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| Doyle Dane Bernbach and Tony Schwartz partnered to create this work, whose central figure was played by Monique Corzilius. Set in a Highbridge Park meadow, this work features a zoom in on the right eye of the central figure as a countdown reaches zero. This work controversially insinuated that the policies of one opponent could lead to nuclear war. For ten points, name this 1964 political advertisement used by the LBJ campaign to attack Barry Goldwater. | "Daisy" Ad (accept "Daisy" Girl; accept "Peace, Little Girl" before mentioned; prompt on descriptive answers) |
| This kingdom was terminally weakened following a pair of plundering invasions by the neighboring Konbaung Dynasty. King Narai of this kingdom sent his nation’s first diplomatic mission to France to establish an alliance with Louis the Sixteenth. After this kingdom collapsed, Taksin the Great briefly reunited its remnants into the Thonburi Kingdom. For the point, identify this Thai kingdom that was named after the legendary birth city of Rama. | Ayutthaya [[“EYE”-yoo-“THAI”-yah]] Kingdom (prompt on “Thailand” or “Siam”) |
| One poem by this man is a retelling of an incident that occurred as Lars Porsena attacked Rome and is titled "Horatius at the Bridge." At the time of his death, this man was working on the fifth volume of his most famous work, in which he attempts to defend one man against responsibility for the Glencoe Massacre. That 1848 work by this Whig politician begins with "the Accession of James the Second." For ten points, name this British politician known for his History of England. | Thomas Babington Macaulay (accept 1st Baron Macaulay) |
| The grounds of this estate contain a windmill named for Romeo and Juliet, and this estate was the site of a murder the claimed the life of Mamah Cheney. In 1911, work began on this 600-acre estate, which is located just outside of Spring Green, Wisconsin. The original building of this estate exemplified the theories of the Prairie School of architecture. For ten points, name this studio and home that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and named for a Welsh bard. | Taliesin (Taliesin East; or Taliesin Spring Green; or Taliesin North; do NOT accept "Taliesin West") |
| Diego Luis de San Vitores established the first church on this island, which was resisted by Chief Hurao. This island's village of Sumay became an early-20th century marine base, and the China Clipper stopped at this island between Wake Island and Manila. As a consequence of Japanese occupation, this island rejected unification with its Northern Marianan neighbor. For ten points, identify this American territory where a race riot between U.S. Marines occurred in Hagatna. | Guam (accept Guahan) |
| This branch of psychology was conceived as a necessary "third force" in addition to psychoanalysis and behaviorism. Concepts within this branch of psychology, such as “self- actualization,” were developed through one thinker's “hierarchy of needs." Ideas in this branch were partly based on the idea of client-centered therapy, which included the use of unconditional positive regard. For ten points, identify this positive branch of psychology that is associated with Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. | Humanistic Psychology (prompt on “Maslowian” or “Client-Centered”) |
| Once conflict of this name featured an alliance of Chios [[KEE-ohs]], Kos, and Rhodes and was led by such men as Mausolus from 357 to 355 BC. The assassination of Marcus Livius Drusus was an immediate cause of another conflict of this name that is sometimes referred to as the Marsic War. In that conflict of this name, the longstanding Italian allies wished to gain a certain status. For ten points, identify this war of the Roman Republic regarding the extension of citizenship. | Social War |
| This ruler was forced to bail out of a carriage ride with his wife due to an intense phobia of horses. This ruler’s Temporary Regulations created the position of “land captain” to exert more state influence on rural parts of their country. This ruler reinstated a series of hyper-repressive policies after his liberalizing father was killed in a carriage bombing by the socialist terrorist group People’s Will. For ten points, name this Russian ruler, nicknamed “The Peacemaker,” the son of Alexander the Second and father of Nicholas the Second. | Alexander the Third of Russia (or Aleksandr the Third Aleksandrovich) |
| This man served as a midshipman aboard the Resolution during the second voyage of James Cook. The HMS Discovery was the main vessel used for a voyage led by this man, during which Joseph Baker spotted a namesake mountain. In 1792, that expedition led by this man passed through the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Overseeing exploration north of modern-day Washington state, this is, for ten points, what Royal Navy officer who explored the coast of British Columbia? | George Vancouver |
| In response to a campaign pledge, this person depicted Horace Greeley shaking hands with a white Southern ruffian over the body of a Black man. In alternating panels, this person showed Columbia wondering whether Confederate leaders should get the vote, but not a wounded Black veteran. This man satirized the Gilded Age by drawing Boss Tweed with a moneybag for a head. For ten points, name this man whose political cartoons introduced the elephant as a symbol of the GOP. | Thomas Nast |
| In 2000, Mayor Keith Holliday of this city proposed a policy to cryogenically freeze death row inmates as a means of replacing the death penalty. Dolley Payne, the wife of President James Madison, was born in this city. Lunsford Richardson invented Vicks VapoRub, alongside several other home remedies, in this city. O. Henry was an eyewitness to the Union occupation of this city. The site of the first sit-in demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement, for ten points, what is this North Carolina city? | Greensboro, North Carolina |
| This Greensboro native and longtime U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York served from 2015 to 2017 as the U.S. Attorney General, the first Black woman to do so. | Loretta Lynch (or Loretta Elizabeth Lynch) |
| This man, who was succeeded by Abel Muzorewa, was the first Prime Minister of his colony to have been born there, representing a district in Matabeleland during his tenure. This politician, who initially served as Leader of the Opposition against ZANU, wrote The Great Betrayal after majority rule led to Robert Mugabe assuming power. This white supremacist issued a 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence to avoid a Black- governed Zimbabwe. For ten points, name this longtime Prime Minister of Rhodesia. | Ian Smith |
| The Rhodesian Bush War became significantly more difficult for Ian Smith's government to win after the independence of this neighboring former Portuguese colony, whose FRELIMO and RENAMO battled during its 1980s civil war. | (People's) Republic of Mozambique (accept República (Popular) de Moçambique) |
| This man built his namesake bronze fountain for the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, which now is located outside the United States Botanic Garden. To commemorate one side in the Franco-Prussian War, this man created the massive sandstone sculpture The Lion of Belfort. This sculptor of a statue of the Marquis de Lafayette in Union Square in New York also designed another statue to occupy Bedloe's Island. For ten points, name this French sculptor, best known for his design of the Statue of Liberty. | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi |
| Bartholdi also designed plans for a statue which was supposed to overlook which structure that was organized and financed by Ferdinand de Lesseps? | Suez Canal |
| The final one of these wars was started on the pretense of Caracalla’s aborted marriage to a daughter of Artabanus. These wars resulted in Armenia being governed under a power sharing agreement where a prince from one side ruled at the pleasure of the other. The first of these wars started when Phraates [[FRAY-teez]] the Third and Pompey failed to resolve a dispute over the Euphrates River. For ten points, name this series of wars fought between an empire based in Italy and a Persian dynasty. | Roman-Parthian Wars (prompt on “Persian Wars” or “Roman-Persian Wars”) |
| The Parthian capital was located at what city roughly 20 miles southeast of modern-day Baghdad, not to be confused with Babylon, which is slightly farther south and west? | Ctesiphon [[TESS-ih-fonn]]. |
| This book was intended to be private but was revealed publicly after the author forgot it on a cushion. Several sections of this book consist of recollections of witty dialogue between the author and the Secretary Controller. This book opens with a series of lists, including “Embarrassing Things” and “Pleasant Things,” and it is the most famous example of a genre of literature known as “follow the brush” or zuihitsu. For ten points, name this initially private collection of musings and observations in classical Japan, written by Sei Shōnagon. | The Pillow Book (or Makura no Soshi) |
| The Pillow Book was written during which classical period of Japanese history, which began when the capital was moved to modern-day Kyoto? | Heian Period |
| A major work by this man made use of three of the forty-five observations by Bernhard Walther that Johannes Schöner [[SHOO-nuh]] gave him. This man originally theorized his most famous idea in the Commentariolus, but later published a book with an unauthorized preface written by theologian Andreas Osiander, claiming its contents should not be taken as absolute truth. For ten points, name this Polish scientist whose On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres firmly stated the heliocentric model of the universe. | Nicolaus Copernicus (or Mikołaj Kopernik; or Niklas Koppernigk) |
| Rheticus, the sole pupil of Copernicus, facilitated publication of his work and attempted to reconcile his findings with scripture, utilizing the principle of accommodation developed by this bishop of Hippo. | Saint Augustine (or Augustine of Hippo) |
| The General Council of this group published a version of the Agreement of the People. William Spring helped recruit members to this group who were considered champions of the "Good Old Cause." The first written constitution of its country, penned by a member of this group named John Lambert, was named the Instrument of Government. Active during the Battle of Naseby, this force was disbanded following the restoration of the Stuarts. For ten points, name this Oliver Cromwell-commanded army during the English Civil War. | New Model Army |
| This commander-in-chief of Parliamentary forces was eventually overshadowed by Cromwell, his subordinate, but defeated the Royalists at Maidstone and Naseby. | Sir Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (prompt on “Lord Cameron”) |
| In this speech, the orator asks, "Is [conservatism] not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" At the beginning of this speech, the orator "fully [endorse]s" a stance that an opponent outlined in Columbus, Ohio. A section dedicated "to the Southern people" is included in this speech. When describing this speech, Horace Greeley claimed, "No man ever made such an impression on his first appeal to a New-York audience." Propelling him to become the Republican nominee, for ten points, what is this speech which Abraham Lincoln delivered at a namesake college? | Cooper Union speech/address (accept Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art speech/address) |
| Lincoln's speech followed an address by this man, a former Kentucky congressman and abolitionist, who was essential to securing Russian aid for the Union in the Civil War as ambassador to Russia. This man shared his name with a later Kentucky athlete who changed this birth name of his due to a religious conversion. | Cassius Clay (prompt if just “Clay” is said) |
| Crop which was considered "King" in the Confederacy. | Cotton (accept King Cotton) |
| Amendment freeing enslaved persons, leading to the rise of Black sharecropping. | Thirteenth Amendment (or Amendment Thirteen) |
| Environmental disaster that pushed many farmers to sharecropping in the 1930s. | Dust Bowl |
| 1896 case upholding separate but equal laws, forcing many Black workers to remain sharecroppers. | Plessy v. Ferguson (or Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson) |
| "Bureau" during Reconstruction which attempted to protect Black sharecroppers from abusive contracts. | Freedmen's Bureau (or Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands) |
| President who ordered land under Federal control be returned to its owners, thus leading to the sharecropping system | Andrew Johnson (prompt on last name alone) |
| Early 20th century union that sought federal funding for sharecroppers through the Agricultural Adjustment Act. | Southern Tenant Farmers Union (or STFU) |
| City in Western Mississippi, namesake of a trail, where Southern sharecropping is said to have originated. | Natchez Ask after the category is read just for fun (X) IAC Director of Question Production whose great-grandfather was a sharecropper. ANSWER: Lee Thomas Holden |
| “Roaring” decade that constituted most of the Weimar Republic’s tenure. | 1920s (accept Roaring ‘20s; prompt on “’20s” alone) |
| Left-wing party that, under Ernst Thalmann, became deeply tied to Joseph Stalin. | Communist Party of Germany (or Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands; accept KPD) |
| Largest state of historical Germany, where Franz von Papen launched a 1932 coup. | Free State of Prussia (or Freistaat Preußen [[PROY-sen]]) |
| Failed Munich coup d'état attempted by the Nazis in 1923. | Beer Hall Putsch (prompt on "Munich Putsch” or partial answers) |
| Volunteer paramilitary groups that fought communists in the 1920s. | Freikorps [[FRY-kore]] (accept Volunteer Corps) |
| Social Democrat president of Weimar from 1919 until his death in 1925. | Friedrich Ebert |
| Director of the futuristic movie Metropolis, a classic of Weimar cinema | Fritz (or Friedrich) Lang |
| “Mortgage” currency established in 1923 to stop hyperinflation, replaced in 1924. | Rentenmark (prompt on “Mark”; do not accept “Papiermark” or “Paper Mark” or “Reichsmark”) |
| General term for settling people in a foreign country, which the European powers did to Africa. | Colonization (or Colonialism; or Colonies; generously accept word forms) |
| Word for the worldwide dispersal of people descended from Africans, similarly used for the "lost tribes" of Israel. | African diaspora |
| Jamaican Black separatist who created the Black Star Line shipping company to support his Back to Africa movement. | Marcus Garvey (or Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.) |
| African country that broke free of British rule under the governance of Pan- Africanist Kwame Nkrumah. | Ghana |
| French philosopher of Being and Nothingness whose “Black Orpheus” has been considered a seminal text of Pan-Africanism. | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Literary movement led by Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor that developed mainly in French-controlled Africa. | Negritude |
| African city in which pan-Africanist W.E.B. DuBois died in 1963. | Accra |
| First president of Guinea whose Pan-Africanist beliefs led him to befriend Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. | Ahmed Sékou Touré |
| Before the meeting that affirmed this treaty, U.S. envoy John Schermerhorn proclaimed that anyone not attending would be counted as giving their consent to it. George Lowery presented a petition opposing this treaty which included more than fourteen (+) thousand signatures against the seventy-nine men who signed the treaty. As he signed the treaty, Major Ridge allegedly and prophetically claimed to be signing his death warrant. (*) For ten points, name this treaty, which set in motion the Cherokee Trail of Tears. | Treaty of New Echota |
| This man's 1970 campaign against Representative Donald D. Clancy was delayed when the Army Reserve stationed him at Fort Knox. This man responded to his city's seizure of municipal transport by commandeering a bus (+) while serving as vice mayor of a city where he would end broadcasts with the phrase "Take care of yourself, and each other." This TV personality, who once served as the mayor of Cincinnati, would often end his signature program with his (*) "Final Thoughts." For ten points, identify this now-deceased daytime talk show host, whose namesake program is remembered for on-stage fights and thrown chairs. | Jerry Springer (accept Gerald Norman Springer) |
| Twelve of the thirty-five imperial diets of the sixteenth century were held in this city, primarily due to its connection to the Fugger banking family. The Schmalkaldic League formed following a 1630 diet in this city, though war did not break out until (+) Charles the Fifth returned from his Italian campaigns. A peace signed in this city led to the doctrine of (*) “cuius regio, eius religio,” resulted in relative religious peace in Europe until the breakout of the Thirty Years’ War. For ten points, name this German city that names a Lutheran confession. | Augsburg (accept Diet of Augsburg; or Augsburg Confession) |
| Japanese nationalists used passages in the Kojiki to claim that Susanoo was the ancestor of this kingdom. This kingdom’s own rulers claimed to be an offshoot of the Xiongnu. Under King (+) Munmu, this kingdom successfully defeated a Tang Dynasty takeover attempt. The peaceful coexistence of this kingdom and Balhae is known as the North South States. This kingdom adhered to a strict caste structure known as the Bone Rank System. (*) For ten points, name this kingdom that unified Korea by conquering Baekje and Gogouryeo. | Kingdom of Silla (accept Unified Silla; or Shilla) |
| This man defeated the forces of Al-Ashraf Tuman bay the Second at the Battle of Ridaniya. This man's aggression during the Campaign of Trabzon led one ruler to send a complaint to Bayezid the Second and a request for the return of munitions. This man's takeover of the (+) Levant and Hejaz occurred as part of his conquest of the Mameluke Sultanate. This man faced off against the forces of a shahanshah named Ismail the First of the Safavid Empire at the Battle of Chaldiran [[KAHL-dee-rahn]]. (*) For the point, name this Ottoman emperor, the father of Suleiman the Magnificent. | Selim the Grim (accept Selim the First; accept Selim the Resolute; accept the First Selim; accept Yavuz Sultan Selim; prompt on "Selim") |
| In a 1951 revolution in this country, hereditary prime minister Mohan Shumsher was forced to resign after the temporary exile of King Tribhuvan. This country was ruled under a Panchayat regime until 1990 reforms by King (+) Birendra. This country was briefly ruled for three days by King Dipendra, who fell into a coma after murdering nine members of this country's royal family. (*) For ten points, name this South Asian country that maintained a Hindu monarchy in Kathmandu. | Kingdom of Nepal (accept Nepal Adhirajya; or Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal) |
| This document was described as “a declaration of future good intentions” by historian Tony Judt. A year prior to the signing of this agreement, Paul-Henri Spaak wrote a report that advocated a policy of horizontal integration. The creation of a (+) customs union was a central goal of this agreement, as were subsidies through a Common Agricultural Policy. This treaty was re-examined four decades later in the Treaty of (*) Maastricht. For ten points, the European Economic Community was established by what 1957 agreement signed in Italy? | Treaty of Rome (accept EEC Treaty before “Economic”; accept Treaty establishing the European Economic Community before “Economic”; prompt on Treaty on the “Functioning of the European Union”) |
| This person was the first African American to serve as the executive secretary of the NAACP. This person was also the first black lawyer admitted to the Florida bar since Reconstruction. During (+) Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, this man served as the U.S. consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua. An author as well as an activist, this man wrote The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. (*) For ten points, name this person, whose song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” serves as the “Black national anthem.” | James Weldon Johnson |
| In this country, 150 members make up the Consultative Assembly, originally named the Shura Council of the Hijaz in 1926. A plan announced by a leader of this country, which aims to diversify its economy, is known as Vision (+) 2030. A set of 2011 municipal elections in this country only allowed males to vote. In the early 1970s, this country acquired a twenty percent stake of (*) Aramco, lessening U.S. influence over its oil industry. For ten points, name this kingdom in which Mohammed bin Salman became crown prince in 2017. | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (or Al Mamlakah al Arabiyah as Suudiyah; prompt on "KSA") |
| This man received a Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Flying Cross for a feat he accomplished in May of 1927 and was named Time's first Man of the Year in 1928. | Charles Lindbergh (or Charles Augustus Lindbergh) |