| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| TWENTIETH-CENTURY COUNTRIES: What country was founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1947 as a nation for Muslims who wanted autonomy from British rule after the Partition of India? | Pakistan (or Islamic Republic of Pakistan) |
| AMERICAN ASSASSINATIONS: Known as the Kingfish, what governor of Louisiana was assassinated at the state capitol by Carl Weiss? | Huey Long (or Huey Pierce Long Jr.) |
| ART HEISTS: What painter was questioned by authorities following the theft of the Mona Lisa? In another incident, this artist was asked "Did you do that?" by Gestapo officers regarding his painting Guernica, to which he responded "No, you did." | Pablo Picasso (or Pablo Ruiz Picasso) |
| SACKINGS: Alaric the First led a 405 CE sack of what major city? | Rome |
| HISTORY OF SAFETY: Although virtually synonymous with the invention, what man did not introduce the elevator, but rather the elevator safety brake? | Elisha Otis (or Elisha Graves Otis) |
| EARLY LITERATURE: What country's Four Classic Novels include Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Dream of the Red Chamber, and Outlaws of the Marsh? | China |
| GREEK MYTH: Amphitrite was the wife of what Greek god of earthquakes, horses, and the sea? | Poseidon (do not accept “Neptune”) |
| SPACE EXPLORATION: What was the name of the NASA space program, whose eleventh mission reached the moon, and whose thirteenth mission memorably missed the moon? | Apollo (accept Apollo 11; accept Apollo 13) |
| AMERICAN PROJECTS: The treaty of Hay–Bunau-Varilla authorized the creation of a namesake Zone in what Latin American country, the site of a canal built by the U.S.? | Panama |
| AMERICAN MONARCHS: King Kamehameha and Queen Liliuokalani were monarchs who led what kingdom that became a U.S. state in 1959? | Hawaii |
| REVOLUTIONARY GROUPS: What Vermont-based militia was led by Seth Warner and Ethan Allen? | Green Mountain Boys |
| AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS: The OSS, or Office of Strategic Services, was the predecessor of what American organization that was once directed by George H.W. Bush? | CIA (or Central Intelligence Agency) |
| SCIENTIFIC LANDMARKS: At what European landmark did Galileo allegedly conduct an experiment in which he dropped a hammer and a feather, proving that each fell at the same rate? | Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| WARRING HOUSES: The Wars of the Roses pitted the House of York against what other English dynasty that produced Kings Henry the Fourth, Henry the Fifth, and Henry the Sixth? | Lancaster |
| BUBBLES: What type of flower was the subject of a major economic bubble when speculation drove the price of the Switzer and Viceroy species to the value of a house? | Tulips (accept Tulip Mania) |
| BODIES OF WATER: What large body of water was the namesake of an 1879 to 1884 war that resulted in Bolivia becoming landlocked after losing access to said body of water? | Pacific Ocean (accept War of the Pacific) |
| UNUSUAL WARS: What large birds were the subject of a costly pest-management program in 1930s Australia that is frequently referred to as a war? | Emus (accept Emu War) |
| NOBEL LAUREATES: Kailash Satyarthi of India shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with what then- seventeen-year-old Pakistani activist for advocating on behalf of the education of women and children? | Malala Yousafsai (accept either underlined portion) |
| BRITISH GENERALS: What British general, nicknamed “Gentleman Johnny,” was defeated at the Battle of Saratoga by forces under Horatio Gates? | John Burgoyne |
| SOVIET HISTORY: What was the name of the Soviet prison and forced labor system that was introduced by Vladimir Lenin and greatly expanded under Joseph Stalin? | Gulag |
| RECENT ASSASSINATIONS: What former prime minister of Japan was assassinated in the Nara Prefecture in July of 2022? | Shinzo Abe |
| ROUTES: What Vietnamese revolutionary was the namesake of a network of roads used for the transport of supply and troops by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War? | Ho Chi Minh (or Nguyễn Sinh Cung; or Bác Hồ; or Hồ Chủ tịch) |
| TRAITORS: What puppet figure was the head of Norway during its occupation by Nazi Germany, a collaborationist move that resulted in his name becoming synonymous with the word "traitor"? | Vidkun Quisling (or Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling) |
| AMERICAN HISTORY IN ART: John Singleton Copley created a portrait of what American silversmith holding a teapot? | Paul Revere |
| HISTORICAL BOUNDARIES: The Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, was established in 1953 as a strip of neutral land between South Korea and North Korea along what line, named for the circle of latitude it includes? | 38th Parallel (or 38th Parallel North) |
| SYCOPHANTS: Which planet was originally intended to be named Georgium Sidis after King George the Third by its discoverer, William Herschel? | Uranus |
| UNUSUAL BURIALS: What Mexican general lost his leg during the Pastry War and insisted it be buried with full military honors? | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
| FAMOUS CONCERTS: Richie Havens was the first musician to perform at what 1969 concert in which rock artists such as Jimi Hendrix notably took the stage in Bethel, New York? | Woodstock Music and Art Fair |
| DISBANDED FORCES: What force was disbanded by the Ottoman sultan Mahmud the Second following the Auspicious Incident in 1826? | Janissaries |
| AMERICAN LOCATIONS: What plaza in Dallas was John F. Kennedy's motorcade traveling through when the president was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald? | Dealey Plaza |
| POLITICAL PARTIES: What American political party supported presidential candidates such as William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore? | Whig Party |
| SOUTH AMERICAN WOMEN: What woman served as the president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976 following the assassination of her husband, Juan? | Isabel Perón (or Isabel Martínez de Perón; accept María Estela Martínez Cartas; accept Isabelita; prompt on “Peron”; do not accept “Eva Peron” or “Evita”) |
| HISTORICAL RAIDS: What sea-faring people led a destructive and brutal 793 raid against a monastery on Lindisfarne? | Vikings (or Norse) |
| HOMINIDS: What early hominid of the species Homo erectus was uncovered in the Zhoukoudian Cave of Northern China, beginning in 1921? | Peking Man |
| BRITISH VESSELS: What was the name of the British ocean liner that lost nearly 1,200 passengers and crew when it was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915? | RMS Lusitania |
| MILITARY MUSIC: According to a member of Seal Team Six, what heavy metal band urged the U.S. military to stop using their song "Enter Sandman" during "enhanced interrogation[s]" of terror suspects? | Metallica |
| COMMUNISM: The type of Communism presaged by the policies of János Kádár was known by the name of what Hungarian stew? | Goulash (accept Goulash Communism) |
| DISCOVERIES: The California Gold Rush began in 1848 after James W. Marshall found gold at what sawmill near the Sierra Nevada mountains? | Sutter’s Mill |
| EUROPEAN HISTORY: What modern nation was born from a French state known as the “Helvetic Republic”? | Switzerland (or Swiss Confederation) |
| NORSE MYTH: What is the name of the apocalyptic event of Norse mythology in which Thor will kill and be killed by the Midgard Serpent? | Ragnarök |
| NAPOLEON: Louis the Eighteenth was restored to the throne during what period of time, which marked Napoleon Bonaparte's return from his exile on Elba? | Hundred Days (or War of the Seventh Coalition) |
| HOCKEY IN HISTORY: Czech player Jaromir Jagr wears #68 to commemorate the year of what event, a wave of protests following Alexander Dubček being elected first secretary of the Communist party? | Prague Spring |
| PROJECT NAMESAKES: What former NASA administrator is the namesake of the largest optical telescope in space, a device that was launched in December of 2021? | James E (dwin) Webb |
| WHIZ KIDS: What man served as president of Ford Motors for two months before being asked to join President John F. Kennedy's cabinet as secretary of defense? | Robert McNamara (or Robert Strange McNamara) |
| HISTORY OF SLAVERY: What was the name of the law that officially made Brazil the last Western country to abolish slavery? | Golden Law (or Lei Áurea) |
| COALITIONS: The War of the Triple Alliance pitted what country against the namesake coalition of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil? | Paraguay |
| CHIVALROUS ORDERS: What chivalrous order controlled the island of Malta for almost 300 years after being driven out of Rhodes by Suleiman the Magnificent? | Knights Hospitaller (or Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem) |
| AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE: The 1962 Evian Accords resulted in what country gaining its independence from France? | People's Democratic Republic of Algeria |
| EASTERN EUROPEAN POLITICS: What man has been heavily criticized for alleged election-rigging, unlawful extraditions, and human rights abuses since he assumed leadership as president of Belarus in 1994? | Alexander Lukashenko (or Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko; accept Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka) |
| ANCIENT SITES: Located in Jordan, what Rose City contains the remains of a treasury building used by the Nabataean Kingdom? | Petra (or Raqmu; or Raqemo) |
| BYZANTINE HISTORY: What woman ruled alongside Justinian the First as empress of the Byzantine Empire, inspiring aggressive royal resistance to the lower classes in the Nika Riots of 532 CE? | Theodora |
| PUNIC WARS: In what 216 BCE battle of the Second Punic War did Hannibal thoroughly defeat forces led by Paullus Aemilius and Gaius Terentius Varro? | Battle of Cannae |
| INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS: What festival of the Lunar New Year is probably best-known to westerners as the namesake of a 1968 military operation in which North Vietnam attacked South Vietnam? | Tết (or Tết Nguyên Đán; accept Tet Offensive) |
| HISTORY OF ROCKETRY: What German-made rocket powered the Bumper-MAC became the first man-made object to enter space in 1949? | V-2 (or Vergeltungswaffe 2; or Vengeance Weapon 2; accept Retaliation Weapon 2; accept Aggregat 4 or A-4) |
| U.S. SPORTING FIRSTS: In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans became the first team to win what major sports trophy that was named for a Preston lord who served as governor-general of Canada? | Stanley Cup |
| INDIAN CITIES: What Punjabi city was the site of Operation Blue Star, a 1984 military intervention against Sikhs occupying the city's Golden Temple? | Amritsar (or Rāmdāspur; or Ambarsar) |
| HISTORICAL FASHION: The songkok is a type of hat that was popularly worn by what leader of Indonesia who was deposed by Suharto? | Sukarno (or Koesno Sosrodihardjo) |
| PRIME MINISTERS: What man, who served from 1721 to 1742, is usually considered the “first prime minister of Great Britain”? | Robert Walpole |
| ARMED FACTIONS: What militant separatist organization of Sri Lanka claimed responsibility for the 1989 assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi? | Tamil Tigers (or LTTE; or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) |
| SCOTTISH HISTORY: Following the Battle of Stirling Bridge, what 1298 battle resulted in Edward Longshanks defeating forces under William Wallace, who resigned from his position of Guardian of Scotland shortly afterward? | Battle of Falkirk |
| ROMAN DYNASTIES: What short-lived Roman dynasty began with the rule of the emperor Vespasian and included the reigns of Titus and Domitian, prior to the Year of the Four Emperors? | Flavian Dynasty |
| OPERATION CONDOR: What was the name of the Argentinian period between 1976 to 1983 in which state-sponsored terrorism under Operation Condor disappeared and killed political opponents? | Dirty War (or Guerra sucia) |
| HISTORIC PLEAS: What emperor notably exclaimed, "Quintilius Varus! Give me back my legions!" after a disastrous loss of forces at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE? | Augustus (or Caesar Augustus; accept Gaius Octavius or Octavian) |
| DIPLOMATS: What diplomat from Ghana served two terms as secretary-general of the United Nations between 1997 to 2006, becoming the second African man to hold the position after Boutros Boutros- Ghali? | Kofi Annan (or Kofi Atta Annan) |
| FAMOUS FORTS: What was the name of the fort where George Washington surrendered to the French during the Seven Years’ War? | Fort Necessity |
