| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This figure successfully sued William Randolph Hearst after he inexplicably claimed she had been stealing to support a cocaine habit. This person married William Butler after winning a contest that later inspired an Irving Berlin musical. This woman used cigarettes and playing cards as props when performing her most famous stunts for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. For ten points, identify this legendary sharpshooter of the 1880s. | Annie Oakley (or Phoebe Ann Moses) |
| This man’s Tusculan Disputations outlined a Stoic theory of emotions. This man’s tongue was stabbed with a hairpin by Fulvia, the wife of Marc Antony, following his execution by the Second Triumvirate. This man defended Milo’s murder of Clodius and was given extraordinary powers to quash the Catiline conspiracy. For ten points, name this Roman philosopher, orator, and politician who delivered the Philippics against Julius Caesar. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (or Tully) |
| This man was opposed by the Catholic-centric “blueshirts,” who were exiled by this man with the help of the PIDE secret police. This figure promoted pluri-continentalism to avoid losing his country's African colonies of Mozambique and Angola. For ten points, name this twentieth-century Fascist dictator who established the Estado Novo in Portugal. | António de Oliveira Salazar |
| Eight French soldiers hold prisoners at gunpoint in one painting by this man. Titian's Danaë series influenced this man’s La Maja Desnuda, a controversial piece for its time. In one of this Spaniard’s so-called “Black Paintings,” a ravenous Greek Titan holds a purportedly male figure in front of him, with the victim’s left arm in his mouth. For ten points, name this Romantic painter of “The Third of May” and “Saturn Devouring his Son.” | Francisco Goya |
| This text was solely revered by a religious sect that was elevated after Nichiren lobbied the Kamakura Shogunate. The doctrine of expedient means is illustrated in this text with the Parable of the Burning House. This text’s claim that anyone can become a Buddha has made it the most popular sutra in East Asia. For ten points, name this Mahayana Buddhist text, a sutra that is named for a sacred flower. | Lotus Sutra (or Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sutra) |
| This person contributed essays to Ayn Rand’s book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal eight years before he joined Gerald Ford’s council of financial advisors. This person used the phrase "irrational exuberance" to describe the Dot-Com Bubble, for which he is sometimes blamed due to lowering of interest rates in 2000. For ten points, name this longtime Chairman of the Federal Reserve who was replaced by Ben Bernanke in 2006. | Alan Greenspan |
| This nation was legendarily founded by Hayk, a descendant of Moses who fought Bel in the Battle of Giants. The Kingdom of Urartu in this nation collapsed after Scythian attacks forced it to become subservient to Assyria. An empire in this nation was led by Tiridates the Third in 301 AD when it became the first state to adopt Christianity. Historically centered around Lake Van and Lake Sevan, for ten points, name this country whose people were subject to a 1910s genocide under Ottoman rule. | Armenia (accept Arsacid Armenia; accept Greater Armenia) |
| Simultaneous to this battle, Confederate forces in Pensacola began bombarding Fort Pickens. P. G. T. Beauregard began this battle after Abraham Lincoln refused to call off a supply chain mission. This battle occurred after Robert Anderson removed his forces from Fort Moultrie to an island in the Charleston Harbor. For ten points, name this battle in South Carolina, the start of the American Civil War. | Battle of Fort Sumter |
| John F. Kennedy opened a section of I-95 that crossed this feature near Elkton prior to his assassination, and Andrew Ellicott finalized the surveying of this feature. An area named "the Wedge" near Newark is created by this feature and the Twelve Mile Circle. This feature, just south of the 40th parallel, was originally surveyed to clarify ambiguities in land issued to Lord Baltimore and William Penn. For ten points, name this line that historically marked the division between slave and free states. | Mason-Dixon Line (or Mason's and Dixon's Line; prompt on answers mentioning the borders of Maryland with Delaware or Pennsylvania) |
| The Mason-Dixon line passes by this river as it flows into its estuary, Chesapeake Bay. James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Pioneers describes James Clinton’s expedition down this river. | Susquehanna River |
| After conducting a hostage negotiation by payphone, this man began carrying rolls of dimes on his person. This man’s nineteen-year-old son was kidnapped from Harrah's Lake Tahoe hotel, but the kidnappers turned down a $1 million ransom before being captured. This Hoboken-born musician was nicknamed the Chairman of the Board and was the leader of the Rat Pack. For ten points, name this jazz vocalist who sang “My Way.” | Frank Sinatra |
| Frank Sinatra donated $100,000 to the Catholic Church in an effort to improve his image, which was tarnished by his association with this mobster, the first head of the Genovese Crime Family. | Charles “Lucky” Luciano (or Salvatore Lucania |
| This resident of Halicarnassus divided his major work into nine sections named for the classical Muses. This man provides a contemporary account of the rise of the Achaemenid Empire in a book recovered from the Oxyrhynchus [[ox-ee-REN-kuss]] Papyri. This man was mocked for his stories about gold-digging ants and flying snakes by Thucydides. For ten points, name this ancient Greek author, often credited as the "father of history." | Herodotus |
| Herodotus is mocked in the play The Acharnians, written by this Athenian comedic playwright who also created Lysistrata and The Clouds. | Aristophanes [[‘air’-ih-STAH-fah-neez]] |
| As a boy at boarding school near Guildford, this man was bullied by classmates due to the poem "Vespers" and other works written by this man's father. A toy named "Edward," later donated by this man's editor to the New York Public Library, inspired a character who is typically associated with this person. The inspiration for the poetry collection Now We Are Six, for ten points, who was this human friend of Winnie-the-Pooh? | Christopher Robin Milne (accept either underlined portion; prompt on "Robin") |
| A.A. Milne wrote plays, in addition to his work for children. One of his works, Toad of Toad Hall, was an adaptation of this 1908 work by Kenneth Grahame, which features the character Mr. Toad. | The Wind in the Willows |
| As part of this person's collaboration with the Boys Scouts of America, this artist created paintings including A Guiding Hand and The Scoutmaster. In The Problem We All Live With, this artist depicted Ruby Bridges being escorted to school by U.S. marshals. For ten points, name this American painter, best known for his depictions of everyday life on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. | Norman Rockwell (or Norman Perceval Rockwell) |
| One of Rockwell's best-known series of paintings is this set, created in 1943 and referring to FDR's January 1941 State of the Union address. This series includes Speech, Worship, Want, and Fear. | Four Freedoms |
| This god names a spell book that was kept in a series of nested boxes protected by serpents. This god gambled with the moon god, Khonsu, in order to create intercalary days when Nut could give birth. This god taught Isis the magic spell needed to revive Osiris and conceive Horus. For ten points, name this ibis-headed or baboon-headed god of magic, wisdom, and writing in Egyptian mythology. | Thoth (accept Book of Thoth) |
| Thoth was equated by the Greeks with this Olympian god, whose lesser-known purviews included thieves and travelers. | Hermes (accept Hermes Trismegistus) |
| This man was killed after attempting to defend his cousin Wolfram, who was under attack by Wilfred May. While serving as a cavalry officer, this man said, “I have not gone to war in order to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose,” before joining the “Flyer Troops.” This man’s death was long credited to Canadian Arthur Roy Brown but has recently been identified as likely anti-aircraft fire. For ten points, identify this German pilot and dogfighting ace during the First World War. | Red Baron (or Manfred (Albrecht Freiherr von) Richthofen; accept Baron von Richtofen |
| The Red Baron led this fighter wing, which was named for the vibrant colors of its members. This wing was also led by future Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering. | Flying Circus (or Jagdgeschwader One; accept JG 1) |
| This man established an Independent Treasury system that contributed to a money supply shortage due to funds being stored in vaults. Charles Ogle targeted this man's supposedly lavish lifestyle in the Golden Spoon Oration, and this man's poor handling of an economic crisis contributed to his electoral defeat by William Henry Harrison. For ten points, identify this U.S. president whose administration suffered the Panic of 1837. | Martin Van Buren |
| Post-presidency, Martin Van Buren was nominated by the Free Soil party in this year’s presidential election, ultimately finishing third behind Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass. | |
| First person to serve in that position, also the third president. | Thomas Jefferson |
| Author of the Virginia Resolutions who also served as the fourth president. | James Madison Jr. |
| Man who was appointed to the position by Joe Biden in 2021. | Antony Blinken (or Antony “Tony” John Blinken) |
| Man who was named the first Black secretary of state in 2001. | Colin Powell (or Colin Luther Powell) |
| First woman named to the post in 1997. | Madeleine Albright (or Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright; or Marie Jana Körbelová) |
| Chief of staff under two presidents who succeeded George Shultz as secretary in 1989, serving under George H.W. Bush. | James Baker (or James Addison Baker the Third) |
| Dictator who led the USSR through World War Two. | Joseph Stalin (or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin; or Ioseb Besarionis dze Dzhugashvili) |
| Satellite they launched to begin the Space Race. | Sputnik 1 |
| Only official president of the Soviet Union serving from 1990 to 1991. | Mikhail Gorbachev (or Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev) |
| Founder of the Red Army who was assassinated in Mexico City in 1940. | Leon Trotsky (or Lev Davidovich Bronstein) |
| Internal security agency in the 1930s and ‘40s that succeeded the Cheka and OGPU and preceded the MVD. | NKVD (or Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del; or People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs) |
| KGB head who briefly served as paramount leader of the Soviet Union following Leonid Brezhnev’s death. | Yuri Andropov |
| Modern nation in which the war occurred. | Republic of South Africa |
| People from whom the Boers were descended, whose language is very similar to Afrikaans. | Dutch People (or Nederlanders; accept "people from the Netherlands" and similar answers) |
| British general who oversaw tens of thousands of Boer deaths in concentration camps before appearing in a Great War-era poster stating he “Wants You.” | Herbert Kitchener (or Lord Kitchener) |
| Current "judicial capital," the site of a failed conference after which Boer militia attacked British settlements. | Bloemfontein (accept Bloemfontein Conference) |
| Symbolic cloth object, two of which were fired in an artillery shell into the British camp during the Siege of Ladysmith. | British Flag (accept clear-knowledge equivalents; prompt on "flag") |
| British officer who held off the Siege of Mafeking and later wrote Scouting for Boys. | Robert Baden-Powell (or 1st Baron Baden-Powell; or Robert Stephenson Smyth Lord Baden-Powell of Gillwell) |
| Methodist minister J. W. Jennings compared this event to the Boston Tea Party while preaching in Billings. Richard Olney wanted to control this event by sending in the Army to stop a "rule of terror.” (+) Labor Day was created a week after the end of this event, which was crushed by President Grover Cleveland and led to the dissolution of the American (*) Railway Union. For ten points, name this 1894 labor uprising, led by Eugene V. Debs against a sleeping car company. | Pullman Strike |
| This building’s roof symbolizes the cosmos with the Sun at its center and would fit perfectly into its own rotunda as a complete sphere. Built where Romulus legendarily rose to heaven, the gods of (+) seven planets had shrines in this building’s wall niches. Containing Raphael’s tomb, this most-complete extant Roman building transfers 5,000 tons of weight from its oculus to walls twenty feet thick. Pope Boniface the Fourth made this building into a church, and it still has the world’s largest concrete (*) dome. For ten points, name this Roman temple, dedicated to all the gods. | Pantheon |
| The last remaining example of this system ended in December 2008 with the first democratic elections on the island of Sark. A 2000 land reform act in Scotland was passed to end this system, which necessitated the collection of feu duties for (+) land tenure. Villein and demesne are terms associated with the (*) Manorialism aspect of, for ten points, what social, political, and economic system that depends on oaths of fealty and the labor of serfs? | Feudalism (accept Manorialism or Manorialist Feudalism until mentioned; prompt on “Primogeniture” before “2000”) |
| Successors of this civilization called them the Tamoanchan. Some have claimed that this civilization was the Jaredites referenced in the Book of Mormon, or was African-descended based on the Cascajal [[kahs- KAH-hall]] Block. (+) This civilization, which lived in modern-day Tabasco, pioneered the concept of zero and a ballgame that used solid rubber (*) spheres. For ten points, name this earliest-known Mesoamerican civilization, known for its colossal stone heads. | Olmec Civilization |
| This figure’s assassin was prosecuted by future governor Bill Waller, who was felled by an all-white jury. This figure was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith after applying to law school following the decision in (+) Brown v. Board. This figure led a series of boycotts with the slogan “Don’t buy gas where you can’t use the bathroom.” (*) For ten points, name this NAACP field secretary for Mississippi who attempted to end segregation at Ole Miss. | Medgar Wiley Evers |
| This crop supplanted woad as the main source of a certain type of product due to introduction by the East India Company, and Eliza Lucas helped make it colonial South Carolina's second-most important (+) cash crop. This crop is used by the Tuareg people to produce the distinctive color of their veils and turbans, and it began to name a color after Isaac Newton introduced it as the penultimate color on his color wheel. (*) For ten points, name this crop historically used to dye denim and color blue jeans. | Indigo (accept Indigo Dye) |
| A bronze statue by Thomas Thornycroft depicts this historical figure and the two daughters she had with Prasutagus. A namesake banner featuring this figure was carried in voting rights marches by the (+) NUWSS, a UK suffragist group This woman mounted an uprising during the reign of Nero that was defeated by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and his Roman forces in AD 60 or 61. (*) For ten points, name this Celtic Briton warrior queen who led the Iceni [[‘eye’-SEE-‘eye’]]. | Boudica (or Boadicea; or Boudicea; or Buddug) |
| Rufus Putnam built a fort in this U.S. state called Campus Martius and also devised the construction plan for Marietta College. The Enabling Act of 1802 helped pave the way for this state’s admittance to the Union under the (+) Northwest Ordinance. An ROTC building in this state was burned down after an event that killed four and was captured in a (*) Pulitzer Prize-winning photo. For ten points, name this U.S. state where student protesters were shot at Kent State. | Ohio |
| In 2001, victims of a mass shooting in this country were killed in a billiards room by a man who was refused permission to marry a woman named Devyani. Gyanendra Shah was appointed regent after that shooting of this country's (+) royal family by Crown Prince Dipendra. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, or Prachanda, led this country's Maoist Party, and the Gorkha Kingdom led to the growth of power for this country's royal Rana family. Formerly led by Bidya Devi Bhandari, (*) for ten points, what South Asian country is governed from Kathmandu? | Nepal |
| Prince Albert Victor and Lewis Carroll are among those suspected of being this person, whose primary name came from the "Dear Boss" letter and whose nefarious activities in the 1880s terrified the residents of Whitechapel. | Jack the Ripper (accept Leather Apron; prompt on "Whitechapel Murderer") |
| Founded in October 2015, this company acquired subsidiaries Famebit and Apigee in 2016, the year it briefly overtook Apple (+) as the most valuable publicly traded company. Larry Page and Sergey Brin created this modern company, whose CEOs have included Astro Teller and Sundar Pichai. This company owns the first and second-most (*) visited websites on the Internet in 2022 after its purchase of YouTube. For ten points, name this parent company of Google. | Alphabet Inc. (do not accept or prompt on "Google") |
| This document was drafted by the archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton, and agreed upon by the barons and King John at Runnymede in 1215. | Magna Carta Libertatum |