Round 16: Tossup 5

Injuries sustained at this place led to the death of the runaway slave Frederick Hall, who used the pseudonym “William Williams.” Warren G. Harding delivered one of the first presidential speeches over radio at the dedication of this place’s statue Orpheus with the Awkward Foot. Before their use in John Franklin’s lost expedition, the original Erebus and Terror warships were used to attack this place. Both the Battle of North Point and an event at this place (10[1])are commemorated on Defenders’ (10[1])Day. An imprisonment (10[2])at this place triggered the (10[1])case Ex parte Merryman. (-5[1])George (-5[1])Armistead commissioned Mary (10[1])Pickersgill (10[1])to create a 30-foot-long (10[1])object (10[2])for this (10[1])place, which inspired a lawyer to write (10[1]-5[1])a poem (10[1])set to the tune (10[2])of (10[1])“Anacreon in Heaven.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])the bombardment (10[1])of what fort (10[1])in the Battle of Baltimore inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner”? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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