| ANTI-VIOLENCE: What massacre in Tasmania prompted the Australian government to pass the National Firearms Agreement, which provided strict regulations regarding automatic weapons? | Port Arthur Massacre |
| FAMOUS REFUSALS: What author was forced to turn down the Nobel Prize in Literature at the request of the Soviet Union, which had banned his novel Doctor Zhivago? | Boris Pasternak |
| ISRAEL: The Oslo Accords were signed by Yasser Arafat and what prime minister of Israel who served from 1977 to 1983, and again from 1992 to 1995? | Yitzhak Rabin |
| ANARCHIST ORGANIZATIONS: What was the name of the anarchist group that assassinated Russian Tsar Alexander the Second by bombing his carriage? | The People's Will (or Narodnaya Volya) |
| NATIONALISTS: Harry Truman was the target of an unsuccessful assassination attempt at Blair House by two men named Oscar Collazo and Grisello Torresola, who were advocates for the independence of what territory? | Puerto Rico (or PR; or Boriken or Borinquen; or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; or Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico; or Free Associated State of Puerto Rico) |
| HISTORY OF INVENTION: What form of transport was invented by a pair of French brothers attempting to address the difficulty of invading the fortified territory of Gibraltar? | Hot Air Balloon |
| WORLD LEADERS: Serdar and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow are the last two presidents of what Central Asian country? | Turkmenistan |
| OLD OBJECTS: What type of object is the Dannebrog, which is said to have fallen from the sky during the Battle of Lindanise in the thirteenth century? | Flag (or Danish Flag) |
| BLOODY WARS: What series of 1454 to 1519 wars were initiated by the Aztecs in an effort to capture members of the opposition for use in human sacrifice? | Flower Wars |
| LATE ADOPTIONS: In 1923, Greece was the last European country to officially adopt what system that was announced by its namesake in the papal bull Inter gravissimas? | Gregorian Calendar |
| BATTLES: Named for a nearby British station, what battle of the Anglo-Zulu War immediately followed the war's first major conflict at the Battle of Isandlwana? | Battle of Rorke’s Drift |
| SPEECHES: What future president delivered the 1964 speech "A Time for Choosing" while endorsing Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater? | Ronald Reagan (or Ronald Wilson Reagan) |
| BRITISH ELECTORATES: The Reform Act of 1832 targeted what type of constituencies that were used to inflate the influence of their parliamentary patrons? | Rotten Boroughs (accept Pocket Boroughs or Nomination Boroughs or Proprietorial Boroughs) |
| REVOLUTIONARY FIGURES: What Polish nobleman assisted in a crucial retreat at the Battle of Brandywine during the American Revolution and strengthened cavalry forces at Valley Forge? | Casimir Pulaski (or Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski) |
| REVOLUTIONS: What was the name of the 1974 revolution in Portugal which overthrew Marcelo Caetano and the Estado Novo? | Carnation Revolution |
| AVIATION HISTORY: What was the name of the plane that dropped the Fat Man atomic weapon on Nagasaki in 1945 after the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima? | Bockscar |
| ANCIENT CONSPIRACIES: The Pisonian conspiracy was an alleged collusion between Gaius Piso, Seneca, and others to have what emperor assassinated by the Praetorian Guard? | Nero (or Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) |
| POLITICAL PRISONERS: What Nobel Peace Prize winner, who helped lead the 8888 Uprising, was placed under house arrest by the Tatmadaw in 2021 after the party took control of the Burmese government? | Aung San Suu Kyi (accept either underlined portion) |
| MODERN EGYPT: What former Egyptian president died in 2019 shortly after collapsing in court while on charges of espionage and inciting violence? | Mohammed Morsi (or Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa al-Ayyat) |
| PIONEERING EXPLORERS: What Black American explorer was part of several of Robert Peary's expeditions to the Arctic, including the 1909 voyage that claimed to be the first to reach the North Pole? | Matthew Henson (or Matthew Alexander Henson) |
| HISTORIC COMPANIES: What British company, built on whaling and the South American slave trade, was the subject of an infamous stock inflation that led to the passage of 1720's Bubble Act? | South Sea Company |
| TREATIES: What was the name of the 1840 treaty signed by Captain William Hobson and a group of Maori chiefs that gave the British the right to govern New Zealand, while extending British citizenship to the Maori? | Treaty of Waitangi |
| AMERICAN MARTYRS: Considered the first casualty of the American Revolution, what Black man was shot during the Boston Massacre in 1770? | Crispus Attucks |
| WORLD COURTS: What Serbian dictator was in the midst of a trial for war crimes when he was found dead in his cell at The Hague in 2006? | Slobodan Milošević |
| NEGOTIATIONS: The 1995 accords that ended official hostilities between Bosnia and Herzegovina were named for what American city where they were signed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base? | Dayton (accept Dayton Accords) |
| FEMALE RULERS: Maria Theresa's reign over the Habsburg domain as Holy Roman Empress began after the death of what man, who was also her father? | Charles the Sixth |
| INDIAN HISTORY: What was the codename of the 1974 nuclear test that was authorized by Indira Gandhi and took place in Rajasthan? | Operation Smiling Buddha (or Operation Happy Krishna; accept Pokhran-I) |
| SHIPS: Thor Heyerdahl's raft, Kon-Tiki, was named for what Incan creator and sun deity? | Viracocha (or Wiracocha; or Apu Qun Tiqsi Wiraqutra) |
| ROYAL GOVERNORS: After taking a controversial tour of Nazi Germany, King Edward the Eighth was put into a sort of soft exile as governor of what Caribbean country? | Commonwealth of The Bahamas |
| SUNKEN VESSELS: Named for a military leader, what was the name of the Argentinian cruiser that was sunk by the HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War? | ARA General Belgrano |
| COLONIAL RULERS: Sir James Brooke, the first of the White Rajahs, established an independent State of Sarawak on what island? | Borneo |
| WITCHES: What was the name of the Heinrich Kramer treatise that contributed to mass hysteria surrounding witches in the Late Middle Ages? | Malleus Maleficarum (or The Hammer of Witches) |
| EUROPEAN BATTLES: Also known as the Battle of Leipzig, what 1631 battle of the Thirty Years War was named for the German village where Gustavus Adolphus beat the forces of Count Tilly and the Holy Roman Empire? | Battle of Breitenfeld (or First Battle of Breitenfeld) |
| MILITARY OPERATIONS: What action was authorized by President Ronald Reagan in the form of Operation Just Cause? | Invasion of Grenada (accept clear-like equivalents) |
| HISTORICAL PRINCES: What grand prince of Kyiv, from 1019 to 1054, was known for converting the people of the Rus' to Christianity and leading his people in an unsuccessful conquest of Byzantium? | Yaroslav the Wise (or Yaroslav I Vladimirovich) |
| MODERN KINGS: What country is ruled by Mohammed the Sixth of the Alaouite Dynasty, a royal house that was founded in 1631? | Kingdom of Morocco |
| AFRICAN TRADE: What first king of the Songhai Empire founded Gao as the empire's trading center and capital? | Sunni Ali (or Ali Kolon; accept Si Ali; accept Sunni Ali Ber) |
| TELEVISION HISTORY: What weekly NBC political news and interview show, whose first episode featured former DNC chairperson James A. Farley, is the longest-running program in the history of American television? | Meet the Press |
| PERSECUTED GROUPS: What Muslim group of Myanmar was targeted in a 2017 genocide in the state of Rakhine? | Rohingya (accept Rohingya Genocide) |
| SECRET POLICE: What was the name of the bodyguard unit and secret police that enforced the policies of Ivan the Terrible from 1565 until 1572? | Oprichnik (or Oprichniki; do not accept or prompt on “Oprichnina”) |
| WORLD WAR TWO: Codenamed Operation Watchtower, what American military campaign sought to oppose Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands on Tulagi, the Nggela Islands, and the namesake island? | Guadalcanal Campaign |
| NOMADIC GROUPS: What once-nomadic group, of Iranian descent, now lives primarily in Pakistan and Afghanistan and comprises a large percentage of the Taliban? | Pashtuns (or Pakhtuns; or Pathans) |
| SPACE HISTORY: Vostok 1 and Sputnik 1 both launched from a spaceport in what city of Kazakhstan? | Baikonur (or Leninsk; accept Baikonur Cosmodrome) |
| AFRICAN REVOLUTIONARIES: Known as the “African Che Guevara,” what Marxist deposed Jean- Baptiste Ouédraogo to become president of Burkina Faso? | Thomas Sankara (or Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara) |
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES: What archaeological site in Honduras contains the Cemetery Group and the Sepulturas Group, as well as portrait steles created by the Maya? | Copán |
| KOREAN HISTORY: The name for the Korean peninsula derives from what tenth-century state of the Later Three Kingdoms period? | Goryeo (or Koryo) |
| ANDORRA: The nation of Andorra is jointly ruled by two princes: one of which is the president of France, while the other is a bishop of what Catalonian county? | Urgell (or Baix Urgell; do not accept “Alt Urgell” or “High Urgell”) |
| FAMOUS FIGHTS: What boxer faced Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa in a 1974 fight known as the “Rumble in the Jungle”? | George Foreman (or George Edward Foreman) |
| PEACE SITES: What village is the site of the original truce building where the armistice ending the Korean War was signed in 1953? | Panmunjom |
| ETHIOPIA: What Ethiopian war of 1977 to 1978 was fought in a namesake region that had been invaded by Somalia, a move that resulted in heavy diplomatic blowback against Somalia? | Ogaden War (prompt on "Ethiopian-Somali War") |
| FOREIGN FORCES: What Nepalese soldiers have been involved in conflicts, such as the Gallipoli Campaign, the Third Afghan War, and World War Two? | Gurkhas (or Gorkhas; or Gorkhali) |
| APARTHEID: The South Africa Students Organization was founded by what anti-Apartheid activist, who was beaten to death while imprisoned in Port Elizabeth in 1977? | Steve Biko (or Bantu Stephen Biko; prompt on "Frank Talk") |
| ISLAND RULERS: What Melanesian island was ruled by Chief Roi Mata, whose domain and grave on Eretoka Island is now the country's only UNESCO World Heritage Site? | Vanuatu |
| AIRPORTS: The main airport of Kabul is named for what man who served as the president of Afghanistan from 2002 until 2014? | Hamid Karzai |
| NAVAL DISASTERS: Over 130 U.S. sailors were killed in a 1967 fire aboard an aircraft carrier named for what man, the first person to serve as secretary of defense, not war? | James Forrestal (or James Vincent Forrestal; accept USS Forrestal) |
| AFRICAN LEADERS: What man served as president of Chad from 1990 until his death in 2021 while commanding troops against FACT rebels? | Idriss Déby (or Idriss Déby Itno) |
| MAJOR COMMISSIONS: What king of Cambodia ruled from 1113 to 1150 and is credited as the builder of Angkor Wat? | Suryavarman the Second (prompt on partial answers) |
| SPARTAN CULTURE: Almost all Spartan men were expected to complete what educational and physical training program that may have been introduced by law-giver Lycurgus? | Agōgē |
| MEDICAL FIRSTS: What South African doctor performed the first human heart transplant on patient Louis Washkansky in 1967? | Dr. Christiaan Barnard (or Christiaan Neethling Barnard) |
| THE MAURYAN EMPIRE: Chandragupta was succeeded as leader of the Mauryan Empire by what emperor and father of Ashoka the Great? | Bindusara (or Amitraghāta; or Amitrakhāda; or Amitrochates) |
| FOREIGN FORCES: What Nepalese soldiers have been involved in conflicts, such as the Gallipoli Campaign, the Third Afghan War, and World War Two? | Bukhara (or Buxoro) |
| ERAS OF TURMOIL: What unstable era of civil war in Colombia began in 1948 with the assassination of presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán? | La Violencia |
| MARITIME REPUBLICS: What was the name of the 1358 to 1808 republic on the Adriatic Sea that was centered on Dubrovnik in modern Croatia? | Republic of Ragusa |
| AFRICAN SCHOLARS: What Berber explorer and traveler of the fourteenth century wrote of his voyages in The Rihla? | Ibn Battuta (or Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah) |
