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| Oliver Wolcott was forced to resign this Cabinet position after he was accused of setting the State Department on fire. Henry Morgenthau and Andrew Mellon each served in this cabinet position for at least ten years, and the longest-tenured holder of this Cabinet position was Albert Gallatin. Timothy Geitner and Janet Yellen are recent holders of, for ten points, what U.S. Cabinet position which handles monetary policy, interest rates, and other financial instruments? | United States Secretary of the Treasury (or Treasury Secretary) |
| In this nation, the choking of protestor Bill Clennett by its prime minister was dubbed the "Shawinigan Handshake." Another leader of this nation promised "60 days of Decision" following his inauguration and earned a Nobel Prize for his diplomatic skill during the Suez [[SOO-ehz]] Crisis. Jean Chrétien [[ZHAHN KREH-tyehn]] and Lester B. Pearson were prime ministers of, ftp, what North American nation directly to the north of the United States? | Canada |
| The goddess of peace is honored in this city’s Ara Pacis [[PAH-chiss]] fixture, and this city’s namesake style of "brick" was used to construct the still-standing Theatre of Marcellus. Near this city's Regio [[REH-zhyoh]] Twelve, a member of the historic Severan [[seh-VEH- rahn]] family completed his Baths of Caracalla. For ten points, name this ancient city with Seven Hills along the Tiber River, the capital of Italy. | Rome (or Roma; accept Roman Brick) |
| A rock located on this planet is named for the cartoon character Yogi Bear. This planet is the subject of the ongoing Tianwen-1 mission which included the launch of the Chinese Zhurong [[ZHOO-ROHNG]]. The NASA rover Sojourner landed on this planet in a valley named for the god Ares. For ten points, identify this planet that has been visited by the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers. | Mars |
| During these conflicts, Margaret of Anjou personally led an army that lost the Battle of Tewkesbury, resulting in her only son being executed by the Duke of Clarence. Richard III [[the Third]] likely ordered the death of the Princes in the Tower during this conflict. For ten points, what series of English civil wars were fought between the Yorks and Lancasters? | War (s) of the Roses (prompt on "Civil Wars") |
| Rulers of this kingdom were guarded by the Azatavrear [[ah-zah-tah-VREH-ahr]] calvary. This kingdom’s ruler Tiridates III [[tee-ree-DAH-tehss the Third]] made it the first state to officially adopt Christianity as its state religion. This kingdom was ruled by the Artaxiad [[ar-TAK-see-add]] dynasty from Artashat, overlooked by Mount Ararat. For ten points, name this classical era kingdom which shares its name with a country governed from Yerevan. | Kingdom of Armenia (accept Republic of Armenia; accept Hayastuni Hanrapetut'yun) |
| One city in this province was described by Rudyard Kipling as "having all Hell for a basement.” This province's Valley of the Ten Peaks is located in its oldest national park, Banff. This province is home to the city of Red Deer on its Queen Elizabeth II [[the Second]] Highway. A center of the Canadian oil industry since deposits were discovered in 1947 at Leduc Number One, for ten points, what is this Canadian province whose cities include Calgary and Edmonton? | Alberta |
| Genghis Khan is said to have ordered his invasion of Europe after the appearance of this object. Pierre-Simon Laplace made the probably untrue claim that Callixtus III [[the Third]] excommunicated this object that six men point at in the Bayeux Tapestry. For ten points, name this astronomical object, named for the astronomer who predicted it would return every 75 years. | Halley’s Comet (or Comet Halley; or 1P/Halley; prompt on partial answers) |
| After her signature was forged by a con-woman, this person was falsely implicated in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace. This woman’s opposition to the reforms of Turgot [[tuhr- GOH]] and Necker [[neh-KEHR]], as well as her lavish spending, earned her the nickname Madame Deficit. For ten points, name this wife of Louis XVI [[the Sixteenth]], who probably did not actually say “let them eat cake.” | Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne (or Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; prompt on partial answers) |
| This person wrote about school integration in Northern states in the last entry of the newspaper column, My Day. While serving as a delegate to the UN General Assembly, this woman chaired a committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This activist visited Japanese-Americans at the Gila River War Relocation Center and opposed the issue of Executive Order 9066. For ten points, name this longest-serving first lady of the United States. | Eleanor Roosevelt (or Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; prompt on "Roosevelt") |
| The 1861 Battle of Columbus-Belmont was fought on the shores of this river, which also names a culture that built several burial mounds near Cahokia [[kah-HOH-kee-ah]]. This river suffered a catastrophic flood in 1927 which led to the election of Huey Long as governor of Louisiana. For ten points, name this North American river which drains into the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans and is named for a Southern U.S. state. | Mississippi River |
| This man's success in leading the relief of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 as secretary of commerce led to his election as president. This man was criticized for failing to prevent the Great Depression. | Herbert Hoover (or Herbert Clark Hoover) |
| One of these things led to the only I-N-E-S Level 7 incident in history since Chernobyl. That event of this type was centered on the Tōhoku region and caused the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in 2011. The Japanese government established Disaster Prevention Day after an event of this type struck the Kantō region. Tsunamis can be generated by, for ten points, what type of seismic events? | Earthquakes (prompt on "Seismic Event" or similar before mentioned) |
| Both the Tōhoku earthquake and the Great Kantō earthquake occurred on this island, the largest Japanese island by both area and population. | Honshu (or Hondo) |
| From World War One until 1933, this man produced aircraft such as the Trimotor, which was the first successful U.S. passenger airliner. In 1957, the company named for this man unveiled a new division called Edsel, which was named after this man's son. Known for introducing the Model T, for ten points, who was this businessman who created a car company that currently sells the Focus and the Mustang? | Henry Ford (accept Ford Motor Company) |
| In recent years, Henry Ford’s legacy has been tarnished due to public revelation of his overt antisemitism. In 2022, what rapper of albums like The College Dropout and Donda lost his deal with Adidas over public antisemitic comments? | Kanye West (accept either; accept Ye; or Yeezy; or Yeezus) |
| This city's Hofburg Palace contains the Spanish Riding School. This city contains the gothic St. Stephen's Cathedral, which appears on its country's ten cent coin. This city's Karl- Marx-Hof is one of the largest housing complexes in the world and was built during this city's "Red" period. For ten points, name this former Imperial Hapsburg capital, located on the Danube River. | Vienna (accept Red Vienna) |
| The “Red Vienna” period ended with the accession of Engelbert Dolfuss, whose successor Kurt Schuschnigg [[SHOOSH-nig]] oversaw what 1938 event in which Austria was “joined” to Nazi Germany? | Anschluss (prompt on “Annexation of Austria”) |
| This term was first used in a 1963 Daily Press article to describe an upcoming massive surge in college enrollment by Americans. This term describes a generation of people in between the Silent Generation and Generation X, with the end of World War Two contributing significantly to the large number of these people being born. For the point, name this generation which is typically identified as those born from 1946 to 1964. | Baby Boomers (prompt on "Boomer") |
| Made popular by Tom Brokaw's 1998 book with the same title, this alliterative name has been given to those born between 1901 and 1927, the primary participants of World War Two. | The Greatest Generation |
| The term enosis describes this country's desire to reunite with a larger country. Taksim is a term for a belief that ethnic lines should divide this island country, whose first president was Makarios III [[the Third]]. For ten points, identify this Mediterranean island, whose politics are frequently disputed between its Turkish and Greek populations along the divided Nicosia [[nik-oh-SEE-ah]]. | Republic of Cyprus (or Kypriaki Dimokratia; or Kibris Cumhuriyeti; accept Kypros) |
| The capital of Cyprus, Nicosia, is divided along a line named for this color. This color also named an international zone in Baghdad. | Green (accept Green Line; accept Green Zone) |
| Martin Luther King delivered the “Eulogy for the Martyred Children” for the bombing victims of this city. Bull Connor brutally suppressed civil rights marches in this city, such as the Children's Crusade. That series of marches in this city came after King's time spent writing a letter while incarcerated in one of this city's jails. For ten points, what Alabama city, the site where the bombing of the Sixteenth Baptist Church by the Klu Klux Klan? | Birmingham (accept "Letter from Birmingham Jail" or "Letter from Birmingham City Jail") |
| The protests in Birmingham were organized by this Atlanta-based civil rights organization of which MLK was the first president. This organization also conducted the Selma to Montgomery marches. | Southern Christian Leadership Conference (or SCLC) |
| This man addressed his defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial election by claiming the press "wouldn't have [him] to kick around any more." This man ordered the firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the Saturday Night Massacre shortly before becoming the first president to resign. For ten points, identify this U.S. president whose legacy was forever tainted by the Watergate Scandal. | Richard M (ilhous) Nixon (accept Dick Nixon, in reference to the quote; prompt on “Tricky Dick”) |
| During a 1962 press conference, Nixon claimed that the effectiveness of his campaign was damaged by this event that resulted in the installation of a so-called "nuclear hotline" between Moscow and Washington, D.C. | Cuban Missile Crisis (or October Crisis of 1962; or Caribbean Crisis; or Missile Scare) |
| Former first lady who held the position from 2009 to 2013. | Hillary Clinton (or Hillary Diane Clinton; or Hillary Diane Rodham; accept HRC) |
| Biden-appointee who affirmed U.S. support for Ukraine during the 2022 Russian Invasion. | Antony Blinken (or Antony John Blinken) |
| Former CIA Director and Secretary of State for much of the Trump administration. | Mike Pompeo (or Michael Richard Pompeo) |
| First African-American to hold the post, a four-star general who stated regret for his support of the Iraq War. | Colin Powell (or Colin Luther Powell) |
| Person who negotiated foreign affairs during the Civil War, as well as the purchase of Alaska. | William Seward (or Henry William Seward; accept Seward's Folly) |
| Former general who named a plan to rebuild Europe while serving under Harry Truman. | George C (atlett) Marshall Jr. (accept Marshall Plan) |
| Person who pioneered a policy of "Brinksmanship" under Eisenhower and names an airport in Northern Virginia. | John Foster Dulles [[DULL-iss]] (accept Washington Dulles International Airport; do not accept “Allen Dulles”) |
| Longest-serving secretary, for eleven years under FDR, who oversaw the declaration of war on the Axis powers. | Cordell Hull Cities of Italy Concerning Italy, name the modern city... |
| Which was once a republic known as "The Most Serene," home to many canals. | Venice (or Venezia; accept Republic of Venice) |
| Which was the site of a famous Galileo experiment involving a certain tower. | Pisa (accept Leaning Tower of Pisa) |
| In which Vasari began building the Uffizi [[oo-FEET-see]] Gallery for the Medici family. | Florence (or Firenze) |
| From which the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was ruled, overlooked by Mt. Vesuvius. | Naples (or Napoli) |
| In which St. Ambrose can still be viewed, known for its upscale fashion district. | Milan (or Milano) |
| Which was founded by the Etruscans and is home to the oldest university still in operation today. | Bologna |
| On the Adriatic, where the bones of St. Nicholas were finally laid to rest. | Bari (or Bare) |
| Which was an Ostrogoth capital, home to the Mausoleum of Theoderic and the Basillica di San Vitale [[vee-TAH-leh]]. | Ravenna |
| Museum in Paris that contains the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo. | Louvre Museum |
| European capital that contains the Prado and many works by Goya. | Madrid |
| Largest art museum in the Americas, possessing a large antiquities collection, located in Manhattan. | Metropolitan Museum of Art (or the Met) |
| St. Petersburg museum whose collection is partly held in the emperor's Winter Palace. | The State Hermitage Museum |
| "Modern" art museum in London housed in the former Bankside Power Station. | Tate Modern |
| Museums in Rome named for one of the city's seven hills. | Capitoline Museums |
| City that contains the Great Palace Mosaic Museum and the Topkapi Palace. | Istanbul |
| Stockholm museum that shares its name with a warship and a former royal house. | Vasa Museum (accept House of Vasa) |
| This event was detailed in the book The Wonders of the Invisible World. This event's first victim was Sarah Good, and large-scale ergot [[UR-gut]] poisoning has been cited as a potential cause for this event. Giles Corey was executed by pressing (+) during this event, which also implicated a slave named Tituba [[TIT-yoo-bah]]. Nineteen people were executed for allegedly consorting (*) with the devil in, for ten points, what mass hysteria event which took place in 17th century Massachusetts? | Salem Witch Trials (prompt on partial answers; accept descriptive answers that include Salem and Witch) |
| A Levantine Jew from Syria opened one of these places on Queens Lane where Jeremy Bentham developed his ideas on utilitarianism. A group called the "Wits" gathered around John Dryden at one of these places in London named Will's. According to Jurgen Habermas [[HAH-buhr-mahss]], (+) these places helped foster debates among the bourgeoisie [[boo-zhwah-ZEE]]. Voltaire and Rousseau often frequented, (*) for ten points, what establishments where intellectuals discussed their work alongside a latte or cappuccino? | Coffeehouse (accept Cafe; accept Coffee shop; accept Queen's Lane Coffee House; accept Will's Coffee House; prompt on "coffee") |
| According to Lucian, this man took his writings from Anatolia and read them aloud at the Olympic Games. This man self-reported that due to the strangeness of his reports, his own countrymen called him the (+) “Father of Lies.” This man conducted systematic investigation to research his books, the most well-known of which covers the Greco-Persian Wars. (*) For ten points, name this Greek “Father of History.” | Herodotus |
| Due to the Eastern Bloc boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics, this company spent millions more than expected on its "When the U.S. Wins, You Win" promotion. As a result of the 2008 financial crisis, this company's outlets in Iceland were replaced by the Metro chain. (+) Oleg Paroyev founded the Tasty, And That’s It chain after this company pulled out of Russia (*) following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. For ten points, name this fast-food chain which Ray Kroc turned into the world's largest by revenue, known for its Golden Arches and Big Macs. | McDonald's Corporation (prompt on "Mickey D's") |
| In one speech, this person stated: "We import two thirds of our cheese. That is a disgrace." This wife of Hugh O'Leary defeated Rishi Sunak in one leadership election. Shortly after reaching their highest position, this woman stated, "With the passing of the second (+) Elizabethan age, we usher in a new era in the magnificent history of our great (*) country." For ten points, name this Conservative leader and successor to Boris Johnson who became the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom. | Liz Truss (or Mary Elizabeth Truss) |
| Due to the spectacular success of one side in this campaign, the period of 1940 to 41 was called the “Happy Time.” An early battle in this campaign ended with the scuttling of the Graf Spee on the River Plate. Pitting the (+) Kriegsmarine against Allied forces, this campaign saw heavy use of U-Boats. (*) For ten points, name this “battle,” the longest campaign of World War Two, that saw fighting across the namesake ocean. | Battle of the Atlantic |
| In 1983, this country adopted a tricameral parliament consisting of Houses of Assembly, Representatives, and Delegates. Along with Israel, this country is believed to be responsible for a secret nuclear test called the Vela Incident. As president of this country, P.W. (+) Botha legalized interracial marriage but delivered the Rubicon Speech to state his refusal to dismantle (*) one system. For ten points, name this country which granted independence to Namibia and was revolutionized by the ANC under Nelson Mandela. | Republic of South Africa (or RSA) |
| James Neill was chosen as the garrison leader at this site, where Moses Rose was considered a coward for crossing “the line in the sand." Susanna Dickinson was one of the few survivors of a battle at this site, at which a bedridden volunteer commander was relieved by (+) William Travis. James Bowie was among the 200 people killed while defending this site from troops under (*) Santa Anna. For ten points, name this Texas mission, the site of an 1836 battle at which Davy Crockett was killed. | Alamo Mission (accept Battle of the Alamo; accept Misión San Antonio de Valero) |
| Over 100 people were arrested in this city after fans of a sports team smashed car windows in the 1955 Richard [[ree-SHAHRD]] Riot. A housing development in this city was designed by Moshe Safdie for the 1967 World's Fair, nicknamed Expo '67. (+) This city's Mayor Jean Drapeau [[drah-POH]] oversaw an exorbitantly expensive Summer Olympics in this city in (*) 1976. Charles de Gaulle said, "Vive le Québec libre!" in, for ten points, what most-populous Francophone city in Canada? | Montreal |
| This "poorly-advised" Anglo-Saxon king fought the invaders Cnut the Great and Sweyn Forkbeard with his son, Edmund Ironside. | Aethelred the Unready (or Aethelred II) |