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| A man with this title, named Hipparchus, was assassinated in 514 BC by Harmodius and Aristogeiton. That man was the brother of Hippias, the last holder of this title, and the son of Pisistratus, who also held this title, having taken it after Solon declined (+) this title. One city was subjected to a regime of people with this title after a defeat in Peloponnesian War. Held by a group of thirty (*) pro-Sparta oligarchs who ruled Athens, for the point, what is this title? | Tyrant of Athens (accept Thirty Tyrants; prompt on answers such as "king" or "ruler"; prompt on "Tyrranicides") |
| A song from this musical was originally performed by Gwen Verdon and urges "reline yourself, resign yourself, you're through." In this musical, a man must choose, before September 25, how to fulfill a contract with Applegate. The song "Whatever Lola (+) Wants" debuted in this musical, in which Joe Boyd becomes a "long ball hitter." A fan of the hapless Washington Senators makes a deal with the devil (*) to defeat a team from New York in, for the point, what Broadway musical? | Damn Yankees |
| This city takes its nickname from a story about five rams belonging to Daoist immortals being turned to stone at its founding. Prior to being captured by the British in the First Opium War, this city was the only port in China open to Western traders. The former Romanization (+) of this city’s name also names the second-most widely spoken Chinese language after Mandarin. The capital of (*) Guangdong, for the point, what is this large city in southern China? | Guangzhou (accept Canton; accept Cantonese) |
| In 2022, Arnold Hadd, a member of this group, was interviewed by Eater Magazine regarding his views on the cuisine of these people. A preserved village built by these people is now an open-air museum in Enfield, New Hampshire. This group was founded by women including (+) Ann Lee and split off from the Wardley Society. Joseph Bracket wrote many hymns for these people, including "Simple Gifts." Historically known for their furniture and flourishing during the (*) Second Great Awakening, for the point, what is this Christian sect? | Shakers (or United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing) |
| One character in this 1913 play claims that gin had been “mother’s milk” to her aunt. “Oh, I’m only a squashed cabbage leaf” is an insult often uttered in this play, one well-known line of which is said after one character is asked to go across a park. The Eynsford-Hills (+) are a family who appear in this play, which includes the line “Walk bloody likely!” Colonel Pickering comes from India to meet Henry Higgins in this play, which was later adapted into My Fair Lady. (*) Eliza Doolittle appears in, for the point, what George Bernard Shaw play? | Pygmalion (do not accept or prompt on "My Fair Lady") |
| High intensity crown fires in these biomes prevent tree stands from typically aging beyond one hundred years. These biomes are characterized by the presence of acidic and ashy soil called podzol. Black spruces in these biomes may partially (+) sink and tilt to form “drunken trees.” These non-mountainous biomes are bounded in the north by the tree line. (*) Located south of the Arctic tundra, for the point, what is this cold forest biome? | Taiga (accept Boreal Forest; accept Snow forest; prompt on "forest") |
| Joseph Babcock’s “Red Book” popularized this game among a wider variety of Americans. Most rule sets for this game eliminated several of the wild “king” pieces in the late 19th century due to names associated with the Taiping Rebellion. This game operates by using (+) robberies and draws to form pairs and melds from a thirteen-piece hand. Popular with Jewish and Chinese communities in the U.S. and played with (*) tiles, for the point, what is this game of Asian origin? | Mahjong (accept Mahjong solitaire; accept Mahjong rummy) |
| While working on this painting, set in Mauritania, Beaujon was one of numerous hospitals that the artist visited. An African named Jean Charles is depicted standing on a barrel in this painting as a shirtless figure waving a handkerchief toward the distant Argus. (+) Upon viewing this painting, Louis the Eighteenth told it’s artist, “Your shipwreck is certainly no disaster.” The creation of Théodore (*) Géricault [[zheh-ree-KOH]], for the point, what is this painting of a French maritime disaster? | The Raft of the Medusa (accept Shipwreck Scene before "shipwreck" is mentioned) |
