Iron Guard - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 2: Tossup 16

This group sought to form a parallel society through the creation of “nests” that would create the “New Man.” Members of this group clashed in street fights with the rival LANC, or “Lancers,” during an election in which this group ran as the “Everything for the Country” Party. (15[2])The National Renaissance (-5[1])Front was formed to prevent this group’s (15[1])rapprochement with its erstwhile rival, Octavian Goga’s (15[1])National Christian (15[1])Party. Horia Simia led this (15[1])group’s (15[2]-5[1])1941 (15[1])pogrom (15[2])and rebellion against the (*) Conducător. (10[2])This group’s founder, (10[4])the mystic (10[1])Orthodox (10[2])Christian Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, (10[1])was executed (10[2])under (10[2])king (10[1])Carol (10[1])II. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[3])name (10[1]-5[1])this fascist (-5[1])group (10[1])that was disbanded after a failed rebellion against Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu. ■END■ (10[2]0[5])

ANSWER: Iron Guard [or the Legion of the Archangel Michael; accept the Greenshirts or the Legionary Movement; accept Garda de Fier or Legiunea Arhanghelul Mihail or Mișcarea Legionară or Totul pentru Țară]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Jerry Vinokurov	Untitled Keyal Team	The "C" Team	47	15
William Edwards	Tennessee A	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	47	15
Tracy Mirkin	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	BHSU	50	-5
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU A	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	57	15
Eric Chen	Not Old! (Old)	Team 8	64	15
Neil Gurram	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Team 7	66	15
Cooper Roh	Shipping Down from Ballston	Habitat 67	71	15
Naveed Chowdhury	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	Execute Order 6 7	72	-5
Doug Simons	Noah Sheidlower	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	72	15
Cole Hartung	Rosslyn Academic Team	Mike and Psmith	72	15
Justin Lee	No Country for Old Quizzers	Dour Straits	73	15
Max Lin	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	WashU	74	15
Andrew Zeng	Stanford A	Berkeley A	74	15
Robert Wang	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	79	10
William Kang	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC A	79	10
Jakob Myers	Indiana	1000000 Delinquents	82	10
Malcolm McIntyre	St. Marx	Maybe Ever	82	10
Kai Madgwick	Dielectrical Materialism	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	82	10
Graham Troy	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	David Foster Gromit	82	10
Michael Kearney	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	84	10
Michael Du	You Don't Have the Cards	I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	85	10
John Chen	UBC B	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	85	10
Eric Mukherjee	Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	89	10
James Stevenson	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Northwestern	91	10
Henry Bon	Lex	W&L+Friend	91	10
Dillon George	Catholic University A	JHU	92	10
Matt Weiner	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Copán Seethe	92	10
Diego Almaraz	UNC Charity	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	93	10
Zachary Foster	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	C R A B S	94	10
Tejas Raje	BHSU	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	95	10
Olin Bose	The Fire Neg Time	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	95	-5
Sean Smiley	Contessa Dora	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	95	10
Paul Kasiński	Licence to C. Wright Mill	Guelph Cloze	95	10
Jason Hong	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Penn State	98	10
Ian Theysmeyer	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	98	10
Gareth Thorlakson	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	98	10
Josh Koch	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	99	-5
Spencer Manning	[Redacted]	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	99	10
Ethan Bosita	Stanford B	Berkeley B	101	-5
Adam Monusko	Invective Against Swans	Chicago !A	102	10
Akshar Goyal	Execute Order 6 7	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	115	10
Arjun Nageswaran	Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	115	0
Harrison Sugarman	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	115	0
Conor Thompson	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	The Fire Neg Time	115	10
Vinu Harihar	Berkeley B	Stanford B	115	0
Emerson Patmore	Say It Ain't Zhou	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	115	0
S.A. Shenoy	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Say It Ain't Zhou	115	0
Nick Edwards	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	150	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	75%	75%	25%	68.00
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	100%	0%	0%	82.00
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	100%	25%	0%	86.50
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	67%	33%	0%	68.00
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	4	100%	0%	0%	94.00
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	1	100%	0%	0%	150.00
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	100%	20%	0%	90.00
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	67%	0%	33%	99.50
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	100%	33%	0%	83.00
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	83%	0%	50%	97.00
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	100%	80%	0%	65.20
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	100%	0%	0%	87.00