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Packet 13: Bonus 16

Note to moderator: Read the answerline to the third part carefully. In 2015, Carroll Spinney admitted that Sesame Street rejected a NASA outreach proposal that could have caused Big Bird to die in this event. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this 1986 disaster caused by the failure of a rubber O-Ring. Ronald Reagan cancelled his State of the Union after the entire crew of a space shuttle died during this event.
ANSWER: the Challenger disaster [accept descriptions of Space Shuttle Challenger exploding]
[10m] NASA’s other outreach moves led to Christa McAuliffe, a civilian with this profession, joining the Challenger mission as part of the agency’s [this profession] in Space program.
ANSWER: teacher [or synonyms like educator]
[10h] Description Required. During a hearing on the Challenger disaster, Richard Feynman demonstrated how the shuttle’s O-Ring failed by doing this action to a piece of another O-Ring.
ANSWER: putting it in ice water [accept descriptions of placing the O-Ring in freezing water; prompt on descriptions of freezing the O-Ring by asking “how did he freeze it?”; prompt on descriptions of submerging the O-Ring or putting it in water by asking “in what kind of water?”; prompt on descriptions of making it colder or otherwise cooling it by asking “how did he cool it?”]
<History - American, Jamie Burchett> | VAULT II Packet 13 (Finals 1)

HeardPPBE %M %H %
323.33100%100%33%

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Belmont BWaltham A1010020EM
Lexington ABelmont A1010020EM

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✕120.00100%100%0%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✕120.00100%100%0%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓220.00100%100%0%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓130.00100%100%100%