Question
This organization is believed to have covertly owned a number of merchant ships known as the Sea Pigeons, which it used to smuggle weapons out of North Korea. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this terrorist organization, which had “air” and “sea” branches, and was known for its use of suicide bombers in political assassinations, including of Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993.
ANSWER: Tamil Tigers [accept Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam or LTTE]
[10e] The Tamil Tigers fought a 16-year civil war against the government of this country before they were defeated in 2009.
ANSWER: Sri Lanka [or Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka or Shri Lanka or Ilankai or Shri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajavadi Janarajaya or Ilankai Jananayaka Choshalichak Kutiyarachu]
[10h] This elite suicide unit of the Tamil Tigers was responsible for the Anuradhapura Airport attack, which destroyed at least eight military aircraft. Only children were forbidden from joining this unit.
ANSWER: Black Tigers
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell R | Cornell MATLAB | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Syracuse+Rochester | RIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |