Question
Jason Vuic profiled Malcolm Bricklin’s import of this product to America after five-hundred some alterations to reach US standards in a book about “The Rise and Fall” of this product. For 10 points:
[10m] Give this brand name of notoriously shoddy imports that were sold in their homeland as Korals. This product’s production was crippled by a 1999 NATO bombing of a facility mistaken for Zastava’s arms factory.
ANSWER: Yugos [or the Zastava Yugo; or the Yugo Koral; accept the Yugo GV; accept The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History]
[10e] The Yugo was based on the 128 model produced by this Turin-based auto manufacturer, whose “500” model symbolized the post-World War II “Italian economic miracle.”
ANSWER: Fiat [or Fiat Automobiles S.p.A; or Fabbrica Italiana Automobili di Torino; or Italian Automobile Factory of Turin; accept the Fiat 500; reject “Fiat Chrysler” or “Stellantis”]
[10h] The Serbian film Black Cat, White Cat’s scene of pigs eating a Trabant plays off an urban legend about this cruddy plastic-based material, which was used instead of steel for the East German car’s body.
ANSWER: Duroplast
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Cry of the Common Loon | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley | Stanford+ | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |