Note to players: Description acceptable. Puns on this controversy include derivatives of Yes We Can and the Audacity of Hope. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name or describe this scandalous controversy. Fox News’s Lou Dobbs called the outfit at the center of this controversy “shocking” and Peter King called it “unpresidential.”
ANSWER: Barack Obama’s tan suit [accept anything indicating Barack Obama wearing a suit that is a shade of tan or brown; prompt on tan suit controversy]
[10e] Obama wore his tan suit during a press conference regarding this terrorist group. While this Salafi terrorist group from Iraq and Syria founded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi has declined in recent years, it was still responsible for Moscow’s Crocus City Hall attack in 2024.
ANSWER: Islamic State [or IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]
[10h] Shortly before the tan suit controversy, this American journalist was murdered by ISIS, prompting increased American intervention in Syria. This war correspondent was the first American murdered by ISIS.
ANSWER: James Foley
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