| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Roger Tory Peterson painted these creatures, including the Yellow-shafted Flicker in what is considered to be the first modern field guide. Examples of these creatures that have gone extinct in the past two hundred years include over ten species of Hawaiian honeycreepers, and likely the Eskimo Curlew. For ten points, name these creatures that were painted by John James Audubon, who now names a society devoted to their protection. | Birds |
| This man included “being acted upon” and “sometime” on his list of ten “categories” that describe any object. The term 'Metaphysics' was named in reference to this author's work Physics. The “Golden Mean” was advocated by this philosopher, who named a book of ethics for his son, Nicomachus. The Western system of philosophical logic was created by the Organon of, for ten points, what student of Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great? | Aristotle (or Aristotles) |
| During this war, the builder of the first-ever polar icebreaker was killed when the Petropavlovsk struck a mine. This war’s first battle occurred near a city now known as Dalian, and the largest land battle of this war was fought at Mukden. This war included the destruction of one side’s Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima. For ten points, name this early 20th century conflict between nations led by Nicholas the Second and Emperor Meiji. | Russo-Japanese War (or Japanese-Russian War; accept Nichiro Senso) |
| A failed plot to kill this man as a baby involved sinking boats filled with toddlers, an act that was later dubbed the May Day Massacre. This man was prophesied to cause the downfall of England, which he initiated by exposing the affair of Lancelot and Guinevere. The half brother of Gawain, and the son of Morgause, this is, for ten points, what traitorous knight who kills and is killed by King Arthur? | Mordred |
| During the Iraq War, this man responded to questions about losing public support with the answer “So?” This man’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, was convicted for leaking CIA data. While serving as secretary of defense, this man oversaw Operation Desert Storm and the first U.S. invasion of Iraq. For ten points, name this Republican politician from Wyoming, who served as vice president under George W. Bush. | Dick Cheney (or Richard Bruce Cheney) |
| In 2021, a San Francisco school board resolution falsely claimed this man had participated in the theft of land from the Penobscot. This man was charged with cowardice for his role in the Penobscot Expedition, and this man is depicted by John Singleton Copley holding a silver teapot he made. For ten points, name this Boston silversmith who warned Lexington and Concord minutemen that the “British were coming” via a “midnight ride.” | Paul Revere |
| This monarch wrote a children’s book about a titular Old Man who brings a bathtub into a cave near a pixie clan called the Gorm. This monarch was a leading proponent of building the city of Poundbury, which failed in its goal of reducing car traffic. This monarch was the first British heir to earn an official university degree, and this man served as the longest heir-apparent in history. For ten points, identify this current King of England. | Charles the Third |
| The Jukun shrine at Wukari, Nigeria was dedicated to these animals, who were mythically involved in a migration from Yemen. The creation goddess Neith was often depicted nursing two of these animals, and the city of Faiyum was known to ancient Greeks by a name referencing these animals, who were ritually raised in Lake Moeris. The god Sobek was depicted with the head of, for ten points, what predatory reptiles that were venerated in ancient Egypt? | Crocodiles (accept Crocodilopolis; or Krokodilopolis; do NOT accept or prompt on “Alligator”) |
| This man added a bronze lion to the feet of a statue of Nero, which he had replaced with a bust of himself. After surviving a poisoning attempt, this man’s mistress Marcia employed the wrestler Narcissus to strangle him in the bath. This man renamed Rome after himself and claimed to be the new Romulus, and the personality cult of this man equated him to Hercules. For ten points, name this notorious Roman emperor who participated in gladiator fights. | Commodus (or Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus; prompt on “Lucius Aelius Aurelius” but do not accept or prompt on “Aurelius” alone) |
| Commodus was the son of this philosopher-emperor, a Stoic who wrote the Meditations. | Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (do not prompt or accept “Antoninus” alone) |
| Nikita Khrushchev gifted one of these things to John F. Kennedy in response to a comment made by Jackie Kennedy at a state dinner. Lyndon B. Johnson received negative press in 1964 for lifting one of these creatures by its ears, and Vice President Richard Nixon delivered a speech named after one of these animals to remain on the ballot in 1956. Including Pushinka, Fala, Him, and Checkers, for ten points, what are these pets of a certain executive? | Dogs owned by Presidents of the United States (accept clear knowledge equivalents; prompt on partial answers) |
| President Calvin Coolidge had a pet named Rebecca, which was this type of animal, originally sent to the White House from Mississippi and intended for a non-traditional Thanksgiving dinner. | Raccoon |
| One of these places called "de las Manos" in Argentina contains thousands of handprints. Another one of these places, which contains a depiction of a giant elk as well as the Great Hall of the Bulls, was discovered by French teenagers, and is called Lascaux [[lass-KOH]]. For ten points, name these places where prehistoric humans often depicted scenes of hunting, which are natural holes in the landscape. | Caves (accept Cave Paintings) |
