Sierra Club - 2025 VAULT II

Packet 2: Bonus 13

This organization’s leader told Gifford Pinchot "I don't want anything more to do with you" after he proposed allowing sheep grazing in forest reserves. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this environmental organization that helped promote the creation of National Parks. This organization’s founder took a U.S. President on a 1903 tour of Yosemite.

ANSWER: Sierra Club

[10e] Gifford Pinchot was a close personal friend of this adventurous U.S. President who toured Yosemite with John Muir (“myoor”). This naturalist ran under the “Bull Moose” party in 1912.

ANSWER: Theodore Roosevelt [or TR; or Teddy Roosevelt; prompt on Roosevelt]

[10m] Muir opposed Pinchot’s advocacy for one of these projects in the Hetch Hetchy Valley by claiming there was “no holier temple” than nature. As a swipe at a political enemy, Harold Ickes (“ICK-iss”) changed the name of one of these projects built by the Bureau of Reclamation.

ANSWER: dams [accept Hoover Dam or O'Shaughnessy Dam; prompt on hydroelectric plants or power plants; prompt on water project or artificial lakes]

<History - American, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 02

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
45	20.22	93%	78%	31%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
An even worse idea	Ostia Orcas	10	10	10	30	HEM
Armand duplantis fan club	Michael Touse-Squid	0	10	10	20	EM
Basileus II: Electric Boogaloo	Leif Eriksen's Striking Appearance	0	10	10	20	EM
Bath	Birmingham B	0	10	10	20	EM
Bella Vista	Burlington Trojans	10	10	10	30	HEM
Belmont A	Lexington B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Belmont B	Lexington A	0	10	10	20	EM
Booz Allen Interns	Jeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutu	10	10	10	30	HEM
California	New York	0	10	10	20	EM
Cambridge	Birmingham A	0	10	0	10	E
Chapel Hill A	East Chapel Hill	10	10	10	30	HEM
Chattahoochee A	Chattahoochee B	0	10	10	20	EM
Chimera	Sheffield B	0	10	10	20	EM
Eden Prairie	Providence	0	10	10	20	EM
Georgia B	Washington	0	0	10	10	M
Georgia C	Georgia A	0	10	10	20	EM
Glebe	Abbey Park	0	10	10	20	EM
Grimsley	Cary Academy	0	0	10	10	M
Heauton Timorumenos	Big Brown Ballers	0	10	10	20	EM
Hoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?	They'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days	10	10	10	30	HEM
I have no buzzer and I must neg	PC Chris Master Race	0	10	10	20	EM
Innovation A	Lambert B	0	10	10	20	EM
Innovation B	Lambert A	0	10	0	10	E
Johns Creek	Exhibition	10	10	10	30	HEM
Kentucky	Texas A	0	0	0	0
Manchester A	Sheffield A	0	10	10	20	EM
Manchester B	Edinburgh	0	10	0	10	E
Mansfield A	Mansfield B	0	10	0	10	E
Martingrove	Cheese Sandwich	0	10	10	20	EM
Minnetonka A	Minnetonka C	10	10	10	30	HEM
Minnetonka B	Burnsville	0	10	0	10	E
Mountain Dew is Better	Virginia Tech	10	10	10	30	HEM
Northern	Renert	0	10	10	20	EM
Northview A	Midtown	10	10	0	20	HE
Northview B	Hoover	10	10	10	30	HEM
Oxford	Southperial	0	10	10	20	EM
Prat Pack	Midnight Bus to Vista	10	10	10	30	HEM
Tantaene Animis Caelestibus Irae	Chapel Hill B	0	10	10	20	EM
Texas B	North Carolina	10	10	10	30	HEM
The Young Jits	Ted Offensive	0	10	10	20	EM
They fuck you up your buzz and neg	Not Just Biking	10	10	10	30	HEM
Waltham A	Waltham B	0	10	0	10	E
Warperial	Southampton	0	10	0	10	E
With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience	Don't Ever Take Sides Against the Family	0	10	0	10	E
whatever	Always Set the Kurve	0	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech	2026-01-24	✓	6	21.67	100%	67%	50%
Triangle Cup	2026-03-13	✓	3	20.00	67%	100%	33%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS	2026-03-13	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
VAULT II at McGill	2026-03-13	✓	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
VAULT II at UCSB	2026-03-13	✓	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
VAULT II Northern UK	2026-04-24	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
VAULT II Southern UK	2026-04-24	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
VAULT II at Harvard	2026-04-30	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
VAULT II at MINT	2026-06-19	✓	5	16.00	60%	80%	20%
VAULT II Stanford Online	2026-07-17	✓	8	26.25	100%	100%	63%