Bonus

Harvard’s Fung Library houses a collection of interviews of people from this country taken by the sociologist Alex Inkeles. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country, a history of which was sharply critiqued in letters written by J. Arch Getty. Stephen Wheatcroft, an economic historian of this country, has disputed claims that a 2010 book accurately cited his work.
ANSWER: Soviet Union [or the USSR or the SSSR; or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; or CCCP; accept Russia or Rossiya; accept the Russian Federation or Rossiyskaya Federatsiya] (Wheatcroft criticized Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands.)
[10e] J. Arch Getty corresponded with Robert Conquest, who, along with Timothy Snyder, argued that one of these events known as the Holodomor was deliberately engineered by the Soviet Union.
ANSWER: famines [accept starvation, malnutrition, or mass hunger; prompt on food insecurity; prompt on genocide]
[10m] Conquest was a controversial member of this think tank, whose archivist Charles G. Palm led a project to scan thousands of rolls of Soviet microfilm. Condoleezza Rice is this think tank’s current director.
ANSWER: Hoover Institution [or Hoover Institute; prompt on Stanford University]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateYale010010E
British ColumbiaWaterloo B010010E
Chicago BHarvard010010E
Columbia AUC Berkeley A0101020EM
Columbia BWinona State010010E
Cornell AJohns Hopkins010010E
Cornell BNorth Carolina B0101020EM
Georgia StateFlorida010010E
Georgia TechIowa State010010E
Illinois AChicago A0101020EM
Illinois BUCF010010E
IndianaNorthwestern10101030HEM
LSEPenn State010010E
MITVirginia Tech010010E
MarylandOhio State010010E
MichiganRIT0101020EM
MinnesotaToronto C0101020EM
NYUWUSTL B10101030HEM
OttawaUC Berkeley B010010E
RutgersNorth Carolina A010010E
StanfordWaterloo A0101020EM
TexasToronto B010010E
VirginiaVanderbilt0101020EM
WUSTL AToronto A0101020EM

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2415.00100%42%8%