| After an initial dismissal, this man was reinstalled in office following religious protests on Si- ye Tir. This man first came to power a month after the assassination of Ali Razmara, and soon thereafter, this man nationalized a facility in Abadan. This man was deposed in 1953 (+) by Operation Ajax, which restored British oil interests and gave de facto power back to the Shah. A politician whose fall came about after a (*) CIA-backed coup in his country, for the point, who was this Iranian prime minister? | Mohammed Mossadegh |
| In one story by this author, Ted is given the qualities of a medieval knight. This author of “My Chivalric Fiasco” wrote a work in which the printer Hans Vollman describes being placed in a “sick- box." That work, partly titled for a Tibetan word for a state between life and death, (+) focuses on a boy named Willie who was afflicted with typhoid fever. This author chronicled a Civil War president’s reaction to the death (*) of his son in the 2017 book Lincoln in the Bardo. For the point, name this American writer. | George Saunders |
| This person was director of the White House Office of Public Liaison from 1981 to 1983, and this person served as secretary of transportation from 1983 to 1987. This person was secretary of labor from 1989 to 1990, and in 1991, this woman became president of the (+) American Red Cross. This woman served as a senator for North Carolina from 2003 to 2009. The wife of a Kansas senator who was the 1996 (*) Republican presidential nominee, for the point, who is this woman? | Elizabeth Dole (or Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford Dole; or Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford) |
| This book's author stated that he modeled its protagonist after the subject of the Little Nemo comic strip. In this book, the protagonist tells three bakers who try to put him in an oven, "I'm not the milk and the milk's not me!" This book's author described is as the first part of a (+) trilogy that includes Outside Over There and Where the Wild Things Are. Depicting Mickey's (*) surreal journey to bake a cake, for the point, what is this picture book by Maurice Sendak? | In the Night Kitchen |
| This man was appointed by the War Department to assist Joseph Nicollet's 1838 expedition to map much of present-day Iowa and Minnesota. While leading his second expedition, this man attempted to find an alternate route to the South Pass on the Oregon Trail, (+) and this man's wife, Jessie, helped write many of his reports and memoirs. This man was the Radical Democracy Party's nominee for president but withdrew before the 1864 (*) election. For the point, name this frontiersman, the first Republican presidential nominee in 1856. | John C (harles) Frémont |
| This lake's largest island is Wild Horse Island, and this lake's namesake river passes by Polson and Kalispell. The Kerr Dam enlarges this lake and is operated by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, which inhabit a namesake reservation including the Bison Range (+) reserve and bordering on Lolo National Forest. The Bitterroot Mountains overlook this lake, located north of Missoula (*) and south of Glacier National Park. For the point, name this largest natural lake in Montana. | Flathead Lake (accept Flathead River; accept Flathead Indian Reservation) |
| A January 2013 explosion at the skyscraper that houses this company's headquarters killed 37 people. This company, which was responsible for the San Juanico disaster, has it's founding celebrated annually in one country every March 18th. This company is the second-largest (+) by revenue in Latin America after Petrobras. Formed in 1938 by nationalizing one country's industry under President Lázaro Cárdenas, (*) for the point, what is this state-owned oil company of a neighbor of the United States. | Pemex (or Petróleos Mexicanos) |
| A structure at this location was originally built by Zerubabbel [[zeh-ROO-bah-bul]] and was refurbished during the reign of Herod the Great. Some of this location's structures include the Dome of the Chain and another structure, believed to be the location from which (+) Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. Also known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and home to the Dome (*) of the Rock, for the point, what is this holy site in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, located on a hill in Jerusalem? | Temple Mount (accept Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem before mentioned) |
