Two answers required. A “Christmas Message” calling for a cease-fire between these two countries along the “Status Quo Line” was brokered by the UN Security Council–appointed Committee of Good Offices. In 1950, one of these countries invaded a self-proclaimed republic in a Protestant region that historically supplied the other’s KNIL military. Partisans of one of these countries were summarily executed by the other in the namesake “method” of Raymond “the (*) Turk” Westerling. One of these countries seized oil fields from the other in Operation Product during the “first Police Action.” During the Bersiap, these two countries were party to partial independence agreements signed at Linggajati and aboard the USS Renville. For 10 points, one of what two countries declared the “Proklamasi” after World War II against the other, a European colonial power? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 58% | 122.17 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Marvin | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | BHSU X | 70 | -5 |
| Cooper Roh | Halifax Shipping Services | Big is moving to Evanston! | 71 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 75 | 10 |
| Tejas Raje | BHSU B | It's not X, but... defenders | 84 | -5 |
| Akshar Goyal | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 88 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 100 | -5 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 101 | -5 |
| Jaskaran Singh | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Broken Socal Scene | 120 | -5 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Do re mi fa serving negs | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 124 | 10 |
| Naveed Chowdhury | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 127 | 10 |
| Natan Holtzman | The RAND Coöperation | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 129 | -5 |
| Michael Coates | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 130 | 10 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | Halifax Shipping Services | 131 | 10 |
| Rob Carson | BHSU X | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 131 | 10 |
| June Yin | It's not X, but... defenders | BHSU B | 132 | 10 |
| Parikshit Chauhan | Broken Socal Scene | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 132 | 10 |
| Eric Bobrow | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 132 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | The RAND Coöperation | 132 | 10 |
| Emmett Laurie | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 132 | 10 |