Question
Answer the following about Adolf Hitler and birthdays, for 10 points each.
[10e] This Nazi Minister of Propaganda held lavish festivities in Berlin in honor of Hitler’s fiftieth birthday. This man gave the “Total War” speech in 1943.
ANSWER: Joseph Goebbels [or Paul Joseph Goebbels]
[10m] In 1942, this leader sparked the “Telegram Crisis” by only replying “giving my best, thanks” to Hitler’s effusive birthday message. This leader often rode his horse unaccompanied through his country’s occupied capital.
ANSWER: Christian X of Denmark [or Christian X, King of Denmark; or Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; prompt on Christian of Denmark or Christian, King of Denmark]
[10h] In 1945, Hitler celebrated his birthday by emerging from his Führerbunker for the last time. A day before, Georgy Zhukov’s (“ghee-OR-ghee ZHOO-kov’s”) troops overran the Oder–Neisse (“OH-dur NICE-uh”) line by taking this town’s “Heights,” which offered Berlin’s last natural defense.
ANSWER: Seelow (“ZAY-low”) [accept Seelow Heights or Seelower Höhen; accept Battle of the Seelow Heights or Schlacht um die Seelower Höhen]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 21 | 13.33 | 91% | 38% | 5% |
Data
| Georgia Tech B | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Duke A | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | McGill A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | Michigan A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Harvard A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU A | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Houston A | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Purdue A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A | Imperial A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northwestern A | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL B | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Penn State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Rutgers A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | Rutgers B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Brown A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |