During this mission, sensitive documents had to be ejected into the sea after one plane lacked enough fuel to return to Ascension. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this operation consisting of several long range bombings by Avro Vulcans on Port Stanley’s airfield. This extraordinarily expensive mission may have been an attempt to prevent the Royal Air Force’s budget from being cut.
ANSWER: Operation Black Buck [or Black Buck raid]
[10e] Name this mythological figure who, in that sculpture, leans on a club draped with the pelt of the Nemean lion.
ANSWER: Hercules [or Heracles; accept Farnese Hercules]
[10m] It’s been claimed that the Black Buck raids led to this ship attacking the British navy in the aftermath. This Argentine ship was eventually sunk by the submarine Conqueror, spawning the controversial headline “GOTCHA.”
ANSWER: ARA General Belgrano
[10m] One of these objects from Genzano depicts each of the labors of Hercules as individual scenes. Etruscan examples of these objects include one for the burial of Junius Bassus and another in terracotta that features a reclining couple on top.
ANSWER: sarcophaguses [or sarcophagi; accept Herculean Sarcophagus of Genzano; accept Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus; accept Sarcophagus of the Spouses]
[10e] The Black Buck raids remained the longest range raid until a bombing campaign during Operation Enduring Freedom, an intervention in this country. RAF involvement in this country included air striking the Taliban, who seized this country’s capital of Kabul in 2021.
ANSWER: Afghanistan [or Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; or Imārat-i Islāmī-yi Afghānistān; accept Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; or Jumhūrī-yi Islāmī-yi Afġānistān]
[10h] A Lysippic marble sculpture of Hercules carrying the Nemean lion’s pelt while his club sits on his shoulder is named for this family. A sculpture of the head of Tiberius was held in the home of this family, which also names a life-size portrait sold to William Petty.
ANSWER: Lansdowne family [accept Lansdowne Heracles; accept Lansdowne Portrait; accept Lansdowne Tiberius; accept Lansdowne House]
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