Question
Brendan Koerner’s book The Skies Belong to Us recounts George Wright hijacking a plane to this city, where Nina Simone attended a landmark 1969 cultural festival. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this so-called “capital of the Third World,” which sheltered fugitives like Donald L. Cox. A motel named for this city was the site of police killings during the 1967 Detroit riots.
ANSWER: Algiers [or al-Jazā’ir; or Alger; accept Algiers Motel] (Algiers hosted the first Pan-African Cultural Festival.)
[10e] During their Algerian exile, Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver led an international section of this organization, which often screened The Battle of Algiers under Huey Newton.
ANSWER: Black Panthers [or Black Panther Party or BPP; or Black Panther Party for Self-Defense; prompt on the Panthers]
[10h] Socialisme ou Barbarie’s Algerian dispatches were published with The American Worker by this Chinese American critic of the BPP’s Maoism. She led Detroit Summer and wrote Facing Reality with C. L. R. James.
ANSWER: Grace Lee Boggs [or Grace Chin Lee; prompt on Lee]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 21 | 16.19 | 100% | 38% | 24% |
Data
| Chicago D | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia A | McGill | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Duke | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Arizona State | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Florida | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | South Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia | Kentucky | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |