| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Two answers required: One of these men criticized the other for voting against Medicare, prompting him to say, "There you go again." One of these men ended a debate with the other by prompting listeners to ask themselves, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" For ten points, name these two presidents who opposed each other in the Election of 1980. | James Earl "Jimmy" Carter and Ronald Wilson Reagan |
| This organization launched Project Normandy to seize the city of Clearwater and tried to use Operation Freakout to commit Paulette Cooper to a psych ward. The founder of this organization believed he sank a Japanese sub and used Mexican islands for target practice, resulting in this group being governed by the "Sea Org." Don Purcell [[pur-SELL]] saved a predecessor of this organization, the Dianetics Foundation. For ten points, identify this religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard. | Church of Scientology (or Scientologists) |
| A pigment of this color was once used as an antidote to thallium poisoning. A pigment of this color was discovered by accident at the University of Oregon. A pigment formulation of this color made from lapis lazuli was used in Renaissance depictions of the Virgin Mary. For ten points, identify this color which was dyed with indigo and is closely associated with denim. | Blue (accept Prussian Blue; accept YInMn [[YIN-MIN]] Blue; accept Blue Jeans or Blue Denim) |
| The current name of this city may have been inspired by the name of an oracle in the Rímac valley. Originally named Ciudad [[see-yoo-DAHD]] de los Reyes, this city was the capital of the second Viceroyalty created by the Spanish Empire. This city was founded two years after the 1533 capture of Cuzco. Francisco Pizarro founded this city two years before founding the nearby seaport of Callao [[kah-YAO]]. For ten points, name this Peruvian city. | Lima (anti-prompt on "Limaq") |
| This musical's 2005 revival set the record for the most Tony Awards for a revival, including Best Lead Actress for Bebe Neuwirth. The original choreographer for this musical, Bob Fosse, created routines to accompany numbers in this musical such as "Razzle Dazzle" and "Cell Block Tango." "All That Jazz" appears in, for ten points, what musical named for a major Midwestern city? | Chicago |
| This god's three crucial attributes were gifted by Grid, the mother of the god of vengeance, and those gifts include a pair of iron gloves. This god uses the head of an ox to bait a hook with which to catch his arch-enemy, an offspring of Loki and Angrboda that encircles the earth. The Midgard Serpent is fated to kill and be killed by, for ten points, what son of Odin, the Norse god of thunder? | Thor (or Thuner; or Thunar; or Donar) |
| The Lamian War was fought after the death of this man, who was the son of his father’s fourth wife, Cleopatra. Hephaestion [[heh-FAY-stee-un]] was among the leaders of a cavalry unit organized by this man known as the "Companions," who fought a battle which is depicted in a landscape by Albrecht Altdorfer. The Battle of Issus was won by, for ten points, what leader, the son of Philip II [[the Second]] of Macedon? | Alexander the Great (or Alexander III of Macedon; or Alexander of Macedon; prompt on "Alexander") |
| The Tolstoy Farm was founded by this man during his time as an activist in South Africa. Margaret Bourke-White took a famous picture of this man at a spinning wheel, and this man led a march to the town of Dandi to protest a tax on salt. The principle of satyagraha [[saht-yah-GRAH-hah]] guided, for ten points, what leader of the Indian independence movement who advocated non-violent means of protest? | Mahatma Gandhi (or Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; accept Gandhi-Irwin Pact) |
| This man argued that colonialism was a necessary endpoint of capitalism in the essay “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.” This man was returned by train to his home country's Finland Station, a trip financed by Germany during World War One. This man denounced a provisional government with slogans such as “all power to the Soviets” in his April Theses. Leading the Bolsheviks against the Mensheviks, for ten points, who was this first leader of the Soviet Union? | Vladimir Lenin (or Vladimir Ilyich Lenin; or Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) |
| This man's satirical scientific paper "A Letter to the Royal Academy" discussed the benefits of flatulence. This man published letters to The New-England Courant under the pseudonym Silence Dogood. For ten points, name this American polymath, known for his proverbs in Poor Richard's Almanack such as "Time is money" and "A penny saved is a penny earned." | Benjamin Franklin |
| One thinker from this city, nicknamed its "sage," wrote the book The American Language as well as satirical reports on the Scopes Trial. H.L. Mencken was from this city, which was partly damaged during an event that inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star- Spangled Banner." Fort McHenry is located in, for ten points, what largest city in Maryland? | Baltimore (accept Sage of Baltimore; accept Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) |
| The Pratt Street Riots were spearheaded by what anti-war democratic faction named for a type of snake? | Copperhead Democrats |
| Duncan Cameron ended a revolt led by these people in one country's Taranaki region. A leader of these people cut down a Union Jack, leading to the Flagstaff War. Hone Heke [[HOH-neh HEH-keh]] led these people who clashed with James Hobson in the Musket Wars. Many chiefs of these people were forced to accept British rule by signing the Treaty of Waitangi [["why"-TANG-ee]]. For ten points, name these indigenous people of New Zealand. | Maori [MAO-ree]] (accept pronunciation as [[may-OR-ee]]) |
| The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on this island, which contains New Zealand's capital of Wellington. | North Island (or Te Ika-a-Māui) |
| One character on this show wakes up a certain historical figure by blowing an alpenhorn gifted by Helmut Kohl. That historical figure in an episode of this show, which debuted in 1989, asks a certain restaurant if they have any stews after being underwhelmed by the food at Krusty Burger. For ten points, identify this longest-running US scripted primetime TV series, which once featured a fistfight between George H.W. Bush and the show's main character, Homer. | The Simpsons |
| The Simpsons was created by this thirteen-time Emmy winner who also created Disenchantment and Futurama. | Matt Groening [[GRAY-ning]] (or Matthew Abram Groening; accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| An Ancient Greek technique requiring this action was known as "anthropomancy.” Odysseus performs this action in order to question the soul of the prophet Tiresias. An altar at Mount Lykaion [["lie"-KAY-on]] suggests that the Greeks engaged in the human form of this practice. For ten points, identify this practice in which a person attempts to find favor with a god through the offering of the life of an animal or person. | Sacrifice (accept Animal Sacrifice; accept Human Sacrifice; prompt on "Killing" and similar answers) |
| Odysseus makes a sacrifice under the instruction of this woman, who lives on the island of Aeaea [[ee-EE-ah]]. Odysseus spent a year with this woman, who also turned the members of his crew into pigs. | Circe [[SEER-see]] |
| This author wrote the novels Blaze and The Running Man under the name Richard Bachman. This author set the novel Needful Things in the fictional location of Castle Rock, which was also the setting for a novel about a rabid dog named Cujo. For ten points, identify this American “King of Horror” and author of novels such as The Stand and The Shining. | Stephen King (or Stephen Edwin King; prompt on "Beryl Evans" or "Richard Bachman") |
| Stephen King holds the record for the most nominations and most times winning an award for dark fantasy and horror writing, named for what Irish writer who created Dracula? | Bram Stoker Award |
| In Syria, members of this ethnic group proclaimed the autonomous Rojava [[ROH-jah vah]] region during that country's civil war. In Iraq, members of this ethnic group in Halabja [[hah-LAHB-jah]] were targeted by Saddam Hussein's Anfal campaign, and an autonomous region led by this ethnic group is defended by the Peshmerga [[PESH-mur-guh]]. In Turkey, members of this group's "Workers’ Party" have waged guerilla warfare for decades in the country's southeast. For ten points, name this ethnic minority of Eastern Turkey, Northwestern Iraq and Northern Syria. | Kurds (accept Greater Kurdistan) |
| Another stateless nation is this ethnic group that faced Ottoman-perpetrated genocides alongside Greeks and Armenians. This ethnic group lives in the Nineveh [[NIN-eh- veh]] plains and once spoke Akkadian before switching to Aramaic. | Assyrians (accept Syriacs, Chaldeans, or Sūrōyē) |
| American naval hero John Paul Jones joined the imperial navy of this ruler after Jones's command in the U.S. expired. This ruler formed the League of Armed Neutrality to continue trade with the U.S., and their reign was marked by the Russo-Turkish War and Pugachev's Rebellion. This ruler's favorites included Grigory Orlov and Grigory Potemkin. For ten points, identify this “Enlightened” empress of Russia. | Catherine the Great (or Catherine II [[the Second]]; or Sophie of Anhalt- Zerbst; prompt on "Catherine") |
| Catherine the Great had an inconsistent relationship with this class of people whose name comes from the Latin for "slave." Catherine granted this class of people the right to file grievances, but denied to hear their appeals personally. | Serfs (or Krepostnoy krest'yanin) |
| The cornerstone-laying ceremony for this structure was attended by James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Johnson, as well as former first lady Dolley Madison. It originally took visitors to this structure between ten and twelve minutes to reach its top via steam-driven elevator. This structure, with an aluminum cap, was built in the style of an Egyptian obelisk. For ten points, name this building, constructed in honor of the first president of the United States. | Washington Monument (prompt on "Washington") |
| Proposals for the construction of the Washington Monument originally revolved around making the structure a tomb, which would have seen the exhumation of Washington's body from this site, located some twenty miles to the south. | Mount Vernon (prompt on partial answers) |
| State that elected Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville [[TUB-er-vill]] as a U.S. senator. | Alabama |
| Running back who won the Republican nomination for Georgia's 2022 Senate election. | Herschel Walker |
| University attended by President Gerald Ford, who played football there. | University of Michigan (prompt on “UM”) |
| State that elected Tom Osborne to the House and for which he coached in Lincoln. | Nebraska |
| State for which wrestler Jesse Ventura won the governorship for the Reform Party. | Minnesota |
| Sport played professionally by New Jersey senator Bill Bradley and Arizona representative Mo Udall. | Basketball |
| Sport coached by Ohio representative Jim Jordan at Ohio State. | Wrestling |
| Former Federal Judge, named for a Civil War battle, who reformed baseball following the Black Sox scandal as its commissioner. | Kennesaw Mountain Landis |
| Austrian archduke whose assassination kickstarted the war. | Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria |
| Neutral country invaded by Germany as part of the Schlieffen Plan. | Kingdom of Belgium (or Royaume de Belgique; or Koninkrijk Belgie; or Koenigreich Belgien) |
| Middle eastern desert through which Armenians were forced to "death march" by the Ottomans. | Syrian Desert (or Syrian steppe; accept Jordanian steppe; accept Badia) |
| "Lion of Verdun" who later led the puppet Vichy regime of World War Two. | Henri Philippe Pétain |
| Treaty by which the Bolsheviks ended Russia's participation in the war. | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Nation which lost much of its territory and population due to the Treaty of Trianon. ANSWER: Kingdom of Hungary |
| Country that fought with Austria twelve times on the Isonzo River. | Kingdom of Italy (or Regno d'Italia) |
| ”Plan” named for a German Field Marshal to win the war rapidly at its onset. | Schlieffen Plan |
| Winner of the Prize in 1964 for his civil rights activism in the U.S. | Martin Luther King Jr. (or Michael King Jr.) |
| South African civil rights activist who won with F.W. de Klerk for ending Apartheid. | Nelson Mandela |
| Organization whose founding led to Woodrow Wilson receiving the prize in 1919. | League of Nations |
| Pakistani activist who won it in 2014 for her promotion of education for women and children. | Malala Yousafzai (or Malala Yousafzai Malik; accept either underlined portion) |
| Swedish Secretary-General of the UN, the only posthumous winner to date. | Dag Hammarskjöld (or Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld) |
| Organization founded by French doctors following the Biafran War in Nigeria to assist in humanitarian crises. | Doctors without Borders (accept Medicins san Frontières) |
| Polar Explorer from Norway who won the prize for his role in raising funds for the Russian famine. | Fridtjof Nansen |
| Vietnamese politician who refused the award, won alongside Henry Kissinger, in 1973. | Le Duc Tho (or Phan Dinh Khai) |
| John A. Burns, a former congressman from this U.S. state, served as its last territorial delegate. Hiram Fong was this state's first Chinese-American senator, and Daniel Akaka was the first senator from this state with Pacific Islander ancestry. This state was the (+) birthplace of the only member of a royal family to ever sit in Congress, Prince Jonah of the (*) Kalākaua [[kah-lah-KAO-ah]] Dynasty. For ten points, name this U.S. state, whose monarchy was overthrown by a committee including Sanford Dole. | Hawaii (accept Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi) |
| The ninth day of this event commemorates how one group hid in sugarcane to avoid capture by pirates. During the final day of this event, single women engage in a tradition of throwing their contact numbers in a fruit. Kowloon has banned the use of (+) fireworks during this event, which ends with a lantern festival and involves family members passing out red envelopes (*) containing money. For ten points, name this holiday in the most-populous Asian country that usually begins in early February or late January. | Chinese New Year (accept Spring Festival; accept Lunar New Year; accept Chūnjié; accept China in place of Chinese; prompt on partial answers) |
| Sabena Flight 548 killed the entire U.S. team for this sport, which included the all-time American record holder for titles in this sport, Maribel Vinson. The ISU Judging system is used to score this sport, and a participant in this sport was the victim of an assault at the (+) Cobo Arena in Detroit. Dick Button was an early competitor in this sport, for which he pioneered moves such as the (*) double axel. For ten points, identify this sport, whose American gold medalists include Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipinski. | Figure Skating (accept word forms; prompt on "Skating" or “Ice Skating”; prompt on "Ice Dancing") |
| This man was victorious in several lawsuits brought by Elisha Gray, who alleged that this man stole his most famous invention. This man utilized a metal detector to attempt to find the bullet in James Garfield. This man founded the Volta (+) Laboratory, the groundbreaking of which was done by this man's friend and patient, Helen Keller. AT&T was founded to protect the (*) patent rights of this inventor. For ten points, name this Scottish-born inventor of the first practical telephone. | Alexander Graham Bell (accept Alexander Bell) |
| This thinker claimed that all objects fall down, because their natural place is on the Earth, which he used to argue that a vacuum with no place to fall was impossible. This thinker adapted Empedocles’s [[em-PEH-doh-klees]] four classical elements while also adding the fifth element aether in the book (+) On Generation and Corruption. This thinker anticipated the second law of motion (*) in his book On the Heavens. For ten points, name this Ancient Greek philosopher, the author of Physics and Metaphysics. | Aristotle (or Aristoteles) |
| The military intervention of the Teutonic Knights against these people at the Battle of Legnica [[leg-NEET-sah]] was likely a fabrication of Christian scholars. Kenneth Chase credits these people for introducing gunpowder to Europe in the 13th century, (+) and these people subjugated the Kievan Rus following a swift campaign by Möngke Khan. The Princes of Moscow overthrew the (*) "Tatar Yoke" established by, for ten points, what nomadic people ruled by Genghis Khan? | Mongols (accept Golden Horde; accept Tatars before mentioned) |
| This amendment was used to rule that the Chinese Exclusion Act did not apply to people born in the U.S. in the Wong Kim Ark case. The Slaughter-House cases held that this amendment’s “privileges or immunities” clause did not apply to states. (+) Racial segregation was found to not violate this amendment in the case (*) Plessy v. Ferguson. For ten points, name this Reconstruction-era constitutional amendment which codified due process and equal protection rights. | 14th Amendment (or Amendment 14) |
| This ruler boasted of having shut the gates of a certain temple in his Res Gestae [[res-GESS-tay]], in which this ruler also claimed he only took power when asked to do so. This ruler initially came to prominence after the assassination (+) of his great uncle, who adopted this man in his will. Claiming to be “The son of the Divine (*) Julius," for ten points, who was this Roman, traditionally labeled the first emperor of Rome, who names the eighth month of the Julian calendar? | Caesar Augustus (or Octavian; or Gaius Octavius; accept Augustus Caesar; prompt on "August") |
| A group called the "Child Heroes" died during this war's Battle of Chapultepec [[chah-PUL-teh-pek]]. (+) Kit Carson scouted out a path for an expedition led by Stephen Kearny, forcing the adversaries of this war to sign the Treaty of Cahuenga [[kah-HWEN-gah]] (*) Winfield Scott sieged Veracruz during, for ten points, what war, ending with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and fought between the U.S. and a southern neighbor? | Mexican-American War |
| In 2018, this South American country elected President Mario Abdo Benítez whose father served as private secretary to this country's former dictator, Alfredo Stroessner. | Republic of Paraguay (or República del Paraguay) |