Question
This country’s government-in-exile indirectly hired PR firm Hill & Knowlton to raise American support for their restoration. A girl from this country testified before Congress about seeing babies ripped from incubators, but she was lying and was actually the daughter of this country’s ambassador to the United States. Carl Sagan oddly predicted that scorched earth actions taken by retreating forces to ruin this country’s economy would cause a nuclear winter; in reality, a 1.5-billion-dollar (*) firefighting effort stopped hundreds of blazes in the Burgan (“bur-GAHN”) Field. This is the southernmost country where soldiers were bombed along the “Highway of Death.” This country was liberated by the Norman Schwarzkopf-led Operation Desert Storm. For 10 points, name this country that Saddam Hussein invaded in the Gulf War. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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James Wang | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Toronto B | 28 | 15 |
Michael Du | Waterloo Aspidistra | Carleton A | 30 | 15 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | Toronto A | 34 | 15 |
Marcus Forbes-Green | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | McGill A | 87 | 10 |
Franklin Wu | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 105 | 10 |
James Tang | Waterloo Cloze | Waterloo Basic | 108 | -5 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Basic | Waterloo Cloze | 123 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 83.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 79.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 17% | 67.83 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 72.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 25% | 65.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 100% | 63% | 13% | 61.88 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 118.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 104.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 66.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 65.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 30.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 100% | 40% | 29.60 |