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|---|---|
| This city is home to the corner of State and Madison, which was once the busiest intersection in the world. Ellis Chesbrough designed this city's sewer system, (+) the first in the U.S., in a process that involved raising half a block of Lake Street. This city was the origin of the Pullman Strike, given its central location on the national (*) railroad system. For the points, name this Midwestern city that endured an 1871 fire and hosted the World's Columbian Exposition. | Chicago (accept Great Chicago Fire; accept Chicago’s World’s Fair) |
| David Mayhew claimed that "few acts of Congress have ever been as consequential" as one concerning this process often named for Philip Hart and Emmanuel Celler. That 1965 act named for this process got rid of an "Origins Formula," (+) and a large-scale occurrence of this process prompted passage of the 1921 Emergency Quota Act, which restricted the influx of Southern and (*) Eastern Europeans. For the points, name this process by which individuals re-located to the United States. | Immigration to the United States of America (accept word forms) |
| Once known as the Collegiate School when a charter passed in 1701, this university was named for a Bostonian architect of one of its buildings. One of this university’s presidents, Noah Porter, (+) claimed that its expansion would detract this university from the mission set forth by its founding Congregationalist clergy. George H.W. and (*) George W. Bush graduated from, for the points, what Ivy League research university in Connecticut? | Yale University |
| This author fictionalized the real-life murder of Mary Rogers by setting the story in France and framing it as a sequel. Another sequel by this author involves the main character exploring the mystery of a letter stolen (+) from the French queen. C. Auguste Dupin identifies an escaped orangutan as the murderer of two women in one story by, (*) for the points, what author who innovated the detective story with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue?" | Edgar Allan Poe |
| This state’s name was claimed by George M. Willing to be a Native American word for “the sun comes from the mountains” but it was actually made up. Lack of trade interest from indigenous Nez Perce (+) in this state caused the failure of a Hudson Bay Company settlement near Lewiston. Shoshone words were used to name this state’s cities of Pocatello and (*) Nampa. For the points, name this state where gold prospectors expelled Native Americans from Boise. | Idaho |
| This company’s primary studio was occupied by Allied Forces, during which time it produced the film Victory Through Air Power. (+) After being unable to visit one of this company’s properties, Nikita Khrushchev visited a corn farmer. Richard Berger was ousted by this company after the creation of (*) Touchstone Pictures. For the points, name this film studio that produced Steamboat Willie and other cartoons starring Mickey Mouse. | Walt Disney Studios |
| John Windrim was inspired by the Pantheon to design a location honoring this man, which contains a twenty-foot-tall statue by James Earle Fraser. One of the first planetariums in the Western Hemisphere (+) can be found in an Institute named for this man within Logan Circle. A science museum dedicated to this man contains murals of his electricity experiment with a (*) kite. For the points, name this Founding Father and polymath, the first postmaster general. | Benjamin Franklin (accept The Franklin Institute; accept Benjamin Franklin Museum) |
| The Battle of Island Number 10 occurred at the New Madrid Bend during this war, which included the use of submarines such as the Alligator and the H. L. (+) Hunley. During this war, David Farragut apocryphally said “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.” The Anaconda Plan was proposed by (*) Winfield Scott at the beginning of, for the points, what war that included the Battle of Mobile Bay and the use of the CSS Shenandoah by the Confederate Navy? | American Civil War |
| A man being transported from a police department in this city was killed by the nightclub owner Jack Ruby. John Connally was wounded (+) during an event in this city’s Dealey Plaza. The Warren Commission investigated that event in this city, during which a book depository in this city was used as a sniper's nest by (*) Lee Harvey Oswald. For the points, name this Texas city where John F. Kennedy was assassinated. | Dallas |
| A group of hundreds of construction workers attacked people protesting this event in the Hard Hat Riot. Four college students were killed (+) while protesting this event in the Kent State Massacre. Demonstrators against this conflict popularized a type of demonstration in which protested by burning their draft cards. The Johnson administration escalated, (*) for the points, what highly unpopular war fought in a southeast Asian country? | Vietnam War (accept the U.S. Invasion of Cambodia) |