| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Book Two of a work by Gregory of Tours covers the beginning of a dynasty founded by this man, who ensured the exclusion of women from inheriting thrones by compiling the Salic Law. This man married a supposed descendant of Athanaric named Clotilde. The founder of the Merovingian Dynasty, for ten points, who was this leader, considered to be the earliest king to unite the Frankish tribes? | Clovis the First |
| A set of objects made of this material during the Liangzhu [[“LIANG-jew”]] culture became known as the Six Ritual ones. Since the Kofun period, nearly all comma-shaped magatama jewels were made of this material, and armor made from this material was sewn with gold and silver threads for Han Dynasty nobles. For ten points, name this green stone that was used to craft many ritual and artistic objects in ancient China. | Jade |
| This explorer was sent on his most famous journey to discover the Province of Beach, where he used the Roaring Forties to his advantage and navigated the Bass Strait. This explorer that confused Cook Strait for a bight discovered Van Diemen's Land. For ten points, name this Dutch explorer, the first European to reach New Zealand and a namesake island off Australia's coast. | Abel Tasman (prompt on “Tasmania”) |
| The brothers August and Friedrich Schlegel founded a publication of this name that is considered a founding work of Romanticism. A building of this name constructed under Hadrian was meant to promote the scientific and literary advancements of Rome. For ten points, what is this name of various scholarly institutions, which pay homage to a Greek city-state? | Athenaeum (accept Atheneum; accept Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam) |
| The author who created this character founded the satirical publication Lo Scaramuccia. This character debuted in the periodical Giornale per i bambini alongside a possible allegory for the Virgin Mary who was called the Blue Fairy in an animated adaptation of this character’s tales by Walt Disney. For ten points, name this children’s character created by Italian author Carlo Collodi. | Pinocchio |
| This man is the only person to have won a Pulitzer Prize in both poetry and fiction. One novel by this man is narrated by Jack Burden and takes its title from a line in "Humpty Dumpty." For ten points, name this writer, who loosely based the rise and fall of the populist Willie Stark on the life of Huey Long in his novel All the King's Men. | Robert Penn Warren |
| One leader of this country faced criticism from liberation theologist Ernesto Cardenal. Commandos assassinated one leader of this country during his exile to Paraguay, which occurred after he was deposed from leadership of this country by a party that ruled with the Junta for National Reconstruction. For ten points, identify this country where Anastasio Somoza was overthrown by U.S.-backed Sandinistas. | Republic of Nicaragua (or República de Nicaragua) |
| The son of a woman known as "the great nun," this man was legendarily targeted by Polish troops who disappeared after being led into a forest by Ivan Susanin. Filaret was the father of this man, who was the subject of an opera titled A Life for the Tsar. This man's elevation to his highest post in 1613 brought an end to the Time of Troubles. For ten points, name this tsar, the first ruler of his country's last imperial house. | Michael of Russia (or Michael the First; or Michael Fyodorovich Romanov; accept Mikhail in place of Michael; prompt on partial answers) |
| The son of a ruler of this name owned a poodle who was appointed Air Chief Marshal in his country’s military. One ruler of this name refused to endorse the Young Turks’ April Fools Day Coup, and that ruler of this name cannot be legally criticized according to lèse-majesté laws, despite his 2016 death. For ten points, give this name shared by ten kings of Thailand. | Rama |
| Rama the Ninth’s legacy is strained by his perceived condoning of a 1976 massacre at one of these places named Thammasat. Leftists occupied several of these places in Japan during a 1968 protest. | University (or College; accept answers such as Institutes of Higher Learning; accept Thammasat University; accept Japanese University protests) |
| This man, who summarized his political career in As It Happened, served as postmaster general under Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald. As prime minister, this man oversaw the partition of India and Pakistan and established the National Health Service. FTP, name this Labour politician who was both preceded and succeeded as prime minister by Winston Churchill. | Clement Attlee (or Clement Richard Attlee; First Earl Attlee) |
| Due to a shift in majority leadership, Clement Attlee abruptly replaced Winston Churchill at this 1945 conference with Harry Truman and Josef Stalin that followed the Yalta Conference. | Potsdam Conference |
| This brother-in-law of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was initially known as "the beloved king," though the Wafd Party feared his public support. This monarch lost popularity after refusing to black out the windows of his palace during an Italian invasion, and this man was opposed in Project FF and overthrown by the Free Officers. For ten points, name this Egyptian king who was overthrown by Nasser in 1952. | Farouk the First (or Fārūq al-Awwal) |
