Lyndon LaRouche - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This founder of the US Labor Party was accused of being a cult leader after claiming to be a target of the Red Army Faction. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this far-right politician and antisemitic conspiracy theorist. After pivoting from the far left, he ran for president every election between 1976 and 2004, including in 1992 while in prison for credit card fraud.

ANSWER: Lyndon LaRouche

[10m] A member of this family withdrew as the Democratic nominee for Illinois governor in 1986 rather than run with a LaRouche follower. That man’s father from this family was derided as an “egghead” during the first of his two losses in the presidential election.

ANSWER: Stevenson family [accept Adlai Ewing Stevenson III or Adlai Ewing Stevenson II]

[10e] A memo revealed that this organization would support an assassination attempt on LaRouche by Communist Party USA. This organization’s longtime director J. Edgar Hoover initiated COINTELPRO.

ANSWER: FBI [or Federal Bureau of Investigation]

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California	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	16.67	92%	50%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	17.50	88%	63%	25%
North	Main	Y	11	21.82	100%	73%	46%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	75%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	13.57	93%	21%	21%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

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Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley D	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley E	Stanford A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Stanford C	0	10	10	20
UCSC	Berkeley F	0	0	0	0
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCI	0	0	10	10
Claremont Scripps	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	Claremont Pitzer	10	10	10	30
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCLA C	0	0	10	10
UCLA D	USC	0	10	10	20
UCSB	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Toronto H	0	0	10	10
Queen's A	Toronto I	0	10	10	20
Toronto G	Toronto J	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto K	0	0	10	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto F	10	0	10	20
Toronto D	Waterloo	0	0	10	10
Guelph A	Western Ontario	10	10	10	30
Guelph B	Carleton	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	McGill B	0	10	10	20
McMaster C	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
McGill C	Queen's B	0	0	0	0
FSU	ERAU A	0	0	10	10
UF D	Melbourne A	0	0	10	10
UCF A	UF B	10	10	10	30
FIU	UF A	0	10	10	20
USF	ERAU B	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
CWRU C	MSU B	0	10	10	20
Kenyon B	Kenyon A	0	0	10	10
Pitt A	MSU A	0	10	10	20
OSU B	OSU A	10	10	10	30
OSU D	OSU C	0	0	10	10
CWRU D	Pitt C	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UF E	0	0	10	10
Clemson A	James Madison	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Virginia B	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	Clemson B	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	Roanoke	0	10	10	20
NC State	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Catholic University	George Mason A	10	10	10	30
George Mason C	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
George Washington A	Georgetown B	10	10	10	30
VCU A	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Georgetown A	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Maryland D	0	10	10	20
Penn B	Johns Hopkins C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame E	UMBC A	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Swarthmore A	0	10	10	20
Princeton A	Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Rowan A	Lehigh A	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Rutgers C	10	0	10	20
Missouri A	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	WashU A	10	10	10	30
WashU C	William Woods	0	10	10	20
Truman State	WashU D	0	0	10	10
Tusculum	South Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	UAB A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Alabama B	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Mississippi State A	0	10	10	20
Bruin A	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Huntsville B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Huntsville A	Sewanee A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Birmingham A	0	10	10	20
Bristol A	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	City St George's A	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Cambridge B	0	0	0	0
Southampton B	Durham B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge D	Imperial C	0	0	10	10
LSE A	Manchester A	0	0	10	10
Manchester B	Bristol B	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Oxford A	0	10	10	20
Sheffield B	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
Lancaster A	Sheffield C	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Sheffield A	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh B	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
Binghamton A	RIT A	0	0	10	10
RIT B	Cornell-DII	0	0	10	10
ESF	Rochester	0	10	10	20
Syracuse	Binghamton B	0	10	10	20