Swan Lake - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

According to a BBC journalist, clips of this musical work were interspersed with a man awkwardly reading announcements from the State Committee on the State of Emergency. For 10 points each:

[10h] While the hardline Gang of Eight attempted to seize power, what musical work was broadcast on loop on state television?

ANSWER: Swan Lake [or Lebedínoje ózero]

[10e] During the August Coup, the Gang of Eight arrested this politician, who starred in a famous Pizza Hut commercial. This politician was the last leader of the USSR.

ANSWER: Mikhail Gorbachev [or Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev]

[10m] Boris Yeltsin personally thanked this station for its coverage of the 1991 coup. Eastern Bloc citizens could tune in to Voice of America and this station if they bypassed jamming with short-wave equipment from the black market.

ANSWER: Radio Free Europe [or Radio Liberty; accept RFE or RL]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	21.67	100%	67%	50%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	22.00	100%	60%	60%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	21.00	100%	80%	30%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	21.25	100%	75%	38%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Florida A	Valencia A	10	10	10	30
Michigan D	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Georgetown A	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Georgetown B	Stanford B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Winona State	Wisconsin A	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	BU	10	10	0	20
Harvard B	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
Brown A	Brandeis B	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Dartmouth A	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	UMass Boston	0	10	10	20
Purdue	Iowa	10	10	0	20
UW A	Alberta	10	10	10	30
UBC	UW B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Manchester	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Cambridge D	10	10	10	30
Cambridge E	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
LSE	Sheffield	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Penn B	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Haverford B	0	10	10	20
RIT B	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Florida B	UCF C	10	10	10	30
Florida State A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
Carnegie Mellon B	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon A	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Michigan State	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Case Western B	10	10	0	20
Duke	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
UNC B	Virginia Tech A	10	10	0	20
UNC C	Virginia A	10	10	10	30
UNC D	Liberty A	10	10	10	30
William & Mary	Wake Forest	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Louisville A	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Bristol	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
NYU C	Durham	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Oxford C	10	10	10	30
George Washington A	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	Haverford A	10	10	10	30
John Jay College	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Cornell D	Cornell C	0	10	0	10