Question
This musician performed “Shake, Sugaree” for a 1983 live album that won her a Grammy at the age of 90. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this folk musician behind the song “Freight Train.” Her namesake style of guitar picking requires playing the melody with the thumb while holding the guitar upside-down.
ANSWER: Elizabeth Cotten [or Libba Cotten; or Elizabeth Nevills; or Libba Nevills; accept “Cotten picking”]
[10e] Cotten’s music gained popularity during the ‘50s and ‘60s folk revival due to the influence of this family, who employed Cotten as a maid. Pete, a folk singer and activist from this family, popularized “We Shall Overcome.”
ANSWER: Seeger family [accept Pete Seeger or Peter Seeger]
[10m] “Freight Train” was covered by the Quarrymen, a skiffle band from this city. A later band from this city recorded the tongue-in-cheek song “Yer Blues” and plagiarized Chuck Berry’s “You Can’t Catch Me.”
ANSWER: Liverpool (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison were in the Quarrymen before the Beatles. The plagiarism case refers to “Come Together.”)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida B | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn State A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Purdue A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Virginia A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |