| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Lundy published a so-called Genius advocating this cause. This was the first major cause advocated by Sarah and Angelina Grimké. The exclusion of women speakers at an 1840 gathering for this cause led to the birth of the women’s rights movement at Seneca Falls. For ten points, name this cause that was advocated by William Lloyd Garrison and secured by the 13th Amendment. | Abolition of Slavery (or Abolitionism; or Emancipation; or Anti-slavery Movement) |
| In this country, the Massacre of Salsipuedes [[sah-lees-PWEH-dez]] was carried out against the Charrúa people. Julio María Sanguinetti was a two-term president of this country, which was home to a urban guerilla group known as Tupamaros. That group included José Mujica [[moo-HEE-kah]], a former president of this country, which hosted the first World Cup, in which they were victorious. For ten points, identify this South American country where the 1811 Siege of Montevideo took place. | Oriental Republic of Uruguay (accept República Oriental del Uruguay) |
| This man, according to Dante’s Inferno, was sentenced alongside Brutus and Cassius, to spend eternity in one of Satan’s mouths in the deepest circle of Hell. According to most Biblical translations, this man died when he fell to the ground after he attempted to hang himself after selling out one figure for thirty pieces of silver. Thought to be the treasurer of the twelve apostles, for ten points, who is this man who betrayed Jesus? | Judas Iscariot (or Judah is-Qriyot; accept either underlined portion) |
| In a 1924 work by this American artist, the composition opens with a clarinet glissando and incorporates classical and jazz music. This composer, who often collaborated with his brother, wrote the music for an opera which focuses on African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina, entitled Porgy and Bess. The creator of An American in Paris, for ten points, name this popular composer of Rhapsody in Blue. | George Gershwin (or Jacob Gershwine) |
| Fort Knox granted permission to be used in the filming of a movie in which Bill Murray leaves this profession to join the Army. The film that inspired John Hinckley Jr. to attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan was named for a person of this profession, a Vietnam War veteran named Travis Bickle. Martin Scorsese directed Robert de Niro as a member of, for ten points, what profession that operates vehicles owned by companies such as Checker and Yellow? | Taxi Driver (accept Checkered Cab Drivers; or Cabbies; prompt on “Drivers”) |
| A meeting between this man and Robert F. Kennedy on race relations took place after the 1963 Birmingham Riots, after he had gained fame for writing The Fire Next Time, which was published on the 100th anniversary of emancipation. This man's first book describes his Harlem upbringing, and is titled Go Tell It on the Mountain. For ten points, name this Black Civil Rights activist and author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Notes of a Native Son. | James Baldwin (or James Arthur Baldwin) |
| This city’s textile industry earned it the nicknames Warehouse City and Cottonopolis. This city’s St Peter's Field was the location of an event in which protesters demanding parliamentary representation were rushed by cavalry in the Peterloo Massacre. Friedrich Engels described labor conditions in this city in The Condition of the Working Class in England. For ten points, name this Midlands city that anchored England’s Industrial Revolution. | Manchester |
| After his brother returned from Sherman, Texas, this man joined a squad commanded by Fletch Taylor at the age of sixteen. Reported to have taken part in the Centralia Massacre, this man was seriously injured while assisting "Bloody Bill" Anderson. This man partnered with the Youngers to form a Missouri- based gang of bank and train robbers. For ten points, identify this man who was killed by Robert Ford, an American outlaw with a brother named Frank. | Jesse James (or Jesse Woodson James) |
| This census region was formerly home to Mound-Building cultures such as the Adena and Cahokia. The first of this region's twelve states was admitted in 1803, although it would later fight the Toledo War with another state in this region. The eastern parts of this region were settled under the Northwest Ordinance, with its 36-square mile townships overlapping cities such as Des Moines and Columbus. For ten points, name this region of the United States that includes Ohio. | Midwestern United States (accept North Central Region; or Illinois Country, Region 2; accept Ohio Country before "Ohio," accept Old Northwest before "Northwest," accept Chicagoland before "Chicago”; prompt on "Louisiana Purchase", "Mississippian”, "Upper Midwest", " (Great) Plains," or "Interior Lowlands") |
| This Midwestern state, which was admitted to the Union in 1861, "bled" during the prelude to the Civil War and named a compromise together with Nebraska. | Kansas (accept Kansas-Nebraska Act) |
| Spanish general Melchor Aymerich was defeated on the slopes of a volcano in this country in the Battle of Pichincha, securing this country's independence. A city in this country witnessed an 1822 meeting in which Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar discussed the future of neighboring Peru. The Guayaquil Conference occurred in, for ten points, what country, where battles during its independence movement were fought near Quito [[KEE-toh]]? | Republic of Ecuador (or República del Ecuador) |
| After this country secured independence at Pichincha, Ecuador joined this short-lived republic led by Bolivar, which consisted of parts of Venezuela, Peru, and a namesake country. | Gran Colombia |
| This island is believed to be the homeland of the Austronesian language family, and it was at various times ruled by the Kingdoms of Middag and Tungming. This island was central to the Japanese “Strike South” doctrine, and the Kuomintang retreated to this country following their loss in the Chinese Civil War, leading to its longtime rule by Chiang Kai-Shek. For ten points, name this country that rules an island once known as Formosa. | Taiwan (accept Republic of China; accept Chinese Taipei; accept Formosa before mentioned; do not accept or prompt on “People’s Republic of China”) |
| The Kuomintang was founded by this early leader of the Republic of China, who is considered a founding father of both Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. | Sun Yat-sen [or Sun Deming; or Sun Wen; or Sun Dixiang; or Sun Rixin; or Sun Zhong-shan] |
| One of these events occurred near the Mongolian town of Tsetserleg in 1905. The largest of these events to be caused by post-glacial rebound occurred near George the Fifth Land in Antarctica. On Good Friday, 1964, one of these events in the Prince William Sound severely damaged the city of Anchorage. San Francisco was destroyed in 1906 by, for ten points, what type of seismic event? | Earthquake (accept clear-knowledge equivalents; accept 1905 Tsetserleg earthquake; accept 1998 Balleny Islands earthquake; accept 1964 Alaskan earthquake; accept Great Alaskan earthquake; accept Good Friday earthquake; accept 1906 San Francisco earthquake) |
| An earthquake-derived tsunami caused this Japanese nuclear disaster in 2011, one of only two INES level seven disasters to ever occur. | Fukushima nuclear disaster (accept clear knowledge equivalents) |
| The United States secured the use of the Kentucky Road in this tribe’s territory with the Treaty of Tellico. This tribe was given nominal sovereignty over their lands in the Treaty of Holston, and, in the Treaty of New Echota, this tribe was granted an unfulfilled promise of a delegate to the House of Representatives. For the point, what is this Native American tribe that accounted for the majority of people forcibly relocated to Oklahoma in the Trail of Tears? | Cherokee |
| The Trail of Tears forcibly relocated the Cherokee to this territory, which later became the eastern part of Oklahoma. | Indian Territory (or Indian Territories) |
| In 2012, Marin Alsop became the first female principal conductor of an orchestra in this country. Darius Milhaud served as secretary to the French ambassador to this country, inspiring pieces like The Ox On the Roof. The opening of Warner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo centers on an opera house in this country, built during one city's rubber boom. Street musicians from this country inspired Heitor Villa-Lobos's Chôros and Bachianas. For ten points, name this country whose city of Manaus hosts the Amazon Theatre. | Brazil (or Federative Republic of Brazil; or República Federativa do Brasil) |
| This president of Brazil both preceded and followed Jair Bolsonaro in that office. | Lula da Silva (accept either underlined portion) |
| In this country's 1951 elections, a right-wing government came to power on the promise of ending rationing. This country, where a National Government coalition was led during the Great Depression under Stanley Baldwin, suffered the Winter of Discontent under James Callaghan. Callaghan was succeeded in this country by the victory of the female prime minister, who oversaw victory in the Falklands War. For ten points, name this country once led by Margaret Thatcher. | United Kingdom of Great Britain and (Northern) Ireland (accept Great Britain or England, do not accept or prompt on "Scotland," "Ireland," or "Wales") |
| Baldwin and Thatcher were members of this political party which historically opposed the Liberals and currently opposes Labour. | Conservative Party (or Conservative and Unionist Party; accept Tory Party; or Tories) |
| Immediately following this speech, the Chicago Times remarked that “the cheek of every American must tingle with shame.” Researchers now claim that the orator behind this speech was likely suffering from smallpox when it was delivered, and this speech was delivered immediately following a much lengthier address by keynote speaker Edward Everett. Consisting of only 272 words, this is, for ten points, what speech delivered in Pennsylvania by Abraham Lincoln? | Gettysburg Address |
| The only confirmed photo of Abraham Lincoln at the site of the address was taken by David Bachrach and found in the collection of this Civil War photographer, who also photographed John Quincy Adams. | Matthew Brady |
| President who resigned after the Watergate break-in. | Richard M (ilhous) Nixon |
| Trump-owned resort, raided by the FBI in 2022 in a search for classified documents. | Mar-a-Lago |
| Rock formation in Wyoming which names a Harding-era bribery scandal. | Teapot Dome (or Teapot Rock) |
| Company which financed the First Transcontinental Railroad and names a Grant-era scandal. | Crédit Mobilier of America |
| Failed Arkansas property development company into which Bill and Hillary Clinton invested. | Whitewater Development Corporation (accept Whitewatergate) |
| Outdoor activity South Carolina governor Mark Sanford claimed to be doing when he was actually having an affair in Argentina. | Hiking the Appalachian Trail (prompt on partial answers) |
| City in which sacrifices were made to Athena in the Parthenon. | Athens |
| Largest city on the Egyptian Mediterranean coast, named for a “Great” king. | Alexandria |
| City in which Justinian had the Hagia Sophia built and today known as Istanbul. | Constantinople (accept Byzantium) |
| Sicilian city in which Archimedes died helping to repel a Roman invasion. | Syracuse |
| City-state which the council of Ephors helped govern along with its two kings. | Sparta (accept Lacedaemon) |
| Boeotian [[bee-OH-shyen]] city whose besieged residents could flee to the Cadmeia. | Thebes |
| Company co-founded by Steve Jobs which released the first computer with a single circuit board. | Apple, Inc. (accept Apple Computer Company; accept Apple Computer, Inc.) |
| Company, nicknamed Big Blue, which built the first mass-produced computer in 1953. | IBM (or International Business Machines Corporation) |
| Englishman who conceived a namesake machine and cracked the Enigma Code. | Alan Turing (or Alan Mathison Turing; accept Turing machine) |
| Now-obsolete storage medium, first commercially available in 1971 and produced in five and a quarter and three and one-half inch sizes. | Floppy disk (accept Floppy Diskette; prompt on "Disk") |
| Colleague of Ada Lovelace who conceived the Analytical Engine. | Charles Babbage |
| First programmable, general-purpose computer, completed in 1945 and known by an acronym. | ENIAC [[EN-ee-ak]] (or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer; accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| In 2013, an arsonist set fire to a fertilizer plant in this state, causing a massive explosion. Victor Houteff and David Koresh led the Branch Davidians religious cult in a complex in this (+) state. Natural disasters in this state have included both flooding from Hurricane Harvey, and the deadliest natural disaster in US history, the 1900 (*) Galveston Hurricane. For ten points, name this southern state, where the border cities of Brownsville and El Paso have seen many migrants seek asylum. | Texas |
| A king named Perseus was the last independent ruler of this kingdom, which suffered defeat in the Battle of Pydna. This kingdom used the League of Corinth to exert its dominance over (+) Greece. This kingdom gained a decisive military advantage with the adoption of a long spear called the sarissa, and this kingdom was the target of frequent warnings from Demosthenes. (*) For ten points, name this kingdom, the base from which Alexander the Great set out to conquer the world. | Kingdom of Macedon (or Makedon; or Macedonia; or Makedonia) |
| When asked to choose one historical person he would want to dine with, Barack Obama chose this man, who was trained in the Inner Temple of London as a lawyer. In one country, the second of October celebrates this man, who wrote (+) The Story of My Experiments with Truth. The dhoti was a hand-spun garment worn by this man, who advocated a form of self-rule known as swaraj. (*) Bapu was the nickname of, for ten points, what Indian independence leader who practiced non-violent resistance? | Mahatma Gandhi (or Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) |
| The last person to hold this office was known as its “May” occupant, due to only holding this title for 34 days in 1946. In 1900, the holder of this office was assassinated following a gymnastics competition by (+) Gaetano Bresci. This title was held by the House of Savoy, and its first modern holder was Victor (*) Emmanuel the Second. For ten points, name this regnal title re-established by the Risorgimento. | King of Italy (or Rei da Itália; accept equivalents like Monarch of Italy) |
| This man's major innovation drew on a similar idea of Charles Barbier. An innovation developed by this man replaced a cumbersome system named for Valentin Haüy [[AH-wee]] that involved pressing shapes of (+) copper wire. This man's collaborator, Pierre Foucault, developed a "Raphigraphe" for mechanically typewriting a system described by this man's 1839 book A New Method for Representing (*) Dots. For ten points, name this French inventor of a raised-dot tactile reading system for the blind. | Louis Braille (accept pronunciations like [[BRALE]] or [[BREH]]) |
| A song by this artist discusses the rise of Youngstown, Ohio after the discovery of iron ore in 1803. This singer dedicated his album The Rising to those who perished in the September 11th attacks. The shooting of (+) Amadou Diallo inspired the song "American Skin" by this artist and his E Street Band. The hardships of Vietnam War veterans are addressed in this man’s song (*) "Born in the U.S.A." For ten points, name this New Jersey singer of the album Born to Run. | Bruce Springsteen (or Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen) |
| This king was opposed by the Breton politician Pierre Landais, who financed the unsuccessful Buckingham’s Rebellion against him. This king conspired to have the marriage of Elizabeth (+) Woodville declared retroactively invalid, eliminating the claim to the throne of two rivals who became known as the “Princes in the Tower.” (*) For ten points, name this York king who lost the throne of England when he was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. | Richard the Third |
| The earliest president of a bank in this city was George Clymer, who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. An estimated 5,000 people were killed in a (+) yellow fever epidemic that affected this city in 1793, and this city's Carpenters' Hall was the venue for the First Continental Congress. The (*) Constitutional Convention was held in, for ten points, what city where an Ivy League university was founded by resident Benjamin Franklin? | Philadelphia (accept Philly) |
| During one battle in this city, Antonio de Otermín [[oh-tehr-MEEN]] barricaded himself in the Palace of the Governors. During a Native American (+) revolt, this city was besieged until the Spanish rulers fled to El Paso. This city is the oldest capital city in the United States and is the origin of (*) Pueblo Revival Architecture, named for a local indigenous people. For ten points, name this capital of New Mexico. | Santa Fe |
| This American inventor helped to shape the economy of the American South with his invention of the cotton gin. | Eli Whitney Jr. |