Chinese Communist Party - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

After this party decided to form a “bloc within” rather than a “bloc without,” its opponents formed the Western Hills group after swearing an oath to expel it. A university librarian who co-founded this party was attacked in an article urging “More Study of Problems, Less Talk of ‘Isms.’” After his time in Indonesia, a Dutch man known by the pseudonym “Maring,” Henk Snievlit, helped found this party. (15[1])A ruling party allied with this smaller (15[1])party to form the (*) first United Front under (10[1])the influence of the diplomat Adolf Joffe. This party (-5[1])“commands the gun” per (-5[1])a principle (-5[1])put forth after the failure of its Autumn Harvest (-5[1])uprising. This party was targeted in a 1927 (-5[1])purge (-5[1])led (10[1])by (10[1])the Green Gang, then targeted in “bandit suppression” and encirclement campaigns. For 10 points, name this party that participated in the Northern Expedition alongside (10[1])the ruling KMT (10[2])party. ■END■ (10[5]0[2])

ANSWER: Chinese Communist Party [or CCP; prompt on Communist Party] (The second sentence refers to Hú Shì’s critique of Lǐ Dàzhāo.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Tejas Raje	BHSU B	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	67	15
Henry Goff	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	We Need New Names	74	15
Charles Hang	Les Missourables	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	82	10
Akshar Goyal	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	91	-5
Amogh Kulkarni	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	95	-5
Jason Hong	The Jeam Team	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	97	-5
Eric Mukherjee	LMM's LLM MLM	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	106	-5
Tracy Mirkin	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	The Empire Bikes Back	114	-5
Doug Simons	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	115	-5
Corry Wang	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	116	10
Daniel Ma	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	117	10
Sam Macchi	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	Lisan al-Quib	141	10
Andrew Hart	Punished "Venom" BHSU	The Dyatlov Passement incident	144	10
Arya Karthik	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	The Oldest Men in the World	144	10
Dylan Minarik	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	146	0
Colin Stewart	var merchants	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	146	10
Swapnil Garg	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	LMM's LLM MLM	146	10
Robert Wang	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	146	10
Ryan Westbrook	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	146	0
Henry Atkins	The Empire Bikes Back	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	146	10
Isaac Kirk-Davidoff	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	The Jeam Team	146	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	15	87%	13%	40%	124.23