Question
A council that has hosted this city’s weekly Wednesday demonstrations proposed the creation of its Statue of Peace, which an American livestreamer kissed in a controversial October 2024 stunt. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this capital city where an online-initiated movement used Post-It Notes to protest misogyny after a 2016 murder near Gangnam Station.
ANSWER: Seoul, South Korea (The Wednesday demonstrations, held by the Korean Council, are held in honor of comfort women and held near the Japanese embassy.)
[10m] In response to Donald Trump’s second election win, many TikToker users urged for an American analog of this Korean protest movement, whose members refuse to date, marry, have sex, and have children with men.
ANSWER: 4B movement [or “Four Nos”; or sabi]
[10h] The defunct Korean radical feminist forum Megalia’s logo incorporated a depiction of this action. Megalia members sneak depictions of this action in media such as GS25 advertisements and MapleStory illustrations to promote misandry, according to a widespread South Korean conspiracy.
ANSWER: making the pinched fingers gesture [or doing “crab hands”; or jibgeson; accept answers indicating this gesture: 🤏, or performances thereof]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
Data
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |