| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This organization launched Project Normandy to seize the city of Clearwater. The founder of this organization was a naval commander who believed he sank a Japanese sub and used Mexican islands for target practice, resulting in this group being governed by the "Sea Org." 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 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) |
| This city, originally named Ciudad [[see-yoo-DAHD]] de los Reyes, was the capital of the second Viceroyalty created by the Spanish Empire. Francisco de Pizarro founded this city two years before the founding of the nearby seaport of Callao [[kah-YAO]]. For ten points, name this city founded two years after the 1533 capture of Cuzco, now the capital of Peru. | Lima (anti-prompt on "Limaq") |
| This god's three crucial attributes were gifted by Grid, including 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. 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 [[the Third]] 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, and a pact named for this man and Lord Irwin followed the Second Round Table Conference. 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 denounced a provisional government with slogans such as “all power to the Soviets” in his April Theses. Leading the Bolsheviks, for ten points, who was this first leader of the Soviet Union? | Vladimir Lenin (or Vladimir Ilyich Lenin; or Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) |
| This man wrote of duties levied on Great Britain to pay for the Seven Years' War in "An Edict by the King of Prussia." This man, whose satirical scientific paper "A Letter to the Royal Academy" discussed the benefits of flatulence, 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. | Benjamin Franklin |
| One thinker from this city, nicknamed its "sage," wrote the book The American Language. This city 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 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; accept Sage of Baltimore) |
| The Pratt Street Riots were spearheaded by what anti-war democratic faction named for a type of snake? | Copperhead Democrats |
| A leader of these people cut down a Union Jack, leading to the Flagstaff War, and 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, Wellington. | North Island (or Te Ika-a-Māui) |
| One character on this show wakes up a historical figure by blowing an alpenhorn gifted by Helmut Kohl. That figure in an episode of this show 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 U.S. 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) |
| 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 published a children’s book about Charlie the Choo-Choo under the name Beryl Evans. This author, who also wrote under the name Richard Bachman, 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 (or Bram Stoker Award) |
| In Iraq, members of this ethnic group in Halabja [[hah-LAHB-jah]] were targeted by Saddam Hussein's Anfal campaign. 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) |
| This ruler sent an army to enforce the election of the Polish king Stanislaus II [[the Second]] Augustus. This ruler formed the League of Armed Neutrality to continue trade with the U.S., and her reign was marked by the Russo-Turkish War and Pugachev's Rebellion. Grigory Orlov and Grigory Potemkin were the favorites of, for ten points, what 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. 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. 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 |
| 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. | Kingdom of Hungary |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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. (+) 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, and 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, for ten points, what Scottish-born inventor of the first practical telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell (accept Alexander Bell) |
| 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, who claimed that all objects fall because their natural place is on the Earth, 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. For ten points, name these nomadic people ruled by Genghis Khan. | Mongols (accept Golden Horde; accept Tatars before mentioned) |
| 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. | Fourteenth Amendment (or Amendment Fourteen) |
| This ruler boasted of having shut the gates of a certain temple in his Res Gestae [[res-GESS-tay]]. 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]] (*) For ten points, name this 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) |