Bonus
Nine young guerrillas launched a failed insurgency against a ruler from this family in an attempt to free an activist detained in the woods near Siahkal. For 10 points each:
[10m] A 1949 assassination attempt on a ruler from what family led to the banning of the Tudeh Party? In 1936, an earlier ruler from this family banned wearing the chador.
ANSWER: Pahlavi dynasty
[10h] Iranian scholar Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi disputes the nativist nature of this essay by Tudeh Party member Jalal Al-e-Ahmad. This 1962 essay, titled for a portmanteau term, describes the “plague” of consumer capitalism that led to Iran’s subjugation.
ANSWER: “Gharbzadegi” (“garb-zad-ay-GHEE”) [accept “Westoxication,” “Westoxification,” “Disease of Westernism,” “Occidentalization,” “Occidentosis,” “Weststruckness,” or “Weststrucktedness”; or “Plagued by the West”; or “Westitis”; or “Euromania”; accept translations combining Occident or West with Plague, Disease, or Sickness]
[10e] “Westoxification” was later weaponized by this fundamentalist group to justify its governance of Afghanistan prior to the U.S.’s invasion in 2001.
ANSWER: Taliban [or Taleban; or Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; or Afghan Taliban]
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Chicago B | Toronto C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Columbia B | Waterloo B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Florida | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Georgia State | Northwestern | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Harvard | Ottawa | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Illinois B | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Indiana | MIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Maryland | LSE | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Winona State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| NYU | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| RIT | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Stanford | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Texas | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Toronto B | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley A | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley B | UCF | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Virginia | Penn State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Virginia Tech | Ohio State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| WUSTL B | British Columbia | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Waterloo A | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 22 | 17.73 | 100% | 68% | 9% |