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This company, which was the first one occupied by Soviet-style “factory councils” in 1920, ended its 1980 strike with the “March of the 40,000.” In 1969, this brand took over an upscale competitor whose Aurelia appears in the era-defining film The Easy Life. This brand’s 1958 contract for a plant in (10[1])Kragujevac (“KRAH-goo-yeh-VOTS”) created Zastava’s Fića (“fee-chah”). A RAI (“rye”) game show awarded a prize nicknamed the “Mickey Mouse” from this brand, which was led by a menswear icon dubbed the “Rake of the Riviera.” This brand’s billion-dollar 1966 “deal of the century” (-5[1])produced VAZ’s Lada product line in the Soviet city of Tolyatti. (-5[1])This brand, which got 15 million dollars in the largest Marshall Plan loan, built the Seicento (“say-CHEN-toh”) and (10[1])Cinquecento (10[1])(“chin-kway-CHEN-toh”) at its factory in Lingotto. (10[1])For 10 points, the postwar Italian economic (10[1])miracle (10[1])relied on (10[1])what Turin-based (10[2])maker (10[1])of affordable (-5[1])cars? (10[4])■END■ (10[10])

ANSWER: Fiat [or Fiat Automobiles S.p.A; or Fabbrica Italiana Automobili di Torino; or Italian Automobile Factory of Turin; reject “Fiat Chrysler” or “Stellantis”] (Clues include Lancia’s Aurelia in Il Sorpasso, the Fiat 500’s nickname of “Topolino,” Lascia o raddoppia?, Gianni Agnelli, and the Fiat 600 and Fiat 500.)
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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y24100%0%13%131.83

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Jakob MyersIndianaWaterloo5010
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AChicago A89-5
Chris SimsNorthwesternBerkeley A100-5
Michal GerasimiukStanfordCornell A11710
Adrian WongOttawaYale B11810
Ashish SubramanianDukeClaremont Colleges12310
Chinmay MurthyTexasNorth Carolina A13010
Jake GreerHarvardCornell B13110
Alan WuVanderbiltNorth Carolina B13310
Arthur Delot-VilainYale AJohns Hopkins13510
Anirudh BharadwajPennColumbia B13510
Todd MaslykMichiganToronto A13610
Joseph ChambersVirginiaToronto B138-5
Caleb KendrickMarylandBrown13910
Rohan ShelkeBerkeley BChicago D13910
Robert FreemanSouth CarolinaKentucky13910
Ben WeinerMinnesota APurdue13910
Jaik HavlickArizona StateFlorida14010
Conor ThompsonIowa StateGeorgia Tech14010
Justin WytmarIllinoisNYU14010
Swapnil GargBerkeley ANorthwestern14010
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AChicago B14010
Dennis ReppenChicago CTruman State14010
Sam BakerMcGillMinnesota B14010
Marcus Forbes-GreenToronto BVirginia14010
Claire JonesChicago AWUSTL A14010
Lexi TermanRutgersWUSTL B14010