| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A building named for this politician was the subject of Uncovering the Dome, which included the senior thesis of Amy Klobuchar. The Dixiecrats walked out of the 1948 Democratic convention when this man introduced an anti-segregation plank into the platform. This politician won the nomination at the the Democratic National Convention in which the Chicago Seven were arrested. For ten points, name this longtime senator from Minnesota who lost to Richard Nixon in 1968 and served as Lyndon B. Johnson’s vice president. | Hubert Humphrey (or Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.) |
| Harry Feversham takes part in this conflict in the A.E.W. Mason novel The Four Feathers. The jibba was widely worn by supporters of one man during this conflict, in which Yohannes the Fourth died. During this conflict, the Desert Column attempted to relieve one man in the Battle of Abu Klea, and a leader known as the "Guided One" was the namesake of this conflict, which resulted in the death of “Chinese” Gordon. For ten points, name this conflict involving a religious leader in Sudan. | Mahdist War (accept ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; accept Sudan campaign or Anglo–Sudan War before "Sudan" is mentioned; accept Sudanese Mahdist Revolt) |
| In a children's book by this author, a group of friends witness Ancient Egyptian and Celtic ceremonies while trying to find Pipkin. This author of The Halloween Tree wrote his most famous novel in response to the Second Red Scare, and it was followed up by the short story collection, A Pleasure to Burn. This author of The Martian Chronicles also wrote a book about Guy Montag burning books. For ten points, name this American science fiction author of Fahrenheit 451. | Ray Bradbury (or Ray Douglas Bradbury) |
| Philadelphia chemist Robert McNeil is credited with creating this product, which was first sold in firetruck-shaped boxes "for little hotheads." Versions of this product tainted with cyanide were at the center of a 1982 murder spree around Chicago, which led this product's manufacturer to recall over 31 million bottles and introduce tamper-resistant packaging. For ten points, name this over-the-counter fever reducer and pain reliver, the brand name of the drug acetaminophen. | Tylenol (or paracetamol; accept acetaminophen before read) |
| This person was deputy state treasurer of Massachusetts in 1993 and, in 1994, lost a governor race to Angus King. After William Cohen retired from the U.S. senate this person was elected to replace him. This person was the only Republican senator to vote against the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, and this woman was one of three Republican senators to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson. For ten points, name this senator from Maine who has served since 1996 and was reelected in 2020. | Susan Collins (or Susan Margaret Collins) |
| Edmond Malone argues that this phrase appeared in a now-lost work by Richard Edes. Accounts that omit this phrase claim that the speaker saw its dedicatee and silently raised a toga above his head instead. Thought to have been delivered on March 15 in the year 44 B.C.E., this phrase is spoken as a group of senators surround the title character of a William Shakespeare play. For ten points, name this line which Julius Caesar allegedly used to address a certain friend's involvement in his assassination. | Et tu, Brute? (prompt on translations like “And you, Brutus?” or “You as well, Brutus?”) |
| While the British were retreating after the Battle of York, the detonation of a fort resulted in the death of this winning commander. In an Ohio county named for this man, Christopher and Clarence Rhoden were among the eight murder victims belonging to one family. A 14,115-foot member of the Front Range is named for this man, who, in 1805, began the first of two expeditions through the Louisiana Purchase territories. For ten points, name this American general who lends his name to a Colorado peak. | Zebulon Pike (or Zebulon Montgomery Pike, accept Pike’s Peak) |
| This man wrote disapprovingly of the court of Mansa Suleyman for their supposed "contempt for White men” and failure to properly cover their women. After traveling from Hangzhou to Beijing by the Grand Canal, this man passed himself off as the ambassador from the Delhi Sultanate to gain access to the Yuan court of Emperor Huizong. This man recounted his trips to China, Spain, and the Mali empire in his book, The Rihla. For ten points, name this 14th Century Moroccan explorer. | Ibn Battuta (or Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah) |
| Franz Bürkl was arrested after one event in this city and shot dead during Operation Heads. An uprising in this city began after Jürgen Stroop ordered the surrender of one of its neighborhoods. The Home Army was sent to seize control of this city before the arrival of the Soviet Union’s Red Army. This city's liberation resulted in a rebuilding campaign meant to undo the damage caused by German occupation. For ten points, name this capital city that was bombed and besieged during the Fall of Poland. | Warsaw |
| This man's wife was a daughter of Reverend Lemuel Powers, and she helped establish the White House Library. Andrew Jackson Donelson was on the ticket of this man in an election in which John C. Fremont was the Republican candidate. This man ran as a member of the Know Nothing Party four years after failing to secure the nomination of the Whigs, despite being the sitting president. Signing the Compromise of 1850, for ten points, name this president who was succeeded by Franklin Pierce. | Millard Fillmore |
| This man was narrowly re-elected to one position after the canvassing committee disqualified all ballots from Otsego County. Under this man’s leadership, one U.S. state threatened to invade Vermont to prevent its admission, and, while serving as vice president, this man cast a tie-breaking vote to prevent re-chartering the First Bank of the United States. The first governor of New York, this is, for ten points, what Founding Father who served as vice president for both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison? | George Clinton (prompt on “Clinton;” do NOT accept or prompt on “DeWitt Clinton”) |
| George Clinton was likely the pseudonymous writer Cato, who wrote several essays in favor of this movement that opposed the Constitution. | Anti-Federalism (accept word forms like Anti-Federalist) |
| While this ruler's consort was Empress Wanrong, he considered his only actual lover to be Li Shuxian [[SHOO-SHYAN]]. This ruler had his second reign under Zhang Xun's premiership, and this ruler's third reign was led from Changchun. This ruler once told a waitress "I should be serving you," and he was interned after World War Two. The author of From Emperor to Citizen, this is, for ten points, what puppet ruler of Manchuria, the last Emperor of China's Qing dynasty? | Aisin-Gioro Puyi (accept Xuantong [[SHWAN-TUNG]]; or Kangde) |
| Manchuria was invaded by the Japanese from this colony, which had been annexed in 1910. | Korea (accept Joseon or Hanguk) |
| One symbol of this god may have been inspired by the treatment for Guinea worms. The Pool of Bethesda described in the Gospels was part of a temple dedicated to this god. While still a mortal, this god learned how to cheat death by watching an animal revive another with an herb, leading Hades to ask Zeus to kill him. After his death, this god’s father took revenge by killing the Cyclopes. Along with his father Apollo, this male god was invoked at the start of the Hippocratic Oath. For ten points, name this Greek god of healing. | Asclepius |
| Asclepius is commonly depicted holding an object with one of these animals on it, two of which are also depicted on the Caduceus. | Snake (or serpent) |
| This man was the sole House Democrat to vote for the Walker Tariff. This Pennsylvania senator was appointed to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Claims by Abraham Lincoln. Jacob Brinkerhoff claimed to have authored a proposal named for this man, who recommended the "...Government protect the integrity of free territory against...aggressions." This man is best known for a proposal that would have prevented slavery in lands gained in the Mexican Cession. For ten points, identify this namesake of an unsuccessful 1846 proviso. | David Wilmot (accept Wilmot Proviso) |
| This Kentucky Constitutional Unionist senator introduced a namesake “Compromise” to enshrine slavery in the Constitution and therefore prevent the Civil War, but it was also unsuccessful. | John J (ordan) Crittenden (accept Crittenden Compromise) |
| A reformist sect of this school of philosophy named Silhak [[shil-HAWK]] provided the inspiration for its country’s human rights movement. One leader of this school of philosophy promoted individual improvement through "investigation of things." This philosophy was divided into the School of Heart and the School of Principle. This philosophy was codified by the Song Dynasty philosopher Zhu Xi [[JOO-SHEE]] For ten points, name this Chinese philosophy that sought to extend the teachings of the Analects. | Neo-Confucianism (or Sòng-Míng lǐxué; accept School of Principle or School of Heart before mentioned) |
| Neo-Confucianism specifically rejected the religious elements of Buddhism and this other Chinese religion, whose philosophy emphasized wuwei, or non-action. | Daoism (or Taoism) |
| This ruler's privy council was dominated by the "Marmousets", a group opposed to the Duke of Burgundy. At the “Bal des Ardents”, the Duchess of Barry put out a fire that had spread to this man’s clothing. Pope Pius the Second wrote that this ruler believed himself to be made of glass and thus wore iron rods for protection. The assassination of John the Fearless served as justification for the disinheritance of this man’s son. For ten points, name this mentally unstable King of France whose army lost the Battle of Agincourt. | Charles the Sixth (accept Charles the Mad or Charles the Beloved, accept Charles le Fou or Charles le Fol or Charle le Bien-Aimé) |
| The Battle of Agincourt was won by this warrior-king of England who was officially made Charles the Sixth’s heir in the Treaty of Troyes [[TWAH]]. | Henry the Fifth |
| Indigenous people on this island were given bells to wear to equate their status to that of dogs, but they instead made the bells into family heirlooms. This island’s last indigenous state was the Kingdom of Middag. This island’s aboriginal inhabitants are believed to be the descendants of the Dapenkeng culture. This island is believed to be the origin of all Austronesian languages. After the defeat of the Ming, Koxinga founded the Kingdom of Tungning on this island. For ten points, name this East Asian island formerly known in the West as Formosa. | Taiwan (accept Formosa before mentioned) |
| Taiwan first had regular contact with the Chinese mainland during this dynasty, whose explorers mistook it for the Ryukyu kingdom, whom they sought to recruit for their invasion of Japan. | Yuan |
| During a campaign won by this man, one of his subordinates, Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, won the Battle of Buckland Mills. The aforementioned Bristoe campaign was a victory for this man who commanded the Fifth Corps during the Battle of Chancellorsville. Joseph Hooker was replaced by this man prior to an engagement in which Joshua Chamberlain successfully held and repulsed attackers from Little Round Top. Forces thwarted Pickett's Charge under the command of, for ten points, what Union general who commanded at Gettysburg? | George Meade (or George Gordon Meade) |
| Meade's early command during the Civil War included this portion of the Peninsula Campaign which lasted from June 25 to July 1, 1862 and included Mechanicsville and Gaines Mill. | Seven Days Battles (accept Seven Days Campaign) |
| Founder of Standard Oil and the richest American ever, adjusted for inflation. | John D. Rockefeller (or John Davison Rockefeller Sr.) |
| State in which the first commercially successful oil well was placed in Titusville, southeast of Erie. | Pennsylvania |
| Scandal of the Harding Administration concerning the leasing of oil reserves in Wyoming. | Teapot Dome (or Teapot Rock; accept Teapot Dome scandal) |
| Muckraking author of The Jungle who published the novel Oil! in the wake of that scandal. | Upton Sinclair (or Upton Beall Sinclair Jr.) |
| State in which the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound in 1989. | Alaska |
| Company whose Deepwater Horizon rig caused a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. | BP (or British Petroleum) |
| Texas city in which an early-20th century oil boom began in its Spindletop field. | Beaumont |
| Native American tribe in Oklahoma whose wealthy members were victims of a 1920s "Reign of Terror" over drilling rights. | Osage [[OH-‘sage’]] Nation |
| Communist revolutionary who led the Bolsheviks to power. | Vladimir I (lyich) Lenin (accept Vladimir Ulyanov) |
| Emperor executed by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinberg along with his family. | Nicholas the Second (or Nikolai the Second Alexandrovich Romanov) |
| Color identifying anti-Bolshevik forces under Admiral Kolchak. | White (accept White Army; accept White Guard) |
| Bolshevik who reorganized the Red Guards into the Red Army. | Leon Trotsky (or Lev Davidovich Bronstein) |
| Northern city that, alongside Murmansk, served as a base of Allied intervention. | Archangelsk |
| Leader of the provisional government who opposed both sides of the war. | Alexander Kerensky (or Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky) |
| Anarchist leader of southeastern Ukraine. | Nestor Makhno (or Nestor Ivanovych Makhno; or Bat'ko Makhno; or Father Makhno) |
| "Mad Baron" who attempted to stop the Bolsheviks in Siberia and Mongolia but was executed as a counter-revolutionary. | Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (or Nikolai Robert Maximilian Freiherr von Ungern-Sternberg; or Baron Ungern) |
| Largest city which grew out of the Botany Bay penal colony. | Sydney |
| Capital of Victoria which boomed during an 1850's gold rush. | Melbourne |
| Sandstone formation, formerly known as Ayers Rock, but now known by its Aboriginal name. | Uluru |
| Peninsula in Turkey that was the site of heavy losses for ANZAC soldiers in a World War One campaign. | Gallipoli (accept Gallipoli campaign) |
| Bushranger and outlaw known for wearing bulletproof armor in his final shootout with police in 1880. | Ned Kelly (or Edward Kelly) |
| Only female prime minister of Australia, succeeding Kevin Rudd. | Julia Gillard (or Julia Eileen Gillard) |
| Longest-serving prime minister, a key figure in the founding of the Liberal Party. | Robert Menzies (or Sir Robert Gordon Menzies) |
| Liberal Prime Minister who went missing while swimming in Victoria, with his body never being found. | Howard Holt (or Harold Edward Holt) |
| One man of this surname declined a governorship in favor of Thomas Matthews. An agreement signed by a man of this surname attempted to resolve questions regarding the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, (+) and that agreement named for a man of this surname followed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Another man of this surname lends his name to a flag that features a snake above the words (*) "Don't Tread on Me." For ten points, give this surname of a U.S. Ambassador to Mexico who negotiated a major American land "Purchase." | Gadsden (accept James Gadsden; accept Christopher Gadsden; accept Gadsden Purchase) |
| This man once said, “Christian, remember your dignity,” in one of his best- known Christmas Sermons. This man wrote a letter to Flavian of Constantinople in response to the excommunication of Eutyches [["you"-TYE-kees]]. The co-existence of the natures of (+) Jesus Christ was outlined by this pope in his namesake Tome. After another man sacked Aquileia after winning the Battles of Chalons [[shah-LOHN]], that man was convinced to call off a planned Italian invasion by this (*) pope. For ten points, name this pope who famously met with Attila the Hun. | Pope Leo the First (accept Pope Leo the Great prompt on Pope "Leo") |
| Although this man’s work was largely neglected until he was seventy, this man’s utilization of isomorphism in his works is explored in a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter. This man’s work, including Hand with a (+) Reflecting Sphere, was first presented in a public art exhibition in Antwerp, Belgium, and this artist’s work was featured in a large exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, funded by the International Mathematical Congress. (*) For ten points, name this Dutch graphic artist whose works are inspired by geometric patterns and optical illusions. | Maurits Cornelis Escher |
| In a book about this man, New York Times writer David Grann compiled interviews with Kalapalo tribespeople, who may have been the last people to see him alive. This man set out on his final expedition in search of a settlement described in Manuscript 512, which is believed by some to be the (+) Kuhikugu archeological site located in present-day Xingu National Park. (*) For ten points, name this British adventurer and archeologist who disappeared in the Amazon Rainforest in 1925 searching for the mythical "Lost City of Z." | Percy Harrison Fawcett |
| This agreement was commemorated in 1994 when a New Hampshire society created a Peace Treaty Forum. Kittery, Maine was the site of the shipyard that lends its name to this treaty, in which one side waived a lease that included (+) Talien. Confirmation of authority over Sakhalin and recognition of sovereignty over Korea were among the goals of one side during this treaty's negotiations, which were facilitated by Theodore (*) Roosevelt. For ten points, name this treaty that ended the Russo- Japanese War. | Treaty of Portsmouth |
| This politician helped found and run Cymru Fydd, which he hoped would be the Welsh equivalent to the IRA. This politician was replaced by Bonar Law after the Chanak Crisis (+) and a controversy over the Sale of Honours. This politician sat down with Michael Collins to make a treaty recognizing the Irish Free State, and he earlier worked alongside Vittorio Orlando and Georges Clemenceau as part of the (*) Big Four. For ten points, name this British prime minister who helped negotiate the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference. | David Lloyd George (prompt on partial answers) |
| Despite his efforts, a cabinet member from this family was unable to prevent Calvin Coolidge from vetoing the McNary-Haugen Bill. Another member of this family gave a speech about a coming century that "can be and must be the century of the (+) common man." A father and son from this family both served as secretary of agriculture, the latter doing so under a president for whom he would also serve after John Nance Garner as (*) vice president. For ten points, identify this political family whose members include FDR’s second vice president, Henry. | Wallace (accept Henry A (gard) Wallace; accept Henry Cantwell Wallace; accept Harry Wallace) |
| Tina Allen’s twelve-foot bronze statue of this person is on display at Memorial Park in Battle Creek, Michigan, the city where this person died. This person is the only African American among the thirty-nine people represented by place settings in Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. (+) Maya Angelou performed one of this person’s speeches for the soundtrack of the 1999 Broadway musical (*) The Civil War. For ten points, name this person, the subject of a 2018 crocheted mural subtitled “Ain’t I a Woman.” | Sojourner Truth (accept Isabella Baumfree) |
| In 2018, a functioning speakeasy opened in the basement of this city's National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement. In 2013, the shoe company Zappos.com relocated its headquarters to this city's old City Hall building. Stephen (+) Paddock killed sixty people during a 2017 attack in this city on attendees of the Route 91 Harvest. That attack was carried out from a suite at the Mandalay Bay hotel in this city where the Blackstone Group bought the (*) Bellagio in 2019. Legalizing casino gambling in 1931, for ten points, what is this Nevada city? | Las Vegas |
| Which Augustinian friar laid out his view that Jews were blasphemers due to their denial of Christ in works such as On the Holy Name and the Lineage of Christ? | Martin Luther |