| Artist Mauricio Antón is famed for producing a modern painting depicting this time period, which includes animals such as the woolly rhinoceros and saber-tooth cat. | Ice Age (accept Last Glacial Period or LGP) |
| This treaty, which did not invalidate territorial claims on Adelie Land and Queen Maud Land, came from the work of the International Geophysical Year. The secretariat of this treaty works in Buenos Aires. This treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, defined its namesake as all land and ice below 60 degrees South. For ten points, name this treaty which banned military activity on the southernmost continent. | Antarctic Treaty System (or ATS; accept just Antarctic Treaty) |
| This South American country opened a refuge on Deception Island a year after firing on some Britons in Hope Bay, a leading cause of the negotiations for the ATS. | Argentina |
| This disease had Somali cook Ali Maow Maalin as its last known host. A method known as variolation was used to treat this disease before Edward Jenner created a vaccine by introducing a disease originating from cows. Introduced to mainland North America by the Spanish in 1520, this disease was largely responsible for decimating the Aztecs and other indigenous peoples of the Americas. Along with rinderpest, this is the only disease in human history to be completely eradicated. For ten points, name this disease known for its characteristic red blisters. | Smallpox |
| Due to a series of smallpox-related deaths among the royal lineage, this French king, known as "the Beloved," took the throne from his great-grandfather at the age of five in 1715, and ruled until 1774. | Louis the Fifteenth |
| Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby dealt with a 1949 example of these events in the Shire [[SHEE-reh]] Highlands of Nyasaland. During the reign of Haile Selassie, a series of these events between 1957 and 1975 affected the Wollo and Tigray provinces and led to the installation of the Derg. The single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" premiered at the Live Aid concert, which raised funds for one of these events in the 1980s in Ethiopia. For ten points, name these events that have ravaged many African countries as a result of droughts and crop failures. | Famines (accept synonyms like Lack of food; prompt on "drought" or "poor harvest") |
| Two-thirds of this ethnic group in Tanzania succumbed to famine in the 1890s. This ethnic group's traditional shields are depicted on the flag of Kenya. | Maasai |
| Le Souper de Beaucaire [[leh SOO-peh deh BOH-sehr]] was a political pamphlet written by this man, calling for an end to ongoing civil unrest. This man dispelled a revolt with a “whiff of grapeshot,” earning him the title of “General Vendémiaire.” This ruler’s disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia sparked the War of the Sixth Coalition. For ten points, name this first French Emperor, who was defeated by Wellington and Blucher at Waterloo. | Napoleon the First (or Napoleon Bonaparte; or Napoleone di Buonaparte; accept either underlined portion) |
| Napoleon defeated the armies of Austria and Russia in this December 1805 battle, but also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors. | Battle of Austerlitz |
| This man employed Julia Morgan to design a "castle" in the California town of San Simeon which served as the basis of Xanadu. This man, who served as the inspiration for Citizen Kane, told Frederic Remington, "you furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war" during a deployment in Cuba. For ten points, name this American newspaper magnate, the owner of the New York Journal who engaged in a publishing war with Joseph Pulitzer. | William Randolph Hearst (accept Hearst Castle) |
| This billionaire, who founded the Giving Pledge with Warren Buffet and his most famous company with Paul Allen, owns a house on Lake Washington sometimes nicknamed "Xanadu 2.0" | Bill Gates |
| Was the longest-serving U.S. senator in Delaware’s history and current president? | Joe Biden (or Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.) |
| Was later the nominee for president by the Bull Moose Party? | Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (or Teddy Roosevelt; prompt on "Roosevelt") |
| Was the loser in his home state of Tennessee in the 2000 presidential election? | Al Gore (or Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.) |
| Was replaced by Gerald Ford following his resignation? | Spiro Agnew (or Spiro Theodore Agnew) |
| Was governor of Massachusetts, under whom a new form of setting district boundaries was approved? | Elbridge Gerry (accept Gerrymandering) |
| Defended Levi Weeks in the Manhattan Well Murder trial of 1800 before later allegedly attempting to create a new country in the Louisiana Territory? | Aaron Burr, Jr. |
| Empire which founded a city on the Gulf of Finland in territory captured during the war. | Russian Empire (accept Imperial Russia; do not accept or prompt on "Soviet Union") |
| Leader of that country during the war who had toured Western Europe to learn shipbuilding | Peter the Great (or Peter the First) |
| Steppe peoples from which one group defected to Sweden under the leadership of Ivan Mazepa. | Cossacks (accept Cossack Hetmanate) |
| Young Swedish king, the twelfth of his name, who was the initial target of the war. | Charles the Twelfth (accept Carl the Twelfth; accept Carolus Rex) |
| Nation which formed a union with Lithuania and was led by Augustus the Second at the start of the war. | Kingdom of Poland (accept Polish-Lithuanian Union) |
| Largest battle of the war, a decisive coalition victory in Ukraine. | Battle of Poltava |
