coal miners’ strikes - 2025 ACF Regionals

Tossup

A group of participants in one of these events were known as the “Dirty Thirty” and were supported by the WAPC. One of these events led to the creation of a contingency plan by MP Nicholas Ridley. (-5[1])A party leader publicly broke (10[1])with a leader of one of these events after the death of cab driver David Wilkie. (10[6])During one of these events, nearly 100 people were arrested during (10[1])the Battle (10[1])of Orgreave. (10[6]-5[1])Mark (10[1])Ashton led a (10[1])group of lesbian and gay (10[1])people (10[1]-5[1])who supported (10[2])participants (10[1]-5[1])in one of these events. (10[1])One of these events that lasted from 1984 to 1985 began with a walkout (10[1])at the Cortonwood (10[1]-5[1])Colliery (10[2])and (10[1])was led by NUM (10[1])president Arthur Scargill. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, what kind (10[1])of event (10[2])occurred after Margaret Thatcher announced (10[1])plans to close (10[2]-5[1])supposedly (10[1])uneconomic pits in northern England? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: coal miners’ strikes [accept coal strikes; prompt on marches by asking “during what sort of larger movement?”; prompt on strikes by asking “by whom?” prompt on miner’s strikes by asking “mining of what resource?”] (The WAPC is Women Against Pit Closures.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Ryan Sun	UC Berkeley B	UC Berkeley A	36	-5
Christian Sherrington	Southampton A	NYU C	41	10
Alan Lee	Case Western A	Kenyon	57	10
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	Indiana B	57	10
Braden Booth	Missouri	Chicago B	57	10
Truman Fillbrandt	UW A	UW B	57	10
Benjamin Watson	Oxford C	Cambridge E	57	10
Antoni Kluzowski	Warwick A	Bristol	57	10
Kevin Park	Claremont A	Claremont B	68	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan A	Ohio State A	70	10
Peter Ballas	Michigan D	Case Western B	72	10
Cole Hartung	Georgetown A	Northwestern B	72	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta	UBC	72	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin A	Georgia Tech C	72	-5
Cormac Beirne	LSE	Imperial A	72	10
Elliot Cosnett	Oxford B	Imperial B	72	10
CT Tang	Sheffield	Manchester	72	10
Charles Hang	WashU A	Illinois B	73	10
Allan Lee	Stanford B	Iowa	76	10
Sam Hutton	Cambridge D	Southampton B	81	10
Christopher Sims	Northwestern A	Notre Dame A	82	10
Arvin Boraghi	Cambridge C	Cambridge B	82	-5
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech A	William & Mary	84	10
Seraphina Charlotte Foo	Cambridge A	Oxford A	84	10
Benny Feldman	Chicago D	Indiana A	85	-5
Jakob Myers	Indiana A	Chicago D	85	10
Graham Troy	UNC B	Wake Forest	90	10
Nathaniel Hull	UC Berkeley A	UC Berkeley B	104	10
Alex Zhu	Carnegie Mellon B	Michigan State	107	-5
Ben Koberlein	Notre Dame B	Purdue	107	10
Luke Ketchum	Missouri S&T	Chicago C	108	10
Lucy Dennett	Warwick B	Durham	108	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia A	Liberty A	109	10
Andrew Harms	Michigan State	Carnegie Mellon B	113	10
Terrence Han	UCLA	UCSD	116	10
Jiping Fang	Illinois C	WashU B	116	-5
Prahalad Rao	Ohio State B	Michigan C	121	10
Stevie Miller	Carnegie Mellon A	Michigan B	123	10
Arhith Dharanendra	Georgia Tech A	Louisville A	123	10
Ben Horning	Georgetown B	Notre Dame C	128	10
Jonathan Schneidau	Liberty C	Liberty B	131	10
Jeffrey Austin	UNC D	UNC C	131	10
James Zhao	Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	131	-5
Ethan Rehder	Duke	South Carolina	132	10
John John Groger	WashU B	Illinois C	138	10
Ian Lu	Georgia Tech C	Bruin A	138	10
Shiv Seshan	Cambridge B	Cambridge C	138	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
California	2025-02-01	3	100%	33%	96.00
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	6	100%	17%	92.67
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	6	100%	0%	112.83
Midwest	2025-02-01	6	100%	33%	86.33
Overflow	2025-02-01	5	100%	0%	93.00
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	2	100%	0%	64.50
Southeast	2025-02-01	3	67%	67%	130.50
UK	2025-02-01	10	100%	10%	78.20