Packet 5: Bonus 3
The Timberlake Expedition targeted a group of Cherokee named for this relative location, who signed the Treaty of Long Island of the Holston with William Christian. For 10 points each:
[10h] What relative location also names a group led by Isaac Shelby that turned the tide of the Battle of Musgrove Mill?
ANSWER: Overmountain [or Overhill; accept the Overmountain Men; accept the Overhill Cherokee; accept being west of the Appalachian Mountains or west of the Blue Ridge Mountains; prompt on answers describing being near mountains]
[10m] Under the leadership of Dragging Canoe, many Overhill and Chickamauga Cherokee were defeated by John Sevier (“suh-VEER”); Sevier had just led the Overmountain Men against Patrick Ferguson at this 1780 battle that followed the Battle of Waxhaws.
ANSWER: Battle of Kings Mountain
[10e] The Cherokee ceded the Overhill towns to the US government in an 1819 treaty negotiated by this later advocate of nullification and first vice president to Andrew Jackson.
ANSWER: John C. Calhoun [or John Caldwell Calhoun; accept the Calhoun Treaty]
<Vanderbilt, American History> | E. Prelims 5 - Indiana + Vanderbilt + MIT
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 11.90 | 95% | 19% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Bruin | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cambridge | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Chicago B | Stanford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Toronto B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Maryland B | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| NYU B | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Ohio State | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Pittsburgh | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | Penn State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Texas | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | UCF | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley B | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | Virginia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | Maryland A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 11.90 | 95% | 19% | 5% |