Vaclav Havel - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

This politician’s widespread forgiveness of criminals led to a tripling of crime in his country. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this politician and author who served as the last prime minister of his country after the Velvet Divorce. He criticized Czechoslovak communism in plays such as The Garden Party.

ANSWER: Vaclav Havel

[10e] Many of Havel’s plays were blacklisted after he participated in this event. This period of liberalization ended with Warsaw Pact tanks entering the capital of Czechoslovakia.

ANSWER: Prague Spring

[10h] Vaclav Havel founded this party to unite dissidents during the Velvet Divorce. Charter 77 evolved into this party which won the first democratic elections in Czechoslovakia.

ANSWER: Civic Forum [or Občanské fórum, or OF]

<AD, European History>

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	60%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	21.25	100%	88%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%

Data


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