Question
In 1958, Rachid Mekhloufi secretly fled to Switzerland to join a new national soccer team affiliated with this modern-day country’s FLN. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country which fought a bloody war of independence against the French in the 1950s.
ANSWER: Algeria [or People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria]
[10h] Some Algerian Harkis who helped France were forced by the FLN to perform this task on the Morice Line. HeroRATS have helped with this dangerous task, which might be performed with a Mark I device invented by Jozef Kosacki (“yoh-SEF koh-SATS-skee”).
ANSWER: land mine clearance [accept anything along the lines of removing landmines; accept minesweeping even though that more commonly refers to naval mines]
[10m] Harkis in France were detained at Rivesaltes, which was also used as a “sojourn camp” for refugees fleeing this conflict. The International Brigades that fought in this conflict included the Lincoln Battalion.
ANSWER: Spanish Civil War [prompt on War in Spain]
<Michael Bentley, History - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous> ~20468~ <Editor: Michael Bentley>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 24.00 | 91% | 80% | 69% |
Data
| Dallas County | Barrington A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chattahoochee A | Barrington B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Belmont | William Fremd | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Belvidere | Moberly | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Canyon Crest | Detroit Catholic Central A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| New Brighton | Carbondale | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Winston Churchill B | Chattahoochee B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Winnebago | Choate Rosemary Hall | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Detroit Catholic Central B | Norris | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Heights | Stevenson A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Mexico | Hinsdale Central | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| St. Mark's | Hunter A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stevenson B | Hunter B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Innovation Academy A | Irvington A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| West Point | John Adams A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maggie Walker B | John Adams B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Creek A | Kinkaid | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Johns Creek B | Thomas Jefferson C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Hoover B | Lake Highland | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Solon | Maggie Walker A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rockford Auburn B | Norman | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northmont A | Midtown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northmont B | Elkhorn North | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Parkway West | Carl Sandburg | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Mira Loma | Richard Montgomery | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rockford Auburn A | Plymouth | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Innovation Academy B | Saint Joseph | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson A | Thomas Jefferson B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Thomas Jefferson D | Lincoln-Way East | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Dunbar | University Lab | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maggie Walker C | Walter Payton | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Washington | Mercer County | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Waukee | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Troy | Winston Churchill A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Detroit Country Day | Woodland | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |