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Question

Communist party leader Manuel Figueroa won a landmark court case in this country that smoothed the pathway for small electoral parties to stand in federal elections. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this country that Soviet Embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to in 1945, three days after the end of World War II.

ANSWER: Canada [accept Figueroa v Canada (AG)]

[10e] The Gouzenko defection is sometimes considered the first action of this period of geopolitical posturing between the Western and Eastern Blocs characterized by a nuclear arms race.

ANSWER: Cold War

[10m] Upon defecting, Gouzenko offered proof of a Soviet spy ring in Canada that prompted the government to deploy an inquiry empowered by this statute, which was invoked again a couple decades later by Pierre Trudeau during the October Crisis.

ANSWER: War Measures Act

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
McDouble West-Carleton	Ottawa C	0	10	10	20
Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky	Waterloo	0	10	10	20
Claremont	Auxiliary CLU	0	10	10	20
South Carolina B	Duke	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	James Madison A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	James Madison B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	NC State	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia A	10	10	0	20
Georgia B	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Edinburgh	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Warwick	0	10	0	10
Durham	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Bristol	Oxford	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Indiana	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
George Washington A	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Johns Hopkins	0	10	10	20
Georgetown	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
Kenyon B	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Kenyon A	0	10	0	10
Arizona State	Boston College	0	10	0	10
Farrellmagnetism	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	0	10	10	20
MSU A and Friend	Ganon Evans Fan Club	0	10	0	10
Cornell R	Cornell MATLAB	0	10	0	10
Syracuse+Rochester	RIT	0	10	0	10
TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	HCC	0	10	0	10
Texas A	TAMU	0	10	10	20
Texas B	Texas C	0	10	0	10
Missouri A	WUSTL XYZ	0	10	0	10
SIUE	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
Squidward Community College	WUSTL H2O	0	10	10	20
Ottawa B	Ottawa A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	10	30