Slovaks - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

A state named for this ethnicity ceded parts of a region that once dominated opal mining after the 1939 “Little War.” During this ethnicity’s national revival, a leader of the Lutheran “trinity” failed to abolish the letter “y.” After the Diet rejected this ethnicity’s demands, 600 student-aged volunteers led an 1848 uprising galvanized by an anthem about lightning over the mountains. Partisans sent armored trains (10[1]-5[1])like Hurban against (-5[1])this ethnicity’s “clerofascist” Nazi client state, (10[1])whose Hlinka (-5[1])Guard (10[1])defended the (-5[1])Catholic (-5[1])priest Jozef Tiso. (10[4]-5[2])During World War (10[3])I, M. R. Štefánik (“SHTAY-fah-neek”) represented (10[1])this ethnicity on a “national council.” This ethnic group based in “Upper Hungary” made up less than 10 percent of a volunteer legion led by Tomáš (10[1])Masaryk (10[1]-5[2])(“MAH-sah-reek”). For 10 points, what ethnicity names the eastern country created by (10[1])the Velvet Divorce? (10[2])■END■ (10[7])

ANSWER: Slovaks [or Slovák, Slováci, Slovenka, or Slovenky; accept Slovakia or Slovensko; accept Slovak Republic, Slovenská republika, Slovak State, or Slovenský štát; prompt on Slavic peoples or West Slavs; prompt on Czechoslovaks or Českoslovenci or Čechoslováci; reject “Slovenes” or “Slovenians” or “Slovenci”] (Clues include the Prešov region and Červenica’s mines, the “trinity” of Ľudovít Štúr, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, and Michal Miloslav Hodža, and “Lightning over the Tatras.”)

= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Cooper Roh	Columbia A	Brown	64	10
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Kentucky	64	-5
Ashish Subramanian	Duke	Rutgers	67	-5
Gabrielle Clark	Ottawa	Claremont Colleges	73	10
Justin Wytmar	Illinois	McGill	75	-5
Yared Tadesse	Cornell B	Chicago A	76	10
Chinmay Murthy	Texas	Yale A	78	-5
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Virginia	79	-5
Derek Chen	Columbia B	Cornell A	82	-5
Sanjay Srihari	Georgia Tech	South Carolina	82	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Harvard	82	10
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Maryland	82	10
Michal Gerasimiuk	Stanford	Truman State	82	10
Jaik Havlick	Arizona State	WUSTL B	82	-5
Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury	Michigan	Berkeley A	85	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU	Chicago B	85	10
Michael Du	Waterloo	North Carolina B	85	10
Jonathan Shauf	North Carolina A	Toronto A	90	10
Andrew Kelley	Kentucky	Indiana	116	10
Joey Sun	Toronto B	Chicago D	117	-5
Nicholas Tunks	Minnesota B	Johns Hopkins	117	10
Alan Wu	Vanderbilt	Purdue	117	-5
Andrew Hanna	Penn	Yale B	128	10
Graham Cope	Florida	Berkeley B	131	10
Neal Joshi	WUSTL B	Arizona State	131	10
Shiv Seshan	Chicago D	Toronto B	132	10
Nathan Zhang	Cornell A	Columbia B	132	10
Nicolas Edwards	McGill	Illinois	132	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Iowa State	132	10
Lexi Terman	Rutgers	Duke	132	10
Matthew Siff	Yale A	Texas	132	10
Quynh Phung	Purdue	Vanderbilt	132	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	23	100%	0%	39%	105.78