| The main character of this novel gives birth to Berthe shortly after she moves to Yonville, the leading figure of which is Homais [[OH-meh]] at the end of this novel. Rodolphe Boulanger has an affair with the title character after another man, Leon Dupuis, (+) goes to study in Paris. Concerning the title character's varying loves, ending in her suicide by eating arsenic, and written by Gustave Flaubert [[floh-BEHR]], (*) for the point, what is this 1856 novel? | Madame Bovary |
| This phrase is the title of the 1994 sequel to the book Cosmos, the author of which wrote, "That's here. That's home. That's us." That book's title was inspired by a 1990 image taken by Voyager 1 from nearly six billion kilometers away (+) as a part of a mission to capture a series of sixty photographs to complete a "family portrait" of the Solar System. Carl Sagan (*) coined, for the point, what three-word phrase used to describe the appearance of a very distance planet Earth? | Pale Blue Dot (accept Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space; prompt on partial answers) |
| This byproduct is a central ingredient of shoofly pie, a dessert which might have gotten its name from a nineteenth-century brand of this byproduct. France’s hostility to rum made its West Indian planters happy to sell this byproduct to British American smugglers. (+) Per a song sung by Southern convict laborers at the turn of the 1900s, all the cane on the Brazos had been ground down to this byproduct. The namesake of a 1733 British imperial law replaced by the (*) Sugar Act, for the point, what is this byproduct? | Molasses (accept Molasses Act of 1733) |
| Features found in this region can be mapped by butterfly diagrams. This region anchors loop- like structures called prominences, and this region is composed of plasma cells called granules. This region encloses the unstable convection (+) zone, and in the Sun, this region is around sixty miles thick and 6000 Kelvin. Sunspots (*) appear in and visible light is radiated from, for the point, what layer of a star located just below the chromosphere? | Photosphere (prompt on “Atmosphere”) |
| Karl Kautsky translated an unofficial fourth form of this work, which was published under the title Theories of Surplus Value. This work's first chapter outlines a form of reification named "Commodity Fetishism," which claims the consumer (+) believes an object has perceived value. This work's primary author died after completing its first volume, leading to the second and third volume being finished by Friedrich Engels. (*) A critique of the title economic system, for the point, what is this Marxist work? | Das Kapital (or Capital: A Critique of Political Economy) |
| This party only ran two presidential candidates over the course of its brief history, one of whom was Jacob Broom. The popularity of this party peaked in the mid-1850s, at the same time at which people who immigrated to the United States in the late 1840s could naturalize (+) as US citizens. Staunchly anti-immigrant, this party emerged from a secretive nativist movement launched in the 1840s. Dissolving as sectional (*) tensions overtook national politics, for the point, what was this political party? | Native American Party (accept Know-Nothings) |
| John Taylor was convicted in the only fatal incident involving this product, but a French court overturned that conviction in 2012. One of these items was notably painted in a Pepsi livery in 1996, and this item's sole competitor was the Tupolev Tu-144. (+) Unlike its counterparts, this item notably contained a drop nose for better visibility during landings. Developed by Aerospatiale and BAC and flying transatlantic routes (*) for British Airways and Air France from 1976 to 2003, for the point, what was this supersonic aircraft? | Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde |
| In the aftermath of the Union of Lublin, this country's regions of Galicia and Zaporozhia were annexed as the Ruthenian provinces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. As Poland gradually lost control of those territories, this country fragmented into Left and Right Banks, (+) governed by Cossack Hetmans. The southern regions of this country were then governed by the Turkic Khanate of Crimea. The Dnipro (*) River runs through a namesake city to the Black Sea in, for the point, what country? | Ukraine (or Ukraina) |
| The MSSI and the ATS were two of the earliest organizations in the US to advocate for this cause. Native American activists for this cause included Peter Chartier and Samson Occom. Francis Murphy created blue ribbon badges for members of this movement whose later adherents (+) included the WCTU. Gaining its greatest legal victory with the passage of the Volstead Act and aiming to promote teetotalism, (*) for the point, what was this early American social movement? | Temperance movement (accept Prohibition; accept clear-knowledge equivalents which mention restricting alcohol) |
