| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Count of Solms and Godert de Ginkell were among the commanders of one side in this battle, which took place in County Meath. Richard Talbot assisted one monarch during this battle, which is sometimes seen as part of the Williamite War in Ireland. This 1690 battle pitted a deposed Stuart monarch against a member of the House of Orange. For the point, name this battle fought in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution. | Battle of the Boyne (or Cath na Bóinne) |
| This man joined Leo Marquard and Edgar Brookes to form the Liberal Association, which later became the Liberal Party of his country. The National Party was elected four months before this man published a novel, which features Theophilus Msimangu, a Johannesburg priest who assists Stephen Kumalo in finding his son. For the point, name this author who criticized apartheid in his novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. | Alan Paton (or Alan Stewart Paton) |
| A 1966 Cabinet Order established February 11th as an annual day which celebrates the ascent of this leader, who launched the Eastern Expedition against Nagasunehiko. Kisumimi and Tagishimimi were among the children of this man, who was succeeded in his highest post by Suizei. The Nihon Shoki chronicles the ascent of this descendant of Amaterasu. For the point, name this legendary first emperor of Japan. | Emperor Jimmu (or Jimmu-tenno) |
| In the Treaty of Kerden, the Ottoman Empire allowed this man’s forces to occupy Najaf. After a neighboring empire refused to turn over Afghan rebels from the fallen Hotak Dynasty, this man led an invasion that culminated in his rapid victory at Karnal. After sacking the Mughal capital, this man’s forces carried off the Koh-i-Noor diamond and Peacock Throne. For the point, name this Persian ruler who sacked Delhi. | Nader Shah |
| After a failed attack against the Wei Dynasty, this kingdom’s capital of Hwando was sacked. This kingdom conquered Manchuria, Liaodong, and parts of Mongolia during the reign of Gwanggaeto the Great. This kingdom was legendarily founded by the Buyeo prince Jumong according to the Samguk Sagi. For the point, name this state that, with Silla and Baechke, formed the Korean Three Kingdoms. | Goguryeo (or Goryeo) |
| One of these things usually depicted the deity Imset, while another of these things would often depict the baboon-headed god Hapi. Beginning in the First Intermediate Periods, these items began to depict human heads, although these items notably did not contain either the brain or heart. For the point, name these devices used for storing natron-treated vital organs for use in the afterlife for Egyptian mummies. | Canopic Jars (prompt on partial answers) |
| This system is commemorated by a red porphyry statue originally from the Philadelphion of Constantinople. The two central roles of this system were analogized to Jupiter and Hercules in that both were mighty, but one was above the other. This system was ended by Constantine claiming sole emperorship. For the point, name this 40-year system created by Diocletian in which two Augusti and two Caesars jointly ruled the Roman Empire. | Tetrarchy (accept any answer indicating Four Emperors ruling Rome; prompt on “Diocletian’s Reforms” or similar answers) |
| This province became a safe haven during the Visigothic sacking of Rome because Alaric’s fleet was destroyed after trying to launch from Reggio Calabria. After conquering Africa, the Vandal King Genseric launched a piracy campaign against this province. Along with its namesake island, this province also contained the Egadi Islands and Malta. For the point, name this first Roman province, which was governed from Syracuse. | Sicilia (accept Sicily) |
| In 1967, this city was the location of the July 20th incident, where the Million Heroes and the Workers' General Headquarters fought for control. In the 1920s, this city was the home of the short-lived Hankow government, a left-wing splinter group of the KMT. For the point, name this largest city and capital of Hubei Province, which endured a brutal four-month siege in the 2nd Sino-Japanese War in 1938 and later became internationally known as the first discovery site of COVID-19. | Wuhan |
| During World War Two, this person was confined to the Theosophical Society in Madras in British India. In 1907, this woman founded a school in the San Lorenzo district of Rome that became known as the Casa dei Bambini. For the point, name this Italian educator whose namesake method of teaching places emphasis on hands-on learning and independence for young students. | Maria Montessori (or Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori) |
| "Har Har Mahadev" was the official motto of this empire, whose fortifications included Shaniwar Wada in Pune [[POO-nay]]. Rajaram Bhonsle the First was among the leaders of this empire. Peshwas served under the Chhatrapati during this empire, the latter of whose members included a man who alternatively aligned with and opposed the Mughals. For the point, name this Indian empire once ruled by Shivaji. | Maratha Empire (or Maratha Confederacy; or Marāṭhā Sāmrājya) |
| In this city, Bobby Kennedy received 22 minutes of uninterrupted applause at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Voters in one state legalized gambling in a 1976 referendum to revive this city, where the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino was demolished in 2021. For the point, name this resort town in New Jersey whose streets inspired the names of properties in the board game, Monopoly. | Atlantic City |
| This man appointed Johnny Abbes to head his secret police and death squad, the Servicio de Inteligencia Militar. After this man was ambushed and assassinated, six of his killers were executed in the Hacienda María Massacre. Machete-wielding soldiers under this man killed tens of thousands of Haitians in the Parsley Massacre. For the point, name this longtime dictator of the Dominican Republic. | Rafael Trujillo (or Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina) |
| This scientist gave a lecture attended by Moe Berg, an agent who was to kill this man if he was close enough to helping the Nazis develop an atom bomb. Complementary variables like position and momentum have their accuracy questioned in a result named for this man. For the point, name this German theoretical physicist who came up with an uncertainty principle. | Werner Heisenberg (or Werner Karl Heisenberg; accept Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle) |
| Every two weeks, a president was elected to head this organization, whose leaders included Joseph Fouché. The Mountain was originally a part of this movement, which was created in 1789. Also known as the Société des amis de la Constitution, this organization was founded by anti-royalists who opposed Louis the Sixteenth. For the point, name this political club during the French Revolution. | Jacobins (accept Jacobin Club; accept Society of the Friends of the Constitution or Société des amis de la Constitution before "amis" is mentioned; accept Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality; accept Société des Jacobins, amis de la liberté et de l'égalité; or Club des Jacobins) |
| This man was imprisoned for 13 years after being charged for treason for his involvement in the Main Plot. Rumors of a city of gold, led this man to undertake an effort that popularized the El Dorado legend. Though not Francis Drake, this man helped defend England from the Spanish Armada. For the point, name this Englishman who was the sponsor of the New World colony of Roanoke [[ROH-ah-noke]]. | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Hans Behem created a 28 thousand-pound bell in this city from captured cannons in honor of King Sigismund the First. After conquering this city, Charles Gustav entered Wawel [[VAH-vell]] Castle and ordered the looting of Catholic churches. Jagiellonian University in this city was the alma mater of Nicolaus Copernicus and the center of the Polish Renaissance. For the point, name this city that Sigismund the Third Vasa replaced as the capital with Warsaw. | Kraków |
| While trying to become voivode of this state, Radu the Handsome led a Janissary army that discovered a “forest” of human bodies left behind by the enemy army. One leader of this state attempted to have Mehmed the Second assassinated and prompted an Ottoman invasion after impaling a pair of diplomats. For the point, name this historical state based in contemporary Romania, once ruled by Vlad Dracula. | Wallachia (or Țara Românească; prompt on “Romania” before mentioned) |
| A faked photo from this project depicts a field of wheat supporting several children’s weight. This project included a mass extermination of sparrows, one of the so-called “four pests.” This project included the creation of backyard steel furnaces which only produced useless metal. For the point, name this failed plan to rapidly modernize China’s economy, which caused mass famine in the late 1950s. | Great Leap Forward (or Second Five Year Plan; or Dà yuè jìn) |
| A Genoese navigator gave his name to the island of Lanzarote within this archipelago, where European slaving expeditions involved the capture of its Guanche [[GWAN-chay]] population. Immigrants from the Balearic Islands helped develop this archipelago's island of La Palma. Pliny the Elder reported that a "vast multitude of dogs" lived in, for the point, what archipelago belonging to Spain? | Canary Islands (accept Canarias; accept the Canaries) |
| This country's first president notably had the religious prisoners Muzafar Avazov and Khuzniddin Alimov boiled alive in Jaslyk Prison in 2002. That man, Islam Karimov, later faced human rights criticism for his government's shooting of protestors in the 2005 Andijan massacre. Karimov remained president of this country until his death in 2016 and was succeeded by Shavkat Mirziyoyev. For the point, name this former Soviet Republic, which contains the historic Silk Road city of Samarkand. | Uzbekistan (or Republic of Uzbekistan; or Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi) |
| One premier of this province formed the first democratic socialist government and single-payer universal health care system in North America. That premier of this province, Tommy Douglas, was named The Greatest Canadian in a 2004 CBC survey and TV special. For the point, name this Canadian province whose cities of Regina and Saskatoon grew with the expansion of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. | Saskatchewan |
| During one battle in this conflict, an admiral communicated to his fleet by raising the “Z” flag. This conflict saw the defeat of General Kuropatkin at the Battle of Mukden following a siege of Port Arthur by General Tojo. The Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria were among locations of, for the point, what 1904 to 1905 conflict in which the forces of Nicholas the Second were defeated by those of Emperor Meiji? | Russo-Japanese War |
| The Lualaba and Ripon Falls were both analyzed during a confirmation of this finding by a Scottish- born man. That confirmation ended a debate between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke about who was responsible for finding it. Confirmed by Henry Morton Stanley upon circumnavigation of Lake Victoria, this is, for the point, what starting point of an African River that European explorers sought to find? | The Source of the Nile River (accept synonymous answers; prompt on answers involving the "Confluence of the White and Blue Nile"; prompt on "Nile” or “Blue Nile” or “White Nile” or “T’ik’uri Abayi” or “an-Nil al-ʾAzraqu” or “an-nil al-'abyad”) |
| This man was the lone college athlete in attendance at the Cleveland Summit, which voiced support for Muhammad Ali's refusal to be drafted in the Vietnam War. The book Coach Wooden and Me was written by this man, who played for UCLA before being drafted first overall in 1969. Prior to Lebron James, this man held the all-time NBA scoring record. For the point, name this Hall of Fame center who played for much of his career with the Los Angeles Lakers. | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (or Lew Alcindor; or Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.) |
| Two answers required. Amidst the Great Depression, one of these two countries aimed to lessen its reliance on beef imports from the other by the Roca–Runciman Treaty. A frigate known as the Antelope was sunk during a conflict between these two countries. Exocet missiles were used during that conflict between these two countries which saw the sinking of the General Belgrano. For the point, name these two countries that fought the Falklands War. | Argentina and the United Kingdom (prompt on partial answers; accept Republica Argentina or Argentine Republic in answers in place of "Argentina"; accept the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or UK, or Great Britain, or England in place of "United Kingdom") |
| For a centenary celebration, George Pitt Morison was commissioned to create a painting to commemorate the 1829 founding of this city. The Elizabeth Quay can be found in this city, the base of the Swan River Colony. This city’s port of Fremantle was a major base for Allied ships operating in the Indian Ocean in World War Two. For the point, name this state capital from which Western Australia is governed. | Perth (accept Boorloo) |
| This person publicly confirmed that the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs was responsible for the Katyn massacre. This leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for his influence in the “radical changes in East-West relations.” Utilizing the policies of perestroika and glasnost, this is, for the point, what final leader of the Soviet Union whose regime witnessed the Chernobyl disaster and the fall of the Berlin Wall? | Mikhail Gorbachev (or Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev) |
| A botanical garden is the site on which this location’s "little Trianon" was built. The northern and southern ends of this building's Hall of Mirrors contains a pair of salons representing war and peace. André Le Nôtre served as a landscape architect for this location, which is found about twelve miles from Paris. For the point, name this palatial complex where Louis the Fourteenth lived. | Palace of Versailles (or Château de Versailles) |
| This man succeeded Jim Jeffords in a position that he has held since 2007 and is currently serving alongside Peter Welch. Currently Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, this man previously headed the Budget Committee and served as mayor of Burlington. Once a member of the Young People's Socialist League, this is, for the point, what Vermont Senator? | Bernie Sanders (or Bernard Sanders) |
| Grover Cleveland supported the date of this holiday as a less controversial alternative to one in May, which he saw as having the potential to arouse support for the anarchist movement after the Haymarket Affair. Considered an "unofficial end of summer,” this holiday falls on a three-day weekend in September. For the point, what is this federal holiday in the United States celebrating workers? | Labor Day (do not accept or prompt on "May Day" or “International Workers’ Day”) |