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| An action at this battle was detailed in Single Handed and was carried out by William Whitley, though it is often attributed to another man. The cry "Remember the River Raisin" was shouted at this battle, sometimes named after Moraviantown. Future vice-presidential candidate Richard Mentor Johnson may have carried out an action against the Shawnee chieftain who lost this War of 1812 battle. For the point, name this battle during which Tecumseh was killed. | Battle of the Thames (accept Battle of Moraviantown before mentioned) |
| A series of essays by this person led Benjamin Franklin to adopt the pen name Constance Dogood, in honor of this man's Essays to Do Good. This man owned an enslaved person named Onesimus [[oh-NESS-im-us]], who taught them about variolation, prompting them to experiment with smallpox inoculations. This figure wrote the text "Wonders of the Invisible World," which discussed the use of “spectral evidence” in a certain event. A Puritan minister from Massachusetts Bay, for the point, who was this man whose views were sometimes in opposition to his father, Increase? | Cotton Mather (prompt on "Mather") |
| This person, the longest-serving cabinet member under Franklin Roosevelt, penned a biography of him titled The Roosevelt I Knew. This person became the head of the New York office of the National Consumers League and observed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which sparked their interest in labor rights. Serving as secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945 and helping to establish a Federal Minimum Wage and Unemployment Compensation, for the point, who was this first woman to be a member of a presidential cabinet? | Frances Perkins (or Fannie Coralie Perkins) |
| Born Margaret O’Neale, this woman married John B. Timberlake, and shortly after his death, this woman married a senator from Tennessee. As a widower with no daughters, Martin Van Buren was able to ally himself more closely to Andrew Jackson by engaging civilly with this woman. Floride Calhoun, and other wives of members of the Jackson administration, compelled their husbands to shun this woman. For the point, name this woman, whose remarriage resulted in the Petticoat Affair. | Margaret "Peggy" Eaton (or Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill; or Margaret "Peggy" Buchignani) |
| Barney Ross and Leonard J. Thom were among the crew members of this vessel, which was stationed on Rendova Island and received missions from Thomas Warfield. Taking part in the Battle of Blackett Strait, this vessel was tasked with leaving Bougainville Island to provide supplies to U.S. troops during a 1943 mission. Incidents aboard this ship resulted in one man being sent to Chelsea Naval Hospital to recover from back injuries. That leader of this vessel rescued Patrick McMahon after the explosion of, for the point, what boat, captained by John F. Kennedy? | PT-109 (or Patrol torpedo boat 109) |
| This company used a fleet of red-and-black wagons to serve rural areas too small to support retail stores during the time when the Hanford family ran this company. The second-largest U.S. seller of goods after General Motors in 1950, this company's history includes a 1915 to 1975 run during which it was the largest grocer in the U.S. For the point, identify this now-defunct mega-chain, originally named for its business of importing tea across two oceans. | A&P (or The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company) |
| This man, a civil and gay rights activist, was awarded the Medal of Freedom posthumously by Barack Obama in 2013. From 1966 to 1979, this man served as the first executive director of the AFL-CIO's A. Philip Randolph Institute, which helped desegregate unions. This man, a close advisor of Martin Luther King, Jr., was the principal organizer of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. For the point, name this man who helped organized the March on Washington in 1963. | Bayard Rustin |
| Louis Werner was the only person convicted in connection to this event during which John Murray was taken hostage. This event was largely planned by Jimmy Burke after Henry Hill was tipped off by bookmaker Martin Krugman. A fictionalized portrayal of this event's aftermath depicts the discovery of corpses of several people involved in it accompanied by the song "Layla" in the film Goodfellas. For the point, name this 1978 event in which over $5 million in cash and jewelry was stolen from a cargo building of the West German flag carrier at JFK Airport. | Lufthansa heist (accept synonyms for "heist") |
| This event took place in the model of a $14,000 building, which the average American was suggested could afford. William Safire claimed that Leonid Brezhnev tried to obstruct his photos of this event, which took place in a half-house nicknamed "Splitnik." During this event, one person claimed to be a “lawyer for communism,” while his opponent, the sitting U.S. vice-president, was a “lawyer for capitalism.” For the point, name this legendary informal argument between Nixon and Khrushchev inside a model example of the title cooking spaces. | Kitchen Debate |
| This person died in 1843 on an expedition to Mexico, and in 1839, this person represented a "Western" group that reunified with Jesse Bushyhead's "Easterners" in the aftermath of a treaty opposed by John Ross. This man’s letters to his daughter, Ayoka, inspired education among the Five Civilized Tribes. During the creation of Oklahoma, Native American leaders proposed naming a state after, for the point, what inventor of the Cherokee alphabet? | Sequoyah (accept George Gist; or George Guess) |
| A viral 1984 news story arose after Eric Show, Mark Thurmond, and Dave Dravecky, who were all San Diego baseball players, revealed ties to this organization. Created by the founder of the Oxford Candy Company, another company, which publishes The New American, is owned by this organization. Founded by Robert Welch, this organization is named after an army officer killed by Chinese communists during World War Two. For the point, name this far-right organization, sometimes called the JBS. | John Birch Society (accept JBS before mentioned) |
| This man filled the vacancy left by statesman John Quincy Adams in the House of Representatives following his sudden 1848 death. This reformer served as the first president of Antioch College, near Dayton, Ohio, and is interred on its grounds. This man became a proponent of the "word method" over the "alphabet method," until it fell out of favor in schools in the 1950s. The first secretary of the Massachusetts state board of education was, for the point, what education reformer, whose ideas formed the "Common School" movement? | Horace Mann |
| Arthur Dolan suggested using this phrase in an address to the British Parliament, though this phrase was first used in public in speech to the National Association of Evangelicals. This phrase was used to describe an entity with "aggressive impulses" just before a call to avoid calling "the arms race a giant misunderstanding" during a speech advocating the deployment of intermediate-range missiles to Europe. Used in 1983 to refer to the Soviet Union, for the point, what is this two-word term used by Ronald Reagan? | "Evil empire" |
| This person, the brother-in-law of Francis Scott Key, stated that there are no implied rights in contracts in one majority opinion. Benjamin Robbins Curtis supposedly resigned from the Supreme Court to stop working with this man, who infamously wrote an opinion finding the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. For the point, name this man who replaced John Marshall as chief justice of the Supreme Court and found in his majority opinion for Dred Scott that Black people cannot be American citizens. | Roger B (rooke) Taney [[TAH-nee]] (accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| In 1948, Douglas Aircraft Company created one of these institutions, sparked by General "Hap" Arnold. Nixon aide Charles Colson proposed firebombing one of these institutions, which was founded in 1916 by a philanthropist involved with Washington University in St. Louis. One of these was founded in 1916 as the Institute for Government Research and has included Alan Blinder and Janet Yellen among its scholars. For the point, name these non-profit research institutes, which include the Brookings Institution. | Think Tanks (accept Policy institute; accept Research institute before mentioned; prompt on descriptive answers) |
| This man was the presiding officer over Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial in 2021 and authored the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. This senator’s self- named law prevents the United States from providing foreign aid to any country committing human rights violations. In 2022, this man became the senior member of Congress after the death of Don Young. For the point, name this Democratic senator from Vermont who became president pro tempore of the Senate in 2021. | Patrick Leahy (or Parick Joseph Leahy; accept Leahy Law; accept Leahy Amendment (s)) |
| Uriah Levy purchased this place in 1834 and began its historical restoration and preservation efforts. From 1928 to 1966, this location appeared on the back of the two dollar bill. This building's design was largely influenced by Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotunda, and enslaved workers lived at this place's Mulberry Row. With a name derived from "little mountain" in Italian, for the point, what is this plantation, a Virginia mansion designed by Thomas Jefferson? | Monticello |
| After passing up a position on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 1982, this man became a judge for the District of Columbia Circuit later that year. The George Mason University School of Law was renamed in honor of this man, who found independent-counsel laws unconstitutional in his sole dissent in Morrison v. Olson. This advisor of the Federalist Society and leading member of the textualist movement served on the Supreme Court from 1986 to 2016. For the point, name this Italian-American Supreme Court justice, known for his conservatism. | Antonin Scalia (or Antonin Gregory Scalia; accept Antonin Scalia Law School) |
| Upon this man’s move to Jacksonville, Illinois, he was elected as the state's attorney for the First District and bested John J. Hardin in the election for the Illinois House of Representatives. Joseph Smith once told this Democrat that “the weight of the hand of Almighty” would be upon him if he ever ran for president, which he did unsuccessfully, splitting the nomination with John C. Breckinridge in 1860. For the point, name this Northern Democrat who debated Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Senate election. | Stephen A (rnold) Douglas |
| The composer of this musical explained it by saying, “Nobody goes to the theatre who likes MTV or who likes rock music. We have to change that, and this will do it." That composer of this musical died from an aortic aneurysm the night before its preview premiere. The original Broadway cast for this musical included Anthony Rapp, Taye Diggs, and Idina Menzel. Largely inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème [[lah boh-EHM]], Jonathan Larson wrote and composed, for the point, what musical about friends navigating through life, love, and loss during the HIV/AIDS epidemic? | Rent |
| This man elevated Benjamin Robbins Curtis to the Supreme Court as a recess appointment following the death of Levi Woodbury. The earliest capital of the Utah Territory was named after this man by Brigham Young. A onetime member of the Anti- Masonic Party and presidential nominee of the Know Nothings, this man was president during the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1852. For the point, name this Whig predecessor to Franklin Pierce, the thirteenth president of the U.S. | Millard Fillmore |
| “A truer description of [this man]," according to English physicist Freeman Dyson, “would have said that [this man] was all genius and all buffoon." This man determined the cause of the 1986 Challenger disaster by demonstrating that the rocket’s sealant rings would have been unable to expand in the icy conditions of the Earth’s atmosphere. Meeting Hans Bethe [[BEH-tuh]] while working on the Manhattan Project, for the point, who was this American physicist and 1965 Nobel-laureate, known for his work on quantum electrodynamics? | Richard Feynman (or Richard Phillips Feynman) |
| A "true believer" in this movement, Moses Jacob Ezekiel, sculpted statues of figures championed by this movement, a "shrine" to which is located at Blandford Church. Jubal Early furthered this movement, which was promoted by the writings of Thomas Dixon, Jr. A man nicknamed "Old War Horse" is often blamed for his actions by members of this movement, which argued that states' rights were being violated during what was called "The War of Northern Aggression." For the point, what is this movement, defending the South's reasons for fighting in the Civil War? | Lost Cause of the Confederacy |
| This man's biography of Christopher Columbus is widely credited with spreading the misconception that Columbus convinced Queen Isabella that the Earth was round. This man served as John Tyler's minister to Spain, where he had earlier compiled the book, Tales of the Alhambra. This writer published short stories in the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker. For the point, name this American writer, the creator of the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." | Washington Irving |
| This man lost his left eye after hitting his face on a bullet-shaped horn button in a car accident. This man awkwardly hugged Richard Nixon onstage at the 1972 Republican National Convention, and after converting to Judaisim, this man joked, "When I move into a neighborhood, I wipe it out," due to his African and Puerto Rican heritage. This singer had a number one hit with a cover of "The Candy Man'' from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. For the point, name this member of the Rat Pack, known for his renditions of "I Gotta Be Me" and "Mr. Bojangles.” | Sammy Davis Jr. (or Samuel George Davis Jr.) |
| Taking place at Macondo Prospect, this event was notably larger than Ixtoc One. A 2015 Scientific American article by David Biello examined how natural microbes assisted in the aftermath of this event, which affected such areas as Plaquemines [[PLAK-eh-mins]] Parish. Cement defects were a partial cause of this event for which Haliburton was held liable. Tuna were found to have increased instances of heart defects after this event for which BP was deemed responsible under a 1990 Pollution Act. For the point, name this 2010 oil spill. | Deepwater Horizon oil spill (accept Deepwater Horizon explosion; accept BP in place of Deepwater Horizon before "BP" is mentioned) |
| A Henry Hudson Kitson monument titled for one of these figures depicts a man standing on a rock and looking out into the distance. Words from a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem appear on a stamp depicting one of these figures. Bronze from cannons was used to make a monument to one of these people who holds a musket and stands next to a plow. That Daniel Chester French monument to these people is found in Concord, Massachusetts. For the point, name these New England militia members during the American Revolution. | Minute Man (prompt on "New England militia" and similar answers; prompt on "soldier"; accept Lexington Minuteman; accept The Minute Man) |
| A man using the alias James Clark and a mechanic named John May were among the casualties of this event which occurred in a garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Police uniforms were used by the perpetrators of this event, which resulted in seven deaths, including two brothers from the Gusenberg family. Members of the North Side Gang were targeted in this event which involved "the gun that made the twenties roar." Occurring during a conflict between Bugs Moran and Al Capone in 1929, for the point, what was this February 14 shooting? | Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (prompt on partial answers) |
| With his wife, Marceline Baldwin, this man adopted several children, including three Korean-Americans, whom he referred to as his “rainbow family.” This man also fathered a child with Carolyn Layton, who claimed this man was the reincarnation of Vladimir Lenin. U.S. representative Leo Ryan led a delegation to investigate this man’s alleged human rights abuses, but he and four others were murdered by gunmen who worked for this man. For the point, name this founder of the Peoples Temple, the engineer of a mass suicide in Guyana in 1978. | Jim Jones (or James Warren Jones) |
| Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas is perhaps the most famous person to have completed this action. Earl Shafer was the first person to complete this action in both directions, which a South Carolina Governor claimed to be doing while having an affair. Reaching the historic town of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia is considered to be an unofficial midpoint of this action. For the point, name this action which has been done since the Great Depression along a namesake trail which stretches from Georgia to Maine. | Hiking the Appalachian Trail (or Appalachian National Scenic Trail prompt on "A.T.") |
| This man explored the life of the auto mechanic David Beeves in the Broadway flop, The Man Who Had All the Luck. At the University of Michigan, this man wrote for the Gargoyle Humor Magazine and published his first play, No Villain. While testifying before HUAC [[HYOO-ak]], this man was accompanied by his wife, Marilyn Monroe. For the point, name this playwright who drew parallels between McCarthyism and the Salem Witch Trials in The Crucible. | Arthur Miller (or Arthur Asher Miller) |
| In this city, Bertram Goodhue used a cross-in-square medieval church design for a state capitol building, the second-tallest in the U.S. In 1958, Clifton Hillegass founded the CliffsNotes company to serve students in this city, whose "Sea of Red" at Memorial Stadium is often called the "third-largest city" in its state, as sellouts attract more people than the population of Bellevue. For the point, name this home city of a unicameral state legislature and the University of Nebraska, named for a 19th century president. | Lincoln |
| James McParland, a member of this group, dismantled the organized Irish-American coal miners who were assassinating political opponents. Labor agitator Albert Parsons claimed that members of this group intentionally threw the bomb sparking the Haymarket Square Riot. This agency is given credit for thwarting the Baltimore Plot, a possibly invented conspiracy to murder Lincoln during his inauguration parade. A Scottish-born detective names, for the point, what agency which was key in intervening during the Homestead Strike? | Pinkertons (accept Pinkerton Agency; accept Pinkerton National Detective Agency) |
| Any evidence gained by ignoring the ruling in this case is called the “fruit of the poisonous tree,” and this case's majority decision drastically expanded the Escobedo v. Illinois from two years prior. The defendant in this case later made extra money selling autographed "warning cards" and died after being stabbed in a Phoenix bar in 1976. For the point, name this 1966 Supreme Court case, which ruled that police officers must read arrested people their rights, including the right to remain silent. | Miranda v. Arizona (or Miranda v. State of Arizona; accept Miranda rights) |
| This war is the setting of Elbert Hubbard’s inspirational story “A Message to Garcia” and was depicted in drawings by Frederic Remington. 78 years after the start of this war, Admiral Hyman Rickover oversaw a report concluding that spontaneous combustion of coal stores, not foreign sabotage, was responsible for the explosion that drew the U.S. into this war. Guam was transferred to American control following, for the point, what war, which ended with the 1898 transfer of the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the U.S.? | Spanish-American War |
| In one essay, this man claimed, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” With John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, this man adopted the name “Publius” while writing the Federalist Papers. This man’s personal notes are the primary documentation of the proceedings from the Constitutional Convention. For the point, name this “Father of the Constitution” who succeeded Thomas Jefferson as president of the United States. | James Madison |
| While this man worked as the manager of three KFC restaurants in Waterloo, Iowa, he was arrested for the first time and was convicted of a crime against Donald Voorhees. After serving eighteen months, this man moved to a ranch house with his mother, who moved out after this man’s marriage to Carole Hoff. After this man’s arrest, he confessed to murdering Robert Piest and discarding his body in the Des Plaines [[diz-PLANES]] River. For the point, name this serial killer who performed at children’s hospitals and charitable events as a clown. | John Wayne Gacy (prompt on "Killer Clown") |