Question
This country was paralyzed for three days by a general strike organized by the Action Committee that met in the rail junction of Olten. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country that adopted a 48-hour work week and a proportional representation model with no threshold after that strike.
ANSWER: Switzerland [or Swiss Confederation; accept Confédération Suisse; accept Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft; accept Confederazione Svizzera; accept Confederaziun Svizra; accept Confoederatio Helvetica]
[10e] The general strike took place during this year and was caused in part by food shortages during the Spanish flu pandemic. The German revolution took place during this year, in which an armistice ended World War I.
ANSWER: 1918
[10m] One of the strike’s “Nine Demands” was this political goal, which was not achieved nationally in Switzerland until a 1971 referendum. One canton, Appenzell Innerrhoden, did not achieve this goal until a 1990 court case.
ANSWER: women’s suffrage [or voting rights for women; prompt on suffrage or voting rights by asking “for whom?”]
<Indiana A, European History>
Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 33% | 67% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 67% | 83% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 80% | 100% | 20% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 21.00 | 100% | 100% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 71% | 86% | 14% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Maryland A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| George Washington A | George Washington B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia C | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | John Jay College | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vassar A | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |