| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The millet system was employed by this empire, and one of its leaders implemented the Tanzimat Reform, which included abolishing a prominent military unit in the Auspicious Incident. Jan Sobieski [[yahn soh-BYEH-skee]] repelled this empire from Vienna following an earlier failed siege under Suleiman the Magnificent. For ten points, identify this Turkish empire ruled from Istanbul. | Ottoman Empire (or Ottomans; accept Sublime Ottoman State; prompt on "Turkey") |
| In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the goddess Diana turns into this type of animal when fleeing to Egypt. Supernatural examples of this type of animal in Japanese mythology include the akeneko and maneki-neko, and in Norse mythology, Freyja's chariot is pulled by a pair of these animals. Celtic traditions hold that any house on Samhain [[SAH-win]] that leaves out a saucer of milk is blessed by, for ten points, what type of domestic feline? | Cat (accept Feline before mentioned; do not accept specific kinds of big cats like "Lion" or "Tiger") |
| This person appeared on the cover of Esquire magazine posed as the martyred Saint Sebastian. Refusal to serve in the Vietnam War momentarily derailed the career of this man, who changed his name to one shared with an Egyptian leader of the early 1800s. For ten points, name this boxer who called himself "The Greatest." | Muhammad Ali (accept Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) |
| A religious tradition native to this present-day country holds that people inhabit "the Fourth World," and a solar eclipse inspired a man in this country named Wovoka to expand the religious Ghost Dance movement. A religion from this country is known as The Code of Handsome Lake and draws from elements of the Quakers. The Longhouse Religion originated in, for ten points, what present-day country home to the Navajo? | United States of America (or U.S.A.; or America) |
| Pierre Kohler attempted to pass an initiative in this country to eliminate the requirement of access to fallout shelters in private residences. Despite its anti-totalitarian "Spiritual National Defence" movement, this nation laundered over one billion units of its national currency in stolen gold for Nazi Germany. For ten points, name this historically neutral country governed from Bern. | Switzerland (or Swiss Confederation; or Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft; or Confédération Suisse; or Confederazione Svizzera; or Confederaziun Svizra) |
| After returning from the Soviet Union, this man attempted to assassinate General Edwin Walker. While under a police escort, this man, whose most famous act was investigated by the Ramsey Clark Panel, was murdered by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. For ten points, identify this man whom the Warren Commission concluded acted alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| This object was built in three days under the leadership of Epeius [[eh-PEH-ooss]]. In the Odyssey, a soothsayer named Cassandra says this object “will be the downfall of the city and its royal family.” Now giving its name to a metaphorical term for strategically tricking an enemy to invite you into a secured location, this is, for ten points, what wooden animal used by the Greeks to enter the city of Troy? | Trojan Horse |
| Dissatisfaction with this ruler’s tax policy led him to dismiss George Grenville in favor of Lord Rockingham, and to prevent the East India Company from being turned over to Parliament, this ruler appointed William Pitt the Younger as prime minister. This recipient of the Olive Branch Petition was the target of a list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence. For ten points, name this English king who ruled during the American Revolution. | George III [[the Third]] (or George William Frederick; prompt on “George”) |
| This battle involved the participation of the USS Hornet, which had earlier helped launch the Doolittle Raid. This battle, a defeat for Admiral Yamamoto, took place about one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. For ten points, identify this naval battle of World War Two in which the U.S. Navy sank four Japanese aircraft carriers near a namesake Pacific atoll. | Battle of Midway |
| The U.S. lost the USS Yorktown during the Battle of Midway, but this other aircraft carrier, also known as "The Grey Ghost," survived the battle and became the most decorated U.S. ship of World War Two. | USS Enterprise |
| In 2013, this country, the site of the Shifta War, elected the son of Jomo, Uhuru, as president. In 1952, Chief Waruhiu was assassinated by a guerilla army after supporting Colonial British presence in this country. For ten points, name this country whose independence was supported by the Kikuyu people during the Mau Mau Rebellion. | Republic of Kenya (or Jamhuri ya Kenya) |
| Another country that attained independence from Britain was what West African nation that combined the territories of Gold Coast, Ashanti, and Togoland under the governance of Kwame Nkrumah [[en-KROO-mah]]? | Republic of Ghana |
| The discussion of a "racial caste system" was included in a book about a pipeline from schools to these places, which are discussed in Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Theorists have used a September 1971 riot at one of these institutions in Attica to advocate for their abolition. For ten points, name these institutions, including San Quentin and formerly Alcatraz, that house convicts. | Prisons (or Jails; or Penal institutions; or Correctional facility; or Penitentiary; accept Attica Correctional Facility; accept Attica Prison; accept San Quentin State Prison; accept Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary) |
| Following the September 11 attacks, the Bush Administration established this detention camp. Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden have tried to close this facility, which currently has only 35 detainees. | Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp (accept GTMO; accept GITMO) |
| One person won an election in this state after describing herself as "pro-fish and pro choice" and is the first Native American from this state to be elected to Congress. That person defeated a former vice presidential candidate from this state who once said, “I can see Russia from my house!” For ten points, name this state formerly governed by Sarah Palin? | Alaska (or Alyaska; or Alax̂sxax̂; or Alaakaq) |
| What annual sled dog race takes place in Alaska, running from Anchorage to Nome? | Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
| Quao [[koo-OW]] led the Crawford’s Town Uprising on this island, and leaders on this island, Cudjoe and Nanny, fought in the First Maroon War. Henry Morgan once served as lieutenant-governor of this island, where many pirates hid out in the city of Port Royal. Rastafarianism developed on, for ten points, what island, where independence movements occurred in Kingston? | Jamaica |
| The Back-to-Africa Movement, which called for Black people to abandon the New World and relocate to Liberia, was advocated by this Jamaican activist who declared himself the first Provisional President of Africa. | Marcus Garvey (or Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr.) |
| One building located near the base of this structure prevented naval attacks during the Civil War and is known as Fort Point. This structure was designed by Joseph Strauss and is painted in a unique color known as "International Orange." For ten points, name this suspension bridge which connects San Francisco to Marin County, California. | Golden Gate Bridge |
| As a young man, Joseph Strauss was inspired by a large suspension bridge named for John A. Roebling, who designed what other bridge that spans the East River between Manhattan and a namesake borough? | Brooklyn Bridge |
| A person from this family was impersonated for decades by Anna Anderson after her time in a mental hospital. The youngest member of this family suffered from hemophilia, which was treated by a monk who was assassinated in 1916. Bolshevik revolutionaries executed this family, for ten points, name this family of the final monarch of Russia. | Romanov (accept Alexei Romanov; accept Anastasia Romanov; accept equivalents like Children/Family of Nicholas II [[the Second]]) |
| Nicholas II [[the Second]], head of the Romanov household, bore a remarkable similarity to which cousin of his, the King of England during World War One? | George V [[the Fifth]] |
| This state was once led by three "Copper Kings," including William A. Clark. Mining companies controlled the city of Butte [[BYOOT]] in this state, where the 7th Cavalry Regiment was defeated by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. For ten points, identify this U.S. state in which George Custer lost the Battle of Bighorn. | Montana |
| This Nez Perce chief was captured in Montana's Bear Paw Mountains. This chief famously stated, "I will fight no more, forever" after failing to escape from Nelson Miles. | Chief Joseph (or Hinmatóowyalahtqit) |
| Had the shortest presidential tenure of any president? | William Henry Harrison (prompt on "Harrison") |
| Is nicknamed the “Great Compromiser”? | Henry Clay, Sr. |
| Later became the first Republican president in U.S. history? ANWER: Abraham Lincoln (4) Defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of Buena Vista before becoming president in 1849? | Zachary Taylor |
| Was the leading attorney in Gibbons v. Ogden and became Secretary of State twice? | Daniel Webster |
| Opened Japan up to trade relations as president and later supported the Know Nothings? | Millard Filmore |
| Largest non-Christian minority, massacred during World War Two. | Jewish people (or Jews; accept Żydzi) |
| Year in which Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. | |
| Pope who was born in Poland during the period. | John Paul II [[the Second]] (or Karol Józef Wojtyła [[voy-TEE-wah]]; accept JP2; prompt on partial answers) |
| Nation that refused to join the Nazis in an attempt to take back its historical capital of Vilnius. | Republic of Lithuania (or Lietuvos Respublika; or Lietuva) |
| River known for its namesake "miracle," also called the Battle of Warsaw. | Vistula (accept Wisła; accept Miracle at the Vistula) |
| "Free" city claimed by Germany, bordered by the Second Republic. | Free city of Danzig (accept Gdańsk) |
| Primary biome of the Amazon region that has been threatened by logging efforts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. | Rainforest (or Tropical Rainforest; accept Jungle) |
| Resource needed for tires, leading to the growth of cities like Manaus and Iquitos. | Rubber tree (accept Latex; accept India rubber; accept Amazonian rubber) |
| "City of Gold" the Spanish thought they would find in the region. | El Dorado (accept El Rey Dorado; accept El Hombre Dorado; prompt on "Cibola") |
| Right-wing Brazilian president who has been criticized for supporting Amazon logging efforts. | Jair Bolsonaro |
| Term for large man-made designs in the ground, hundreds of which have been discovered in the Amazon since the 1970s. | geoglyphs |
| German who cataloged many regional species and names an ocean current. | Alexander von Humboldt (or Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt; accept Humboldt Current) |
| The plaintiff in this case was supported by expert testimony from Kenneth and Mamie Clark, who conducted experiments using dolls. (+) This case found that the “separate but equal” standard set by Plessy v. Ferguson (*) was “inherently unequal.” For ten points, name this Supreme Court case which legally ended the racial segregation of schools. | Brown v. Board of Education (or Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al.) |
| The anti-Catholicism of this country's 1917 Constitution led to the Cristero War. That constitution banned the re-election of this country's president, who was advised by the Científicos (+) The site of uprisings led by Ricardo Flores Magón and Emiliano Zapata (*), for ten points, what is this country, once led by Porfirio Diaz, from which revolutionaries raided towns in neighboring Texas? | Mexico (or United Mexican States; or Estados Unidos Mexicanos; accept UMS; accept EUM) |
| Claude Debussy wrote a suite for this instrument titled Images [[ee-MAHZH]], which includes a movement named Reflets dans l'eau [[ruh-FLEH dahn LOH]], or "Reflections in the Water." En blanc et noir [[ohn BLAHNK eh NWAHR]] was another Debussy suite written for two players (+) of this instrument, for which the composer also wrote his Suite bergamasque [[SWEET behr-gah-MESK]]. "Clair (*) de lune" was written for, for ten points, what instrument with 88 keys? | Piano (or Pianoforte) |
| The Hague Protocol limited the liability of companies in the industry concerning these vehicles. Historian Lutz Budrass wrote an investigation into slave labor for these vehicles during the Second World War (+) in Eagle and Crane, which documents the history of one of this industry's oldest businesses, (*) Lufthansa. For ten points, identify these flying vehicles which include the largest wooden craft of its kind, the Spruce Goose. | Airplanes (or Aeroplanes) |
| This city's original layout is on display at the Archaeological Crypt, depicting what this city looked like while it was still known as Lutetia. The satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo [[shahr-LEE ehb-DOH]] (+) was founded in this city, which names the treaty that ended the American (*) Revolutionary War. For ten points, identify this city, home to the Sorbonne and the Eiffel Tower. | Paris |
| One site in this present-day country revealed the first Homo erectus species at a location known to locals as Dragon Bone Hill. Beling and Fuling (+) are two mausoleums that are located in this country in the coastal Liaoning [[LEE-AO-NING]] (*) Province. For ten points, identify this country which contains archaeological sites such as the Imperial Tombs of the Qing [[CHING]] Dynasty. | People's Republic of China (or PRC; or Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo; or Zhongguo) |
| The term "Samosely" [[SAH-moh-SEH-lee]] describes residents of a zone near where this event occurred. The village of Kopachi was evacuated after this event, (+) which occurred at Unit 4 near Pripyat, leading to the creation of a "zone of alienation.” (*) Cesium-137 and other contaminants led to genetic defects in people living near the site of, for ten points, what 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine? | Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster (accept reasonable equivalents mentioning Chernobyl) |
| Advice regarding this program was given by the so-called "Black Cabinet.” Another portion of this legislative program used a blue eagle as its emblem, and that part of this legislative program (+) was later declared unconstitutional in the Sick Chicken Case. Implemented to combat the (*) effects of the Great Depression, for ten points, what is this series of economic recovery programs enacted by FDR? | New Deal (accept Indian New Deal) |
| An essay by this man states, "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." After the Battle of Bladensburg, this man's wife saved a portrait (+) of George Washington. The Battle of Lake Erie occurred during this president’s term. With John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, this man wrote the (*) Federalist Papers. For ten points, name this "Father of the Constitution" who led the U.S. during the War of 1812. | James Madison |
| This volunteer cavalry regiment fought in the Battle of San Juan Hill and was led by Theodore Roosevelt. | Rough Riders (accept 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry) |