| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Journalist Herbert Morrison popularized the phrase “Oh, the humanity” while giving a firsthand account of this event which took place in Manchester Township, New Jersey. This event began when the central craft attempted to dock at a mooring mast only to burst into flames, killing 97 passengers. For ten points, identify this 1937 disaster which brought an end to nearly all airship travel. | LZ 129 Hindenburg Disaster |
| In this country in 2001, two statues of the Buddha dating from around 600 AD were destroyed in the Bamiyan Valley on the orders of Mullah Omar. This country was the subject of the Great Game, a series of diplomatic confrontations between the British and Russian Empires. King Mohammed Zahir Shah was ousted in, for ten points, what country in which the Taliban took control of Kabul in August 2021? | Afghanistan (or Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; or Imarat-i Islami-yi Afghanistan; accept Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; accept Jamhuri-ye Islami-ye Afghanistan) |
| Working with Alexis Carrel, this person invented a perfusion pump that would pave the way to open-heart surgery. This person won a prize offered by hotel owner Raymond Orteig, and during the interwar period, this person was prominent in the America First movement. This person’s family fell victim to what was called the “crime of the century” in 1932. For ten points, name this person, known for flying the Spirit of St. Louis. | Charles Lindbergh (or Charles Augustus Lindbergh) |
| This writer satirized the Crimean War in The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa. This author's dystopian novel Paris in the Twentieth Century was published almost a century after his 1905 death. For ten points, name this French science fiction author who wrote the novels Around the World in Eighty Days and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. | Jules Verne (or Jules Gabriel Verne) |
| The first act of one film from this nation depicts the Teutonic Knights invading the historical duchy of Pskov [[SHKOHV]], as well as the Battle of the Ice. That formalist film, Alexander Nevsky, was directed by the same man who told the tale of a historical mutiny during a war with Japan. The Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany is depicted in the films of, for ten points, what nation in which Sergei Eisenstein directed Battleship Potemkin? | USSR (or the Soviet Union; or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; accept CCCP; prompt on "Russia") |
| This scientist drew from the work of Paul Epstein when discussing the Stark effect in relation to his own perturbation theory. This scientist introduced their namesake equation in a paper that related quantization as a problem of eigenvalues. A paradox of quantum superimposition is illustrated by, for ten points, what Austrian physicist whose thought experiment involves a theoretical cat in a box? | Erwin Schrödinger [[SHRUH-ding-uh]] (or Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger; accept Schrödinger's Cat; accept Schrödinger equation; accept attempts at phonetic pronunciation) |
| This present-day state initially had its northern boundaries set by the Palóu [[pah- LOH-oo]] Line. Along with Sonora, this state names a short-lived republic that was founded in 1853 by the filibuster William Walker. For ten points, name this Mexican state whose border towns of Mexicali and Tijuana are located directly south of a U.S. state with a similar name. | Baja California (do not accept or prompt on "Baja California Sur"; do not prompt on “California”) |
| Frederick Pursh was commissioned by one member of this group to describe the many plant species this group collected. Despite participating in this group, an enslaved man named York was not granted pay or freedom. While a part of this group, Toussaint Charbonneau’s wife gave birth to a boy nicknamed "Little Pomp." Assisted by the Shoshone guide and translator Sacagawea, for ten points, what is this expedition, sent to explore the Louisiana Purchase? | Lewis and Clark Expedition (or Corps of Discovery Expedition) |
| This country divided up Samoa with the United States in the Tripartite Convention, and this country's colonial ambitions were described as its "place in the sun." In the early 20th century, this country committed the Herero and Namaqua genocides in present-day Namibia. For ten points, name this European colonial power which lost its overseas colonies such as Cameroon. | Germany (or German Empire; or Deutsches Kaiserreich; do not accept or prompt on "Federal Republic of Germany") |
| This battle was precipitated by British forces fortifying Dorchester Heights and preparing to march on Charlestown. The death of physician Joseph Warren at this battle was widely used in Colonial propaganda. One commander at this battle apocryphally told his soldiers to save ammunition by not shooting until they could "see the whites of their eyes.” For ten points, name this American Revolution battle, a costly British victory which actually took place on Breed’s Hill. | Battle of Bunker Hill (accept Battle of Breed's Hill before mentioned) |
