Packet 11: Bonus 20
Two Answers required. After refusing to join the Comintern, one of these two leaders placed supporters of the other, dubbed “Cominformists,” in the Goli Otok prison. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these two leaders, one of whom banned supporting the other during the Informbiro period. One of these two Marxist leaders told the other to “Stop sending people to kill me.”
ANSWER: Josip Broz Tito AND Joseph Stalin [accept Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin or Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in place of “Stalin; accept Josip Broz Tito in place of “Tito”; accept Tito-Stalin split]
[10e] Tito split from Stalin’s leadership in the Comintern while leading this Balkan country that eventually split into five republics in the 1990s.
ANSWER: Yugoslavia [accept Kingdom of Yugoslavia; or Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; or Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia]
[10h] Tito and Stalin partially split over Tito’s support for this country’s DSE communist party. The KKE lost this country’s 1940s civil war to forces supporting King Paul.
ANSWER: Greece [or Kingdom of Greece; or Hellas; accept the Hellenic Republic]
<History - European, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 11
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 25.56 | 100% | 78% | 78% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booz Allen Interns | Armand duplantis fan club | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Hoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish? | An even worse idea | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| I have no buzzer and I must neg | Jeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutu | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Michael Touse-Squid | Virginia Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Mountain Dew is Better | The Young Jits | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| PC Chris Master Race | Not Just Biking | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Ted Offensive | Ostia Orcas | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| They fuck you up your buzz and neg | They'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✕ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✕ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 25.00 | 100% | 75% | 75% |