Kim Philby - 2024 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

This person compromised the Venona project while working as First Secretary of the British Embassy. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this MI6 Officer who defected to the Soviet Union after decades spying for the KGB. He may have caused Operation Valuable’s failure to overthrow the Communist government of Albania.

ANSWER: Kim Philby

[10e] Philby was part of a Soviet spy ring of five agents named for this university that they all attended. This British university is the historic rival of Oxford.

ANSWER: University of Cambridge

[10m] The fifth member of the Cambridge Five, John Cairncross, passed ULTRA decrypts to the Soviet Union during this largest tank battle in history, including the routes the Germans intended to use in Operation Citadel.

ANSWER: Battle of Kursk

<GT, European History>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	28.00	100%	80%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Boston College A	Brandeis B	0	10	0	10
MIT	Harvard	0	10	10	20
Brandeis A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Tufts B	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Amherst	Yale	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina	0	10	10	20
Squidward Community College	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Truman	WashU	0	10	10	20
In the Mood for Buzz	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	0	10	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	The cult of SGA	0	10	10	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	Old and Young	10	10	10	30
Paddington in Peru (2024)	bingy academy	10	10	10	30
Maryland	Penn State	0	10	0	10
RIT	Pitt	0	10	10	20
UCF B	Florida Tech	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley Past	Stanford	0	10	10	20
UF A	UF C	10	10	10	30
Valencia	USF	0	10	0	10
Carleton A	Toronto Metropolitan A	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Basic	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
Innovation Academy B	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Lambert	Innovation Academy A	0	10	10	20
Milton	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	Waterloo Aspidistra	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Cloze	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Illinois Blue	Notre Dame	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	SIUE	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Imperial B	10	10	10	30
Bristol	LSE A	10	10	10	30
LSE B	Southampton	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Warwick C	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30
ALCU	Jason et al.	0	10	10	20
Claremont	SGV Ventures	10	10	0	20
Anderson et al.	U[C]SD	0	10	10	20
UCF A	UF B	0	10	10	20