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| After calling for an election, this leader lost support by stating that unemployment would not improve by the “end of the century.” After losing a Vancouver-based seat to Hedy Fry, this leader quipped “Gee, I'm glad I didn't sell my car.” This leader was ousted in a 1993 Liberal landslide after her party ran ads mocking Jean Chrétien’s [[kreh-TYENS]] Bell’s palsy. This leader never lived at 24 Sussex Drive because it was never vacated by her predecessor, Brian Mulroney. For the point, name this only female Prime Minister of Canada. | Kim Campbell |
| During this event, the leader of the 29th Route Army attempted to send the mayor of one city to de-escalate tensions. This incident led to the breakout of a conflict that included the Battle of Beiping–Tianjin. Sometimes named for July 7th, this event began when a message seeking to enter Wanping was sent to Chinese authorities after a Japanese soldier abandoned his post. For the point, name this 1937 incident on a namesake structure that initiated the Second Sino-Japanese War. | Marco Polo Bridge Incident (accept Lugou Bridge Incident; accept July 7 Incident before mentioned; accept Lúgōuqiáo Shìbiàn; accept Qīqī Shìbiàn) |
| "Kayou Shri Gowri" was the official anthem of this kingdom, which gave the vokkaliga landlords greater autonomy. While under Muslim rule, this kingdom was given a name meaning "God-Gifted Empire," or Sultanate E Khudadad. That name was given to this kingdom by a leader who was killed at the Siege of Seringapatam by a force that included Hyderabadi forces loyal to the British. Tipu Sultan was a leader of, for the point, what South Indian kingdom that comprised much of modern-day Karnataka? | Kingdom of Mysore (accept Sultanate of Mysore; accept Sultanate E Khudadad before mentioned) |
| Early works by this pair were demonstrated in 1895 to a small crowd in the basement of the Grand Café under titles like “Baby’s Breakfast” and “The Sprinkler Sprinkled,” both which were both under fifty seconds long. This pair patented perforations that advanced film through cameras and projectors, and they invented the Cinématographe system. Auguste and Louis were the first names of, for the point, what French brothers who pioneered early film production? | Lumière Brothers (or Auguste and Louis Lumière) |
| This event led to the promotion of Kevin Harvick as a replacement and a TV shot of “Chocolate” Myers crying. This incident, and a similar event involving Blaise Alexander eight months later, spurred a rule mandating use of the HANS device. This incident occurred immediately after a collision with Sterling Marlin and caused the black #3 car to be pushed by Ken Schrader. For the point, identify this event during the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 in which one of the most successful NASCAR drivers of all time fatally crashed into a wall. | Death of Dale Earnhardt, Sr. (“Sr.” is not required but do not accept or prompt on answers mentioning Dale Earnhardt, Jr.; accept “Fatal Crash” or other equivalent descriptions for the word “Death”) |
| This god is the dedicatee of the opening hymn of the Rig Veda, in which he is described as threefold in the earth, air, and heaven. This god is represented in Hindu weddings by an object around which the bride and groom walk. This consort of Svaha [[SWAH-hah]] is usually depicted with red skin and riding a type of wild sheep called a urial. The three heads of this god are used to consume ghee, or clarified butter. For the point, name this Hindu god of sacrifices and fire. | Agni |
| One use of this term in the Hebrew bible is in reference to the prophet Samuel, who was instrumental in establishing the monarchy in Israel, anointing both Saul and David. Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, was known by this term for his role in deposing Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth. Rupert Murdoch has been called by this term for backing every winning British prime minister since 1979, as was Richard Daley for his successes getting Democrats nominated as presidential candidates. For the point, what unofficial term refers to someone that does not hold power, but helps another achieve a high position? | Kingmaker |
| The only senatorial vote against this treaty was prompted by reservations concerning imperialism held by John J. Blaine. In the Soviet Union, the Litvinov Protocol called for the implementation of this agreement. This treaty claimed that only "Pacific means" could be used in one pursuit, and it was also known as the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy. For the point, identify this agreement named for its signatories, a U.S. Secretary of State and a French foreign minister, ostensibly outlawing war. | Kellogg–Briand Pact (accept General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy; prompt on Pact/Treaty of "Paris") |
| In response to Republican filibusters, this man executed the “nuclear option” to make federal judge appointments approvable on a simple majority. In 2021, McCarran International Airport was renamed in honor of this man, who passed Obama’s Affordable Care Act as Senate majority leader. For the point, name this longtime Democratic senator from Nevada who was succeeded by Catherine Cortez Masto in 2017. | Harry Reid (or Harry Mason Reid Jr.; accept Harry Reid International Airport) |
| A ruler with this name was nicknamed “the Soldier King” and died after taking the HMS Volage to Europe to lead the War of Restoration. Another ruler with this name was nicknamed “The Magnanimous,” and the people under that king of this name rejected the potential rule of his daughter, Isabel. For the point, identify this name that was shared by a pair of father-and-son emperors who ruled in the 19th century and led Brazil to victory in the War of the Triple Alliance. | Pedro (accept Pedro the First; or Pedro the Second) |
| Members of this party are sometimes referred to as “Aflaqis” [[ah-FLACK-keez]] after one of its founders. This party’s name can be translated as “resurrection,” and this party’s pan-Arab philosophy helped inspire the establishment of the United Arab Republic. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, members of this party were purged from public office by the Coalition Provisional Authority. For the point, name this party, which ruled over Syria and Iraq during the last quarter of the twentieth century. | Arab Socialist Baath Party (accept Baathists) |
| This event was the subject of a 2019 history by Robert Poole subtitled The English Uprising. Samuel Bamford was among the witnesses of this event, which occurred three years after a similar event in Islington at Spa Fields. The orator Henry Hunt was convicted of treason for his role in this event, which led to the passage of the Six Acts. Memorialized in Percy Shelley's "The Masque of Anarchy," this is, for the point, what 1819 event in which a cavalry charge killed several protesters in Manchester? | Peterloo Massacre |
| In one work, this man notes how a group was “doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination” and notes how “the extreme penalty” was suffered by “Christus.” A work by this man chronicles his father-in-law’s time as Governor of Britain and is simply titled Agricola. Significant lacunae can be found in a series of works by this man that ends with the death of Domitian, and the best-known work by this man focuses on the reigns of Tiberius and Nero. For the point, name this Roman historian who wrote the Annals and Histories. | Publius Cornelius Tacitus |
| In a letter to Governor John C. Brown, this man offered to help exterminate the “White marauders” who carried out lynchings in Memphis. This man routed Samuel Sturgis’s army at the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads. This man led his troops in an escape from Fort Donelson, and troops under this man massacred a largely Black Union army attempting to surrender at the Battle of Fort Pillow. For the point, name this Confederate cavalry general who served as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. | Nathan Bedford Forrest |
| This organization grew out of a similarly named Fund that was founded in 1949 in Detroit and brought together various Community Chest movements in local cities. The decline in excess profit taxes following World War Two led to this organization’s business model shifting from management to employees. Since 1972, a sun-like rainbow and a stick figure standing in a palm make up the logo of this organization, which opened up donor choice in 1982. For the point, name this consolidated network of non-profit organizations. | United Way |
| George Fishback provided an informant to assist Bluford Wilson and a Cabinet member with the investigation of this scandal, which inspired the quote "Let no guilty man escape." John McDonald was a Missouri District Revenue Collector who served as the leader in this scandal, which was investigated by Benjamin Bristow of the Treasury Department. Taking place in the 1870s, this is, for the point, what scandal of the Ulysses Grant administration that involved profits being split between distributors and distillers of the central alcoholic good? | Whiskey Ring |
| Dick Arscott described how Yaks would engage in "buzzing" during this event, which was partially aided a man who died at age 101 last year, Gail Halvorsen. Brian Robertson and Lucius Clay were among the overseers of this event, in which C-47s provided parachute-attached candy to children. Tempelhof was the departure point for this event, in which more than 277,000 flights departed during a nine-month period. For the point, name this event in which supplies were dropped to the inhabitants of the western half of a German city. | Berlin Airlift (accept Berliner Luftbrücke; accept Berlin Air Bridge; accept Operation Vittles; accept Operation Pelican; accept Operation Plainfare) |
| Virgil Thomson criticized this work by claiming that “it [seemed] to have been written for the slow-witted.” The composer supposed that one section of this work was meant to evoke “a mother’s tears” while another is a 22-bar long ostinato theme meant to evoke a certain army. Arturo Toscanini conducted the premiere of this symphony, which is often played at a cemetery dedicated to the victims of the 900-day long event that inspired it. For the point, name this Dmitri Shostakovich symphony focusing on a siege faced by the Soviet Union. | Leningrad Symphony (accept Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Symphony No. Seven in C major; prompt on partial answers) |
| In Psalm 74, God is described as crushing this figure's head and giving his flesh to feed the world. This figure's most famous depiction is believed to be based on a now-lost story about Ba'al Hadad [[‘BALE’ hah-DOD]] slaying Lotan. In that depiction, a man is asked if he can "pull in" this figure "with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope" For the point, name this water monster from the Old Testament, described in the Book of Job as the counterpart to Behemoth, which served as the title for a work of political philosophy by Thomas Hobbes. | Leviathan |
| The location of this battle is sometimes known as Sulfur Island. John Wayne starred in a movie entitled for the sands of the island on which this battle was fought. A third of Marine casualties during World War Two were claimed by this battle, which occurred after Tadamichi Kuribayashi constructed a series of underground tunnels. For the point, identify this World War Two battle on a Japanese-controlled island that was immortalized in a photo of six marines raising the American flag. | Battle of Iwo Jima |
| A frankincense-trading tribe may have built a complex in this country known as the Bahla Fort. For nearly 500 years, the Nabhani Dynasty ruled part of this country, where Ghalib al-Hinai led forces in the Jebel Akhdar War against Said bin Taimur. This country is home to the largest group of members of the Ibadi movement, and the capital city of this country is sometimes theorized to have originally cultivated a type of namesake grape. For the point, name this former maritime empire in the Persian Gulf, governed from Muscat. | Sultanate of Oman (accept Salṭanat (u) ʻUmān; accept Omani Empire) |
| At an engagement described by this adjective, empty boats were launched to goad an opposing army to fire arrows, which were collected and used by the other side. The speed of a horse described by this adjective allowed Lu Bu to escape from an attack partly conducted by Guan Yu and retreat through the Hulao Pass. Ships set on fire charged at the armies of Cao Cao [[TSOW TSOW]] during a 208 A.D. battle in the Three Kingdoms Period named for cliffs of this color. A much later rebellion establishing the Ming Dynasty was led by those donning turbans of this color. For the point, name this color, the official color of the Chinese Communist Party. | Red (accept Battle of Red Cliffs; accept Red Turban Rebellion) |
| During a trial overseen by Supreme Court justice Ward Hunt, this woman condemned “high-handed outrage upon… citizen’s rights.” This woman served as the second president of NAWSA before she was succeeded by Carrie Chapman Catt. This woman was the subject of a widely publicized 1873 trial after she attempted to vote in her hometown of Rochester, New York. For the point, name this leader of the American women’s suffrage movement, the first woman to be depicted on American currency. | Susan B. Anthony |
| Robert Graves and Samuel Butler suggested that this writer’s works might have been composed by women. This writer was parodied in the poem Batrachomyomachia [[bah-TRAY-koh-my-oh-MAH-kyah]] about a war between frogs and mice. Derek Walcott was inspired by the work of this writer when creating Omeros, and the standard English translations of this writer’s work were created by George Chapman. For the point, name this blind writer, whose epic poems include the Iliad and the Odyssey. | Homer |
| In the McQuillan case, the Supreme Court said that the goal of this act “is to protect the public from the failure of the market.” This act was passed during what was known as the Billion Dollar Congress. A 1914 follow-up to this act banned tying arrangements and a subtype of dealing agreements. Standard Oil was the subject of a lawsuit that applied this act, eventually leading to its breakup. Followed by a similar act sponsored by Henry Clayton Jr., for the point, name this law sponsored by an Ohio politician that opposed monopolies. | Sherman Antitrust Act (prompt on partial answers) |
| Raphael Holinshed quoted this ruler saying, "You shall find Calais [[kah-LAY]] lying on my heart" after losing that territory to France. This ruler ousted the "Queen for Nine Days," Lady Jane Grey, and was responsible for the fate of the Oxford Martyrs. This daughter of Catherine of Aragon married Philip the Second of Spain and gained one epithet for brutally suppressing Anglicanism. For the point, name this English queen, nicknamed "Bloody," who preceded Elizabeth the First. | Mary the First (accept Bloody Mary; or Mary Tudor; do not accept or prompt on "Mary, Queen of Scots;" prompt on "Mary") |
| This figure was excommunicated by the Catholic Church as the first bishop to sign the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. This figure became embroiled in a certain scandal after employing the diplomats Hottinguer, Bellamy, and Hauteval. This politician represented France at the Congress of Vienna, and his actions exacerbated the Quasi War with the U.S. For the point, identify this diplomat who demanded bribes from American ambassadors in the XYZ Affair. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (or Prince of Talleyrand; or First Prince of Benevento) |
| Many Black members of this group were listed in the Book of Negroes after fleeing to Nova Scotia and made up the Ethiopian Regiment patronized by Lord Dunmore. The case of Martin v. Hunter's Lessee arose out of the confusion caused by the Treaty of Paris's attempt to undo or compensate the seizure of property from these people, who fled en masse from the United States. For the point, identify this group of people who supported the British crown in the Revolutionary War. | British Loyalists (prompt on "Royalists" accept "Tories") |
| Members of this group were supposed to appear three nights after a child's birth. This group was sometimes conflated with the Erinyes, who brought vengeance, and the Keres, who brought violent death. The inescapability of their dominion caused the gods to fear this group, who were sometimes personified as a single figure named Moira. For the point, identify this mythical Greek trio that includes Atropos, Lachesis, and Clotho, who together spin, measure, and cut a person’s life. | The Fates (accept Moirai before "Moira") |
| One author claimed, "nature had not... since Napoleon, cut... such a masterpiece" as this man, who responded to the notion "Peaceable secession" by saying "Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle." James G. Blaine claimed that this man "spoke for the preservation of the Union" in his Seventh of March speech. A New York monument dedicated to this man reads "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable." For the point, name this New Hampshire-born Massachusetts Senator and anti-Jacksonian orator. | Daniel Webster |
| This man is held as the central prophet of the Gnostic Mandean movement, which rejects the authority of Jesus. This man's father, Zachariah, was struck dumb until he gave this man his name, while this man's mother Elizabeth was a relative of Mary. This man was beheaded after Herod delivered on a promise to Salome [[sah-LOH-meh]]. For the point, name this New Testament figure, who takes his epithet from submerging Jesus in the Jordan River. | John the Baptist (prompt on "John") |
| This man ordered the assassinations of candidates linked to William Dever and Charles Deneen in order to get Big Bill Thompson’s affiliates nominated during the “Pineapple Primary.” Cronies under this man posed as policeman and wiped out the North Side Gang of Bugs Moran during the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. For the point, name this gangster who effectively controlled much of the Chicago area in the late 1920s and was known as “Scarface.” | Al Capone (or Alphonse Capone) |
| This monarch commissioned the Marquis of Vauban [[vaw-BAHN]] to construct fortifications along his country's borders. This monarch survived the Fronde as a child, and he invaded the Netherlands in the War of Devolution. This monarch repressed the Huguenots [[HYOO-geh-nots]] with his Edict of Fontainebleau [[fawn-tahn-BLUH]], which revoked the tolerant Edict of Nantes [[NONT]]. This monarch, whose chief minister was Cardinal Mazarin, famously proclaimed, "I am the State." For the point, name this “Sun King” of France who built the Palace of Versailles. | Louis the Fourteenth (accept Louis the Great or Louis le Grand; accept Louis the Sun King before mentioned; prompt on "Louis") |
| Three of these beings attempt to abduct and drown the sleeping King Fergus. The name of these beings may derive from a group of priests in a Roman festival that was held annually on February 15th. These beings are related to another being that haunts breweries and cobbles shoes, and this figure was originally depicted wearing red. For the point, name these legendary beings that are associated with the color green and a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow in Irish folklore. | Leprechaun |
| Service in this battle is all that appears in the epitaph of Aeschylus [[ESS-kuh-luss]], whose brother, Cynegirus [[kih-neh-GYE-russ]], pursued the enemy through coastal marshes to hang onto a ship until his arm was cut off. This battle began when one of the ten strategoi [[strah-TEH-goy]] learned enemy cavalry were absent and initiated a charge across open ground that left enemy archers too shocked to fire. Ending with an envelopment that left 6,400 Persians and 192 Athenians dead, this is, for the point, what 490 B.C. battle, whose result was announced by a messenger who ran roughly 26 miles? | Battle of Marathon |
| In this county, Frederick Marryat spotted an appearance of a ghost that came to be known as the “Brown Lady” of Raynham Hall. The county’s region of Wymondham was one starting point of a rebellion against Edward the Sixth in response to the enclosure of land. The Earl of Warwick helped quell the aforementioned Kett’s Rebellion in this county, for whom Thomas Howard served as duke. For the point, identify this English county that may have inspired the name of the third-largest city in Virginia. | Norfolk |