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| This U.S. state took its name from a valley in northeastern Pennsylvania home to Scranton. This state's town of Thermopolis is situated at the point where the name of the Wind River changes to the (+) Bighorn River. This state's town of Cody was named for Buffalo Bill. This state, the last in the U.S. by (*) alphabetical order, is nicknamed the "Equality State" for first giving women the right to vote. For the point, name this state whose largest city is named for the Cheyenne Native Americans. | Wyoming |
| An alleged cartel controlling most of the global trade of this product was founded by farmers of the Beauce region. Farms which produce this product are called “sugar bushes,” (+) and this product is served in tire d'érable, a confection often called “candy on the snow.” This product was harvested by the Algonquain people by making v-shaped slashes in (*) trees. For the point, name this product whose production is centered in Vermont and Quebec. | Maple Syrup (prompt on "maple trees") |
| A suspected example of these events, known as the Vela Incident, occurred over the remote Prince Edward Archipelago and was theorized to be a joint South African-Israeli effort. The In Ekker series of these events occurred in the Hoggar Mountains, while one of these events occurred during an operation nicknamed (+) Gerboise Bleue in the Tanezrouft region, which led to traces of caesium- 137 being detected in Saharan Dust. (*) For the point, name these type of events where weapons of mass destruction were detonated in remote places such as the Algerian Desert. | Nuclear Tests (accept clear-knowledge equivalents) |
| This empire was formed due to the merging of Cisleithania and the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen. (+) This empire took control of the northwesternmost vilayet of the Ottoman in 1878, and its annexation of it 30 years later created the First Balkan Crisis. This empire was led by Franz (*) Joseph the First for most of its history, and his nephew's assassination in Sarajevo sparked World War One. For the point, name this empire jointly governed from Vienna and Budapest. | Austria-Hungary (or Austro-Hungarian Empire; or Österreichisch-Ungarische; or Osztrák– Magyar) |
| An island used by this people group as a trade center called Birka is situated in Lake Mälaren. This people group included a subset known as the (+) Varangians, who formed an elite unit of the Byzantine Empire and also included a further subset known as the Rus' people. (*) Members of this people group founded Vinland. For the point, name these seafarers from Scandinavia who engaged in piracy and trade from the 900s to the 1200s. | Vikings (accept Scandanavians; accept Norse; or Norsemen) |
| This body of water was the most likely location of Dilmun, a city hypothesized to have been the inspiration of the Garden of Eden. Members of the Al Qasimi tribe pursued (+) piracy on this body of water until the 1800s, and its seaport of Mina Salman is the site of a British Naval base which opened in 2018 near Manama. (*) This body of water encompasses the world's largest collection of oil reserves. For the point, name this gulf which borders Kuwait and the UAE. | Persian Gulf (accept Arabian Gulf) |
| The relics of this route are protected by UNESCO at sites such as the Hexi Corridor and Longmen Grottoes on a section of it extending from Chang'an to the (+) Tianshan range. This route's maritime counterpart bypassed the Taklamakan Desert, and Samarkand was a major hub of this route explored by (*) Marco Polo. For the point, name this trade route which extended from Beijing to Constantinople, named for a fiber made from Chinese worms. | Silk Road |
| This country engaged in "respirator diplomacy" by launching a hospital ship to serve the small country of Palau. This country's Sunflower Student Movement occupied the Legislative Yuan in order to protest the signing of the (+) Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement. The ship Ever Given which blocked the Suez Canal was run by a company based in this country, governed by (*) Tsai Ing- wen. For the point, name this country where the Taipei 101 was constructed, also known as the Republic of China. | Taiwan (accept Chinese Taipei, Republic of China or ROC, or Formosa; do not accept PRC or People's Republic of China under any circumstances; prompt on China alone) |
| One of the initial supporters of this project designed a railroad across the Bering Strait for his engineering thesis. Leon Moisseiff, Irving Morrow, and Joseph Strauss (+) worked on this structure, whose southern portion was designed to avoid Fort Point. In 1964, the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge eclipsed this 1937 bridge as the longest suspension (*) bridge in the world. For the point, International Orange is the color of what bridge between Marin County and San Francisco? | Golden Gate Bridge |
| A type of this dish invented by Polish immigrants in Cleveland, the "Polish Boy," tops kielbasa with french fries and coleslaw. A dispute between the Keros brothers, both Greek immigrants, led to dueling Detroit restaurants selling the (+) "Coney" type of this dish originally brought over by immigrants from Vienna or (*) Frankfurt. For the point, name this food sold by Nathan's, which, in Chicago, does not come with ketchup. | hot dog (prompt on sandwich; accept weiner or frankfurter until "Vienna" and "Frankfurt," respectively) |