| Farouk was a descendent of this Albanian pasha, an Ottoman governor who twice declared war on the sultan and was sent to oust Napoleon. | Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha (prompt on partial answers) |
| Mark Spitz won seven medals at this event but was asked to leave before the closing ceremonies for his own protection. This event was nearly cancelled after a terrorist act by Black September, which prompted Operation Wrath of God. For ten points, name these Olympics that were devastated by the murder of eleven Israeli athletes. | 1972 Summer Olympics (or Munich Olympics) |
| During the 1972 Summer Olympics, this racquet sport debuted as a demonstration sport. This sport that uses one of the fastest projectiles is named for a Gloucestershire estate owned by the Duke of Beaufort. | Badminton |
| Germany launched Operation Margarethe against this country that witnessed the anti-communist White Terror. One leader of this country gained prestige following the Vienna Awards and the partition of Czechoslovakia, and that leader of this country was deposed by the Nazis and replaced with the Arrow Cross regime. For ten points, name this country led in its interwar years by Miklós Horthy. | Hungary (or Magyarország) |
| Much of Hungary’s interwar policies were defined by the result of this treaty that defined the nation’s boundaries. This treaty that was signed with the Allies after World War also limited the size of Hungary’s armed forces. | Treaty of Trianon (or Peace Dictate of Trianon) |
| Over a quarter-million people were evacuated during one of these disasters due to fears that the Tangjiashan Lake Dam would burst. That disaster of this began in the city of Wenchuan and resulted in injuries to pandas at Wolong National Nature Reserve. For ten points, name this type of disaster that resulted in thousands of landslides and 87,000 deaths in southwestern China in 2008. | Earthquake (accept equivalents; prompt on “Seismic Event” or similar) |
| Premier Wen Jiabao, an expert in geomechanics, traveled to this province in the aftermath of a 2008 earthquake. This Chinese province is known in the West for its association with spicy cuisine. | Sichuan (or Szechuan; or Szechwan) |
| The first individual appointed to this position was William C. Redfield, who wrote a treatise titled The New Industrial Day: A Book for Men Who Employ Men. After serving in three different cabinet positions in the Nixon administration, Elliott Richardson was appointed to this post by Gerald Ford. Prior to his presidency, Herbert Hoover held, for ten points, what cabinet post that oversees concerns of business and economics? | Secretary of Commerce (accept Department of Commerce; prompt on partial answers; do NOT accept or prompt on "Secretary of Commerce and Labor”) |
| One woman with this surname served as secretary of commerce in the Obama administration. Another person with this surname was Jay Robert, or “J.B.,” an Illinois governor whose family names a prestigious prize in architecture. | Pritzker |
| An athlete born in this city won a record eight men's singles titles at Wimbledon. Erasmus of Rotterdam died in this city, whose namesake university was once home to Leonhard Euler [[OY-ler]] and Karl Barth. Roger Federer was born in this city that came to be associated with a similar-sounding serpent with a deadly gaze. For ten points, identify this Swiss city. | Basel |
| Another student at the University of Basel was this Swiss mathematician and physicist, whose namesake principle states that points of higher fluid speed have less pressure than those of slower speed within a horizontal fluid flow. | Daniel Bernoulli (accept Bernoulli's Principle) |
| Partisan leader who liberated Yugoslavia in World War Two. | Josip Broz Tito (accept either underlined portion) |
| Large south Slavic ethnic group massacred by Croats during World War Two. | Serbs (or Serbians; or Srbi) |
| Northwestern Yugoslav republic that seceded after the Ten-Day War. | Republic of Slovenia (or Republika Slovenija) |
| Far-right Croatian fascist party, led by Ante Pavlic. | Ustashe (or Ustaše; prompt on “Croatian Revolutionary Movement”) |
| Croatian region demanded by Italy in the 1915 Treaty of London. | Dalmatia (or Dalmacija; or Dalmazia) |
| Yugoslav king assassinated in 1934 by Vlado Chernozemski. | Alexander the First (or Alexander the Unifier) |
| Abrahamic religion of which both the reformers and the Catholics were a part. | Christianity (or Christians) |
| German priest who nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of a church in 1517. | Martin Luther |
| Present-day nation in which John Calvin wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1500s Geneva. | Switzerland (or Swiss Confederation; accept Old Swiss Confederacy) |
| Founder of Presbyterianism and leader of the Scottish Reformation. | John Knox |
| Holy Roman Emperor and king of Spain who exiled Martin Bucer to England in 1549. | Charles the Fifth |
| Scandinavian country in which reformer Johannes Bugenhagen crowned Christian the Third. | Denmark-Norway (accept either underlined portion) |
| Modern country in which the Maurya had their capital. | Republic of India (or Bharat Ganarajya) |
| "Great" Macedonian conqueror who ended his Eastern campaign after encountering the Nanda, whom the Maurya conquered. | Alexander the Great |
