| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This man is depicted carrying the flag of the Thirteen Colonies to the right of the title general in Emmanuel Leutze's [[LOYT-suhs]] Washington Crossing the Delaware. With William Pinkney, this man names a proposal to extend the duration of Jay's Treaty. The Era of Good Feelings characterized the two terms of, for ten points, what Virginian president who served as secretary of state for James Madison? | James Monroe (accept Monroe-Pinkney Treaty) |
| One ruler of this country signed the Bowring Treaty with the United Kingdom and offered to send elephants to U.S. president James Buchanan. Another ruler of this country aided the British during the Anglo-Burmese War and fought against the French in the Franco- Siamese War. For ten points, name this country, currently ruled by the Chakri Dynasty, which has produced ten kings named Rama. | Kingdom of Thailand (or Ratcha Anachak Thai; or Prathet Thai; accept Kingdom of Siam before the Franco-Siamese War is mentioned; accept Rattanakosin Kingdom) |
| The succession to the throne of this polity was formalized by the Golden Bull. One leader of this polity was forced to walk to Canossa during the Investiture Controversy. Henry IV [[the Fourth]] ruled this polity but often had no ability to control his various powerful German vassals. For ten points, identify this empire, which took on the "sacred" portion of its name under Frederick Barbarossa, comprised of loosely bound German territories. | Holy Roman Empire (prompt on partial answers) |
| One form of these musical pieces is known as a "screamer” or “circus” type. Edward Elgar composed a set of these pieces known as Pomp and Circumstance, which is often performed at graduations. A "King" of these musical pieces wrote examples named "Semper Fidelis" and "Stars and Stripes Forever." For ten points, identify these musical pieces strongly associated with John Philip Sousa. | Marches (accept Circus Marches; accept Pomp and Circumstance Marches; accept The March King) |
| One of these devices was used by Zhang Heng [[ZHAHNG-HUNG]] to construct a seismometer. In 1656, Christian Huygens [[HOY-gens]] added one of these devices to a machine to improve timekeeping accuracy. Experimented on by Galileo, the first person to design a chronometer containing one of these devices, for ten points, what are these simple machines consisting primarily of a weight descending from a pivot point? | Pendulums (accept Pendulum clock; prompt on "Oscillator") |
| This event is the subject of the book And the Band Played On, in which the author accuses the Reagan administration of negligence. Victims of this event were sometimes derisively referred to as the Four Hs: Haitians, hemophiliacs, heroin users, and homosexuals. For ten points, name this public health crisis involving an autoimmune disorder which broke out first among the gay community in the 1980s. | AIDS Epidemic (accept HIV epidemic; accept “Outbreak” and other synonyms in place of Epidemic) |
| This company worked with American Airlines to create the SABRE system for travel reservations. Feng-hsiung Hsu [[FUNG-SHYUNG-SHOO]] was the principal designer of two machines built by this company, including Deep Thought and another machine that bested grandmaster Garry Kasparov. The supercomputers Deep Blue and Watson were developed by, for ten points, what U.S. computer company known by its three initials? | IBM (or International Business Machines Corporation; prompt on "Big Blue") |
| The ruins of Mystras [[MEE-strahss]] were once mistaken for the ruins of this city, which is located on the Eurotas [[yoo-ROH-tahss]] River beneath Mt. Taygetos. This city was crushed at the Battle of Leuctra, which ended its hegemony over Greece, established after defeating Athens in the Peloponnesian War. For ten points, what is this city in Southern Greece, famous for its militant culture? | Sparta (or Lacedaemon) |
| During this conflict, an attack on the Great Redan was thwarted while Patrice de MacMahon [[MAK-mah-ohn]] was successfully capturing Malakoff Redoubt. The Battle of Alma occurred during this conflict, during which Mary Seacole tended to the injured at the "British Hotel." For ten points, identify this war of the 1850s, fought over a peninsula on the Black Sea? | Crimean War (accept Crimean Peninsula) |
| The use of a legal ceremony to marry this case’s plaintiff to Harriet Robinson was used in one of this case's arguments. Stephen Douglas proposed the Freeport Doctrine in opposition to the unpopular decision in this case, whose plaintiff argued that because he was taken from Missouri to Illinois and Wisconsin he could not be considered a slave. For ten points, name this 1857 U.S. Supreme Court case which ruled that people of African descent could not be U.S. citizens. | Dred Scott v. Sandford (or Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford) |
| For two of these events in New York City, time capsules were created by George Westinghouse's company. Moshe Safdie's modular concrete housing complex was created for one of these events that was hosted in Montreal. Daniel Burnham's "White City" plan was created for one of these events by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Color television and the Ferris Wheel are among the innovations that debuted at, for ten points, what international exhibitions? | World's Fairs (accept World's Expositions; accept World's Columbian Exposition; accept 1939 New York World's Fair; accept 1964 New York World's Fair; accept Category One World's Fair) |
| Ice cream cones were popularized at the 1904 World's Fair, which took place in this Midwestern American city in commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase. | St. Louis |
| This country captured the Maoist rebel Abimael Guzmán in a 1992 raid. That raid in this country occurred during a civil war that also involved rebels named for Túpac Amaru, a leader of the Quechua [[KETCH-wah]] people. The ethnically Japanese president Alberto Fujimori was the leader of this country, whose highlands suffered from the insurgency of Shining Path. For ten points, name this South American country whose city of Cuzco was the center of the Incan Empire. | Republic of Peru (or República del Perú) |
| When elected to the Peruvian presidency, Alberto Fujimori defeated Mario Vargas Llosa [[YOH-sah]], who won this prestigious award, also won by fellow South Americans Gabriel García Márquez and Pablo Neruda. | Nobel Prize in Literature (prompt on partial answers) |
| A book by this man was supposedly written after his capture at the Battle of Curzola and was compiled by Rustichello da Pisa. This man recounted a ruler with ten thousand white horses, the milk of which was made into the drink koumiss. A book titled The Million recounts the travels of this man who, with his father and uncle, traveled to meet figures like Kublai Khan. For ten points, name this Italian merchant who wrote about his travels along the Silk Road to China. | Marco Polo |
| Marco Polo is believed to have visited Kublai Khan at his palace in this summer capital, described in a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem as "stately." | Xanadu (accept Shangdu) |
| Artists who created works within this movement include Jean Metzinger and Juan Gris [[GREEZ]]. The painting Violin and Candlestick is a work in this movement by Georges Braque [[BRAHK]], who worked with another painter in this movement who created the painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon [[leh-deh-mwah-SEHL-dah-veen-YOHN]]. Pablo Picasso painted works in, for ten points, what artistic movement which uses geometric forms? | Cubism (accept Analytical Cubism; accept Synthetic Cubism; accept Crystal Cubism; accept Cubist; prompt on "Orphism" before mentioned) |
| Despite artistic differences, Picasso exhibited Cubist works at the first exhibition devoted to this movement, whose paragons included Salvador Dali. | Surrealism (or Surrealists) |
| Notable roles within this vocal range include the characters of Lakmé in an opera by Léo Delibes [[deh-LEEB]], and Cio-Cio San [[CHO-CHO-SAHN]] in Madame Butterfly. "Der Hölle Rache" [[dehr HUH-luh RAH-huh]] is a challenging aria within this vocal range which is sung by the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute. Kiri Te Kanawa and Renée Fleming are performers who employ this vocal range, which is pitched above both contralto and this range's mezzo type. For ten points, name this highest female vocal range. | Soprano (accept Mezzo-Soprano after mentioned but not before) |
| A list of Renée Fleming's favorite arias include three pieces by Giacomo Puccini [[poo-CHEE-nee]] and two by this German composer. This composer of Salome and Der Rosenkavalier is unrelated to a "Waltz King" of the same name who composed "The Blue Danube." | Richard [[REE-kard]] Strauss (or Richard Georg Strauss; prompt on "Strauss") |
| Members of a group named for this location included Edward Dmytryk [[dim-EE- trik]] and Samuel Ornitz, who refused to answer questions at a HUAC [[HYOO-ak]] hearing. The Hays Code regulated the content produced by this location's primary industry, whose "Golden Age" involved companies such as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A sign identifying this location used to include the words "LAND" at its right end. For ten points, name this neighborhood of Los Angeles, the center of America's film industry. | Hollywood (accept Hollywood Ten; accept Hollywood Sign) |
| Many Hollywood professionals were blacklisted during the second of these periods of anti-communist fear. The first of these periods with a colorful name occurred after World War One. | Red Scares (accept First or Second Red Scare) |
| In this city, Julius Streicher [[STRY-kuh]] published his newspaper The Attacker before his execution for crimes against humanity. Large-scale rallies held in this city were filmed for Leni Riefenstahl's [[LEN-ee REEF-en-shtahls]] film Triumph of the Will. Laws forbidding marriages between Jewish people and Germans were named for this city which was the site of an event including the sentencing of Rudolf Hess. For ten points, name this German city where post-World War Two trials were held for Nazi war criminals. | Nuremberg (accept Nuremberg Trials) |
| This man committed suicide to avoid the death sentence he received at the Nuremberg Trials. Prior to his judgment, this Nazi led a unit that was defeated in the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe [[LOOFT-vah-fuh]]. | Hermann Göring [[GEH-ring]] (or Hermann Wilhelm Göring; be lenient on pronunciation) |
| John W. Taylor filled in for the original proponent of this act, which helped to bring about the end of the Era of Good Feelings. This act attempted to preserve northern-southern balance by declaring the 36th and a half parallel as the limit of slavery. This act, the first brokered by Henry Clay, resulted in the admittance of one free state and one slave state. For ten points, name this 1820 legislation named for a Midwestern state. | Missouri Compromise |
| James Tallmadge, who submitted the original amendments leading to the Missouri Compromise, was a member of this political party. This party was founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to challenge the Federalist party. | Democratic-Republican Party (or Democratic-Republicans; or Jeffersonian Republican Party; prompt on "Republican Party;" do not accept or prompt on "Democratic Party") |
| Activists who sought to secure voting rights for women. | Suffragettes |
| Woman who was arrested for impersonating a man to vote in the Election of 1872. | Susan B. Anthony |
| First woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. | Sandra Day O'Connor (or Sandra Day) |
| Gender-equality amendment, first introduced in 1923, not currently ratified by the states. | Equal Rights Amendment (or ERA) |
| Author who discussed the "problem that has no name" in The Feminine Mystique. | Betty Friedan (or Bettye Naomi Goldstein) |
| Woman who led the National American Woman Suffrage Association Group with Carrie Chapman Catt. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| New Yorker who was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and run in a presidential primary. | Shirley Chisholm (or Shirley Anita Chisholm; or Shirley Anita St. Hill) |
| Leader of the National Woman's Party who organized the Silent Sentinels in picketing the White House. | Alice Paul (or Alice Stokes Paul) |
| Country for which Leonid Brezhnev served as general secretary for the Communist Party. | Soviet Union (or Sovetsky Soyuz; accept Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; or Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; or USSR; or CCCP; or SSSR; prompt on “Russia”) |
| Country ruled by the Kim dynasty since 1948. | North Korea (or Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; or Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; accept DPRK; prompt on “Korea”) |
| Marshal who made Yugoslavia a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement. | Marshal Josip Broz Tito (accept Josip Broz) |
| Nation which was led by Wojciech Jaruzelski [[VOY-chek yah-roo-ZEL-skee]], who declared martial law a few years before Solidarity enacted democratic rule. | Republic of Poland (or Rzeczpospolita Polska) |
| Country governed by longtime Secretary Gustav Husak that experienced the Velvet Divorce in 1992. | Czechoslovakia |
| President who was executed after the successful Romanian Revolution. | Nicolae Ceaușescu [[chow-CHESS-koo]] (be lenient on pronunciation) |
| Nation governed for forty-four years by Maoist politician Enver Hoxha [[HOH-juh]]. | Albania (or Shqipëri; accept Republic of Albania; or Republika e Shqipërisë) |
| Man who had the Berlin Wall built in 1961 after denying it was being planned. | Walter Ulbricht (or Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht) |
| Two major rivers that allowed for the development of agriculture and irrigation. | Tigris and Euphrates (accept in either order) |
| Region including Mesopotamia with a shape-based name popularized by James Henry Breasted. | Fertile Crescent (prompt on similar or partial answers) |
| Wedge-shaped writing system developed around 3500 BCE. | Cuneiform |
| Mythological king of Uruk who is the protagonist of a namesake epic. | Gilgamesh (accept Epic of Gilgamesh) |
| Stepped, multi-leveled temples built in many cities throughout the region. | Ziggurats |
| Alliterative name for the three-part artifact that may have been the first galvanic cell. | Baghdad Battery |
| Persian dynasty ruled by Cyrus the Great that conquered Mesopotamia. | Achaemenid Dynasty (or Achaemenids; accept House of Achaemenes) |
| Man who became the first king of both Assyria and Babylon in 729 BC. | Tiglath-Pileser III [[the Third]] |
| A disputed gubernatorial election in this state led to the Brooks-Baxter War. One U.S. senator from this state was the longest-serving chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and that senator from this state names a series of scholarship programs (+) for overseas studies. One governor of this state claimed that he still believed "in a place called Hope." (*) For ten points, name this southern state whose notable politicians have included J. William Fulbright and Bill Clinton. | Arkansas |
| Massive purges for this party were directed by Brother 5, or the Butcher. In 1966, Leng Sary led a defection from this party, under which Kang Kek Lew ran prison S-21, which notoriously tortured over 1,200 prisoners. "Year Zero" signified the beginning of this party’s rule, (+) leading to the massacre of old culture and burial of over 1.5 million intellectuals in mass graves known as (*) "Killing Fields." For ten points, name this political party led by Pol Pot which perpetrated the 1970s genocide in Cambodia. | Khmer Rouge (accept Communist Party of Cambodia before mentioned, prompt after; accept Kampuchea in place of Cambodia; accept name variations such as Cambodia's Communist Party; accept Khmer Communist Party; accept Workers' Party of Kampuchea) |
| Valentin Parnakh introduced this art form to the USSR, though the later works of Eddie Rosner were condemned as "bourgeois." A type of baseball pitch invented by Ben Henderson may have inspired the name of this art form, which was developed in Storyville (+) by figures like Jelly Roll Morton. An "Age" named for this art form was pioneered by Bessie Smith and Earl Hines. The (*) Cotton Club was a center for, for ten points, what art form that originated in New Orleans and was often performed by Black musicians like John Coltrane? | Jazz |
| This god helped Pelops win the hand of Hippodamia with the gift of a chariot pulled by winged horses. Alexander the Great reportedly prayed to this god before the Battle of Issus. This god is sometimes named as the father of the monstrous whirlpool (+) Charybdis [[kah-RIB-diss]], who terrified sailors alongside Scylla [[SKIL-ah]]. The father of Proteus (*) and Triton, for ten points, who is this Greek god of earthquakes and the sea? | Poseidon (accept Neptune before "Greek" is mentioned) |
| To illustrate the radicalism of this movement, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge read Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die.” The loose fitting zoot (+) suit’s origin is attributed to this period of time, while much of this movement’s ideas were disseminated via the New Negro newspaper. “A Dream Deferred” was written by Langston (*) Hughes during this period. For ten points, name this “Renaissance,” a cultural revival of African-American culture named for a New York City neighborhood. | Harlem Renaissance (accept New Negro Movement before mentioned) |
| Daniel Yergin wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Prize about this resource. The title of that book references a Winston Churchill speech arguing for switching the Royal Navy’s ships from coal (+) to this resource. The Chaco War was an early conflict over rights to this resource. Often called (*) “Black Gold,” for ten points, name this resource used for fuel, often considered a major reason for conflict in the Middle East. | Oil (accept Crude Oil; or Petroleum; accept Gas; or Petrol) |
| The Suffetes [[SOO-feets]] of this city presided over a Tribunal of 104 after the abolition of the monarchy in the 5th century BCE. Cato the Elder ended many of his speeches by saying this city “must be destroyed.” This city fought over Mediterranean (+) holdings including Sicily and Sardinia during a series of wars that culminated in the legendary sowing of salt (*) in this city's fields. For ten points, name this North African city which was ruled by the legendary queen Dido [["DIE"-doh]] in The Aeneid [[ay-NEE-id]]. | Carthage |
| Two days before this battle took place, one of its participants led the largest capture of federal soldiers during the Civil War. This battle was preceded by the discovery of Special Order 191, a set of Confederate battle plans wrapped in cigars. Union forces won a victory at (+) South Mountain prior to this battle, in which Confederate forces defended the Sunken Road. (*) Sharpsburg is another name given to, for ten points, what Civil War battle, the bloodiest single day in American history? | Battle of Antietam (accept Battle of Sharpsburg before mentioned) |
| The industry centered around these animals faced a major setback in the Disaster of 1871. The "City That Lit the World" was the motto of a Massachusetts city centered around this industry called New Bedford. An animal near Mocha Island (+) inspired an author, who worked on board vessels involved in this industry, when writing an 1851 novel. The harvesting of ambergris (*) and oil was part of, for ten points, what industry involving aquatic mammals that inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. | Whaling (accept answers involving catching or hunting Whales; accept the collecting of Whale Oil) |
| This European city was the site of a 1637 "Tulip Mania," as well as the world's first central bank and stock exchange. | Amsterdam (accept Bank of Amsterdam; accept Amsterdam Stock Exchange) |