John Profumo - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

Answer the following about British scandals of 1963, for 10 points each.

[10m] Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan resigned in 1963 amid the fallout from an “affair” when this Secretary of State for War lied about his extramarital relations with 19-year-old model Christine Keeler.

ANSWER: John Profumo [accept Profumo affair]

[10h] The 1963 divorce trial of Ian Campbell, the duke of this historic Scottish county, caused a media frenzy when the presiding judge declared Campbell’s socialite wife Margaret Whigham to have a “debased sexual appetite.”

ANSWER: Argyll [or Argyllshire; accept the Duke of Argyll or Duchess of Argyll; accept Argyll v. Argyll]

[10e] The 1963 defection of Kim Philby, a high-ranking intelligence officer, increased public awareness of a group of five alumni of this second-oldest English university, who were recruited as Soviet spies.

ANSWER: University of Cambridge [accept Cambridge Five]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	6	13.33	67%	50%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	9	21.11	100%	78%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	N	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	N	8	18.75	100%	75%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	N	9	17.78	100%	78%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	N	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	N	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	N	8	18.75	100%	88%	0%

Data


Stanford L	Stanford M	10	0	10	20
Berkeley B	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Tusculum A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Emory B	10	0	10	20
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech A	0	0	0	0
Lehigh A	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	UIUC C	0	0	10	10
UIUC D	Purdue C	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	UChicago C	10	10	10	30
UChicago B	UIUC A	10	0	10	20
UIUC B	Purdue D	0	0	10	10
WashU B	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
WashU D	SIUE A	0	0	10	10
Auburn C	Auburn B	0	0	0	0
Emory A	Georgia A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	UChicago D	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame	UChicago A	0	0	10	10
Central Oklahoma	Texas D	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Colorado College	10	0	10	20
Iowa	Texas C	0	0	10	10
Missouri	McGill E	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Oregon State	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Arkansas	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Vassar B	0	0	10	10
Vassar A	WUSTL A	10	0	10	20
Florida State University A	Florida Tech A	0	0	10	10
UF B	Florida Tech B	10	0	10	20
UCF A	UF A	0	0	10	10
UF C	UF F	0	0	0	0
UF E	UF D	0	0	10	10
Alberta	UW B	10	10	10	30
SFU	UBC B	0	0	10	10
UBC A	UW A	0	0	10	10
Bristol B	Birmingham	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	LSE A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge D	Bristol A	10	0	10	20
LSE B	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Imperial B	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Durham B	10	0	10	20
Oxford B	Cambridge C	10	10	10	30
Southhampton B	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Vanderbilt	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Tennesse A	0	0	10	10