Question
The Tages-Anzeiger (“TAH-gus AHN-tsye-gur”) newspaper recently revealed that corporate interests may have fraudulently triggered over a dozen of these events. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these events that occur frequently in one country based on initiatives that receive over 100,000 signatures. In 2010, one of these events controversially allowed for the deportation of foreign criminals.
ANSWER: Swiss referendums [or referendums in Switzerland; accept “optional referendum” or “mandatory referendum” in place “referendum”; accept Swiss Confederation or Schweiz or Suisse or Svizzera in place of of “Switzerland”; prompt on referendums by asking “in what country?”; prompt on votes or elections]
[10e] An initiative to enshrine this central pillar of Swiss foreign policy in the Swiss constitution is expected to be voted on in 2024. This policy resulted in Switzerland not participating in either world war.
ANSWER: neutrality [accept military neutrality]
[10m] Plans by a Turkish cultural center spurred a 2009 Swiss referendum that controversially banned the construction of these structures. The Hungarian town of Eger contains a historic “pencil-shaped” example of these structures.
ANSWER: minarets [reject “mosques”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 44% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 50% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 44% | 44% |
Data
| Berkeley B | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford M | Stanford L | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |