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Question

In spite of a guilty verdict in 2006, the former leader of this regime still lives free in Harare. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this regime that was led by Mengistu Mariam for most of the 1970s and 1980s. The Live Aid concerts were organized to assist a famine that was likely exacerbated by this government redirecting food to government militias fighting in the Tigray.

ANSWER: Derg [or Dergue; or the Provisional Military Administrative Council or PMAC]

[10e] It took 20 years to uncover that the Derg murdered this royal, whose body was later found under a concrete slab on the grounds of the royal palace. This monarch served as the last emperor of Ethiopia.

ANSWER: Haile Selassie I [or Tafari Makonnen]

[10h] This politician led the EPLF in a struggle against the Derg during the Ethiopian Civil War. He fought for Eritrean independence and eventually became dictator of Eritrea.

ANSWER: Isaias Afwerki

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2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	67%	67%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	3	23.33	67%	100%	67%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	21.11	100%	89%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
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2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%

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Pittsburgh	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Oberlin	Ohio State A	0	0	0	0
Ohio State D	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Ohio State C	0	0	0	0
Claremont A	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
Claremont B	Art of Premature Signaling	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	girl 15 whale i mean they	10	10	10	30
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	UCSB	0	10	0	10
Belmont	RIT	10	10	0	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	10	10	10	30
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Billy's Bastion	10	10	10	30
Too much from you lately	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	0	0	0
George Mason C	Haverford A	0	0	0	0
NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	0	20
Georgetown	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Rutgers	0	10	0	10
Washington Connections	Alberta	10	0	10	20
UW A	Arizona State University A	10	10	0	20
UW B	Arizona State University B	10	10	10	30
we need new names	Egypt Airlines Haters	0	10	0	10
Brown	Brandeis	0	0	0	0
Lexington	Harvard	10	10	0	20
MIT	BU	0	10	0	10
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	10	10	10	30
Gruh	MSJ	10	10	0	20
Free Agents 1	Illinois Orange	10	10	0	20
Auburn 2026	Mahjonng Masters	10	10	0	20
mongeese	Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	10	10	0	20
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Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Quatumvirate	10	10	0	20
evil women enjoyers	Goober Gang	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Cambridge	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh	Manchester	0	0	0	0
Sheffield C	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Sheffield B	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
Mac A	Simon Fraser	0	10	0	10
McGill B	McGill A	0	10	0	10
Guelph	Toronto A	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	Toronto D	10	10	10	30
Waterloo A	UBC	10	10	0	20
Waterloo B	Toronto E	10	10	0	20
Waterloo C	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	10	20
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Iowa State	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
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Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	10	10	30
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Master and Margaritaville	10	10	10	30