| The Massacre at Huế [[hoo-EH]] occurred during this campaign, which prompted General William Westmoreland to call for an increase in troops to reach a so-called "crossover point." This campaign was intentionally planned to take place on a holiday, as soldiers from the ARVN would be on leave. A holiday celebrating the lunar new year names, for ten points, what major offensive of the Vietnam War? | Tet Offensive (accept Tet Nguyen Dan) |
| U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was supported by adherents to this political theory that claimed communism could be spread from one country to another in a chain reaction named for the pieces from a certain tile game. | Domino Theory (accept Dominoes) |
| This author’s final book, Rambles in Germany and Italy tells of two European adventures she took with her son. The inspiration for this author’s first novel came from a trip to Lake Geneva, during which she was asked to write a ghost story to pass the time during a period of rainy days. A natural scientist from Switzerland named Victor and his "creation" are part of, for ten points, what British author's novel Frankenstein? | Mary Shelley (or Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; or Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) |
| One of the books read by Frankenstein's monster is this 1667 ten-book epic poem which tells of an angelic war and the temptation of Adam and Eve. | Paradise Lost |
| The lineage of the holder of this position is established in accordance with the discipline of phowa [[poh-WAH]]. The future holders of this position are identified with the help of a consultant known as the Nechung [[NEH-CHUNG]] Oracle. Gendun Drup was the first holder of this position, whose authority is greater than its panchen counterpart. Tenzin Gyatso is the current holder of, for ten points, what position, the spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism? | Dalai Lama (prompt on partial answers) |
| Tenzin Gyatso relocated the residence of the Dalai Lama to Dharmsala from this city. The Potala Palace is located in this city, which has been the administrative capital of Tibet since the 1600s. | Lhasa |
| During an early 1990s war, civilians from this country were killed in the Khojaly [[hoh-JAH-lee]] Massacre. This country was the site of the Black January massacre as the USSR attempted to prevent its independence. This country, which twice elected Heydar Aliyev as president, took control of Shusha following a 2020 war over Artsakh. For ten points, name this country, cut off from its exclave of Nakhchevan, which has fought against Armenia from Baku. | Republic of Azerbaijan (or Azarbaycan Respublikası) |
| Capture of the Baku oil fields was a major goal of this wider operation during World War Two, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. | Operation Barbarossa (or Unternehman Barbarossa) |
| One device of this type, known as the Halifax Gibbet, existed in West Yorkshire before Oliver Cromwell repealed its use. Tobias Schmidt and Antoine Louis invented this device, which was later named for a member of the National Assembly who proposed its use in place of other devices, such as breaking wheels. Georges Danton [[dahn-TOHN]] and Maximilien Robespierre were victims of, for ten points, what method of capital punishment used during the French Revolution? | Guillotine (accept Louisette; accept Joseph-Ignace Guillotin; accept descriptive answers regarding instruments of beheading before "Tobias Schmidt" is mentioned, prompt after) |
| The guillotine was prominently used during this period of the French Revolution. The Committee of Public Safety condemned many people to death by guillotine during this period. | Reign of Terror (prompt on descriptive answers such as "Late 1700s," "1790s," or "1793-94") |
| This author’s last lover, Dora Diamant, kept 35 of his letters and 20 of his notebooks, which were confiscated by the Gestapo in 1933. Letters to Felice is a book of letters written by this author to his fiancée, Felice Bauer, who was in the dedication for his novel, The Judgment. This author’s novel The Trial was published in 1925, nearly a year after his death. For ten points, identify this author of The Metamorphosis who inspired an adjective describing surreal and bureaucratic nightmares. | Franz Kafka (accept Kafkaesque) |
| Max Brod, the executor of Kafka's will, blatantly ignored the author's request for Brod to perform this action. Kafka instructed this action to be carried out with fire, while author Terry Pratchett required this action to be performed with a steamroller. | Destroying His Works (accept Burning His Works; accept reasonable equivalents for Destroy and Works) |
| This man signed the Double Tenth Agreement with Patrick J. Hurley, and this man, who was supported by the Red Guard, led the Autumn Harvest Uprising. This person's early revolutionary activities included protests against Zhang [[ZHUNG]] the Venomous, the governor of Hunan. The Cultural Revolution was launched by, for ten points, what Marxist leader of China who published the "Little Red Book"? | Mao Zedong (accept Chairman Mao; accept Mao Tse-Tung; prompt on “Zedong” or “Tse-tung”) |
| One of Mao's initiatives was this second of his five-year plans. This initiative to reduce China's dependence on agrarian economics resulted in a famine that killed tens of millions. | Great Leap Forward (prompt on partial answers; prompt on "Second Five Year Plan") |
| William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, staunchly opposed this religious group, who migrated on the ship Arbella. The Antinomian Controversy divided members of this religious group, whose ministers included Increase and Cotton Mather. For ten points, name this religious group which broke from the Anglican Church and made up most of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. | Puritans (prompt on "Separatists") |
| This woman was ostracized by John Winthrop during the Antinomian Controversy. She was encouraged by Roger Williams to settle an island which later became part of Rhode Island. | Anne Hutchinson (or Anne Marbury) |
| State in which Kathy Hochul replaced the disgraced Andrew Cuomo. | New York |
| Former Mr. Olympia who replaced Gray Davis in California's 2003 recall election. | Arnold Schwarzenegger (or Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger) |
| Former governor of Florida who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2016. | Jeb Bush (or John Ellis Bush; prompt on "Bush") |
| Former governor of Texas who was made Secretary of Energy after calling for the department to be abolished. | Rick Perry (or James Richard Perry) |
| Former Illinois governor and grandson of a vice president who twice lost presidential elections to Dwight Eisenhower. | Adlai Stevenson II [[the Second]] (or Adlai Ewing Stevenson II; prompt on "Stevenson") |
| State once led by Douglas Wilder, the first post-Reconstruction African-American governor. | Commonwealth of Virginia |
| Former governor of Ohio who hosted the Fox News show Heartland and ran against Donald Trump in 2016. | John Kasich (or John Richard Kasich, Jr.) |
| Governor of Oregon, the first LGBT governor in American history. | Katherine "Kate" Brown |
| Founder of the French Empire who died on Saint Helena. | Napoleon Bonaparte (accept either underlined portion; accept Napoleon I) |
| Husband of Marie Antoinette who was beheaded by revolutionaries. | Louis XVI [[the Sixteenth]] (accept Citizen Louis Capet) |
| Holiday on which Charlemagne was crowned emperor in 800. | Christmas Day (prompt on "December 25") |
| Holy king who died in the Eighth Crusade after fighting in the Seventh. | Louis IX [[the Ninth]] (accept Saint Louis or Louis the Saint; prompt on "Louis") |
| Huguenot who decided that "Paris is well worth a mass" and converted to Catholicism. | Henry IV [[the Fourth]] (accept Good King Henry; or Henry the Great; prompt on "Henry") |
| "Mad King" whose armies lost the Battle of Agincourt. | Charles VI [[the Sixth]] (or Charles the Beloved; prompt on "Charles the Mad") |
| Orleanist monarch who came to power in the July Revolution of 1830. | Louis Philippe I [[the First]] (prompt on "Citizen King") |
| Absolutist ultra-Catholic who was deposed in that same July Revolution. | Charles X [[the Tenth]] (accept Charles Philippe) |
| Kingdom they conquered after Cleopatra's suicide. | Egypt (accept Ptolemaic Kingdom) |
| Three wars they fought with Carthage. | Punic War (s) |
| Region including much of modern France with a name from the Frankish for "Land of the Foreigners." | Gaul |
| Region named for a son of Jacob in which the Temple of Solomon was destroyed by Rome in 70 AD. | Judaea (or Yehuda; prompt on "Judah") |
| Island on which Boudica led the Iceni [["eye"-SEE-nee]] in rebellion. | Great Britain (accept Britannia) |
| Island home of the Nuraghes [[noo-RAH-geh]], governed alongside neighboring Corsica. | Sardinia |
| Province briefly ruled by Augustus before the Battle of Teutoberg Forest. | Germania Antiqua |
| Kingdom ruled by Mithridates [[mee-three-DAH-tehs]] the Great and annexed by Nero. | Kingdom of Pontus (or Pontic Kingdom) |
| In consultation with Thomas Jefferson, this man drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. After being freed, the slave and spy James Armistead renamed himself after this man. This man’s forces linked up with Washington’s to pin down (+) Cornwallis during the Battle of Yorktown. This man was injured during the Battle of Brandywine, after which he was promoted to General of the (*) Revolutionary Army. For ten points, name this French aristocrat who fought in the American Revolution. | Marquis de Lafayette (or Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier; accept James Armistead Lafayette) |
| These people were opposed by Lord Chelmsford, who utilized laager [[LAA- guhr]] columns against them. These people perpetrated the Weenen [[VEY-nen]] Massacre and suffered great losses at the Battle of Blood River. (+) Cetshwayo [[ketch- "WHY"-oh]] was a king of these people who claimed victory at the Battle of Isandlwana [[ee-sahn-JLWAH-nah]]. (*) For ten points, identify these people of Southern Africa, whose empire thrived under the rule of their founder, Shaka. | Zulu Empire (or Zulu Kingdom; accept Kingdom of Zululand; anti-prompt on "KwaZulu") |
| Heber Kimball claimed that this group became disaffected after the dissolution of the Kirtland Safety Society anti-bank, prompting this group to move to Far West, Missouri. The Mountain Meadows Massacre took place after James Buchanan sent an army against (+) these people in 1857. This group’s Succession Crisis of 1844 was solved by its Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, (*) which replaced a founder who claimed the Garden of Eden was located in America. For ten points, name this religion, founded by Joseph Smith. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (accept Mormons; accept Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints; accept LDS Church; accept Church of the Latter Day Saints) |
| A collection of this author’s poems were released in The Colossus and Other Poems, which was her only volume of poetry released before her death. This author was married to Ted Hughes, (+) who burned her last journal as he “did not want her children to have read it.” This poet used the pseudonym Victoria Lucas to publish a novel about a fashion intern who undergoes electroconvulsive (*) therapy. For ten points, identify this influential poet, whose novel The Bell Jar was published after her 1963 suicide. | Sylvia Plath (or Sylvia Plath Hughes) |
| Colin Matthews attempted to expand this composition with a movement partly titled "The Renewer.” The last movement of this 1917 musical composition features the accompaniment of an offstage female chorus (+) separated by a screen. An interest in horoscopes inspired this composition, whose movements have nicknames including the "Bringer of (*) Old Age" and "Bringer of War." For ten points, identify this suite by Gustav Holst which includes movements named for Saturn and Mars. | The Planets, Opus 32 |
| This city's Saint Michael Fortress was renamed Fort Aardenburgh after being captured by the Dutch in 1641. This city's largest university is named after its country's first president, Agostinho Neto. A decades-long (+) civil war and an oil boom led to the rapid expansion of slums on the outskirts of this city called musseques [[moo-SEHK]]. The largest (*) Lusophone city outside of Brazil, for ten points, what is this city, the center of the Angolan Civil War? | Luanda |
| Under this ruler, Gerard van Swieten led an investigation into vampires in Moravia. This ruler’s minister Prince Kaunitz abandoned an alliance with Britain for one with France in the Diplomatic Revolution. The claim of this ruler to Silesia was abandoned in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, (+) and this ruler's ascension was guaranteed by the Pragmatic (*) Sanction. For ten points, name this ruler who fought to protect her throne in the War of the Austrian Succession. | Maria Theresa of Austria (or Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina; prompt on partial answers) |
| The book Division and Reunion was written by this man, who withdrew from the University of Virginia School of Law before eventually passing the bar in Georgia. The Adamson Act mandated an eight-hour day during this man's presidency (+) and was signed three years after the Underwood Tariff. Prior to his presidency, this man served as governor of New Jersey (*) and the president of Princeton University. For ten points, identify this U.S. president who served during World War One. | Woodrow Wilson (or Thomas Woodrow Wilson) |
| During a campaign in this country, one man issued the "Decree of War to the Death." This country's independence movement failed under Francisco de Miranda, though it was later achieved at the Battle of Carabobo. In 2004, a political party called the (+) Popular Will formed in this country, which experienced an oil boom near Lake Maracaibo. (*) A "Bolivarian Revolution" began in 1999 in, for ten points, what country whose leaders have included Nicolás Maduro and Hugo Chávez? | Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (or República Bolivariana de Venezuela) |
| The devshirme [[dev-SHEER-meh]] system increased the size of this military force whose soldiers were Christian slaves to the Ottoman sultan. | Janissaries (or Janissary Corps; or Yeniceri) |