Question
In May 2022, this business leader was excused from a court date to give Joe Biden a tour of a chip factory. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this executive nicknamed the “Crown Prince” who was pardoned for bribing Park Geun-hye (“gun-heh”) in August 2022 to become head of Samsung later that year.
ANSWER: Lee Jae-yong [or Jay Y. Lee; prompt on Lee; reject “Lee Kun-hee”]
[10e] Lee Jae-yong was pardoned by this county’s conservative president Soon Suk-yeol (“suck-yull”).
ANSWER: South Korea [or the Republic of Korea or ROK; prompt on Korea; reject “North Korea” or the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”]
[10m] Samsung is key to the Chip 4 Alliance, whose closed trade of devices includes those manufactured by this Dutch company. This company’s 200-million-dollar EUV lithography machines are capable of printing advanced microchips.
ANSWER: ASML [or Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |