Béla Kun - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

In exile, this politician emerged as an ally of Georgy Zinoviev in the Soviet Union, though he was eventually executed in Stalin’s Great Purge. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this politician who was the de facto leader of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic after World War I.

ANSWER: Béla Kun

[10e] Kun’s rise to power occurred during a conflict with this country, the eastern neighbor of Hungary, which incorporated Transylvania and parts of Banat after the Treaty of Trianon.

ANSWER: Romania [or Kingdom of Romania or Kingdom of Rumania]

[10h] Though Hungary was reduced to one-third of its territory after the Treaty of Trianon, this city nicknamed the Most Loyal Town returned to Hungary through a plebiscite after initially being ceded to Austria.

ANSWER: Sopron (“SHOW-prone”)

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	10	12.00	90%	30%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	13.75	100%	25%	13%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Stanford C	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
Binghamton	RIT B	0	10	0	10
Liberty A (Grad)	Liberty C (DII)	0	0	0	0
Maryland A (Grad)	JMU B (UG)	10	10	0	20
UNC A (Grad)	Maryland B (UG)	0	10	0	10
GWU A (UG)	Maryland C (DII)	0	10	0	10
JMU A (UG)	Roanoke College A (DII)	0	10	0	10
UNC B (UG)	Duke A (UG)	0	10	0	10
UNC C (UG)	Liberty B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Virginia B (UG)	UNC D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Virginia A (UG)	GWU B (Grad)	10	10	0	20
Virginia C (UG)	William & Mary A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Claremont A	UBC A	0	10	0	10
Iowa A	Rice A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	Appalachian State	0	10	0	10
Texas A&M A	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
UW A	Texas A&M B	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Sorbonne	0	10	0	10
Kenyon	Cedarville	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Haverford	10	10	0	20
John Jay	Vassar	0	10	0	10
Penn	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Rowan	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Oxford C	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Sheffield	KCL	10	10	0	20
Kiel	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Durham B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Warwick	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt A	Alabama	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Geodesic	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	Harding	0	10	0	10
MTSU	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20