Question
Description Acceptable. Television footage of this event was culled into a three-hour documentary titled Videograms of a Revolution. The Letter of the Six was published in the leadup to this event. During this event, a speech at Palace Square was derailed when a chant about a leader “and the people” unexpectedly changed to that leader “the dictator.” This event was presaged by a truck and tractor worker strike two years earlier. After this event, an AIDS epidemic was revealed in its country’s overflowing (*) orphanages. This event began when protestors supporting Hungarian pastor László Tőkés (“toke-esh”) were fired on by soldiers in Timisoara. This event ended in a quick trial and execution of a leader and his wife on Christmas Day, 1989. For 10 points, name this event that overthrew the government of Nicolae Ceaucescu. ■END■
Summary
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 7 | 100% | 14% | 0% | 99.14 |
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 91.50 |
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 129.00 |
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 91.00 |
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 78.20 |
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 84.50 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Michael Du | Waterloo Hatsune | La Clique du Château | 30 | -5 |
Henry Atkins | Library of Babel School of Continuing Studies | Toronto Weary | 56 | 15 |
Mark Grant | Broken Hearts | Foucault's Penndulum | 56 | 15 |
Biniam Alaro | Florida A | FSU A | 69 | 15 |
Matt Booth | Four Neg Omelette | Scottish, Irish, Both or Neither | 76 | 15 |
Vedant Patel | Duke A | UNC A | 78 | -5 |
Geoffrey Wu | Columbia B | Rutgers | 81 | 15 |
Marcus Forbes-Greene | Toronto Joy | Waterloo Miku | 83 | 10 |
Eli Issokson | Brandeis | Harvard | 83 | 10 |
Owen Mimno | NYU | JHU A | 83 | 10 |
Caleb Kendrick | UMD A | Columbia A | 83 | 10 |
Richard Pollard | Yes, Moderator | 3HK1MM | 83 | 10 |
Joe Terrey | Edinburgh | Old London Town | 83 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Mixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian | Toronto Rofl | 92 | 10 |
Rahul Kumar | Rice | Texas B | 93 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Betrayed by Rita Izzatdust | 10 Negs that Shook the Quiz | 93 | 10 |
Chinmay Murthy | Texas A | Oklahoma A | 94 | 10 |
Khanh Nguyen | Florida B | FSU B | 100 | 10 |
Jason Hong | Brown | Tufts | 100 | 10 |
Sarod Nori | Cornell A | Cornell B | 100 | 10 |
Robert Freeman | USC A | UNC C | 104 | -5 |
Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay A | Swarthmore | 109 | 10 |
Jim Fan | UNC B | USC B | 113 | -5 |
Patrick Torre | UMD B | Pitt | 118 | 10 |
Theodore Benzmiller | Boston College | MIT | 119 | -5 |
Owen Gilroy | Texas C | Oklahoma B | 119 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | JHU B | 120 | 10 |
Diego Almaraz | UNC A | Duke A | 129 | 10 |
Jeffery Austin | UNC C | USC A | 129 | 10 |
Jeffery DeRomo | USC B | UNC B | 129 | 10 |
Ian Chow | La Clique du Château | Waterloo Hatsune | 133 | 10 |
Nathan Sheffield | MIT | Boston College | 133 | 0 |