Packet A: Bonus 13
A 1983 Navy SEAL operation in this country rescued Paul Scoon from house arrest. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country which was invaded by the U.S. in Operation Urgent Fury, six days after its prime minister Maurice Bishop was killed in a coup.
ANSWER: Grenada
[10e] Name this state whose Communist Party-organized “Sharecroppers Union” initiated numerous protests in cities like Birmingham.
ANSWER: Alabama [or AL]
[10e] The U.S. invasion expelled troops from this country and the Soviet Union from Grenada. CIA-trained exiles failed to overthrow this country’s dictator Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
ANSWER: Cuba [or Republic of Cuba]
[10m] The Alabama Communist Party was instrumental in the defense fund of this group of nine black teenagers falsely accused of assaulting two women on a train.
ANSWER: Scottsboro Boys [or Scottsboro Youths; or Scottsboro Teens]
[10m] After the invasion of Grenada, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were elevated as principal advisors through a bill named for William Nichols and this senator. The “Daisy ad” targeted this Arizona Republican in 1964.
ANSWER: Barry Goldwater [or Barry Morris Goldwater; accept Goldwater–Nichols Act]
[10h] Kelly argued that the demise of the Alabama Communist Party came from its absorption into the CIO, which was led by a man with this first and last name. A Georgia Representative with this first and last name who died in 2020 was the chairman of SNCC (“snick”).
ANSWER: John Lewis [accept John L. Lewis or John R. Lewis; prompt on John or Lewis]
<Lancaster A, American History> | Packet A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96 | 21.56 | 100% | 68% | 48% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Mason A | Rowan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEE |
| George Mason B | George Mason C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEE |
| Johns Hopkins | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Lehigh A | Rutgers D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EE |
| Lehigh B | Vassar A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland B | Penn | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEE |
| Maryland C | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEE |
| NYU A | Rutgers C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEE |
| NYU B | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU C | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EE |
| Princeton | Stony Brook | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEE |
| Rutgers B | Vassar B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EE |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | Main | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| Southern California | Main | ✓ | 7 | 21.43 | 100% | 71% | 43% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| Florida | Main | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| Great Lakes | Main | ✓ | 10 | 25.00 | 100% | 80% | 70% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 56% | 22% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 11 | 23.64 | 100% | 82% | 55% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main | ✓ | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| North | Main | ✓ | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 75% | 75% |
| Northeast | Main | ✓ | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| Pacific | Main | ✓ | 8 | 23.75 | 100% | 88% | 50% |
| South Central | Main | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Southeast | Main | ✓ | 12 | 24.17 | 100% | 67% | 75% |
| Upstate NY | Main | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |