The CIA clandestinely backed doctors and nurses from this modern-day country who treated North Vietnamese refugees in Operation Brotherhood. The Thomasites were a group of 600 American teachers sent to this country, where a CIA psy-op that involved painting the “eye of God” on communist guerrilla doors and convincing them of a roaming vampire was masterminded by Edward Lansdale. The Laurel–Langley Agreement ended the 2:1 (“two-to-one”) peg of this country’s currency to the US dollar established by the Bell Trade Act. This country’s “Freedom Company” taught guerrilla warfare to the (*) South Vietnamese army based on its experience with the communist Huk insurgency. This country gained independence in the Tydings–McDuffie Act signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For 10 points, the US supported what island country’s dictator Ferdinand Marcos? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 100% | 82% | 18% | 66.82 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper Roh | Halifax Shipping Services | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 47 | 15 |
| John Marvin | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 52 | -5 |
| James Orefice | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 53 | 15 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | The RAND Coöperation | 53 | 15 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 54 | 15 |
| Tejas Raje | BHSU B | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 55 | 15 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 55 | -5 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 57 | 15 |
| Akshar Goyal | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Do re mi fa serving negs | 59 | 15 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | Broken Socal Scene | 60 | 15 |
| Kenji Shimizu | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | It's not X, but... defenders | 60 | 15 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Big is moving to Evanston! | 111 | 10 |
| Eric Bobrow | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 126 | 10 |