| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Members of this group formed Washington Benevolent Societies as early grassroots political clubs. Blue lights near the mouth of the New London River convinced Stephen Decatur that this group 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. Led by politicians like John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, for ten points, what was this early American political party that opposed the Democratic Republicans? | Federalist Party (accept Federalists) |
| This figure organized the Lodge of Rational Knights. 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 inspired by the book of Deuteronomy with the line "Lest we forget!" The aforementioned work 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" and "The White Man's Burden." | Rudyard Kipling (or Joseph Rudyard Kipling) |
| A set of events that occurred in this city were viewed by Augustus as "a time-honored and worthy custom for the flower of the nobility." 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. Shi’a Muslims put heavy emphasis on the doctrine of Ismah, which best translates to this concept, a certain form of which was challenged by protestants in the Three Chapters Controversy. 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 figure is incapable of error. | Infallibility (accept Papal Infallibility; accept word forms like Infallible; prompt on descriptions before “for ten points”) |
| Jacques Vallée served as the inspiration for a character in this film who is assisted by members of the United Nations. A torpedo bomber designed by Grumman, and the SS Cotopaxi, are among the vehicles investigated in this film, the former of which is located in the Sonoran Desert. Members of the military meet at Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, which is the site of a landing in this film that was inspired by the Barney and Betty Hill UFO. For ten points, identify this Steven Spielberg film about extraterrestrial contact. | Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| It's not the Normandy landings, but a portion of this event involving heavy casualties was known as "Little Omaha." An evacuation of British troops known as Operation Berlin occurred during this event, which featured an engagement at Arnhem. The capture of a bridge on the Rhine was among the goals of this effort, part of which was carried out in September 1944 by groups such as the First Allied Airborne Army. For ten points, name this largely unsuccessful World War Two operation that took place in the Netherlands. | Operation Market Garden |
| After failing to avoid the draft, this man's friend, Cisco Houston, convinced him to join the Merchant Marine during World War Two. The overplaying of a work by Irving Berlin was the alleged inspiration for one piece by this creator of the Dust Bowl Ballads. One work by this man evokes the image of "the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts," and an object used by this man was inscribed with the words "This machine kills fascists." For ten points, name this folk singer of "This Land is Your Land". | Woody Guthrie (accept Woodrow Wilson Guthrie; prompt on "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, which saw the other side “Cross the T” to achieve victory. The losing side in this battle was attempting 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 |
| A "Martyrs' Monument" created in remembrance of this event was designed by Albert Weinert. Louis Lingg committed suicide after being sentenced for his role in this event, for which Richard J. Oglesby commuted two death sentences. This event 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 1886 event that began after a bomb was thrown into a crowd in Chicago. | Haymarket Affair (accept Haymarket Massacre; accept Haymarket Square Riot; accept Haymarket Incident) |
| 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 his for locking an industrial door during this tragedy that took place at the Asch Building. For ten points, name this 1911 disaster where a fire engulfed a Greenwich Village textile factory, killing over one hundred and forty women. | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
| Which future Secretary of Labor, the first female cabinet member, personally witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire? | Frances Perkins (or Fannie Coralie Perkins) |
| This man is the namesake of a mosque in Thatta with an interior that is decorated with blue and white tiles arranged into stellate patterns. 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") |
| In this county, a fishing boat named Bugaled Breizh [[BRIZE]] sank off Lizard Point, an incident which may have occurred due to its fishing nets entangling with a submarine. James Tuchet [[too-SHEH]] was beheaded for leading a 1497 rebellion centered in this county. Dolly Pentreath was the last-known speaker of a language from this county before that language underwent an early 20th century revival. In the 1860s, London was connected by the Great Western Railway to Truro in, for ten points, what southwestern county of England? | Cornwall (accept Kernow) |
| The revived Cornish language is closely related to this member of the Celtic language family spoken in western France, the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European mainland. | Breton (or Brezhoneg) |
| At this meeting, Benjamin Tasker Jr. and Abraham Barnes served as Maryland's delegates. Hosted by Governor James De Lancey, this meeting was attended by seven of the thirteen colonies and aimed to establish an alliance with the Mohawk. Debates over a namesake plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin occurred during this event, which inspired a depiction of the severed parts of the body of a snake in the Join, or Die cartoon. For ten points, name this 1754 Congress held in a New York city. | Albany Congress (accept Albany Convention of 1754) |
| Franklin's proposal for unification exceeded the intentions of the Albany Congress and was opposed by this man, who was governor of Massachusetts during the Boston Massacre and a Loyalist who went into exile in England. | Thomas Hutchinson |
| A score by this man, based on a Lord Byron poem, was refused by Paganini for having too many rests in its viola part. 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. The writer of an aria in which Marguerite sings of "the ardent flame of love" in The Damnation of Faust, for ten points, who was 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 carried out the final stages of a centuries-long series of conquests called the “March to the South.” 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 body of water that separates Vietnam from Hainan Island. | Tonkin (or Bắc Kỳ) |
| In 1819, participants of one of these events in Wurzburg supposedly shouted "Hep! Hep!" Perets Smolenskin wrote a series of newspaper articles about one of these events that took place in Odessa in 1871. Nikolai Ignatyev posited that the reduction of these events was the goal of the May Laws. The newspaper Bessarabetz sparked one of these events in Kishinev, and many of these events took place in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia. For ten points, name these riots that led to the massacre of Jews. | Pogroms (prompt on “Riot” by saying “directed against whom?” - accept descriptions including killing or massacring Jews before end of question) |
| Many pogroms occurred in the Pale of Settlement under this reactionary ruler, who was crowned after his liberalizing father was killed by a bomb attack organized by the terrorist group People’s Will. | Alexander the Third (prompt on "Alexander") |
| The oldest written examples of this language were made by Domingo de Santo Tomás. This language, along with Shuar, was the subject of a 2008 constitutional revision, part of Rafael Correa’s vision for a plurinational state, making this language one of the official tongues of Ecuador. Spanish colonial officials banned this language from public use after the rebellion of Tupac Amaru the Second. For ten points, name this Andean language used as the "Lingua Franca" of the Inca Empire in the 15th century. | Quechuan (or Kichwa or Runasimi) |
| Both the government of Peru and this Maoist guerilla group massacred groups of Kichwa-speaking indigenous peoples during the decades-long unrest in Peru in the late 20th century. | Shining Path (or Sendero Luminoso; prompt on “Communist Party of Peru”; do not accept or prompt on “Tupac Amaru”) |
| Actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. | John Wilkes Booth |
| Tennesseean 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 (rinton) 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") |
| Ohio “Copperhead” leader who was exiled to the Confederacy for opposing the war effort, but fled to Canada instead. | Clement Vallandigham (or Clement Laird Vallandigham) |
| Secretary of war accused of corruption, who later built a Pennsylvania political machine. | Simon Cameron (accept Cameron Machine) |
| 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 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) |
| Former Gulag prisoner and rocket engineer who headed the Soviet space program until his death in 1966. | Sergei Korolev (or Sergei Pavlovich Korolev) |
| Program launched in 1967 that sent non-Soviet cosmonauts from largely Soviet- aligned states into space. | Interkosmos |
| 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 from 1946 to 1954 and briefly in the 1970s. | Juan Perón |
| Southern region whose 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 ’83, part of Operation Condor. | Dirty War (or Guerra sucia; prompt on “Operation Condor” if answered early) |
| “Pink Tide” political family of Nestor and Cristina Fernandez who held the presidency from 2003 to 2015. | 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 |
| The ruling family of this region split into Straubing and Landshut lines, and its historical duchies included those of 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 governed from Munich. | Bavaria (accept Bayern) |
| French Jesuit archaeologist Henri Fleisch discovered a distinct, flint-using culture near this country’s village of Qaraoun [[kah-rah-OON]]. During Roman occupation, this country’s Beqaa Valley-based Chalcis Kingdom developed into a major agricultural hub. 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. Ancient (*) Phoenician cities located in this country include Byblos and Tyre. For ten points, name this Levantine country, historically famed for its cedars. | Lebanon |
| This author of An Album of Memories reflected on the impact of the 1960s mindset in the world of business in his book Boom! Following the collapse of the South Tower, this man claimed, “This is a declaration and an execution of an attack on the United States.” A book by this man popularized the term “Greatest (+) Generation” to describe Americans born in the early 20th century who fought in World War II. The second presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama was moderated by this man, whose rivals worked at (*) ABC and CBS. For ten points, name this longtime anchor for NBC. | Tom Brokaw (accept Thomas [John] Brokaw) |
| One character in this film reads a dinner plate that has "give us this day our daily bread" engraved on it before angrily smashing it. After being asked to make a Nazi version of this film, its director responded in a letter that stated National Socialism lacked both “truth” and (+) “realism.” 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 (*) Odessa Steps scene. For ten points, name this influential Sergei Eisenstein film about a revolutionary mutiny aboard a namesake vessel. | Battleship Potemkin (or Bronenosets Potyomkin) |
| Three years after this event, reports from the various parishes of the country most affected were collected into a set of Parochial Memories. The Ópera do Tejo [[TEH- hoh]] was destroyed in this event, among whose survivors was the First Marquis of (+) Pombal. Occurring during the Feast of All Saints in the year 1755, 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 a work partly set during this event, Candide. For ten points, name this natural disaster that affected Portugal. | 1755 Lisbon earthquake (accept Great Lisbon earthquake) |
| A building allegedly “adorned with gold” in this city was where Olaus Rudbeck established a namesake botanical garden. The inventor of the centigrade temperature system graduated from a university in this city, as did the “father of taxonomy”. The abdication of Queen (+) Christina was announced in a building in this city, which contains the Gustavianum. Kings like Magnus the Second were crowned in the cathedral of this city, which was the largest such building in Scandinavia. North of (*) Stockholm, for ten points, what is this fourth-largest Swedish city with a namesake castle inhabited by numerous Vasa monarchs? | Uppsala |
| John Reynolds and this officer drew up the terms of the land cession that ended the Black Hawk War. 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. This officer’s victory at the Battle of Chapultepec included seizing the “halls of (*) Montezuma.” For ten points, name this general and namesake of both an American admiral with the last name Schley and a different US army general with the last name Hancock. | Winfield Scott |
| One leader of this modern-day country famously said “I am defending my communist ideology, my ideals” during a speech given 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 declared independence from a Muslim empire in 1908 under Ferdinand the First. Losing the Second (*) Balkan War to Serbia, Romania, and Greece, for ten points, name this former Tsardom centered on 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 with this first and middle name, who developed the case method widely used in law schools today, has the surname Langdell. Another man of this first and middle name, with the surname Nash, organized whites in a Louisiana city against Black militias during the Colfax Massacre. (+) A member of Coxey's Army, with the surname Jones, also had this first and middle name. 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, what are these two names associated with a Genoese explorer? | Christopher Columbus (accept Christopher Columbus Langdell; accept Christopher Columbus Nash; accept Christopher Columbus Jones; 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") |