Black Power - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. Operation Sheepskin used this movement’s fictional uniforms as a pretext to stop Ronald Webster’s secession. George Odlum launched this movement’s transnational Forum after Evan Hyde created its weekly Amandala. After this movement’s Writers Congress, (-5[1])students (-5[1])occupied Sir George Williams University in Montreal. This movement’s Abeng group formed after Hugh Shearer ordered Mona’s campus to expel the New World Group historian who defined its three aims, Walter Rodney. (-5[1])A sedition bill targeted this movement’s NJAC (-5[1])under Eric Williams, (10[1]-5[1])who broadcast support for its 1970 “revolution” (-5[1])after strikes in Trinidad. (10[1]-5[1])This movement included the Mangrove (10[1])Nine who were acquitted (-5[1])of rioting in Notting Hill, (-5[1])and a (-5[1])SNCC (“snick”) leader who took the name Kwame (10[1])Ture (10[1]-5[1])in Guinea. (10[1])For 10 (-5[1])points, what movement coined by Stokely (10[1])Carmichael (-5[1])was saluted (10[1])at the 1968 Olympics? (10[4])■END■ (10[12])

ANSWER: Black Power [accept Black nationalism, British Black Panthers, BBP, BPM, Black Power Revolution, United Black Association for Development, UBAD, Universal Coloured People’s Association, UCPA, Black Beret Cadre, St. Lucia Action Movement, SLAM, or Afro-Caribbean Liberation Movement; prompt on Pan-Africanism, Black pride, Afrocentrism, civil rights, New Left, Caribbean Left, or word forms of any; reject “African socialism,” “Négritude,” “Black Consciousness,” or “Rastafarianism”] (Clues include Anguilla seceding from its federation with Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Black Writers Conference, the University of the West Indies, and Makandal Daaga’s National Joint Action Committee.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Brown	40	-5
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Purdue	41	-5
Swapnil Garg	Berkeley A	Yale A	73	-5
Adrian Wong	Ottawa	Penn	80	-5
Cooper Roh	Columbia A	Texas	83	10
Ashish Subramanian	Duke	Toronto B	83	-5
Matthew Lehmann	WUSTL A	North Carolina A	90	-5
Dean Ah Now	Claremont Colleges	Arizona State	94	10
Michael Hunding	Illinois	Georgia Tech	94	-5
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU	Michigan	99	10
Andrew Zeng	Stanford	Minnesota A	103	-5
Caleb Kendrick	Maryland	Toronto A	108	-5
Andrew Kelley	Kentucky	Harvard	110	-5
Matt Jackson	Chicago A	Cornell A	117	10
Liam Starnes	Chicago C	Vanderbilt	118	-5
Michael Du	Waterloo	Chicago B	118	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Yale B	120	10
Lexi Terman	Rutgers	Florida	122	-5
Shiv Seshan	Chicago D	Minnesota B	128	10
Yared Tadesse	Cornell B	North Carolina B	129	-5
David Bass	Johns Hopkins	Iowa State	131	10
Alan Wu	Vanderbilt	Chicago C	135	10
Sanjay Srihari	Georgia Tech	Illinois	135	10
Graham Troy	North Carolina B	Cornell B	135	10
Hayden Prather	Florida	Rutgers	135	10
Jake Greer	Harvard	Kentucky	136	10
Sky Li	Toronto A	Maryland	136	10
Jason Hong	Brown	Northwestern	136	10
Anirudh Bharadwaj	Penn	Ottawa	136	10
Ben Dahl	Purdue	Indiana	136	10
Robert Freeman	South Carolina	McGill	136	10
Shardul Rao	Minnesota A	Stanford	136	10
Marcus Forbes-Green	Toronto B	Duke	136	10
Anuttam Ramji	Berkeley B	Truman State	136	10
Jonathan Shauf	North Carolina A	WUSTL A	136	10
Neal Joshi	WUSTL B	Columbia B	136	10
Karsten Rynearson	Yale A	Berkeley A	136	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	24	100%	0%	54%	127.58