Operation Black Buck - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

During this mission, sensitive documents had to be ejected into the sea after one plane lacked enough fuel to return to Ascension. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this operation consisting of several long range bombings by Avro Vulcans on Port Stanley’s airfield. This extraordinarily expensive mission may have been an attempt to prevent the Royal Air Force’s budget from being cut.

ANSWER: Operation Black Buck [or Black Buck raid]

[10m] It’s been claimed that the Black Buck raids led to this ship attacking the British navy in the aftermath. This Argentine ship was eventually sunk by the submarine Conqueror, spawning the controversial headline “GOTCHA.”

ANSWER: ARA General Belgrano

[10e] The Black Buck raids remained the longest range raid until a bombing campaign during Operation Enduring Freedom, an intervention in this country. RAF involvement in this country included air striking the Taliban, who seized this country’s capital of Kabul in 2021.

ANSWER: Afghanistan [or Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; or Imārat-i Islāmī-yi Afghānistān; accept Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; or Jumhūrī-yi Islāmī-yi Afġānistān]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Michigan B	Oberlin	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	Art of Premature Signaling	0	10	10	20
girl 15 whale i mean they	Caltech	0	10	10	20
UCSB	Claremont A	0	0	10	10
Billy's Bastion	Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	0	0	10	10
Too much from you lately	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	0	10	10
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	10	20
BU	Brown	0	10	10	20
Lexington	MIT	0	0	10	10
Haverford B	George Mason B	0	0	10	10
George Washington	Georgetown	0	0	10	10
Rutgers	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Alberta	Carleton	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University A	Arizona State University B	0	10	10	20
Washington Connections	UW B	0	10	10	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	Quatumvirate	0	10	10	20
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	we need new names	0	10	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	Goober Gang	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Gruh	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	0	10	10	20
Free Agents 1	MSJ	10	10	10	30
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Auburn 2026	0	10	10	20
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	0	0	10	10
evil women enjoyers	mongeese	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
UCSD	P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge	Edinburgh	0	10	10	20
McGill A	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	0	10	10	20
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	0	10	10	20
Somehow Paula Deen Returned	Master and Margaritaville	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	WashU Charmander	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
SIUE	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Truman State	WashU Squirtle	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	WashU Bulbasaur	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto A	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Waterloo B	10	10	10	30
Waterloo A	Toronto C	0	10	10	20
McGill B	UBC	0	10	10	20
Waterloo C	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
Sheffield B	Lancaster	0	10	10	20
Sheffield C	Sheffield A	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	LSE	0	0	10	10