| Italian painter of the Mona Lisa. | Leonardo da Vinci (or Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci; accept either underlined portion) |
| Man who laid on his back to paint The Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel. | Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (accept either underlined portion) |
| American Impressionist who created The Boating Party and The Child's Bath. | Mary Cassatt (or Mary Stevenson Cassatt) |
| Mexican woman who painted The Broken Column. | Frida Kahlo (or Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón) |
| French Impressionist who frequently depicted dancers such as in The Ballet Class. | Edgar Degas (or Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas) |
| Norwegian painter whose most famous painting may have been influenced by a volcano | Edvard Munch |
| An individual with this surname, who captained the HMS Erebus, commanded a nineteenth century expedition to Antarctica on behalf of the English Crown. The lead singer of (+) The Supremes, the best-charting female group in history, has this surname. A Texas billionaire known by this given name was the 1996 presidential nominee of the (*) Reform Party. For ten points, give this surname of the woman who legendarily sewed the first American flag. | Ross (accept Sir James Clark Ross; or Diana Ross; or Henry Ross Perot; or Betsy Ross; or Elizabeth Griscom Ross) |
| Edgar G. Brown organized a 1948 cafeteria sit-in at one of these places, which Charles Diggs led efforts to desegregate. One of these places established in 1909 in (+) College Park is sometimes considered to be the oldest in the United States. Another of these places was named after the earliest Navy Medal of Honor recipient during World War Two, Butch (*) O'Hare. Military bases were often converted into, for ten points, what locations that experienced increases in commercial transport during the Jet Age? | Airports |
| This organization tried painted Gordon Brown’s name on the side of the Kingsnorth power station. Irving and Dorothy Stowe co-founded this organization, which started as the (+) Don’t Make a Wave Committee. This organization’s photographer, Fernando Pereira, died during Operation Satanic, when a ship belonging to this organization was sunk by (*) France. For ten points, name this environmental organization that owned a pair of ships called the Rainbow Warrior. | Greenpeace (prompt on "Don't Make a Wave" before mentioned) |
| Ali Abdullah Saleh was removed from power as a consequence of this event, which led to a promotion for Essam Sharaf. This event began when Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on (+) fire in protest of a certain government confiscating his vegetables. This event forced Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to step down as president of (*) Tunisia. For ten points, name this series of liberalizing revolutions that toppled the regimes of Muammar Al-Gaddafi and Hosni Mubarak in 2010 to 2012. | Arab Spring (prompt on “Tunisian Revolution” or “Jasmine Revolution” before “Tunisia”) |
| A Thomas Langley book about this character was the first English fairy tale to be published. This character joins the Knights of the Roundtable after being swallowed by a fish that was later served to (+) King Arthur. After being born, this character was dressed by the Queen of Fairies in an oak leaf shirt, apple rind socks, and a cobweb shirt. (*) For ten points, name this English folklore character, a tiny boy who was no bigger than one of his father’s fingers. | Tom Thumb (prompt on “Tom”) |
| This commodity’s production likely led to the start of the Ten Years War, and the U.S. gained a base at Pearl Harbor in exchange for lowering tariffs on this product. Elizabeth the second used a (+) paste made from this commodity as a primitive alternative to toothpaste. This commodity was made from namesake “beets” and “cane,” and often transported in the form of (*) molasses. For ten points, name this Jamaica-grown commodity, once called “white gold,” that changed the flavor of British tea forever. | Sugar |
| This man came to prominence as a judge defending a man who put a lightning rod on his house. When leading his country, this man called his government the “Republic of Virtue.” This figure, who replaced the atheistic (+) “Cult of Reason” with the theistic “Cult of the Supreme Being,” was captured and executed during the Thermidorian Reaction. (*) For ten points, name this “incorruptible” Jacobin who dominated the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. | Maximilien Robespierre (or Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre) |
| This man designed the Model 1913 Cavalry Saber and taught fencing at Fort Riley, after which he became the first U.S. Army officer awarded the title “Master of the Sword.” During the invasion of (+) Sicily, this man beat an Italian farmer with a stick during a dispute over mules blocking the road, weeks before two incidents in which he (*) slapped soldiers in the hospital. For ten points, name this commander of the Third Army in Europe during World War Two. | George Smith Patton, Jr. |
| This body of water titles a popular work by sociologist Paul Gilroy which profiles Black thinkers on both sides of it. Mansa Musa supposedly took power after Abu Bakr the Second disappeared while trying to (+) cross this body of water, which was divided by the Treaty of Tordesillas and crossed by (*) Leif Erikson. For ten points, name this ocean which was also crossed through the air by Charles Lindbergh. | Atlantic Ocean (accept The Black Atlantic) |
| In April 1981, this space shuttle became the first to go into space but tragically disintegrated upon re-entry on a 2003 mission. | Columbia (or OV-102) |