| The first table to track and measure this phenomenon was created by Florentine merchant Francesco di Balduccio. Examples of this phenomenon, which can be calculated by multiplying the nominal rate and frequency, can also be seen in dividend reinvestment plans. Albert Einstein (+) once jokingly called this process both "the Eighth Wonder of the World" and "the most powerful force in the universe." The accumulation of a fixed rate of money to the principal sum (*) of a loan or deposit, for the point, what is this financial term? | Compound interest (accept word forms; prompt on partial answers) |
| In this book, its author wrote an abridged biography of Episcopal priest Alexander Crummel. Another section of this book compared life on cotton plantations to the mythological quest for the Golden Fleece. The sections of this book were written around essays published earlier in the (+) Atlantic Monthly. “The problem of the [t]wentieth [c]entury is the problem of the color line” was stated in the introduction to this collection (*) of fourteen essays. For the point, name this work by W.E.B. DuBois [[doo-BOYSS]]. | The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches |
| This quantity is plotted on the y-axis of a curve including hardening and necking regions above the yield point. The second-order Cauchy tensor relates the normal form of this quantity to its shear form, which is caused by forces parallel to the cross-sectional (+) area. This quantity appears in the numerator of Young's Modulus for an elastic material. Strain is often (*) contrasted with, for the point, what measure of applied force on a material, which can cause deformation? | Stress (accept Shear stress; accept Normal stress; accept Cauchy stress tensor) |
| Tacitus's Agricola describes the conquest of the north of this region, whose governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, had earlier lost the Battle of Watling Street. Vespasian led the initial conquest of this region, in which the Iceni were led in a revolt by (+) Boudica. Julius Caesar led naval expeditions to this region during the Gallic Wars. Governed from (*) Londinium, for the point, what was this Roman region? | Britannia (or Roman Britain) |
| This composer included sections of Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" in a piece about friends killed in World War One, titled "Ode to Death." A col legno string ostinato playing straight G's in 5/4 time opens a movement of a piece by this composer. (+) This composer's tenure at St Paul’s Girls’ School inspired his piece St. Paul's Suite. "The Bringer of Old Age" and "The Bringer of War" (*) were included in the seven-movement suite titled The Planets by, for the point, what English composer? | Gustav Holst (or Gustavus Theodore von Holst) |
| This city contains the Folkwang University of the Arts as well as the main headquarters of ThyssenKrupp. In this city, in the 1940s, Karl and Theo Albrecht took over their parents' store, which eventually became the global supermarket chain Aldi. This city hosts the annual Spiel [[SHPEEL]] (+) board game convention and is the only city in its country to be featured on the Pandemic game board. Home to the Zollverein Coal Mine and the second-largest city in the Ruhr, (*) for the point, what is this "secret capital"? | Essen |
| Wilson and Cudahy were two of the “Big Five” companies that packaged this commodity. Gustavus Swift saw this commodity packaged at his Union Stock Yards. The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in response to a novel (+) written about the packaging of this commodity which “aimed for the public’s heart” but “hit it in the stomach.” Packed by the original “Uncle Sam,” in conditions similar to those detailed in Upton Sinclair’s (*) The Jungle, for the point, what is this commodity? | Meat (anti-prompt on specific types of meat) |
| Description Acceptable. The Grenelle Agreements increased the minimum wage during this event, which was predated by the Movement of 22 March. That movement was led by Daniel Cohn- Bendit, who became known as "Danny the Red" during this event. After fleeing to (+) Baden-Baden, the subject of this event was rebuked by Georges Pompidou. The Sorbonne was shut down and divided into thirteen universities following this event. Students (*) protested against Charles DeGaulle in Paris in, for the point, what event? | May 1968 Protests (accept 1968 Student Protests before "student" is mentioned; accept Student Protests against Charles DeGaulle before mentioned) |