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| Note to Moderator – silently read the prompt instructions before reading the question to the players. According to the Arkansas Gazette, this man remarked, “Some war hero is always getting in my way” after getting stuck in traffic behind Charles de Gaulle’s motorcade. After being heckled by a crowd in Dallas in 1963, this UN ambassador remarked of one woman, “I don’t want her to go to jail. I want her to go to school.” For the point, name this “egghead” governor of Illinois, the Democratic nominee for president in 1952 and 1956. | Adlai Ewing Stevenson the Second (prompt on partial answer; do not accept “Adlai Stevenson Jr.” give one prompt on, but do not accept or repeatedly prompt on descriptive answers [e.g. “the Adlai Stevenson who ran against Eisenhower”]) |
| This battle is best known by a name it shares with a later battle, sometimes called the Battle of Pecatonica. Though some eight hundred of his followers died in this battle, Chief Menawa managed to escape. The Battle of Tohopeka is another name for this battle, at which future president of Texas Sam Houston received a grievous wound which his comrades feared would be fatal. For the point, name this battle, fought along the Tallapoosa River, at which Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks. | Battle of Horseshoe Bend (accept Battle of Tohopeka before mentioned) |
| For this publication, W. E. B. DuBois [[doo-BOYSS]] published a series called "Worlds of Color." This journal published an article arguing that "the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural." This publication reworked a piece, under the pseudonym "X," which introduced the term "containment." For the point, name this international relations journal, which published "The Clash of Civilizations?" and George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram." | Foreign Affairs |
| A series of rock cutouts and petroglyphs indicate the solstices at this site’s Three Slab Site. A painting at this site is believed to depict the 1054 supernova in red next to a crescent moon and beneath a handprint. A spiral petroglyph at this site is bisected by the light of the sun on the Summer Solstice through a carving known as the Sun Dagger. Ancient astronomers at this site lived in “great houses” such as Pueblo Bonito and Chetro Ketl. For the point, name this archaeo-astronomy site in New Mexico, built by the Ancestral Puebloans. | Chaco Canyon (accept Chaco Culture National Historical Park) |
| This man's wife, Lucille Campbell Green, financed his newspaper with what she earned after graduating from Madame C.J. Walker's beauty college. That publication, called The Messenger, was run by this man who helped develop the "Freedom Budget." An organization founded by this man aimed to help a group who relied on tips from the wealthy passengers they served in Pullman trains. A leading organizer of the March on Washington, for the point, who was this Black labor leader who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters? | A (sa) Philip Randolph |
| Jonathan Blanchard attempted to revive this party which published newspapers including the National Observer and the Albany Journal. This party was founded in the wake of the presumed murder of William Morgan and achieved its greatest success in the election of 1832, in which it won 25 seats in the House and seven electoral votes for its presidential nominee, William Wirt. For the point, name this party, the earliest third party in US politics, a single-issue party, which opposed a certain fraternal organization. | Anti-Masonic Party |
| Henry Bergh founded this organization in 1866, eight years before starting a similarly named group concerned with children. In 2007, this organization commissioned a controversial TV commercial scored to Sarah McLachlan's song "Angel." This organization began a nationwide spay and neuter campaign in 1973 and was originally formed to oppose cockfighting and the beating of carriage horses. For the point, name this U.S.-based organization dedicated to animal welfare causes. | ASPCA (or American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) |
| Philip Mazzei may have inspired this phrase, which appears word-for-word in John Milton’s Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. The words “by nature” appear in a similar phrase which George Mason developed for the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Howard Zinn noted that one gender was excluded by this phrase, which occurs after another phrase indicating the self-evidence of certain truths. Written by a man accused of hypocrisy due to his ownership of Sally Hemings and other slaves, for the point, what is this five-word phrase in the Declaration of Independence? | "All men are created equal" |
| This civil rights activist wrote two autobiographies, Three Years in Mississippi and A Mission from God. In 1966, this man led an attempted solo “March Against Fear,” from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi, to encourage African-Americans to register to vote, during which Aubrey James Norvell shot him. For the point, name this man, the first Black student to be admitted to the University of Mississippi. | James Meredith (or James Howard Meredith) |
