Switzerland - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This country was paralyzed for three days by a general strike organized by the Action Committee that met in the rail junction of Olten. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this country that adopted a 48-hour work week and a proportional representation model with no threshold after that strike.

ANSWER: Switzerland [or Swiss Confederation; accept Confédération Suisse; accept Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft; accept Confederazione Svizzera; accept Confederaziun Svizra; accept Confoederatio Helvetica]

[10e] The general strike took place during this year and was caused in part by food shortages during the Spanish flu pandemic. The German revolution took place during this year, in which an armistice ended World War I.

ANSWER: 1918

[10m] One of the strike’s “Nine Demands” was this political goal, which was not achieved nationally in Switzerland until a 1971 referendum. One canton, Appenzell Innerrhoden, did not achieve this goal until a 1990 court case.

ANSWER: women’s suffrage [or voting rights for women; prompt on suffrage or voting rights by asking “for whom?”]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	67%	83%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	100%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	20.00	80%	100%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	21.00	100%	100%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	17.14	71%	86%	14%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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