Question
In May 2022, this business leader was excused from a court date to give Joe Biden a tour of a chip factory. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this executive nicknamed the “Crown Prince” who was pardoned for bribing Park Geun-hye (“gun-heh”) in August 2022 to become head of Samsung later that year.
ANSWER: Lee Jae-yong [or Jay Y. Lee; prompt on Lee; reject “Lee Kun-hee”]
[10e] Lee Jae-yong was pardoned by this county’s conservative president Soon Suk-yeol (“suck-yull”).
ANSWER: South Korea [or the Republic of Korea or ROK; prompt on Korea; reject “North Korea” or the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”]
[10m] Samsung is key to the Chip 4 Alliance, whose closed trade of devices includes those manufactured by this Dutch company. This company’s 200-million-dollar EUV lithography machines are capable of printing advanced microchips.
ANSWER: ASML [or Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography]
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Summary
2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 21 | 12.86 | 100% | 24% | 5% |
Data
Johns Hopkins A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Chicago A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Cornell B | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
South Carolina A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
McGill A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Penn A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
UC Berkeley A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Ohio State A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Vanderbilt A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Brown A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Duke A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Illinois A | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Texas A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Yale A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
WUSTL A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Georgia Tech B | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Minnesota B | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Toronto A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Imperial A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
North Carolina A | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |