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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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State | Yale | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| British Columbia | Waterloo B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago B | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Winona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell A | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell B | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia State | Florida | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois B | UCF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Indiana | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| LSE | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | RIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Minnesota | Toronto C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Ottawa | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford | Waterloo A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Texas | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| WUSTL A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 15.00 | 100% | 42% | 8% |