Propaganda Due - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

Because this organization’s members were called “black friars,” some have interpreted the hanging of “God’s Banker” from London’s Blackfriars Bridge as a conspiracy against them. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this secret masonic lodge and far-right criminal organization founded by Licio Gelli (“jelly”), which was believed to have siphoned funds in the Banco Ambrosiano Scandal.

ANSWER: Propaganda Due (“DOO-ay”) [or P2]

[10e] Propaganda Due’s members included this media mogul and populist Italian Prime Minister of the Forza Italia party. This man, who died in June 2023, hosted controversial “bunga bunga” parties.

ANSWER: Silvio Berlusconi

[10m] Gelli and P2 were accused of supporting far-right groups like the NAR during this two-decade-long period of political violence in Italy. Gelli also was accused of subverting efforts to rescue the kidnapped Aldo Moro during this period.

ANSWER: Years of Lead [or Anni di Piombo]

<GT, European History>

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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	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	50%	75%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	33%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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