| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| To legitimate his newly established rule, this king brought the corpse of the recently deceased Alexander the Great to his capital. This man and member of the Diadochi [[dye-AH-duh-KY]] established himself as king of Egypt. For the point, name this king, whose namesake dynasty ended with the suicide of Cleopatra. | Ptolemy the First Soter (or Ptolemaîos Sōtḗr) |
| This god won a race around the world against his brother by simply circling his parents. This god gained his most notable feature after Shiva decapitated him for obstructing the doorway to his mother's room. For the point, name this brother of Kartikeya and son of Parvati, an elephant-headed god in Hinduism. | Ganesha |
| One university in this state was the subject of a Supreme Court case argued by Daniel Webster about the validity of school charters made during colonial times.This state is home to an Ivy League university founded by Eleazar Wheelock to educate Native Americans about Christianity. For the point, name this New England state home to Granite State College in Manchester and Dartmouth College in Hanover. | New Hampshire |
| One follower of this ideology, Louise Michel, created its symbol after being exiled to New Caledonia. Italian followers of this ideology were deported in the 1919 Palmer raids, and George Orwell fought in a unit of people following this ideology in the Spanish Civil War due to its anti-authoritarianism. For the point, name this leftist ideology first named by Pierre Proudhon and generally believing in the abolition of the state. | Anarchism (or Anarchy; accept answers with Anarchy in the name, like Anarcho-Primitivism; prompt on “Libertarian Socialism”; do not accept “Libertarianism”) |
| In one legend, this thinker was last seen journeying westward on a water buffalo. This thinker is believed to have originated the concept of wu-wei, or non-action, and that principle developed by this thinker is equivalent to yin, the counterpart of yang. For the point, name this purported author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of Daoism. | Laozi (or Lao Tzu; or Lao Tze) |
| With Frederick the Great, this thinker wrote a chapter-by-chapter rebuttal of The Prince titled Anti- Machiavel. This thinker satirized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's belief that we live in the best of all possible worlds in a novel depicting the Lisbon Earthquake. For the point, name this enlightenment philosopher and author, the writer of Candide. | Voltaire (or François-Marie Arouet; accept M. de Voltaire) |
| Frank Capra’s series Why We Fight became popular following a speech by this man, who noted events in the Philippines and Guam were similar to one that was “deliberately planned.” This frequent giver of fireside chats once claimed that “the only thing we had to fear was fear itself.” For the point, name this U.S. president who declared that December 7th was a “date which will live in infamy” after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| The resistance group Otpor contributed to the overthrow of one leader of this country in the Bulldozer Revolution. That leader of this country died in the Hague in 2008 after being charged with ethnic cleansing during a war that led to the Dayton Accords. Kosovo declared independence from, for the point, what country which also split with Montenegro? | Republic of Serbia (or Republika Srbija) |
| Traditionally, Jews do not eat the sciatic tendon in remembrance of an injury sustained by this man. As a youth, this man cheated his brother out of his inheritance by donning goat skin to appear hairier. This man, who was renamed Israel after wrestling with either God or an Angel, labored for fourteen years in order to marry Rachel. For the point, name this Biblical patriarch, the father of Reuben, Judah, and Joseph. | Jacob (accept Israel before mentioned) |
| This mythical being was born to Poseidon and Medusa, and footsteps of this figure created springs, such as one on Mount Helicon known as the Hippocrene. One of this mythical being’s duties was carrying Zeus' thunderbolts, for which he was rewarded by becoming a constellation. Bellerophon rode, for the point, what mythical winged horse? | Pegasus (accept Bellerophon before "Poseidon" is mentioned) |
| Due to the Act of Settlement excluding Catholics, this monarch was succeeded by George the First and the Hanover Dynasty. During this ruler’s reign, Scotland and England were combined by the Acts of Union. A war named for this queen names a war in North America that was part of the War of the Spanish Succession. For the point, name this last Stuart Monarch, the successor of William and Mary in the early 18th century. | Anne, Queen of Great Britain |
| This vice president avoided serving overseas during the Vietnam War by joining the Indiana National Guard. After the contested 2020 election, this former vice president advised Mike Pence that he had no authority to reject electoral votes. For the point, name this vice president who served under George H. W. Bush. | Dan Quayle (or James Danforth Quayle) |
| This invention's usually attributed creator became wealthy after scoring a government contract to make interchangeable muskets. This invention revitalized the textile industry by efficiently separated the pointy seeds from a certain cash crop. For the point, name this invention of Eli Whitney’s that drastically increased the production of a white staple fiber in the south. | Cotton Gin |
| Since 1907, this country has been ruled by the Dragon Kings of the Wangchuck Dynasty, and this country’s official language is the Tibetic Dzongkha tongue. This country expelled many refugees of Nepalese ethnicity, although, like Nepal, is sandwiched in between India and China. For the point, name this high- altitude Himalayan kingdom that is governed from Thimphu [[TIM-poo]]. | Kingdom of Bhutan (or Druk Gyal Khap; or Druk Yul) |
| Money this man had borrowed from Major Gilbert Russell went missing at the discovery of his death. Along with a brother of a prominent Kentucky militia leader, this man led an effort whose members included trapper Toussaint Charbonneau, and that effort involved exploration of land obtained from the Louisiana Purchase. For the point, identify this first namesake of the Corps of Discovery's expedition. | Meriwether Lewis (prompt on “Lewis and Clark”) |
| This country’s president, the grandson of Palestinian Christians, oversaw a sixty percent decrease in homicide by arresting over 68,000 alleged gang members. That president of this country conducted the 9F self-coup, in which he used soldiers to intimidate this country’s legislature to approve a loan he made Bitcoin legal tender in this country. For the point, name this Central American country led by the authoritarian Twitter user, Nayib Bukele [[boo-KEH-leh]]. | Republic of El Salvador (accept República de El Salvador) |
| This scientist received Tiffany hourglasses along with a locked box from Warren Harding after a 1921 campaign to raise $100,000 for one gram of research material. This scientist, who was the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes, discovered polonium and radium. For the point, name this Polish-French scientist, who together with her husband, Pierre, made advancements in the understanding of radioactivity. | Marie Curie (or Marie Salomea Skłodowska-Curie; or Maria Salomea Skłodowska; prompt on “Curie”) |
| In North Carolina, these people used a loophole to effectively free slaves by giving them as trustees to their local church. These people, whose London Yearly Meeting began issuing “strong minutes” against the slave trade, made up the majority of the members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. For the point, name this Christian sect of William Penn, known for its pacifism. | Quakers (or the Religious Society of Friends) |
| According to legend, this product was first discovered when some of it landed in the teacup of Empress Leizu. This product was first produced in Europe after a monk smuggled in mulberry leaves and the eggs of a certain kind of moth. For the point, name this product used to make clothing, a textile that named a trade route from China to the West. | Silk (accept answers mentioned Silk; accept Silk Moth; accept Silk Road) |
| The opening of a shipping facility in Abilene led to the rise of a route for these efforts named for Jesse Chisholm. That route for these efforts terminated at the Red River Station. The invention of barbed wire brought an end to these events, often involving longhorns. For the point, name these mass movements of a certain animal that led to the rise of cow towns. | Cattle Drives (accept Cattle Movement; accept clear-knowledge equivalents) |
| This state was the only one to attempt to prevent any African-Americans from living there with its Black Exclusion Laws. A 1980’s era computer game was based on traveling to this state in the mid 19th century via its namesake trail to the Willamette Valley. For the point, name this West Coast state where pioneers settled cities including Salem and Portland. | Oregon |
| An ancient statue of a winged one of these animals is a popular emblem of Saint Mark and the city of Venice. A statue of one of these animals standing over a human is the last standing ruin from the city of Babylon, and two statues of these animals, named Patience and Fortitude, stand outside New York Public Library. For the point, name these felines who symbolize bravery and power, as well as provide the epithet of Richard the First of England. | Lions (accept Lion of Saint Mark; accept Lion of Babylon; accept Library Lions; accept Richard the Lionheart) |
| In 2000, this country’s president Alberto Fujimori fled to Japan amid corruption investigations. Abimael Guzmán once led an insurgency group in this country known as the Shining Path. For the point, name this South American country which has fought border conflicts with Ecuador and where Pedro Castillo attempted a 2022 coup in Lima. | Republic of Peru (accept República del Perú) |
| This man supported the Republican Party’s “lily-white” policy to win white Southerners from the Democrats and nominated the racist judge John J. Parker to the U.S. Supreme Court. During World War One, this man gained renown for heading the Commission for Relief in Belgium. For the point, name this politician whose one presidential term was marred by the Great Depression. | Herbert Hoover (or Herbert Clark Hoover) |
| Zosimus of Moscow was given a moniker referring to one of these things, which Queen Hatshepsut was often depicted wearing. Peter the Great controversially assessed a tax against these things that largely affected the Boyars. The nickname of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa alludes to, for the point, what type of facial hair, which also gives the pirate Edward Teach his nickname? | Beards (accept Zosimus the Bearded; accept Beard Tax; accept Red Beards; accept Black Beards) |
| The longest case in English legal history concerned libel against this company by Greenpeace activists, who claimed this company electrocuted pigs. In the 1980s, one in seven adults reported taking their first job with this company, which had a 38,000-person line in Moscow when its first location opened in the Soviet Union in 1990. The documentary Super Size Me concerned, for the point, what restaurant which cemented its brand identity under CEO Ray Kroc? | McDonald's Corporation (accept Mickey D's) |
| The motto "a mind unfettered in deliberation" is used by this organization, for whom Jens Stoltenberg is the current secretary-general. This alliance has invoked its fifth article only once, after the September 11th attacks in order for members to provide aid to the U.S. For the point, name this international military alliance named for a large body of water. | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (or NATO; or North Atlantic Alliance; or Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord; or OTAN) |
| Much of this state’s west was once controlled by the Anaconda mining company. Unionist Frank Little was murdered while advocating for workers’ rights in this state’s mines. Marcus Daly and William Clark were two of the Copper Kings of this state as industrialists who controlled the mining boom town of Butte. For the point, name this western state whose other mining boom towns include its capital, Helena. | Montana |
| This man published an essay of advice given by “Father Abraham” to a group of people in The Way to Wealth, which included adages such as, “There are no gains, without pains.” “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead” and “A friend in need is a friend indeed” are published in this man’s Poor Richard’s Almanack. For the point, name this American founding father who appears on the one-hundred-dollar bill. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Because this man was the son-in-law of Cinna, Sulla put him on his "Proscription" list, though he survived the wave of purges. This man executed Cilician pirates after they captured and ransomed him in the Aegean Sea. For the point, name this young Roman who would go on to win the Gallic Wars and become dictator for life before being assassinated on the Ides of March. | Gaius Julius Caesar |
| Special counsel Jack Smith is currently investigating this facility and its owner's alleged theft of documents from the National Archives and Records Administration. The first person to enter the 2024 Republican Primaries announced his candidacy from this residence, eventually referred to by him as his “Winter White House.” For the point, name this residence in Palm Beach of former president Donald Trump. | Mar-a-Lago |