Packet 8: Bonus 14
During his 1959 visit to the U.S, Nikita Khrushchev was banned from entering this company’s massive Florida theme park due to unspecified “security reasons.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this company whose lobbyists convinced congress to extend copyrights in a 1996 law derisively dubbed the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act”
ANSWER: the Walt Disney Company [accept Disney World]
[10m] Citing its authoritarianism, William Gibson compared this country to “Disneyland with the Death Penalty.” The claim that “Whoever governs [this country] must have that iron in him” was given by its first leader.
ANSWER: Singapore [or Republic of Singapore]
[10h] In 1994, Michael Eisner stripped this word from the name of an overseas Disney park to make it less “associated with business.” The Exchange Rate Mechanism governs a currency named for this word.
ANSWER: Euro [accept Euro Disney] (Euro Disney became Disneyland Paris)
<History - Other, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 08
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 18.81 | 98% | 57% | 33% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 83% | 50% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 33% | 67% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 20% | 60% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 75% | 13% |