Pittsburgh - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 4: Bonus 9

The Biomedical Research Tower of a university in this city is named after the “father of transplantation,” Thomas Starzl, who developed the drug tacrolimus after moving to this city from Colorado. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this city where Jonas Salk headed a virology lab that created the first polio vaccine. Medical student A. L. Wells helped treat Pinkerton agents wounded during a strike led by Hugh O’Donnell in a suburb of this city.

ANSWER: Pittsburgh [prompt on Homestead by asking “What larger city is that a suburb of?”]

[10e] R. K., a member of this Pittsburgh family, helped fund both Salk’s research and “urban renewal” projects that leveled much of the Hill District. A Pittsburgh university is named for this banking family and a steel magnate.

ANSWER: Mellon family [accept R. K. Mellon; accept Mellon Institute of Industrial Research; reject “Carnegie Mellon”]

[10h] Pitt doctor Peter Safar helped organize this pioneering, all-Black ambulance service based in the Hill District. This service set national EMS standards before Mayor Peter Flaherty absorbed it under pressure from police unions.

ANSWER: Freedom House Ambulance Service

<HA, American History> | NAFTA-Packet-4

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
38	13.68	82%	53%	3%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	Chicago !A	10	10	0	20	ME
1000000 Delinquents	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	10	10	0	20	ME
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	Dour Straits	0	0	0	0
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC B	0	0	0	0
BHSU	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	0	10	0	10	E
Berkeley A	Team 7	10	10	10	30	MEH
C R A B S	No Country for Old Quizzers	0	10	0	10	E
David Foster Gromit	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	10	10	0	20	ME
Dielectrical Materialism	Vacuous Tortoise	0	0	0	0
Execute Order 6 7	Invective Against Swans	10	10	0	20	ME
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	10	0	0	10	M
Guelph Cloze	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	10	10	0	20	ME
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	0	10	0	10	E
Habitat 67	The "C" Team	0	10	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Licence to Bill	10	10	0	20	ME
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Copán Seethe	10	10	0	20	ME
JHU	Penn State	10	10	0	20	ME
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Contessa Dora	10	10	0	20	ME
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	0	10	0	10	E
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Catholic University A	0	10	0	10	E
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	Shipping Down from Ballston	10	10	0	20	ME
Noah Sheidlower	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	10	10	0	20	ME
Northwestern	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	0	10	0	10	E
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Indiana	10	10	0	20	ME
Rosslyn Academic Team	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	10	10	0	20	ME
Say It Ain't Zhou	UTK	0	10	0	10	E
Stanford A	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	0	10	0	10	E
Stanford B	Not Old! (Old)	0	10	0	10	E
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	10	10	0	20	ME
Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	10	0	20	ME
Team 8	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20	ME
The Fire Neg Time	Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	10	10	0	20	ME
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	0	10	0	10	E
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	UBC A	0	0	0	0
UNC Charity	Mike and Psmith	0	0	0	0
Untitled Keyal Team	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	0	10	0	10	E
Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	NYU A	0	0	0	0
You Don't Have the Cards	Licence to C. Wright Mill	10	10	0	20	ME

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%