| GUERILLA WARFARE: Also known as the Anti-British National Liberation War, what was the name of the 1948 to 1960 conflict, in which Malaysia fought the British Commonwealth? | Malayan Emergency (or The Emergency) |
| INFLUENTIAL LEADERS: After a costly civil war, what three-time president made the decision to abolish Costa Rica's military in 1948? | José Figueres Ferrer (or José María Hipólito Figueres Ferrer) |
| ASIAN KINGDOMS: What Thai kingdom existed from 1351 to 1767 and included the reign of King Narai the Great, who sent a notable embassy to open up diplomatic ties with France? | Ayutthaya Kingdom |
| FORTRESSES: What Norwegian forest was retaken from the Nazis by Milorg resistance leader Terje Rollem in May of 1945? | Akershus Fortress |
| KENYA: Along with the Meru and Emba, what was the primary ethnic group that stood up to the King's African Rifles and British colonialism during the Mau Mau Rebellion? | Kikuyu People (prompt on “Bantu”) |
| QUOTES ABOUT POWER: What Roman poet, known for his Satires, is credited with coining the term "bread and circuses" to describe ways rulers can appease the masses while maintaining power? | Juvenal (or Decimus Junius Juvenalis) |
| SHORT TENURES: What Australian prime minister, from 1966 to 1967, is presumed to have died after disappearing while swimming at Cheviot Beach? | Harold Holt (or Harold Edward Holt) |
| EGYPTIAN MYTH: Parts of the body of Osiris were consumed by a fish named for what Egyptian city, where a collection of ancient papyri were first discovered in 1898? | Oxyrhynchus |
| NATIONAL HEROES: What national hero of Albania was known for leading a namesake 1443 to 1468 rebellion against Ottoman expansion? | Skanderbeg (or Gjergj Kastrioti; accept Skanderbeg's Rebellion) |
| MILITARY LEADERS: What was the name of the eyepatch-wearing Israeli commander who served as defense minister during the Six-Day War? | Moshe Dayan |
| AFRICAN EMPERORS: What man became emperor after reforming the Central African Republic into the Central African Empire in 1976? | Emperor Bokassa the First (or Jean-Bédel Bokassa) |
| THE HUNS: Flavius Aetius and Theodoric the First defeated the forces of Attila at what 451 CE battle, which forced the Huns to cease their expansion and withdraw from Gaul? | Battle of Catalaunian Plains |
| KURDS: What was the name of the genocidal 1988 campaign that Saddam Hussein launched against the Kurds, which included chemical warfare and mass graves? | Anfal Campaign |
| ASIAN DEMOGRAPHICS: What name is shared by a Sinicized group of coastal people known for living on junks, as well as a short poetic form of Japan practiced during the Kojiki and Nihonshoki periods? | Tankas |
| LATIN AMERICAN PARTIES: What right-wing party of Paraguay held unchallenged power between 1947 and 1962, during which time it supported the rise of dictator, Alfredo Stroessner? | Colorado Party (or National Republican Association Colorado Party; or Asociación Nacional Republicana Partido Colorado) |
| TALENTED POLITICIANS: What prime minister of Poland, who served as his own foreign minister for his short term in 1919, was also an accomplished composer known for his “Minuet in G”? | Ignacy Jan Paderewski |
| SUBDIVISIONS: What Nahuatl word refers to the city-states of the Aztec empire that were typically divided along ethnic lines? | Altepetl (or Altepeme; or Altepemeh) |
| HOLY WARS: What was the name of the seventh-century civil conflict that resulted in the Rashidun Caliphate being usurped by the Umayyad Caliphate? | First Fitna |
| MYSTICS: Russian mystic Helena Blavatsky founded what esoteric religion that she outlined in books such as The Secret Doctrine and Isis Unveiled? | Theosophy |
| SECESSIONS: The Swahili word for "thief" was used for what 1963 to 1967 conflict, in which ethnic Somalis attempted to secede from Kenya and join Somalia, an effort that was met with fierce repression and forced internment? | Shifta War (or Gaf Daba) |
| POLITICAL FAMILIES: What surname was shared by Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa, sisters who opposed the violent regime of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo? | Mirabal (accept Patria Mirabal; accept Minerva Mirabal; accept Maria Teresa Mirabal) |