Question
This family's member Susan wrote an essay in opposition to women's suffrage and impressed Charles Darwin with her nature diary Rural Hours. Samuel Morse helped decorate Otsego Hall for this family's patriarch, William. A member of this family wrote a "descriptive tale" of his hometown featuring Oliver Effingham and Judge Marmaduke Temple called The (*) Pioneers. In a town named after this family, a variant of rounders was legendarily invented by the future Civil War general Abner Doubleday. Mark Twain critiqued the "literary offenses" of an author from this family whose father names the town home to the Baseball Hall of Fame. For 10 points, an author from what family wrote about Natty Bumppo in The Last of the Mohicans? ■END■
ANSWER: the Cooper family [or Fenimore Cooper family; accept Susan Fenimore Cooper; accept William Cooper; accept James Fenimore Cooper; accept Cooperstown or the Coopers; prompt on Fenimore as it was used as a compound last name by some members of the family]
<Other Academic - Other Academic>
= Average correct buzz position
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Kevin Yang | Adlai E. Stevenson B | Uni of Illinois Laboratory | 54 | 10 |
Ahya Farhat | Russell | Northside College Prep | 82 | 10 |
Ethan Kral | Northmont | Thomas Jefferson B | 85 | 10 |
Matthew Yang | Centennial B | Uni School of Nashville A | 85 | 10 |
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 76.50 |