| A work by this composer includes the real-life Senator Senex and focuses on an enslaved person owned by Hero who tries to win the heart of Philia. Pseudolus is the protagonist of that work by this composer, inspired by the Roman playwright Plautus. Another work by this composer includes representations of Giuseppe Zangara, Squeaky Fromme, and other title Assassins. For the point, name this American composer of the musicals A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Sweeney Todd. | Stephen Sondheim (or Stephen Joshua Sondheim) |
| Ron Ridenhour's experience learning about this event is the subject of the article in Nobody Gets Off the Bus. Oran Henderson was tried for failing to report details of this event to Samuel Koster. Ernest Medina was among those involved in this event, after which a life sentence was commuted to 3.5 years for William Calley, Jr. Members of Companies B and C carried out this event in a pair of hamlets in Sơn Mỹ [[SOHN-MEE]]. An official U.S. Army total claims that 347 people died in, for the point, what event in the Vietnam War, in which civilians were massacred? | Mỹ Lai [[MEE-"LIE"]] massacre (accept Massacre at Songmy; accept Pinkville Massacre; be lenient on pronunciation) |
| Clarence Thomas worked as a lawyer for this company in the 1970s and later ruled in its favor in the 2013 case Bowman v. [this company]. This company sponsored the House of the Future and Adventure Through Inner Space attractions at Disneyland. This company, which was acquired by Bayer in 2020, developed the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup. For the point, name this agriculture company, known for its production of pesticides like DDT and Agent Orange, as well as genetically modified seeds. | Monsanto Company (accept Bowman v. Monsanto; accept Vernon Hugh Bowman v. Monsanto Company, et al.) |
| When this person was sent to prison, Charles Ruthenberg led a march which very quickly became a series of riots. This figure served two terms in the Indiana state legislature as a Democrat but moved to a better-known position after the Burlington Railroad Strike. This figure ran for president in 1920 despite sitting in jail, netting his party a best-ever million votes. For the point, name this long-time socialist leader who co-founded the IWW and ran for president five times between 1900 and 1920. | Eugene V (ictor) Debs |
| LaMotte Cohu became president of this company in the midst of fallout partly prompted by its fall in stock price under Jack Frye. Emphasis on hiring aviators contributed to this airline being known as the “Lindbergh Line.” A hotel named for this airline opened in 2019 in a former terminal it used, which had been designed by Eero Saarinen, at New York’s JFK Airport. Purchased by Howard Hughes, this company was considered an unofficial national airline alongside rival Pan Am. For the point, name this now-defunct airline which went by a three-letter acronym. | TWA (accept Trans World Airlines; accept Transcontinental & Western Air) |
| This man's late career included narrating the EPCOT attraction "Spaceship Earth" and playing Captain Neweyes, a partial parody of his real persona, in the film We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story. This man succeeded Douglas Edwards in his longest-lasting role, in which he ended each broadcast by stating, "And that's the way it is." This man delivered live updates on the Kennedy assassination, transmitted to him in New York by his eventual successor, Dan Rather. For the point, name this anchor of the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. | Walter Cronkite (or Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.) |
| This event was the subject of Fort McNair oral histories used by Philip Kukielski in a book subtitled "Legacy of a Flawed Victory." An October 25 Thanksgiving Day commemorates this event in the country affected by it. Internal struggle within the People's Revolutionary Government, which resulted in the death of Maurice Bishop, was among the causes of this event. An assault on Point Salines [[sah-LEENS]] Aiport occurred during this event which targeted a country north of Venezuela. Occurring in 1983, for the point, what was this intervention in a Caribbean island country? | United States invasion of Grenada (accept Operation Urgent Fury; accept clear-knowledge equivalents) |
| Two answers required. One of these people, who originally met the other in Clarence Clay's kitchen, lost the use of her leg after a car accident at an unfinished bridge near Wellington, Texas. After that, these people had a run-in with Henry Humphrey, the town marshal of Alma. These people relied on the powerful Browning Automatic Rifle to win several gun battles with police before Frank Hamer's posse killed them both in a Louisiana shootout. For the point, name this couple who became folk heroes during a 1930s robbery spree. | Bonnie and Clyde (accept Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow; prompt on partial answers; accept first or last names for both) |
| This artist depicted an author holding a curtain, watching a young George Washington apologizing to his father for chopping a cherry tree in Parson Weems' Fable. Another painting by this artist depicts three old women looking away from Emmanuel Leutze's [[LOY-tsuhs]] Washington Crossing the Delaware, titled Daughters of Revolution. This man's daughter, Nan Graham, and his dentist, Byron McKeeby, stood as models for one noted painting by this man. For the point, name this Iowan, the creator of American Gothic. | Grant Wood (or Grant DeVolson Wood) |
| Charles B. Atwood and John Wellborn Root created numerous designs for this event, concurrently with which Patrick Eugene Prendergast committed a crime. A gilded sculpture by Daniel Chester French, which represented The Republic, was created for this event, during which Mayor Carter Harrison was assassinated. Life-sized replicas of the Pinta and the Santa Maria were created for this event in honor of the Genoese explorer whom it commemorated. Taking place in Jackson Park on the South Side of one city, for the point, what was this 1893 event? | World's Columbian Exposition (accept Chicago World's Fair; accept Chicago Columbian Exposition; accept 1893 World's Fair until mentioned, prompt after; prompt on "World's Fair") |
| The fictional president, Josiah Bartlet, of the TV show The West Wing hailed from the same state as this president. A well-known novelist died in this U.S. president’s company in the White Mountains. This man's first and last names are the same as the middle and last names of a main character from the TV sitcom M.A.S.H., a character whose nickname derives from a famous James Fenimore Cooper character. For the point, name this president, the only non-fictional New Hampshireman to hold that office. | Franklin Pierce (accept Benjamin Franklin Pierce) |
| During the George W. Bush administration, Mary E. Peters served in this position, which was also held by the wives of two Republican majority leaders of the U.S. Senate. The first individual appointed to this position in the federal bureaucracy, Alan S. Boyd, later served as the president of Amtrak and Airbus Industries. A title shared by John A. Volpe, Andrew Card, Jr., and Pete Buttigieg [[BOO-teh-zhezh]], this is, for the point, what cabinet- level position which oversees traffic regulations and aviation? | Secretary of Transportation (or Transportation Secretary) |
| This onetime student at the University of Edinburgh was born in Colchester, Ontario after his parents traveled via Underground Railroad to escape a life of slavery in Kentucky. An invention by this man, in which a fluid could flow in the vicinity of an engine without forcing a train to stop, is the "oil-drip cup." A whiskey advertisement in a 1966 issue of Ebony claimed that this man's "most famous legacy. . .was his name." Often thought to have inspired an idiom meaning "the real thing," for the point, who was this African-American inventor? | Elijah J. McCoy (accept "The Real McCoy") |
| Along with executive Harley Early, one longtime CEO of this company created a design system that was labeled "planned obsolescence" by critics. Several actions of another CEO of this company, Roger Smith, were the subject of Michael Moore's first documentary. Under the leadership of Alfred P. Sloan, this company developed the Hydramatic, the first commercially successful automatic transmission system. For the point, name this automotive manufacturer whose discontinued brands include Saturn and Oldsmobile. | General Motors Company (or GM) |
| Three school board members in Issaquah, Washington were recalled for thinking this novel was a part of an “overall communist plot.” The author of this novel sued a writer for breaching copyright after they created a sequel titled 60 Years Later which featured a character named “Mr. C.” Mark David Chapman stated this novel was a major influence and had it in his possession on the night he murdered John Lennon. For the point, what 1951 features a protagonist living in a world full of “phonies”, and was written by J.D. Salinger? | The Catcher in the Rye |
| This amendment was litigated in Engblom v. Carey, involving the National Guard replacing striking prison guards. This amendment is the only one of the Bill of Rights to not be the primary basis of a Supreme Court decision. This amendment was invoked by Muriel Bowser in 2020 when 75,000 soldiers attempted to find hotel rooms in Washington D.C. For the point, identify this amendment, which says no one can be forced to quarter troops in peacetime against their will. | Third Amendment (or Amendment Three) |
| This figure was captured by General Salcedo in his second expedition after wandering into Chihuahua, and this man's diary wasn’t recovered by the U.S. government for over a century. In the War of 1812, Cockburn ordered the burning of Washington D.C. in response to this figure ordering the burning of York. This explorer was sent to see the southern and western portion of the Louisiana Purchase and may be best known for his explorations in Colorado. For the point, name this explorer of the western United States who lends his name to a noted "peak" in Colorado. | Zebulon Pike (or Zebulon Montgomery Pike; accept Pike's Peak) |
| The books Worth Fighting For and The American Family were authored by this man, who was succeeded by Dan Coats as senator from Indiana. This man claimed that reliance on cards contributed to an incident in which he sought to correct a 12-year old student at a Trenton, New Jersey spelling bee. A misspelling of the word "potato" by this man was widely publicized during his tenure as U.S. vice president. For the point, name this man who was elected in 1988, along with George H.W. Bush. | Dan Quayle (or James Danforth Quayle) |
| One man with this surname was defeated during the 1965 Cleveland mayoral election by Carl Stokes. Another man of this surname was defeated during the 1952 RNC by Dwight Eisenhower and was the alphabetically second of two namesakes of an act that prohibited closed shops and created right-to-work states. That act was co-named for Fred Hartley and a man of this surname, who was the son of a man who served as both president and chief justice. For the point, give this surname of President William Howard. | Taft (accept Seth Chase Taft; accept Robert Alphonso Taft Sr.; accept Taft- Hartley Act; accept William Howard Taft) |
| Neil Smith claimed a "global" variant of this position was promoted by Woodrow Wilson. During the presidency of Calvin Coolidge, a memorandum on this position was authored by J. Reuben Clark. The founding of the Organization of American States is seen as a re-affirmation of this position, first outlined in an 1823 State of the Union address. Distinctions in "spheres of influence" were central to this position which aimed to thwart European colonization in the Western hemisphere. For the point, identify this position named for the fifth U.S. president. | Monroe Doctrine (prompt on partial answers) |
| More than 10,000 people who worked with this commodity led an uprising in the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, the largest uprising since the Civil War. The Ludlow Massacre targeted people who worked with this commodity. “Breaker boys” often retrieved this substance during the industrial revolution, and canaries were often placed in mines of this substance. For the point, name this commodity which provided most of America’s energy between 1880 and 1940 before being surpassed by petroleum. | Coal |
| Some restrictions on the creation of these places were overturned in the Supreme Court case California v. Cabazon. Vera Coking refused to sell her property near one of these locations in an eminent domain case sparked by Donald Trump's desire to build a parking lot. Due to a lack of restrictions on reservations, the Pechanga, Pequot [[PEE-kwaht]], and Mohawk tribes have been able to build these institutions on their land. For the point, name these places, which include The Sands and The MGM Grand in Las Vegas. | Casinos (accept Gambling halls or other equivalents, prompt on “hotel”) |
| In this body of water, despite heavy losses, Patriot forces led by Benedict Arnold at the Battle of Valcour Island stalled a British invasion long enough to force the enemy to retreat to winter quarters. The Battle of Plattsburgh, fought on this body of water, halted a British invasion in 1814. Fort Ticonderoga, captured by Arnold and Ethan Allen, was built near the southern end of this body of water. For the point, name this body of water, a traditional border of the Mohawk and Abenaki peoples. | Lake Champlain |
| The last surviving member of this group, Ralph Waldo Taylor, died at age 105 in 1987. One of this group’s nicknames, inspired by its first commander, Colonel Leonard Wood, was “Wood’s Weary Walkers.” This regiment was stationed at Tampa, Florida before fighting at the Battle of Las Guasimas. This regiment notably fought at a battle in Cuba, which earned its commander a posthumous Medal of Honor. For the point, name this regiment, formed by William McKinley in 1898 and known officially as the First United States Volunteer Cavalry. | Rough Riders (accept First United States Volunteer Cavalry before mentioned) |
| This man's first election win was a 2000 race for Kern Community College District trustee. With regard to baby carrots, this man claimed, "They chop 'em, and they charge you more, and you buy them." That statement was made during a more than eight-hour long speech meant to stall a vote on the Build Back Better Act. A gavel with the words "Fire Pelosi" was once gifted to, for the point, what Republican congressman who served as House majority leader from 2014 to 2019? | Kevin McCarthy (or Kevin Owen McCarthy) |
| This man refused to attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, because he “smelled a rat.” In one speech, this man made a thinly veiled threat towards George the Third by stating, “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell.” While speaking at the Virginia House of Burgesses, this man stated, “If this be treason, make the most of it.” For the point, name this Founding Father who famously declared, “Give me liberty or give me death.” | Patrick Henry |
| One interstate conflict over this commodity concerns the result of an 1819 survey by James Camak. Olvera Street in Los Angeles was the location of the Zanja Madre, a Spanish colonial structure built to handle this resource which was previously overseen by the city's Zanjero [[zahn-HEH-roh]]. For the point, name this resource, brought to Los Angeles from the Owens Valley through a William Mulholland-commissioned aqueduct. | Water (or H2O; accept Tennessee-Georgia water dispute and similar answers) |