Packet 5: Bonus 4
One of these two men carved his name on Pompey’s Pillar, a rock formation in Montana named for a Shoshone baby. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these two men, one of whom owned the slave York and organized a two-year journey with the other, who likely died by suicide in 1809.
ANSWER: Meriwether Lewis AND William Clark
[10e] Clark’s signature on Pompey’s Pillar is the only remaining physical evidence of his and Meriwether Lewis’s expedition across this large territory purchased by Thomas Jefferson from France in 1803.
ANSWER: Louisiana Purchase [accept the Vente de la Louisiane or the Sale of Louisiana]
[10h] This future editor of Lewis and Clark’s journals may have watched Napoleon’s coronation on the same day that the duo met Sacagawea (“sak-uh-juh-WEE-uh”). This President of the Second Bank of the United States feuded with Andrew Jackson in the 1830s.
ANSWER: Nicholas Biddle
<American History — Ganon Evans> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 5
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 22.69 | 96% | 96% | 35% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coldwater | Holt | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| DeWitt A | New Boston Huron | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| DeWitt B | Detroit Country Day B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Detroit Catholic Central A | U of D Jesuit | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Detroit Catholic Central B | Rockford B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Detroit Catholic Central C | Utica Academy | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Hillsdale Academy A | Troy B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Hillsdale Academy C | Chelsea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hillsdale Academy D | Detroit Country Day A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Okemos B | New Buffalo B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Traverse City Central A | Okemos A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Traverse City Central B | Grand Ledge | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Troy A | Rockford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| White Cloud A | Taylor | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| White Cloud B | Hillsdale Academy B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Williamston | New Buffalo A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 16 | 21.88 | 94% | 94% | 31% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 26.00 | 100% | 100% | 60% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |