Question
This person compromised the Venona project while working as First Secretary of the British Embassy. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this MI6 Officer who defected to the Soviet Union after decades spying for the KGB. He may have caused Operation Valuable’s failure to overthrow the Communist government of Albania.
ANSWER: Kim Philby
[10e] Philby was part of a Soviet spy ring of five agents named for this university that they all attended. This British university is the historic rival of Oxford.
ANSWER: University of Cambridge
[10m] The fifth member of the Cambridge Five, John Cairncross, passed ULTRA decrypts to the Soviet Union during this largest tank battle in history, including the routes the Germans intended to use in Operation Citadel.
ANSWER: Battle of Kursk
<GT, European History>
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 83% | 17% |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 28.00 | 100% | 80% | 100% |
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
Data
Squidward Community College | Missouri | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Truman | WashU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |