Bernardo de Gálvez - 2025 PACE NSC

Question

Merchant Oliver Pollock invented the dollar sign while tallying up his debts from financing this general's Gulf Coast Campaign. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Spanish general whose service in the American Revolution earned him honorary US citizenship in 2014. He is the namesake of a coastal Texan city.

ANSWER: Bernardo de Gálvez [or Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, 1st Count of Gálvez; prompt on Galveston]

[10e] Gálvez ordered the construction of Chapultepec Castle in what is now this capital city, which US forces captured from Santa Anna in 1847.

ANSWER: Mexico City [or Ciudad de México]

[10m] Gálvez fielded the Regiment of Hibernia, composed of soldiers of this ethnicity. After capturing Chapultepec, Winfield Scott executed 30 soldiers of this ethnicity who had defected to Mexico from the US.

ANSWER: Irish [or Irish American] (The 30 soldiers were members of the Saint Patrick's Battalion.)

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Adlai E. Stevenson A	Strake Jesuit B	10	10	10	30
Adlai E. Stevenson B	Wayzata	0	0	0	0
Alabama Cyber Tech	Innovation Academy A	0	10	10	20
Audrain County AT	Hunter A	10	10	10	30
Carmel A	Walker	0	10	10	20
Centennial B	Carl Sandburg	10	10	10	30
Classen SAS	Great Valley	0	0	10	10
Detroit Catholic Central A	Lambert A	0	10	10	20
Detroit Catholic Central B	Chattahoochee B	0	0	10	10
Downingtown STEM	Centennial A	0	0	0	0
Edina	Parkway West	10	10	0	20
Fairfield County AT	Hunter B	0	10	10	20
Fremd	Belmont	10	10	10	30
Georgetown Day	Barrington	10	10	10	30
Glenbrook South	Winston Churchill A	0	10	0	10
Grosse Pointe South	Park Tudor	0	10	10	20
Homewood-Flossmoor	Page	0	0	0	0
Johns Creek	Hinsdale Central A	0	10	10	20
Lee's Summit	Walter Payton B	0	0	0	0
Lexington	Montgomery Blair A	0	10	10	20
Lindbergh	Eastchester	0	10	10	20
Milton	Thomas Jefferson B	0	10	0	10
Montgomery Blair B	Uni School of Nashville A	0	10	10	20
North Quincy	Coronado	0	0	0	0
Northmont	Walter Payton A	0	10	10	20
Northside College Prep	Lambert B	0	10	10	20
Quince Orchard	Carmel B	0	10	10	20
Russell	Okemos	0	10	10	20
Saint Joseph	Kane County AT	0	10	0	10
Saratoga	Seven Lakes	10	0	10	20
Solon	Lincoln-Way East A	0	10	0	10
Strake Jesuit A	Northview	10	10	10	30
Thomas Jefferson D	Detroit Catholic Central C	0	10	10	20
Thomas Jefferson E	Thomas Jefferson C	0	10	10	20
Uni School of Nashville B	Innovation Academy B	0	10	10	20
Uni of Illinois Laboratory	Thomas Jefferson A	0	0	10	10
Virginia	Lincoln-Way East B	0	0	0	0
West Point	Chattahoochee A	10	0	0	10
Westwood	Richard Montgomery	0	10	0	10
White Pigeon	Herron	0	10	0	10
Yukon A	Irvington	10	10	10	30
Yukon B	Winston Churchill B	0	10	0	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2025 PACE NSC	06/07/2025	Y	42	16.19	74%	64%	24%