| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Blue lights near the mouth of the New London River convinced Stephen Decatur that this political party was working with the British during the War of 1812. John Hancock lambasted George Cabot and other members of this party's elite Essex Junto. John Adams and Alexander Hamilton led, for ten points, what early American political party that opposed the Democratic Republicans? | Federalist Party (accept Federalists) |
| This man crossed the Andes as part of victories at the Battles of Chacabuco and Maipu. This man was the commander of the Chilean army immediately before Bernardo O’Higgins, and he attempted to negotiate with Simon Bolivar at the Guayaquil Conference before moving to Europe. For ten points, name this Argentine leader who liberated much of the southern half of South America from Spanish control. | José de San Martín [[mar-TEEN]] |
| One work by this man describes an "ancient sacrifice" that still stands after "The Captains and the Kings depart." That work by this man criticizes jingoism and was written by this author for an 1897 Diamond Jubilee in place of a poem calling for American annexation of the Philippines. For ten points, identify this Indian-born British author of "Recessional," "The White Man's Burden," and The Jungle Book. | Rudyard Kipling (or Joseph Rudyard Kipling) |
| The city of Wiluša is identified with this city, which Frank Calvert helped unearth at the mound of Hisarlik. Layers of this city dated to the Late Bronze Age are thought to have been the site of a civilization during the Heroic Age that was possibly led by King Priam. For ten points, name this city that was besieged during the events of the Iliad. | Troy (accept Wiluša before mentioned; accept Truwiša; accept Troia; prompt on "Hisarlik" before mentioned) |
| Akbar the Great released a decree named for this concept, which made him the ultimate arbiter of all religious doctrinal disputes. This concept was the subject of the Three Chapters Controversy, and Pope Pius the Ninth claimed that the words of the pope carry this concept when spoken Ex Cathedra. For ten points, name this religious concept that claims a holy figure is incapable of error. | Infallibility (accept Papal Infallibility; accept word forms like Infallible; prompt on descriptions before “for ten points”) |
| A film by this director includes the investigation of the SS Cotopaxi in the Sonoran Desert. Another film by this man invented the character Carl Hanratty as a foil to real-life conman Frank Abagnale Jr. In another of this director’s films, Itzhak Stern works in an enamel factory run by a Nazi party member. For ten points, identify this director of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Catch Me If You Can, and Schindler’s List. | Steven Spielberg |
| Thor borrows one possession from this deity in order to impersonate her at the wedding at Jǫtunheimr [[joh-tuhn-NAY-murr]]. Loki attempts to steal Brísingamen, a necklace that belongs to this Vanir goddess, who is often depicted riding a chariot pulled by two cats. For ten points, name this Norse goddess of love and beauty, from whom the word for Friday is derived. | Freyja (accept Freya; or Freyia; or Freja) |
| One man with this surname wrote an eighteen-minute song about a man who is arrested for illegally dumping trash on Thanksgiving. Another man of this surname created the Dust Bowl Ballads and played a guitar inscribed with the words “This machine kills fascists.” “This Land is Your Land” was composed by a man with, for ten points, what surname shared by folk signers Arlo and Woody? | Guthrie (accept Woody Guthrie; accept Arlo Guthrie) |
| Despite threat of death, one man surrendered at this battle, claiming "The lives of the 2,400 men in these ships are more important than mine." One side regrouped at Cam Ranh Bay before this battle, where the losing side attempted to break the blockade of Port Arthur. For ten points, name this major 1905 victory by Admiral Togo, in which the Japanese fleet annihilated the Russian navy. | Battle of Tsushima Strait (accept Tsushimaoki-Kaisen; accept Naval Battle of the Sea of Japan |
| An event in this city is commemorated by a "Martyrs' Monument" designed by Albert Weinert. That event in this city followed a speech about “good, honest, law-abiding, church- going citizens" that notified an audience of an attack against strikers at McCormick Reaper Works. For ten points, name this American city where a bomb sparked an 1886 riot that became known as the Haymarket Affair. | Chicago |
| Contemporary Socialist activist Rose Schneiderman compared this event to a modern-day Inquisition with torture devices replaced by "high-powered and swift machinery." Max Blanck was fined twenty dollars for locking an industrial door during this tragedy that took place at the Asch Building. For ten points, name this 1911 disaster in wich fire engulfed a textile factory in Greenwich Village, killing over 140 women. | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
| This woman who served as the first female member of a presidential cabinet personally witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, influencing her views on labor. | Frances Perkins (or Fannie Coralie Perkins) |
| This man’s adviser, Wazir Khan, was tasked with building a massive bathhouse and mosque in Lahore. This man’s Peacock Throne was looted during an invasion by Nader Shah, and his most famous architectural commission was built to house the body of his wife Mumtaz. For ten points, name this Mughal emperor who commissioned the Taj Mahal. | Shah Jahan the First (or Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram) |
| Shah Jahan’s other architectural achievements include the Jama Masjid and the Red Fort, both of which are located in this city. | Delhi (or Old Delhi; do NOT accept or prompt on "New Delhi") |
| Many of this empire’s cows were killed following the death of Nandi Bhebhe. This empire rose to prominence after the Mthethwa were destroyed by the Ndwandwe at the beginning of the Mfecane. This empire was divided among thirteen kinglets by the British, who this empire defeated at Isandlwana. For ten points, identify this Southern African empire once ruled by Cetashwayo and Shaka. | Zulu Empire (or KwaZulu; accept equivalents for “Empire” such as Kingdom; do not accept or prompt on “KwaZulu-Natal”) |
| The British defeat at Isandlwana led to this battle, during which British and allied soldiers successfully defended a namesake mission while outnumbered nearly sixteen to one. | Battle of Rorke’s Drift |
| One meeting in this city was hosted by Governor James De Lancey and attended by seven of the thirteen colonies in an attempt to establish an alliance with the Mohawk. Debates over a namesake plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin occurred in this city, where one event inspired a depiction of the severed parts of the body of a snake in the Join, or Die cartoon. A 1754 Congress was convened in, for ten points, what city, the capital of New York? | Albany (accept Albany Congress ; or Albany Convention of 1754) |
| Franklin's proposal for unification at the Albany Congress was opposed by Thomas Hutchinson, who served as governor of Massachusetts during this event that resulted in the death of Crispus Attucks. | Thomas Hutchinson |
| This man's final opera was based on Much Ado About Nothing and was titled Béatrice et Bénédict. This man's obsession with Harriet Smithson inspired the "idée fixe" [[ee-DEH FEEKS]] in one programmatic work. This composer wrote an aria in which Marguerite sings of "the ardent flame of love" in The Damnation of Faust. For ten points, identify this French romantic composer of Symphonie Fantastique. | Hector Berlioz [[behr-lee-OHZ]] (or Louis-Hector Berlioz; accept attempts at phonetic pronunciation) |
| Berlioz based another well-known programmatic choral symphony on this play by Shakespeare. In its 1839 debut, Adolphe-Louis Alizard portrayed Friar Lawrence. | Romeo and Juliet (or Roméo et Juliette) |
| This dynasty’s last nominal rulers were propped up by the Japanese Empire before their 1945 fall in the August Revolution. This dynasty toppled the Tay Son family with the help of French soldiers, and this dynasty carried on a centuries-long civil war with the Trinh Lords. For ten points, name this final Vietnamese dynasty that shares its name with the most popular Vietnamese surname. | Nguyen Dynasty (or Nhà Nguyễn; or Nguyễn triều) |
| After its fall, rulers from the Nguyen dynasty were made puppet rulers of Annam and this region, which shares its name with a gulf that separates Vietnam from Hainan Island. | Tonkin (or Bắc Kỳ; accept Gulf of Tonkin) |
| Perets Smolenskin wrote a series of newspaper articles about events targeting these people that took place in Odessa in 1871. Nikolai Ignatyev posited that the reduction of events targeting these people was the goal of the May Laws. Many events that targeted these took place within the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia. For ten points, name these people who targeted in massacres called pogroms. | Jewish People (or Jews) |
| Many pogroms in the Pale of Settlement occurred under this reactionary ruler, who was crowned after his liberalizing father was killed in a bombing by the People’s Will. | Alexander the Third (prompt on "Alexander") |
| Pieter Bruegel the Elder adopted many of the artistic styles of this painter, causing one critic to attribute Bruegel’s Fall of the Rebel Angels (*) to this man. One painting credited to this European painter, Christ Carrying the Cross, is housed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, (*) Belgium. For ten points, name this Dutch painter, whose oil paintings include The Temptation of St. Anthony and The Garden of Earthly Delights. | Hieronymus Bosch (or Jheronimous van Aken; or El Bosco) |
| Bosch’s religious works include a painting of this figure in the Wilderness where he is said to have subsisted on locusts and wild honey. | St. John the Baptist |
| Actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. | John Wilkes Booth |
| Tennesse politician who served as his second vice president. | Andrew Johnson |
| Constitutional protection he suspended, allowing him to jail anyone rebelling against the U.S. without trial. | Habeas corpus |
| Union general who opposed Lincoln in the election of 1864. | George B. McClellan |
| Maine politician who served as Lincoln’s first vice president. | Hannibal Hamlin |
| Son of the president and only person known to have witnessed the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. | Robert Todd Lincoln (prompt on "Lincoln") |
| Title of a Doris Kearns Goodwin history concerning Lincoln’s often conflicting cabinet. | Team of Rivals |
| Position held in Lincoln’s cabinet by Simon Cameron, who later built a Pennsylvania political machine. | Secretary of War |
| Term for Russian and Soviet astronauts. | Cosmonaut (or Kosmonavt) |
| Type of extra-vehicular action first performed by Alexei Leonov in 1965. | Spacewalk (accept word forms and clear-knowledge equivalents) |
| First artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched in 1957. | Sputnik One |
| First man in space, who orbited the Earth in 1961. | Yuri Gagarin (or Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin) |
| Soviet republic and present-day independent country from which many spaceflights were launched at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. | Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (accept Republic of Kazakhstan; accept Qazaqstan Respublikasy) |
| First woman in space who flew on Vostok Six in 1963. | Valentina Tereshkova [[teh-resh-KOH-vah]] (or Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova) |
| Program launched in 1967 that sent non-Soviet cosmonauts from largely Soviet- aligned states into space. | Interkosmos |
| Former Gulag prisoner and rocket engineer who headed the Soviet space program until his death in 1966. | Sergei Korolev (or Sergei Pavlovich Korolev) |
| Capital city founded by Pedro de Mendoza in 1536. | Buenos Aires |
| Estuary bordering Argentina and Uruguay that was the site of a World War Two naval battle in 1939. | Rio de la Plata (or River Plate) |
| Disastrous conflict won by Britain over namesake South Atlantic islands in 1982. | Falklands War (accept Guerra de las Malvinas) |
| Populist dictator who held the presidency of Argentina from 1946 to 1954, and briefly in the 1970s. | Juan Perón |
| Southern region where the indigenous Mapuche [[mah-POO-chay]] people were subject to a “Conquest” in the 1870s. | Patagonian Desert (accept Patagonian Steppe) |
| Period of state terrorism enacted during the military junta of 1974 to 1983 as part of Operation Condor. | Dirty War (or Guerra sucia; prompt on “Operation Condor” if answered early) |
| “Political family of Nestor and Cristina Fernandez who held the presidency from 2003 to 2015 in a “Pink Tide.” | Kirchner (accept Nestor Kirchner; or Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner) |
| Authoritarian ruler whose near-successful annexations of Uruguay and Paraguay were stopped by Brazil in the Platine War. | Juan Manuel de Rosas |
| This region’s historical duchies included Franconia and Swabia. A communist government was established in this region under "coffeehouse anarchist" (+) Ernst Toller. This region was declared a kingdom under Maximilian the First, and its last Wittelsbach King abdicated when (*) Kurt Eisner declared it a "People's State." For ten points, name this traditionally Catholic German state that is governed from Munich. | Bavaria (accept Bayern) |
| This country’s Chalcis Kingdom was based in the Beqaa Valley. The Wadi al- Taym in this country is held to be the birthplace of the Shia offshoot religion (+) Druze. Ancient sailors from this present-day country founded the colony of Carthage in North Africa, and ancient (*) Phoenician cities located in this country include Byblos and Tyre. For ten points, name this Levantine country, historically famed for its cedars. | Lebanon |
| One participant in this battle was given his earliest orders after a wounded general travelled aboard the Tigress to Crump's Landing. One division at this battle was commanded by the author of Ben-Hur, (+) Lew Wallace. Alternatively known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, this two-day battle in 1862 occurred during an effort to capture a railroad connecting the Mississippi (*) River to Memphis. For ten points, name this Tennessee Civil War battle. | Battle of Shiloh (accept Battle of Pittsburg Landing before mentioned) |
| One character in this film reads a dinner plate with the words "give us this day our daily bread" engraved on it before angrily smashing it. (+) Although shot in black and white, this film’s finale had a red flag added frame by frame by hand. This film depicts Tsarist Cossacks massacring civilians in its (*) scene on the Odessa Steps. For ten points, name this Sergei Eisenstein film about a revolutionary mutiny aboard a namesake vessel. | Battleship Potemkin (or Bronenosets Potyomkin) |
| The Ópera do Tejo [[TEH-hoh]] was destroyed in this event, which was survived by the First Marquis of (+) Pombal. Occurring during the Feast of All Saints, this event had an area near Cape St. Vincent as its (*) epicenter. The idea of the "the best of all possible worlds" is satirized in Candide during, for ten points, what natural disaster that struck Portugal’s capital in 1755? | 1755 Lisbon Earthquake (accept Great Lisbon Earthquake; prompt on partial answers) |
| The inventor of the centigrade temperature system graduated from a university in this country, as did the “father of taxonomy.” The abdication of Queen (+) Christina was announced in a building in this country, where kings such as Magnus the Second were crowned in a cathedral in Uppsala. (*) For ten points, identify this country where Scandinavian kings ruled the House of Vasa. | Kingdom of Sweden (accept Konungariket Sverige) |
| After being captured while leading U.S. regulars at Queenston Heights, this officer redeemed his reputation at (+) Chippawa. Martin Van Buren placed this officer in charge of forcing the Cherokees along the Trail of Tears, and this officer’s victory at the Battle of Chapultepec included seizing the “halls of (*) Montezuma.” For ten points, name this general nicknamed “Old Fuss and Feathers.” | Winfield Scott |
| One leader of this modern-day country gave a speech in Leipzig after a waiter accused him and two others of speaking with a man accused of starting the (+) Reichstag Fire. Georgi Dimitrov led this country’s Fatherland Front, alongside its future thirty-year dictator, Todor Zhivkov. This country lost the the Second (*) Balkan War to Serbia, Romania, and Greece. For ten points, name this country whose former Tsardom centered on the capital Sofia. | People’s Republic of Bulgaria (accept Narodna Republika Balgariya) |
| Before reading the question, tell the teams that a two-word answer is required! One man of this first and middle name, with the surname Nash, organized whites in a Louisiana city against Black militias during the Colfax Massacre. (+) These two names are the first and last name of a man who has historically inspired large celebrations in Little (*) Italys on an October federal holiday. For ten points, identify this first and last name associated with a Genoese explorer who set sail in 1492. | Christopher Columbus (accept Christopher Columbus Nash; prompt on partial answers) |
| This American tech corporation built the supercomputer running Deep Blue, the chess-playing system that defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. | IBM (or International Business Machines Corporation; prompt on "Big Blue") |