<European History — Ganon Evans> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 4
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 21.60 | 92% | 88% | 36% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 15 | 21.33 | 93% | 87% | 33% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 100% | 40% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 80% | 80% | 40% |