Packet 8: Bonus 1
A 2020 paper by Manacorda and Tesei draws on the GDELT (“GEE-delt”) database to find that these events were highly correlated with GSM network rollouts in Sub-Saharan Africa. For 10 points each:
[10e] What form of political action has included 2013’s Euromaidan and the Arab Spring?
ANSWER: protests [or mass demonstrations; prompt on rioting or revolution or uprisings or revolting or rebellion or gathering or assembling or marching or street movements or social movements with “what form of political action did most participants take?”]
[10h] In Why Civil Resistance Works, Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan used a survey of 20th-century mass movements to claim that almost every protest to reach this percentage of population has achieved regime change.
ANSWER: 3.5 percent [or “three-and-a-half percent”]
[10m] With Sidney Tarrow, this sociologist argued that protest movements are a new form of “contentious politics.” He quipped that “war made the state and the state made war” in a work likening state formation to organized crime.
ANSWER: Charles Tilly (Specifically, Tarrow and Tilly argue that the protest-based social movement arose as a new mode of “contentious politics” in 18th-century Europe.)
<HA, Social Science> | NAFTA-Packet-8
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 12.38 | 86% | 21% | 17% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat 67 | Noah Sheidlower | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Untitled Keyal Team | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos | Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Shipping Down from Ballston | Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| The "C" Team | NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | H |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 25% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 25% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 40% | 60% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |