| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The outcome of this case was held to be a constitutional ruling in Dickerson v. U.S. Though he confessed to kidnapping, the subject of this case was not informed of his Fifth Amendment rights. For ten points, name this 1966 Supreme Court case which ruled police officers must read a suspect a certain set of rights. | Miranda v. Arizona (or Miranda v. State of Arizona; accept Miranda rights) |
| This man attempted to resolve theological disputes by calling the First Council of Nicaea [["nigh"-SEE-ah]]. After receiving a divine message, this man adopted the Chi Rho [[KYE ROH]] as part of his Labarum military standard. Beginning his rule with a victory at the Battle of Milvian Bridge, for ten points, who was this first Christian Roman emperor? | Constantine the Great (or Constantine I [[the First]]; prompt on “Constantine”) |
| Septimius Flaccus [[FLAH-kehs]] and Julius Maternus were two Romans who reached this body of water according to Ptolemy, who labeled it the "lake of the hippopotamus." Herman Sörgel [[ZUR-guhl]] proposed diverting the Ubangi [[yoo-BANG-ee]] River to replenish this body of water. For ten points, name this shrinking lake which gives its name to a Central African country. | Lake Chad (or Lac Tchad; accept Republic of Chad) |
| The Neoclassical artist Nicolas-Sébastian Adam made a sculpture of this figure with an eagle pecking at his abdomen. A verse play by Percy Bysshe Shelley references this figure in its full title. For ten points, name this figure, credited by the Greeks with bringing fire to humanity. | Prometheus (accept Prometheus Unbound) |
| This architect created the Hollyhock House in the Mayan Revival style. This architect spent his winters in a Scottsdale, Arizona home called Taliesin [[tah-LEE-eh-sin]] West. Another project by this architect was commissioned by Edgar J. Kauffman and employed a cantilever design. For ten points, identify this architect of the Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| This dynasty’s Yongle [[YOHNG-LUH]] Emperor commissioned the Forbidden City palace complex. During this dynasty, the Muslim explorer Zheng He [[ZHUNG-HUH]] carried out his "treasure voyages." Falling to the Manchus after the Battle of Shanhai Pass, for ten points, what was this Chinese dynasty which preceded the Qing [[CHING]] and is famed for its blue and white pottery? | Ming Dynasty (accept Great Ming; or Dà Míng; accept Ming Treasure Voyages; accept Ming pottery or vases) |
| Despite rumors that this building housed hundreds of political prisoners, it was found to contain only seven low-level criminals. In response to the fall of this building, one king apocryphally asked, "Is it a revolt?" to which La Rochefoucauld [[rohsh-foo-KOH]] replied, "No, sire, it is a revolution." For ten points, name this prison fortress which once stood in Paris. | Bastille (or Bastille Saint-Antoine) |
| This man’s rescue of his daughter, Jemima, from a Shawnee war party inspired James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Last of the Mohicans. While working for the Transylvania Company, this man blazed the Wilderness Trail by traveling through the Cumberland Gap. For ten points, name this Kentucky frontiersman, who likely never actually wore the "coonskin cap" made famous from a 1960s TV show about him. | Daniel Boone |
| This act included a five-year residency requirement and a mandate to demonstrate "improvements." This act was promoted by George Henry Evans with the slogan "vote yourself a farm." For ten points, name this 1862 act which set out conditions for the no-cost allotment of 160 acres of Western land per family. | Homestead Act of 1862 (accept Homestead Act[s]) |
| In the same year as the Homestead Act of 1862, the first of the Morrill Acts established a method for financing schools like Kansas State University and Purdue University through this system. | Land-Grant (accept Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act of 1862; prompt on partial answers) |
| Camp No is an alleged CIA black site near this location, which participated in acts of force-feeding and "enhanced interrogation." The Platt Amendment gave the U.S. the authority to establish this location. For ten points, what detention center in Cuba is frequently criticized for human rights violations? | Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp (accept Gitmo; accept GTMO) |
| This George W. Bush cabinet member was the named defendant in two lawsuits regarding the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. This man is both the youngest and oldest individual to serve as secretary of defense. | Donald Rumsfeld (or Donald Henry Rumsfeld) |
| One work by this sculptor was originally titled for the doomed noblewoman Francesca de Rimini. A museum of this sculptor’s work features a room dedicated to Camille Claudel. The Burghers of Calais was created by this sculptor, whose most well-known works were inspired by Dante. For ten points, identify this sculptor of The Gates of Hell and The Thinker. | Auguste Rodin [[ro-DAHN]] (or François Auguste René Rodin; accept attempts at phonetic pronunciation) |
| Rodin's The Thinker is made of this material. Rodin was accused of casting from a live model for another work titled The Age of [this material]. | Bronze (accept The Age of Bronze) |
| This is the first word in the title of a song that mentions a group singing "dirges in the dark" and "a generation lost in space." That song with this adjective in its title was banned by Clear Channel for lyrics describing the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly. For ten points, identify this adjective which names a type of "Pie" in a song by Don McLean | American (accept "American Pie") |
| After Rage Against the Machine, this band had the most songs banned by Clear Channel following September 11th. Songs from this Australian hard rock band that received the ban included "Shoot to Thrill" and "Highway to Hell." | AC/DC |
| In August 2022, this country's prime minister said that one-third of his country was underwater due to floods. President Arif Alvi dissolved this country's parliament in a move that was later declared unconstitutional. For ten points, name this South Asian country where Muslim League president Shehbaz Sharif took office as prime minister in April 2022. | Islamic Republic of Pakistan (or Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān) |
| This former cricketer and prime minister of Pakistan was ousted in April 2022 after losing a no-confidence vote. This man has since been indicted by the Islamabad High Court for contempt of court charges. | Imran Khan (or Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi; prompt on "Khan") |
| This state was settled by Exodusters, who were African-Americans looking to escape Southern racism. This state was the battleground for a territorial conflict over the Wyandotte [[wee-AHN-”dote”]] and Lecompton Constitutions and the spread of slavery. The city of Lawrence was established as an abolitionist stronghold in, for ten points, what Midwestern state which was said to be "Bleeding" before the Civil War? | Kansas (accept Bleeding Kansas) |
| Stephen Douglas requested that Kansas and Nebraska be admitted to the Union under this principle, which tasked residents of a state with the decision to permit or abolish slavery. | Popular Sovereignty |
| This text proclaimed that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." A "specter" haunting Europe is the opening image of, for ten points, what text which concludes, "Working men of all countries, unite," written by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx? | The Communist Manifesto (or Manifesto of the Communist Party) |
| Marx came into further prominence due to his support for this revolutionary government which seized power in France in 1871 and ruled as a social democracy. | Paris Commune |
| This man presided over his country's namesake economic "miracle" and also restricted his country to a one-party system under the FET, or Falange [[fah-LAHNZH]]. This man ordered the execution of Lluís Companys [[LOOSS kohm-PAHZ]], who served as the president of the Catalan State. The title caudillo [[kaw-DEE-yoh]] was assumed by, for ten points, what fascist dictator of Spain? | Francisco Franco (or Francisco Franco Bahamonde) |
| During his regime, Franco's Spain granted independence to this country, the only African country that has Spanish as its official language. | Republic of Equatorial Guinea (or Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial; or Republique de Guinee Equatoriale) |
| First man on the moon. | Neil Armstrong (or Neil Alden Armstrong) |
| First American woman in space. | Sally Ride (or Sally Kristen Ride) |
| Pilot of the Lunar Module Eagle on the Apollo 11 mission and second man on the moon. | Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin |
| Command module pilot of Apollo 11, the only man on that mission not to walk on the moon. | Michael Collins |
| Teacher who died aboard the Challenger. | Christa McAuliffe (or Sharon Christa McAuliffe) |
| Last name of identical twin astronauts, Mark and Scott, the only siblings to both go to space. | Kelly (accept Mark Edward Kelly and Scott Joseph Kelly) |
| Treaty ending World War One which levied indemnities on it. | Treaty of Versailles |
| Color worn by the paramilitary wing of the Nazis, a group banned by the Weimar government. | Brown (accept Brownshirts; accept Braunhemden) |
| World War One field marshal and last president of the Weimar Republic. | Paul von Hindenburg |
| Economic phenomenon, leading to 4.2 trillion marks equaling one U.S. dollar in 1923. | Hyperinflation (prompt on "Inflation") |
| Parliament building set on fire by Marius van der Lubbe [[LOO-buh]], leading to a namesake decree restricting civil liberties. | Reichstag (accept Reichstag Fire Decree) |
| 1923 uprising in Bavaria, during which the Nazis attempted to overthrow the government. | Beer Hall Putsch (accept Munich Putsch; prompt on partial answers) |
| Man who reigned for almost seven decades and built Abu Simbel. | Ramesses II [[the Second]] (or Ramesses the Great; accept Ramses in place of Ramesses; accept Ozymandias) |
| Boy king buried in KV62. | Tutankhamun (accept Tutankhamen; accept King Tut) |
| Early capital of New Kingdom Egypt which shares its name with a Greek city-state founded by Cadmus | Thebes |
| Largest chariot battle fought between New Kingdom Egypt and the Hittites. | Battle of Kadesh |
| Man who abolished the worship of all gods other than the sun disk. | Akhenaten (accept Amenhotep IV [[the Fourth]]) |
| Pharaoh who succeeded her husband, Thutmose II [[the Second]], and donned a fake beard. | Hatshepsut |
| While it was founded as a Puritan university, this institution became secularized over the 19th century, and now hosts the largest academic library (+) in the world. Located not far from Braintree, two native sons of that town attended this university, U.S. presidents (*) John Adams and John Quincy Adams. For ten points, name this Cambridge, Massachusetts university, the oldest in the United States. | Harvard University (accept Harvard Library) |
| One author of this philosophical school stated people must take “radical responsibility” for their actions in a work titled [this school] is a Humanism. This philosophy was articulated by (+) French theorists like Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre [[SART]]. (*) For ten points, identify this branch of philosophy dealing with the subjective experience of being human. | Existentialism |
| This island's Banuae [[BAH-nah-weh]] Rice Terraces are fed by an ancient irrigation system. This island's Cavite [[kah-VEE-teh]] City became a main port for galleons traveling to Acapulco. (+) One peninsula on this island was home to Camp O'Donnell, which was one of the destinations of prisoners forced to take part in the Bataan (*) Death March. For ten points, name this Philippine island on which Manila was founded in 1571. | Luzon |
| The architect of this venue allegedly consulted his blueprints to ensure it could support the crowd for Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Antonín Dvořák [[DVOHR-zhahk]] premiered his symphony From the New World at this venue, (+) which was the first home of an orchestra that was conducted for eleven years by Leonard (*) Bernstein. For ten points, identify this Manhattan venue for the performing arts, named for a Scottish- American industrialist. | Carnegie Hall (prompt on "Andrew Carnegie") |
| A missionary to this indigenous group successfully challenged a law forbidding him from being on tribal land in the Worcester [[WOO-ster]] decision. (+) This indigenous group’s language is written in a syllabary invented by Sequoyah, and this group was forcibly removed from Georgia and made to march the Trail of (*) Tears. For ten points, identify this indigenous group, whose tribes are today chiefly headquartered in Oklahoma. | Cherokee (or Anigiduwagi; or Tsalagi; accept Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma; accept Cherokee syllabary; accept Cherokee language) |
| This novel's title character's friend, Harriet Smith attends a boarding school based on the actual Reading Abbey Girls' School. In this novel, a discussion between Miss Bates and Mrs. Dixon (+) is used by the author to satirize the "Irish Question." The real life Box Hill in Surrey, northeast of where this novel's author was born in Hampshire in 1775, is the site of this novel's pivotal "picnic (*) scene." For ten points, identify this Jane Austen novel about the title matchmaker with the surname Woodhouse. | Emma |
| This conflict convinced one country to undergo the Self-Strengthening Movement. One leader of this conflict was a failed Civil Service examinee who claimed to be the younger (+) brother of Jesus. With over 20 million dead, this conflict is the bloodiest episode of civil (*) unrest in history. For ten points, name this Christian uprising led by Hong Xiuquan [[SHYOO-CHWAHN]] against China’s Qing [[CHING]] Dynasty. | Taiping Rebellion (or Taiping Civil War; or Taiping Revolution) |
| This man lost control of the majority of his ships following a mutiny attempt in Saint Julian. This man, who gave the Pacific Ocean its modern name, was succeeded by Captain Juan (+) Sebastián Elcano following this explorer's death in the Philippines. Charles V [[the Fifth]] of Spain named the straits which traverse Tierra (*) del Fuego after this Iberian explorer. The first circumnavigation of the world was completed by the crew of, for ten points, what Portuguese explorer? | Ferdinand Magellan (accept Straits of Magellan) |
| This event ended a series of trials overseen by William Montague called the Bloody Assizes. A group called the "Immortal Seven" penned a letter that helped ignite this event, resistance to which was crushed at the Battle of the Boyne. (+) Despite Jacobite resistance years after this event, it resulted in the passage of the English Bill of Rights by a Dutch monarch. James (*) II [[the Second]] was overthrown in, for ten points, what "bloodless revolution" which installed William and Mary as English rulers? | Glorious Revolution (accept Bloodless Revolution before mentioned) |
| This man, who was succeeded by his son Commodus, was the last of the Five Good Emperors and wrote a book of Stoic philosophy called Meditations. | Marcus Aurelius (or Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; prompt on partial answers) |