Question
This businessman quipped, “you only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime” after making over 750 million Australian dollars by selling Nine Network to Bond in 1987 and re-buying it from him in 1990. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this tycoon who clashed with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp in rugby’s Super League war. This tycoon secretly recruited captains like Clive Lloyd, Imran Khan, and Tony Greig for his World Series Cricket competition.
ANSWER: Kerry Packer [or Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer]
[10m] This politician alleged that Packer nearly had him killed in the 1980s. This Australian prime minister of the 2010s came to prominence by leading the “Yes” coalition in the 1999 republic referendum.
ANSWER: Malcolm Turnbull [or Malcolm Bligh Turnbull]
[10e] A year before his 1991 murder, a doctor of this ethnicity performed bypass surgery on Packer for free. This ethnicity was the primary target of the White Australia policy.
ANSWER: Chinese-Australian [accept specific Chinese ethnic groups like Han Chinese Australians; accept subgroups of Chinese Australians like Shanghainese Australians or Cantonese Australians] (The surgeon is Victor Chang.)
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 11.33 | 87% | 20% | 7% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Jeam Team | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | LMM's LLM MLM | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| BHSU B | We Need New Names | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | var merchants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |