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2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Harvard A and Kentucky C - #23 [report this tossup]
He served as minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development from 1968-1974 and was deputy Prime Minister in 1984 but lost to John Turner in his bid to become head of the Liberal Party. Known as "the little guy from Shawinigan," he came to his biggest post by succeeding Kim Campbell. Due to the inefficacy of the policies of the Mulroney government, he had to deal with a nearly successful secessionist bid from Quebec. Succeeded last year by Paul Martin, FTP who is this former Prime-Minister of Canada?
Answer: Jean Chretien
2008 ACF Nationals - Packet by Dartmouth A and B - #11 [report this tossup]
One president of this country was scandalized when he allowed the warship Esmerelda to fly its flag. That leader was succeeded by a man known as the "Old Battler," Eloy Alfaro, who led the liberal revolution here in opposition to Gabriel Garcia Moreno; both of those leaders were assassinated and journalist Juan Montalvo bragged that his pen killed the latter. The populist Jose Velasco Ibarra served as its president five times in the 20th century. Its independence came with the defeat of the general Melchor Aymerich by Sucre in 1822 at the Battle of Pichincha, after which it briefly became the southern district of Gran Colombia. More recently, its leaders have resolved border disputes with neighboring president Alberto Fujimori. FTP, name this South American country home to Cotopaxi, Guayaquil, and Quito.
Answer: Ecuador
2000 ACF Nationals - Packet by ACF Editors (Finals) - #21 [report this tossup]
Formulated by Lotfi Zadeh in 1965, it's employed in robotic control and pattern recognition software. Rejecting the law of the excluded middle, it instead asserts that variables --- tallness for instance --- have levels of truthfulness and uses "if x and y then z" rules to plan the system response. For ten points, name this type of logic whose name describes its imprecise view of quantities.
Answer: fuzzy logic