Question
Communist party leader Manuel Figueroa won a landmark court case in this country that smoothed the pathway for small electoral parties to stand in federal elections. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country that Soviet Embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to in 1945, three days after the end of World War II.
ANSWER: Canada [accept Figueroa v Canada (AG)]
[10e] The Gouzenko defection is sometimes considered the first action of this period of geopolitical posturing between the Western and Eastern Blocs characterized by a nuclear arms race.
ANSWER: Cold War
[10m] Upon defecting, Gouzenko offered proof of a Soviet spy ring in Canada that prompted the government to deploy an inquiry empowered by this statute, which was invoked again a couple decades later by Pierre Trudeau during the October Crisis.
ANSWER: War Measures Act
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell R | Cornell MATLAB | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Syracuse+Rochester | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |