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| In 1946, the Bell Trade Act required this country's peso be exchanged at a 2 to 1 rate with the U.S. dollar. That act passed following the resignation of Congressman Luis Taruc, who led this country's Hukbalahap communist guerillas. This country battled Islamist insurgents in the Bangsamoro region, and this country fought a battle with ISIS in its city of Marawi. For the point, identify this country that fought the U.S. in the Moro Rebellion. | Republic of the Philippines (accept Republika ng Pilipinas) |
| In response to the scandalous Tour de Nesle affair, this king imprisoned three of his daughters-in-law for alleged adultery. With Joan the First of Navarre, this ruler sired three future kings of France, as well as Isabella, a future queen of England. Known as the “Iron King,” this ruler expelled Jews from France and brought about the destruction of the Knights Templar. For the point, name this French king who orchestrated the removal of the papacy from Rome to Avignon and was known as "the Fair." | Philip the Fourth of France (accept Philip the Fair; accept Philip the First of Navarre) |
| During this event, the interception of a foraging expedition led to the Battle of Malene. The land component of this event was brought to a stalemate after an ambush at Pedasus. This event was preceded by Aristagoras' failed attempts at capturing Naxos, and forces from Eretria bolstered the main army involved in this event, which burned Sardis. Seen as the start of the Greco-Persian Wars, this is, for the point, what 499 to 493 B.C. insurrection that began in a namesake Anatolian region? | Ionian Revolt (or Revolt in Ionia) |
| One leader of this empire centralized responsibility over the management of trade with Europe into a position called the Yovogan. That leader also created the ministerial position of Mehu and was named Agaja. Vodun was the religion practiced by this Fon kingdom, which was subjugated by the nearby Oyo. This empire was nicknamed “black Sparta” due to its use of women warriors who were referred to as Amazons. For the point, name this West African empire that was based in modern-day Benin. | Kingdom of Dahomey |
| A "Polish scene" can be found in a work focusing on this man, who outlawed the transfer of land between peasants. Along with Vasili Shuiski and a patriarch from the Romanov family, this man was appointed to a council to advise Feodor the First. Modest Mussorgsky created an opera that focused on this man, the first non-Rurikid tsar of Russia. For the point, name this tsar whose death began the Time of Troubles. | Boris Godunov |
| In a 1964 monograph, Clinton Rossiter analyzed this man's thoughts on the Constitution. Numerous misconceptions about this man are addressed in a Michael Simmons book referring to him as the "First Architect of the American Government." A work subtitled "The Revolution" focuses on a project about this man and explains the addition of fictional elements to ones derived from a biography by Ron Chernow. For the point, identify this early Federalist who inspired a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda. | Alexander Hamilton |
| A man killed at this battle was partly nicknamed "the right hand," and that man was a member of the Western Army. The 75,000-man winning force at this battle notably employed arquebuses, and Mino Province was the site of this battle. Ishida Mitsunari led a group loyal to the Toyotomi clan at this 1600 battle, which brought an end to the Sengoku Period. For the point, name this battle, a decisive victory for Tokugawa Ieyasu that led to the establishment of his namesake shogunate. | Battle of Sekigahara |
| This philosopher argued that the Committee of Public Safety had failed its mission by giving in to the whims of the masses, but that the American founding fathers had succeeded in establishing freedom in the book On Revolution. In one book, this philosopher traced the common roots of Stalinism and Nazism, and this philosopher coined the term “banality of evil” in another book about an official tasked with overseeing the Holocaust.. For the point, name this German philosopher, the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism. | Hannah Arendt |
| This city’s Golden Plough Tavern was allegedly where the Conway Cabal began. A certain set of governing documents were completed in this city before their ratification in 1781. The final draft of the Articles of Confederation was completed in this city, which served as an early capital of the U.S. after the role had been fulfilled by nearby Lancaster. For the point, identify this Pennsylvania city that was fittingly known as the White Rose City after the English house for which it was named. | York, Pennsylvania |
| According to Tacitus, Livia squeezed juice from a plant in this family onto a plate of figs she fed to Augustus. The culinary use of one member of this plant family was promoted through royal flattery and publicity stunts orchestrated by Antoine-Augustin Parmentier [[par-men-TYEH]]. The cosmetic use of plants in this family were intended to mimic symptoms of tuberculosis, which prompted Carolus Linnaeus to name one of its members “belladonna.” For the point, name this plant family that includes eggplants and tomatoes. | Nightshades (or Solanaceae) |
| Two answers required. These figures were regarded as patrons of sailors, to whom they appeared as two bursts of St. Elmo's fire. These figures legendarily supported the winning side in the Battle of Lake Regillus. One of these figures defeated King Amycus in a boxing match, and these figures rescued their half-sister, Helen, in Attica. The constellation Gemini is associated with, for the point, what pair of twins from Roman myth who were also known as the Dioscuri? | Castor and Pollux (accept Dioscuri; accept Polydeuces) |
| A 1983 work by this author focuses on the rescue of two employees of Electronic Data Systems from Iran. In one novel by this author, the illegitimate son of the Senator "Greg" Peshkov grows up to attend Harvard Law School and work for the administration of Robert F. Kennedy. The sinking of the White Ship serves as the starting point for a novel by this author about the Anarchy that is set in the town of Kingsbridge. For the point, identify this bestselling British author of historical thrillers, known for Edge of Eternity and The Pillars of the Earth. | Ken Follett (accept Kenneth Martin Follett) |
| The German soldiers of the Union Army’s Eleventh Corps gained the name “Flying Dutchmen” for their performance at this battle. This battle coincided with a delaying action at Salem Church, and it began when Joseph Hooker aimed to catch the Confederates in a double envelopment. Despite being outnumbered more than two to one at this battle, Robert E. Lee divided his force and sent his second-in-command on a successful flanking mission. For the point, name this battle after which friendly fire claimed the life of Stonewall Jackson. | Battle of Chancellorsville |
| 124 members make up the Central Council of this organization, which was founded in 1964 during a summit in Cairo. The city of Al-Bireh houses the headquarters of this organization, which was the subject of a presidential waiver allowing Americans to remain in contact with it despite its designation as a terrorist organization. This group negotiated the Oslo Accords with a country led by Yitzhak Rabin. Mahmoud Abbas succeeded Yasser Arafat as the chairman of, for the point, what nationalist organization in a region containing the West Bank? | PLO (accept Palestine Liberation Organization; accept Munaẓẓamat at-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīniyyah) |
| During a gubernatorial election involving this party in Kentucky, a Bloody Monday brawl broke out between its advocates and Democrats. Lewis Charles Levin was the founder of this party, which won more House seats in a midterm than any other third party in American history, doing so in 1854. Andrew Jackson Donelson was a vice-presidential nominee of this party, which added the word "Native" to its name. After his term as president, Millard Fillmore ran for the office on this party's 1856 ticket. For the point, name this political party known for its anti-Catholic stance and tight-lipped members. | Know Nothing Party (accept American Party; or Native American Party) |
| This ruler defeated a king assisted by Ragenfrid at the Battle of Vincy. Rotrude of Hesbaye was the first wife of this ruler, who succeeded Pepin of Herstal. Edward Gibbon once claimed that "the interpretation of the Koran [may] now be taught in the schools of Oxford" had this ruler not achieved a 732 C.E. victory over Abd al-Rahman at the Battle of Tours. For the point, name this Frankish Mayor of the Palace known as the "Hammer". | Charles Martel (or Charles the Hammer; prompt on “Charles”) |
| A "Summer" named for this word identifies a program aimed at "[turning] civilians into midshipmen." A scandal involving MP Andrew Mitchell involved his use of this word when describing British police officers. The U.S. Military Academy and other service academies worldwide have historically described freshman with this word, which is inspired by a term denoting an ancient class represented by tribunes and contrasted with patricians. For the point, identify this class associated with commoners in Ancient Rome. | Plebeian (accept Pleb; or Plebe) |
| The main employer of Golden Valley is this company, which was founded by Union commander Cadwallader Colden Washburn. One character created by this company was, after Eleanor Roosevelt, listed as 1945’s “most famous woman in America.” An engineer at this company invented a device for puffing up its cereals, which include Lucky Charms and Cheerios. For the point, name this multinational company based in Minnesota that created Betty Crocker. | General Mills |
| This document was the fruition of years of activism from figures such as Betty Williams and John Hume. This agreement resulted in the formation of an inter- parliamentary association with the Oireachtas [[ehr-RUK-tuss]]. One of the stipulations of this 1998 agreement acknowledged the desires of the citizens of the polity in question to remain in union with the British government, while another acknowledges the desire for a united Ireland. For the point, name this April 1998 agreement that ended The Troubles in Northern Ireland. | Good Friday Agreement (or Belfast Agreement) |
| An 1851 work by this man, in which a slave claims to be "longing for [the] old plantation" had its words revised in 2008. In 1928, the General Assembly of Kentucky adopted a work by this man as its official state song, and one work by this man was the first American song to sell 5,000 copies. During one election, supporters of Abraham Lincoln used a parody of this man's song "Camptown Races." For the point, name this “Father of American Music” and songwriter of "Oh! Susanna." | Stephen Foster (Stephen Collins Foster) |
| Potential backlash surrounding the portrayal of certain officials led to the abandonment of an Arthur Miller script for this movie titled The Hook. This film is seen as an answer to its director's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Johnny Friendly is the subject of a planned testimony before a New York and Jersey-based Crime Commission in this film, which focuses on a union of longshoremen. Method acting was popularized in, for the point, what 1954 Elia Kazan film starring Marlon Brando? | On the Waterfront |
| This woman, known as “Mother Nature,” founded a center for the wives and children of alcoholics in Kansas City, Missouri in 1901. This woman published several newsletters, including Home Defender and The Smasher’s Mail. This woman, a suffragette, started a chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1889. For the point, name this American temperance advocate who used a hatchet to destroy liquor bottles, bars, and saloons. | Carry Nation (or Carrie Nation; or Carrie A Nation; or Caroline Amelia Nation; or Hatchet Granny) |
| A 1773 painting by this artist depicts the 69 A.D. death of a dramatist and advisor to Nero. This artist’s 1788 Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife was banned from exhibition due to perceived sympathies to the Ancien Régime, and another work by this painter shows a group taking up swords against the Curiatii [[kyoo-RAY-shee-‘EYE’]] in a conflict between Rome and Alba Longa. For the point, name this French Neoclassical painter who depicted The Oath of the Horatii and The Death of Marat. | Jacques-Louis David [[dah-VEED]] |
| This kingdom was ruled by Queen Seaxburh of Gewisse, who succeeded her late husband Cenwalh. King Ine [[EE-nuh]] codified a landmark code of laws for this kingdom, though he also lost many of the territorial gains made by his predecessor, Cædwalla. Despite losing battles at Meretun and elsewhere, this kingdom maintained its independence from the Danelaw established by Viking invaders thanks to a decisive victory by one of its kings at Edington. For the point, name this kingdom which Alfred the Great made the nucleus of a unified England. | Kingdom of Wessex (or Westseaxna Rīċe) |
| Saint Lucy is the patron saint of this city, which was planned by Arkhais. In 1860 this city allied with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Two Sicilies. One tyrant of this city, Dionysius the First, imprisoned Plato and sold him as a slave. An attack on this city in 413 B.C. ended in disaster for Athens, with over 40,000 casualties, and Theocritus lived in this city during the 40-year reign of Hiero. For the point, name this Sicilian city where experiments on buoyancy were conducted by Archimedes, later the namesake of a city in upstate New York. | Syracuse |
| This person, who clerked for Thurgood Marshall, served as the United States Solicitor General from 2009 to 2010. This Supreme Court justice served as the dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009, and she wrote the majority opinion in the patent law case Kimble v. Marvel, as well as the electoral redistricting case Cooper v. Harris. For the point, name this associate justice who was appointed to the Supreme Court by Barack Obama in 2010, the fourth woman to hold the position. | Elena Kagan |
| This man's only political loss was in a gubernatorial race against Hardin Richard Runnels. Though John Bell was eventually nominated, this man was a frontrunner during the 1860 Constitutional Union Convention. This man received near-fatal wounds at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and he was ordered to relieve a group that included Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett at the Alamo. For the point, identify this man who led troops at the Battle of San Jacinto, becoming the namesake of Texas’s largest city. | Sam Houston (Samuel Houston) |
| Many of this pharaoh’s reforms were undone by his successor, Horemheb, and he employed Bek to design many buildings and sculptures. Smenkhkare served as co-ruler with this pharaoh, whose 382-document set of International Relation correspondences were cataloged in the Amarna Letters. Thutmose created a famous bust of this pharaoh’s wife, Nefertiti, the mother of King Tut. For the point, name this Egyptian pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty who created a religion that venerated the sun disk Aten. | Akhenaten (or Echnaton; accept Amenhotep the Fourth) |
| This man's tomb is inscribed with the words "Under this structure rest the bones of a lion, more for his great deeds than for his name." After an attack on Caparra that destroyed his home, this man returned to Valladolid, where he was knighted. Diego Colón was chosen by Christopher Columbus to succeed this man as Governor of Puerto Rico. Apalachee Bay and the Keys were thought to have been visited by, for the point, what Spanish conquistador who supposedly searched for the Fountain of Youth in Florida? | Juan Ponce de Leon |
| This site was where the formerly enslaved William Williams died from cannonball fire, despite earlier eschewing a British offer of freedom if he joined their army. This former military base once imprisoned its own city's mayor, George William Brown, during an 1861 riot. This national park on the Patapsco River houses a pentagonal structure that once flew a fifteen-striped flag. For the point, name this fort in Baltimore that, during a bombardment in the War of 1812, flew the Star-Spangled Banner. | Fort McHenry |
| One overly-ambitious king of this country lost the Battle of Lutter, leading to this country withdrawing from the Thirty Years’ War. The Treaty of Bromsebro resulted in several losses for this country to a neighbor following the Torstenson War. During the Napoleonic War, this country fought the Gunboat War with Great Britain, which followed the British burning of this country’s fleet to keep it from French hands. Losing Schleswig- Holstein in 1864, for the point, name this Scandinavian kingdom that lost power to Germany and Sweden in the early modern period. | Denmark (or Danish Realm; or Danmark) |
| Over 2,000 tourists at this location had to be airlifted in January 2010 amidst floods that led to a months-long temporary closure. Kenneth Wright found that a layering technique involving foundations of stone and gravel coverings were used to construct this location's terraces, and a villager named Melchor Arteaga helped Hiram Bingham find this location in the Urubamba Province. Perhaps built as an estate for Pachacuti, this is, for the point, what "Lost City of the Incas?" | Macchu Picchu |
| A PBS film about this court case was inspired by Richard Kluger's book Simple Justice. Four years after this decision, it was upheld in a case that refused a 30-month delay of one process. This case was followed by Cooper v. Aaron, and a preference for a certain type of doll was analyzed in this case that partially overturned the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. For the point, name this Supreme Court case that ruled against the "separate but equal" doctrine and segregation in schools. | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (accept Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al.; accept Brown v. Board) |
| Two territories west of this island called Quemoy and Matsu were the subject of several 1960 presidential debates. This island went under martial law for 38 years during the White Terror. Opposition leaders on this island were arrested in the Kaohsiung Incident. After its namesake “Miracle,” this island became one of the Four Asian Tigers due to a manufacturing and tech boom. Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces retreated to this island after losing the Chinese Civil War. For the point, name this island that is claimed by China and is governed from Taipei. | Taiwan (accept Chinese Taipei before “Taipei” is mentioned; accept Republic of China; accept Formosa) |
| This event involved the participation of George Robert Twelves Hewes, who was known for his "whistling talent." The American Antiquarian Society holds water affected by this event, during which William Molineux was noticeably absent from the Old South Meeting House. The Eleanor and the Beaver were boarded during this event, in which Native American disguises were used by protestors. For the point, name this event in which large quantities of leaves used for a caffeinated drink were dumped into a Massachusetts harbor. | Boston Tea Party |
| Michael Meyer claims that the "essential spirit" of this speech includes the question "My children: a new dispensation comes to us today. Will you receive it?" Earlier on the day of this speech, 80 inmates were freed through the efforts of the speaker's brother Mauricio. The word "viva" followed by the name of a country is exclaimed three times following annual renditions of this speech given at the Palacio Nacional on the eve of one country's independence. Delivered in 1810 by a Catholic priest as a call to arms against Spanish rule, for the point, what is this speech by Miguel Hidalgo? | “Cry of Dolores” (accept “Grito de Dolores”) |