| Emperor known for his many rock edicts and for spreading Buddhism across Asia. | Ashoka the Great (or Asoka; or Chakraravartin Samrat Ashoka) |
| Founder of the empire, who overthrew the Nanda. | Chandragupta Maurya |
| Bloody 262 BC war on the eastern coast, which marks the end of Mauryan military expansion. | Kalinga War |
| Capital of the empire, adjacent to present-day Patna. | Pataliputra |
| A premise of the Herbert Samuel memorandum titled for the "Future" of one region was similar to this statement and aimed to drum up war support among one group. This (+) 1917 statement was part of a letter sent to Lord Rothschild by the namesake foreign secretary. Named for the (*) prime minister of the UK from 1902 to 1905, for ten points, what was this statement advocating a "national home for the Jewish people?" | Balfour Declaration (accept The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of Arab-Israeli Conflict; prompt on "Arthur Balfour," "Lord Balfour," or "First Earl of Balfour;" prompt on partial answers) |
| The corruption of the "Ten Attendants," a group of powerful court eunuchs, led to the outbreak of this event under Emperor Ling. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (+) opens with this revolt, and the "Great Teacher" Zhang Jue [[ZHAHNG-JWEH]] led the largest uprising during this revolt. The Han (*) Dynasty was greatly weakened by, for ten points, what period of unrest led by the Daoist followers of the Way of Supreme Peace, named for their distinctive headwear? | Yellow Turban Rebellion (accept Yellow Scarves Rebellion; prompt on partial answers) |
| Claims of premeditation were made in this speech, which was written after Frank Knox reported the central event to its speaker. This speech focuses on an action that occurred “suddenly and deliberately” (+) and notes how several vessels were “reported torpedoed… between San Francisco and Honolulu.” Delivered one day after (*) December 7th, for ten points, identify this oration delivered by FDR after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. | Day of Infamy speech (accept descriptive answers like Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s speech after the bombing of Pearl Harbor before mentioned) |
| Under this prime minister's government, ten people were killed protesting bulldozers destroying slums around the Turkman gate. In response to militant supporters of the Anandpur Resolution, (+) this prime minister ordered Operation Blue Star, which raided Amritsar's Golden Temple and alienated (*) her Sikh supporters. For ten points, name this prime minister of India who was assassinated in 1984. | Indira Gandhi (or Indira Priyadarshini Nehru Gandhi; prompt on “Gandhi”) |
| Jack London served as a war correspondent in this conflict that almost involved the United Kingdom after the Dogger Bank Incident. This conflict was kicked off by the Battle of Port (+) Arthur, and Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end this war with the (*) Treaty of Portsmouth. For ten points, name this 1904-05 war fought between an Asian and European empire over Korea and Manchuria. | Russo-Japanese War |
| This agreement was sometimes abbreviated as ALÉNA or TLCAN. Maquiladora factories benefitted from this agreement that inspired resistance in the Zapatistas (+) in Chiapas. The USMCA replaced this agreement, which was described by Ross Perot as "a giant sucking sound going (*) south." For ten points, name this 1994 free trade agreement between Mexico, the U.S., and Canada. | NAFTA (or North American Free Trade Agreement; or Accord de Libre-échange Nord- Américain; or Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte) |
| This man’s negotiations with François Mitterrand resulted in the Maastricht Treaty, and after the revolutions of 1989, this man made it a priority to end the “provisional capital” (+) at Bonn. Along with Wolfgang Schäuble [[SHOY-bluh]], this man lost his influence in the Christian Democratic Union donations scandal, allowing the rise of his protégé (*) Angela Merkel. For ten points, name this politician who oversaw the reunification of East and West Germany. | Helmut Kohl (or Helmut Josef Michael Kohl) |
| Along with his confidant and cousin, Roderick, this man co-established Fort Chipewyan. A mountain range by the Peel and Liard Rivers is named for this man, who succeeded John A. Macdonald in one post. This (+) first European to cross the Rocky Mountains was the second prime minister of Canada and names a body of water whose main stem flows from (*) Great Slave Lake. For ten points, identify this namesake of Canada's longest river. | Alexander Mackenzie (accept Alasdair MacCoinnich; accept Mackenzie River) |
| This ruler’s main wife, Chabi, invented broad-brimmed sun hats and sleeveless uniforms for fighting in Burma, Java, and other hot lands, having her court ladies spin thread from used bowstrings. After the kuriltai elected this ruler (+) to succeed Mongke, his defeat of Arigboge let him fulfill his grandfather’s (*) prophecy to become khan. For ten points, name this first Mongol emperor of China. | Kublai Khan (or Setsen Khan; or Shizu of Yuan) |
| This Carthaginian general fought against Rome in the Second Punic War and crossed the Alps with elephants. | Hannibal Barca (prompt on "Barca") |