Question
This organization used the term “bearded ones” to refer to its enemies, such as the “Retaliation” group and the Movement for Community, or MPC. The Croatian-born Albert Dovecar was executed for his role in this organization’s Commando Delta Team 1. Two of the “quartet of generals in retirement” formed this organization after losing the Battle of the Transistors during the 1961 “Generals’ Putsch.” Attempts to stop a blockade of a town controlled by this organization, (*) Bab El Oued (“BAB ul WAH-di”), resulted in the Isly massacre. Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal fictionalized a plot by this organization to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. This organization led by Raoul Salan perpetrated a series of bombings in Oran in reaction to the Évian Accords. For 10 points, name this French terrorist organization that opposed Algerian independence. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Michael Du | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 70 | 15 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 89 | -5 |
Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 90 | -5 |
Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 92 | 10 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 95 | 10 |
Stefan Vlad | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 132 | 10 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 132 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 82.50 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 67% | 97.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 82.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 104.20 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 67% | 97.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 50% | 0% | 76.40 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 76.50 |