Question
In 2012, this city's Times-Picayune newspaper moved to a three-days-a-week publication schedule. For 10 points each:
[10e] Identify this Southern city where on January 1, 2025 a man drove a pickup truck into pedestrians on Bourbon Street.
ANSWER: New Orleans
[10h] New Orleans news source nola.com won a Pulitzer for a series on a Jim Crow-era Louisiana law that unusually allowed disagreement in these groups. Warner Bros. buried the release of a 2024 Clint Eastwood film titled for one of these groups.
ANSWER: juries [or criminal jury; accept Juror #2]
[10m] Another nola.com investigation exposed corruption of Burl Cain, the notorious warden of this state penitentiary that shares its most common name with a country in Southern Africa.
ANSWER: Angola [accept Angola Plantation; prompt on Louisiana State Penitentiary or The Farm or the Alcatraz of the South]
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Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 36 | 16.39 | 97% | 33% | 33% |