Packet 5: Bonus 9
At a campaign stop in Florence, South Carolina, this person claimed “rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this president who concerned himself with children’s learning by signing the No Child Left Behind Act.
ANSWER: George W. Bush [or George Walker Bush; accept Bush Jr. or Bush 43; prompt on Bush; reject “George H.W. Bush”]
[10m] This Democratic senator, a key ally of John Kerry’s primary run in 2004, negotiated funding increases as a co-author of No Child Left Behind. This senator’s death in 2009 ended the Democrats’ 60-vote supermajority.
ANSWER: Ted Kennedy [or Edward Moore Kennedy; prompt on Kennedy]
[10h] In a 2004 debate, after Kerry claimed that Bush had not gathered a “grand coalition” besides the UK and Australia for the invasion of Iraq, Bush responded by pointing out that Kerry had made this mistake.
ANSWER: he forgot Poland [or “you forgot Poland”; accept word forms like forgetting; accept synonyms for leaving out Poland]
<EC, American History> | NAFTA-Packet-5
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 16.51 | 95% | 49% | 21% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | Not Old! (Old) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Stanford A | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Team 7 | Team 8 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
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 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 0% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |