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Round 18: Tossup 14

A commencement address delivered at Worcester (“WUST-er”) Polytechnic Institute claimed that this event was the “truth” to the rational “Squareland” that stood in contrast to “Potland.” This event continued to be equated to the “triumph of the squares” in Norman Mailer’s reflection on it, in which he acts as the third-person narrator “Aquarius.” A protest of this event (-5[1])ended after Ralph Abernathy (-5[1])hung a sign reading “I Helped (10[1])Hang Poverty” (10[1])on Thomas O. Paine’s (10[1])neck. Over 70 world leaders wrote “goodwill messages” that were etched on (-5[1])a disk for this event. (-5[7])William Safire referenced (10[1]-5[2])Rupert Brooke’s (10[1])“The Soldier” (-5[1])in (10[1])a never-delivered speech written in case this event (10[1])failed. (10[2])This event completed a goal set forth in a 1962 speech (10[1])at (10[1])Rice University by John F. Kennedy. For 10 points, during what event were (10[1])the words “that’s one small step for man” spoken? (10[1])■END■ (10[11])

ANSWER: Apollo 11 mission [or the moon landing; accept answers describing landing a man on the moon; accept the Apollo 11 launch; prompt on the Apollo program; prompt on winning the space race or equivalents] (The speech in the first line was delivered by Thomas O. Paine. The Norman Mailer work is titled Of a Fire on the Moon.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	Georgia Tech C	56	-5
Moses Kitakule	Columbia A	Chicago A	60	-5
Sky Li	Toronto A	UC Berkeley B	66	10
Nathaniel Hull	UC Berkeley A	Stanford A	68	10
Stephen Walsh	Northwestern B	Maryland B	72	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU B	Penn State	84	-5
Charles Hang	WashU	British Columbia	89	-5
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State	Columbia B	89	-5
Jonathan Huang	MIT	Texas	89	-5
Jeffery Austin	North Carolina	Chicago B	89	-5
Ryan Fang	Stanford B	Georgia Tech B	89	-5
Owen Steele	Swarthmore	Waterloo	89	-5
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt	Minnesota	89	-5
Ben LaFond	Cambridge	Toronto B	92	-5
Todd Maslyk	Michigan	Johns Hopkins	92	-5
Terrence Han	UCLA	Pittsburgh	92	10
Alex Akridge	Indiana	Harvard	94	10
Jiping Fang	Illinois B	Brown	96	-5
Mattias Ehatamm	Maryland A	Virginia Tech	97	10
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU A	Northwestern A	105	10
Evan Gniadek	Purdue	Cornell	106	10
Alex Thomas	Georgia Tech A	Rutgers	106	10
Alexander Nichols	UCF	Georgetown	117	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Virginia	118	10
Michael Du	Waterloo	Swarthmore	131	10
Claire Jones	Chicago A	Columbia A	140	10
Russell Nip	British Columbia	WashU	141	10
Ben Wismath	Toronto B	Cambridge	141	10
Brandon Weiss	Columbia B	Ohio State	141	10
Graham Cope	Georgia Tech C	Illinois A	141	10
Philip Yao	Brown	Illinois B	141	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	Michigan	141	10
Bryce Cruise	Texas	MIT	141	10
Sam Konkel	Chicago B	North Carolina	141	10
Mitch McCullar	Penn State	NYU B	141	10
Kevin Wang	Georgia Tech B	Stanford B	141	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota	Vanderbilt	141	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
Main Site	2026-04-17	✓	24	100%	54%	119.29