Question
In the aftermath of this action, officials claimed that it was done so to appease news crews complaining of the poor optics of a horse’s ass appearing behind a speaker’s head. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this action taken with a blue tarp before a February 2003 PowerPoint presentation whose first slide claimed that a country was “failing to disarm.”
ANSWER: covering the tapestry of Guernica at the United Nations headquarters
[10e] The Guernica tapestry was likely actually covered to remove any antiwar messaging present while this then-Secretary of State argued for declaration of war on Iraq.
ANSWER: Colin Powell [or Colin Luther Powell]
[10m] Powell’s presentation also warned of bioterrorism plots, citing the Wood Green ricin plot targeting this system. More than 50 people died from a series of terrorist bombings against this system on July 7, 2005.
ANSWER: London Underground [accept the Tube; prompt on London; prompt on answers indicating trains or subways in London]
<HG, American History>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 60% | 80% | 0% |
Data
| Durham | Cambridge A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Warwick | Cambridge B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Edinburgh | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Birmingham | Bristol | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |