| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During the Tunisia Campaign, the Second Corps was overseen by this man, who was the first chair of the NATO Military Committee. Once the leader of the 82nd Airborne, this man served under George Patton during Operation Torch before becoming the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The most recent officer to earn the rank General of the Army, this is, for ten points, what man known for overseeing military policy in the Korean War? | Omar Bradley (or Omar Nelson Bradley) |
| This man's rise to power was marked by his ambush of Mamluks whom he had invited to a celebration. Having previously conquered the Sudan, this man was forced by the intervention of Charles Napier to withdraw from Syria during the second war against his nominal Ottoman superiors. For ten points, name this ethnically Albanian Ottoman viceroy regarded as the founder of modern Egypt. | Muhammad Ali Pasha (or Muhmamad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha; or Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the Sudan) |
| This author used the mask convention from Greek and Noh theatre in plays like The Great God Brown. This author wrote plays that were among the first to attempt African- American Vernacular English, such as All God’s Chillun Got Wings. This author modernized the works of Aeschylus [[“ACE”-skih-luss]] in the dramatic cycle Mourning Becomes Electra. For ten points, name this American playwright who wrote The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night. | Eugene O'Neill |
| This man executed Thomas Doughty, an act that Arthur Herman claimed created the principle in English law of a ship captain's legal authority. This man renamed his flagship after Christopher Hatton's coat of arms before a sixteenth-century expedition that visited what he called New Albion in modern-day California. For ten points, name this English captain of the Golden Hind who led the first English circumnavigation of the globe. | Sir Francis Drake |
| One of this man’s supporters carried out the Gukurahundi massacre of Ndebele [[“in- DEB-eh-lay”]] villagers. Although initially supporting voluntary land sales, in 2000 this man encouraged landless Black farmers to forcibly evict whites. In 2017, this leader of the ZANU- National Front was deposed in a coup and replaced by his vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa [[mah-nahn-GAHG-wah]]. For ten points, name this former dictator of Zimbabwe. | Robert Mugabe |
| This man was inspired to found his most famous group by his friends in the Loyal Nine. After his death, this man was eulogized as the Father of the American Revolution by his local newspaper, the Independent Chronicle. This man organized a group at the Old South Meeting House which then marched to board the Dartmouth. For ten points, name this leader of the Sons of Liberty and organizer of the Boston Tea Party. | Samuel Adams |
| Nezha fought these creatures after they demanded human sacrifice in exchange for rain. One of these creatures originally owned the Ruyi Jingu Bang, a magic staff that could change size, and that staff is stolen from a king of these creatures named Ao Guang [[“OW” GWANG]] in Journey to the West. For ten points, identify these mythic creatures that are depicted on the flag of China’s Qing Dynasty, and the flag of Bhutan. | Dragon (accept Lhung) |
| Pope Innocent the Third excommunicated this man for his opposition to Stephen Langton’s appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury. This man was the youngest child of a Eleanor of Aquitaine, and he allied with his older brother in a rebellion against his father, Henry the Second. For ten points, name this brother of Richard the Lionheart who was forced to sign the Magna Carta. | King John of England (accept John Lackland; accept John the First) |
| This man purchased a plot of land in Las Mariposas, though he discovered it was on Miwok hunting ground. Robert F. Stockton preceded this man as military governor of one state, and this man ran as the first presidential nominee of the Republican Party during the 1856 election. A biography subtitled "The West's Greatest Adventurer" profiles, for ten points, what founding figure and military governor of California? | John C. Frémont (or John Charles Frémont) |
| This god is associated with a rune depicted as an upward-pointing arrow. While traveling with Thor to retrieve his father, Hymir’s, cauldron, this god meets his 900-headed grandmother. This god lost his hand after offering to place it inside of Fenrir’s mouth while the creature was bound. For ten points, name this Norse god of war. | Tyr |
| The Kokoda Track Campaign in what is now this country was an ultimately successful operation for Australian forces. Operation I-Go was a series of bombings against this country and the Solomon Islands. For ten points, name this country in which the Japanese assaulted Rabaul and Port Moresby. | Independent State of Papua New Guinea |
| The Japanese effort to take Port Moresby culminated in this May 1942 battle, the first naval battle in history in which participants attacked entirely by aircraft. | Battle of the Coral Sea |
| This man's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, was indicted for revealing the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame. This man served as secretary of defense under George H.W. Bush, and this Republican joined his daughter, a congresswoman from Wyoming, for the remembrance of the January 6th riot. For ten points, name this Haliburton chairman who became vice president of the U.S. in 2001 under George W. Bush. | Dick Cheney (or Richard Bruce Cheney) |
| Dick Cheney was a deputy and assistant to this politician, who served as secretary of defense under both Gerald Ford and George W. Bush. | Donald Rumsfeld |
| This man's testimony in defense of Ivan Frederick inspired a book that posited a “slippery slope of evil.” This man argued that abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison was not the result of a “few bad apples” in The Lucifer Effect. This man’s most famous experiment included a participant nicknamed John Wayne as one of the guards. For ten points, identify this psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment. | Philip Zimbardo (or Philip George Zimbardo) |
| This high school friend of Zimbardo was himself criticized for unethical research methods in his namesake shock experiment, which he described in the book Obedience to Authority. | Stanley Milgram |
| An item found near this river consists of a clasp shaped like an "S" with seven individual strands. Other artifacts found near this river include a seal of a cross-legged figure described by the term Pashupati. Priest-King and Dancing Girl are among the artifacts found near this river at Mohenjo-daro. For ten points, identify this river that names a valley civilization in modern Pakistan. | Indus River (or Indus Valley Civilization) |
| The Indus Valley Civilization was originally named for Harappa, a site in this Indian state with a dominant Sikh population. | Punjab |
| Evidence that this event was premeditated was outlined in a "stratagem" from Camillo Capilupi to Pope Gregory the Thirteenth. After being stabbed, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny [[koh-lin-YEE]] was thrown from a window during this event in an attack carried out by Henri de Guise. The marriage of Margaret of Valois and Henry of Navarre preceded, for ten points, what 1572 massacre of Huguenots in Paris on the eve of a saint's feast day? | Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
| The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre was instigated by Charles the Ninth and this wife of Henry the Second who hailed from a prestigious Florentine family. | Catherine de Medici (or Caterina de Medici) |
| Postmaster General Walter Brown met with executives in this industry at the "Spoils Conference." Robert Poli led a 1981 strike of workers in this industry as part of the PATCO union, and this industry's 1978 deregulation led to the bankruptcy of companies including Braniff. A Stabilization Board provided loans to entities such as Aloha and Frontier in, for ten points, what industry that grew after the development of the Boeing 747? | Airline Industry (or Aviation Industry; or Flight Industry; accept equivalents; accept Air Traffic Controllers after “Robert Poli;” prompt on “Travel”) |
| The airline industry survived the Great Depression in part due to the success of the DC-3 of this defunct company that collaborated with Boeing and Vega on the B-17 Flying Fortress. | Douglas Aircraft Company |
| This city's San Juan de Ulúa fortress was captured in the Pastry War. The oldest and largest port in its country, this city was co-founded by Alonso Hernandez Puertocarrero. This city was established in 1519 by Hernán Cortés in a namesake Mexican state on the Gulf of Mexico. For ten points, identify this city whose Spanish name translates to “True Cross.” | Veracruz (or Heroica Veracruz) |
| The U.S. occupied Veracruz for seven months after this 1914 affair during which Mexico refused to return nine detained U.S. sailors. | Tampico Affair |
| This man was forced to flee to Hobart following a revolt by the New South Wales Corps in Australia in an event known as the Rum Rebellion. A five-month sojourn on the island of Tahiti may have motivated a revolt by seamen under this officer, whose goal was to deliver breadfruit trees to the Americas. The "Mutiny on the HMS Bounty" was suffered by, for ten points, which British captain? | William Bligh |
| The Rum Rebellion led to a temporary colonial government in Van Diemen's Land, which is now known by this name. | Tasmania |
| People who name the southernmost member of the Great Lakes. | Erie (or Eriechronon; or Erielhonan; or Eriez; accept Lake Erie) |
| Patuxet man who assisted the Plymouth colony in growing corn. | Squanto (or Tisquantum) |
| Six nation Confederacy of New York, including the Mohawk and Oneida [[oh-NYE- dah]]. | Iroquois (or Haudenosaunee; accept Iroquois League; accept Iroquois Confederacy) |
| Confederacy encountered by early settlers of Jamestown, whose members included Pocahontas. | Powhatan (accept Virginia Algonquians) |
| English-named Wampanoag "King" and namesake of a war, also known as Metacomet. | King Philip (accept King Philip’s War) |
| 1630s war between the namesake tribe led by Sassacus and an alliance of New England colonies. | Pequot War |
| Midwestern tribe represented by its namesake prophet Tenskwatawathat fought the Colony of Virginia in Lord Dunmore’s War. | Shawnee |
| Confederacy made of Algonquian tribes like the Penobscot and the Mikmaq [[MIHK- mak]]. | Wabanaki Confederacy |
| Region of Czechoslovakia that was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1938. | Sudetenland |
| Neighbor to the south that occupied parts of Slovakia during World War Two. | Kingdom of Hungary (accept Magyarország) |
| Fabric describing the peaceful nature of its 1989 revolution and later split. | Velvet (accept Velvet Revolution; or Velvet Divorce) |
| "Agreement" signed in Bavaria that authorized German occupation. | Munich Agreement (accept Munich Betrayal) |
| First post-communist president, a former playwright. | Václav Havel [[VAHT-slahv HAH-vul]] (accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| Leader of the Prague Spring who was deposed in a 1968 invasion. | Alexander Dubček [[DOOB-chek]] (accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| Pre-World War Two Crisis that indicated reports of German troops marching on Czechoslovakia in 1938. | May Crisis |
| Student who immolated himself in 1969 in protest of the end of the Prague Spring. | Jan Palach |
| Largest Asian island, from which its first settlers are believed to have arrived. | Borneo (or Kalimantan) |
| Capital city where Lake Anosy was created in the nineteenth century to provide power to factories. | Antananarivo (or Tana) |
| Ethnic group whose deportation to Madagascar was proposed by the Nazis. | Jewish people (or Jews; accept Żydzi) |
| Country that colonized Madagascar after the Hova Wars. | France (accept French Third Republic) |
| African Ethnolinguistic group who settled Madagascar in the ninth century. | Bantu |
| Queen and last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar. | Ranavalona the Third |
| Ethnic group of Madagascar who ruled a namesake nineteenth-century kingdom. | Merina (accept Merina Kingdom; accept Kingdom of Imerina) |
| Originally Marxist politician and longest-serving president in Madagascar’s history who was exiled in 2001 for stealing eight million dollars in public funds. | Didier Ratsiraka (or Didier Ignace Ratsiraka; prompt on “Deba” or “Big Man”) |
| At a rally in support of Hugo Chavez, this athlete wore a shirt that read "Stop Bush." This athlete once competed in a charity match organized by Evo Morales, (+) and this athlete met with countryman Pope Francis while drawing comparisons between the Falklands War and his infamous (*) "Hand of God" goal. For ten points, name this late Argentine soccer player and champion of the 1986 World Cup. | Diego Maradona (Diego Armando Maradona |
| One group named for this neighborhood was symbolized by a patch depicting a silver rattlesnake on a blue shield. As a member of that group named for this neighborhood, Henry Johnson became the first American to receive the (+) French War Cross. This neighborhood names a group that was profiled in an official history by Emmett Scott. (*) For ten points, name this New York neighborhood that partly names a World War Two regiment of African American “Hellfighters.” | Harlem (accept Harlem Hellfighters) |
| One song by this artist references a man who signed a $100,000 baseball contract with the New York Yankees and the liquidation of Studebaker. Panmunjom, Red China, and Harry (+) Truman are among the references in one song by this artist who recorded the album Storm Front album. “We Didn’t (*) Start the Fire” was performed by, for ten points, what musician known for his signature song “Piano Man? | Billy Joel |
| The Silver Age poet Silius Italicus claimed that fatigue during this battle resulted in the death of Gnaeus Servilius Geminus at the hands of Virathius, who himself was slain by Lucius (+) Aemilius Paullus. This 216 BCE battle occurred near an Apulian village and saw one commander, Gaius Terentius Varro, narrowly escape a (*) double envelopment. For ten points, name this battle in which Hannibal’s forces annihilated a Roman army. | Battle of Cannae (accept pronunciations like [[keh-NAY]] or [[kan-NEE]] |
| The man who designed this city was recruited by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais [[BOH-mar-SHAY]] to serve in the Continental Army. A document with a "dotted line" (+) was central to the design of this city by its architect, who moved to its neighborhood of (*) Georgetown. Pierre Charles L’Enfant designed, for ten points, what city, the capital of the United States? | Washington D.C. (accept either underlined portion) |
| Supporters of an anti-communist party in this country engaged in the 1930 Peasant March. The Lapua Movement was banned in this country, whose voluntary militia was known as the White (+) Guard. Risto Ryti rose to the presidency of this country amidst the Continuation War, and the Third Swedish Crusade targeted this country's pagan (*) Karelian population. For ten points, name this Nordic country that fought Russia in the Winter War. | Republic of Finland (or Republiken Finland; accept Suomi; or Suomen tasavalta) |
| This event was falsely rumored to have involved the developer of the video game Death Stranding. The target of this event was delivering a speech (+) in support of an LDP politician near Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara (*) Prefecture. For ten points, identify this July 8, 2022 event in which a former Japanese prime minister was killed. | Assassination of Shinzo Abe [[ah-BEH]] (accept name in either order; accept Shinzo Abe; prompt on partial answers; accept "shooting" and other reasonable equivalents in place of "assassination") |
| During the 1930s, this country was governed by Tiburcio Carías and suffered from an epidemic of Panama disease that attacked the Gros michel cultivar. This former (+) banana republic, where a 2009 coup deposed Manuel Zelaya, elected Xiomara Castro as its first female President in 2021. (*) For ten points, name this Central American country that once fought neighboring El Salvador over a game of soccer. | Republic of Honduras (accept República de Honduras) |
| This woman was defrauded by the medium William H. Mumler, who faked photographs of her with her husband (+) resting his hands on her shoulders. This woman became bedridden for three weeks after the death of her son Willie from typhoid fever. (*) For ten points, name this First Lady who was by her husband's side when he was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre. | Mary Todd Lincoln (or Mary Lincoln; prompt on “Lincoln”) |
| In 1994, Michael Jordan played 127 games for the Birmingham Barons, the Double- A affiliate of this American League baseball team, whose Hall of Famers include Harold Baines and Frank Thomas. | Chicago White Sox (prompt on "Chicago") |