Joh Bjelke-Petersen  - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

After police under this leader attacked anti-apartheid demonstrators protesting the Springbok rugby team’s visit, he praised them for their “restraint” and gave each officer an extra week of vacation. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this long-serving premier of Queensland, who was nicknamed the “hillbilly dictator” for taking advantage of an electoral system that meant rural seats had fewer voters.

ANSWER: Joh Bjelke-Petersen (“Joe BYELL-kee Peterson”) [or Johannes Bjelke-Petersen]

[10e] Bjelke-Petersen launched a bid for PM nicknamed “Joh for [this city],” but it petered out after an unsuccessful 1987 campaign. The location of this capital city was chosen to be between Melbourne and Sydney.

ANSWER: Canberra [accept “Joh for Canberra”]

[10m] To increase his party’s appeal to urban voters, Bjelke-Petersen’s Country party changed its name in 1974 to this name. New Zealand’s main center-right party also has this name.

ANSWER: National Party [accept New Zealand National Party]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	83%	50%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	80%	0%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	10.00	88%	13%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Claremont A	UC Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Claremont B	UCLA	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	0	10	0	10
Florida State A	Valencia A	0	10	10	20
Florida B	UCF B	0	10	10	20
Duke	UNC C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
William & Mary	Liberty B	10	10	10	30
UNC B	South Carolina	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
UNC D	Wake Forest	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Missoui S&T	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	WashU B	0	10	10	20
UCF C	Florida A	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Carleton	0	10	10	20
Winona State	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin A	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis A	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	BU	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth A	Harvard A	10	0	0	10
MIT A	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
Brown A	UMass Boston	0	10	0	10
UBC	Alberta	0	10	10	20
UW B	UW A	0	10	0	10
ASU	TAMU	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Oxford C	Bristol	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
LSE	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge E	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Durham	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Sheffield	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	Haverford A	0	0	0	0
George Washington A	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
John Jay College	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Penn B	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Yale A	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
ESF A	RIT B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Manchester	0	10	10	20