Packet G: Bonus 16
The chair of an award awarded by a selection committee in this organization is Zaw Zaw, a Myanmar businessman who holds suspiciously close ties to the country’s military junta. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this organization whose president Gianni Infantino awarded President Trump with a Peace Prize in 2025 in recognition of his “extraordinary” efforts to promote peace through diplomacy.
ANSWER: FIFA [accept the FIFA Peace Prize]
[10m] President Trump received his controversial Peace Prize the day after the leaders of these two countries met in Washington to make peace. The March 23 movement, or M23, is a paramilitary force backed by one of these countries in the other.
ANSWER: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo [accept Republic of Rwanda or Republika y’u Rwanda in place of Rwanda; accept DRC or DROC or Republique Democratique du Congo or RDC or Congo (Kinshasa) in place of Democratic Republic of the Congo; prompt on Congo; reject “Republic of the Congo” or “Congo (Brazzaville)”]
[10h] After re-gifting her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump, Maria Machado likened the moment to this man’s gifting of a gold medal depicting Washington’s image to Simón Bolívar.
ANSWER: Marquis de Lafayette [or Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette]
<KT, Current Events> | Packet G - McMaster A, Notre Dame C, Rutgers A, NYU A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 15.09 | 97% | 46% | 9% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CWRU A | Ohio State C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Michigan A | Michigan C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Michigan B | CWRU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 17% | 17% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 44% | 11% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |