Packet 6: Bonus 14
Answer the following about Benjamin Franklin’s relations with Native Americans in the lead-up to American independence, for 10 points each.
[10e] In a series of “Remarks,” Franklin criticized traders trying to cheat Native Americans out of these animals. Coureurs des bois (“koo-RURR day BWAH”) initially traded the furs of these animals.
ANSWER: beavers
[10m] After hearing of their massacre of 20 Susquehannock, Franklin led a delegation to disperse the Paxton Boys at this place. George Washington was able to retreat to Valley Forge despite losing at Brandywine and at this area near Philadelphia in October 1777.
ANSWER: Germantown [accept the Battle of Germantown]
[10h] Franklin fabricated a hoax that these people took colonists’ scalps to support British forces. These people were led by Cornplanter, who promoted the “Good Word” of his half-brother.
ANSWER: Seneca people [or Onöndowa’ga:’; prompt on Iroquois or Haudenosaunee; prompt on the Six Nations]
<Editors, American History> | F. Prelims 6 - British Columbia + Texas + North Carolina
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 18.10 | 100% | 62% | 19% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | Northwestern B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Swarthmore | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Georgetown | WashU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech B | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Georgia Tech C | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois B | Bruin | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Indiana | Cornell | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland B | Penn State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | UCLA | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| NYU A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Northwestern A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto B | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | Cambridge | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Virginia | UCF | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia Tech | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Waterloo | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 18.10 | 100% | 62% | 19% |