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| Over five percent of the population of these people died in the wrecks of the Duke William and Violet. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline is set during the "Grand Derangement" of these people, referring to their expulsion from Canada. For the point, name these French-speaking people who were removed from Nova Scotia after the French and Indian War, many of whom ultimately resettled in Louisiana and became the Cajuns. | Acadians (accept Cajun before mentioned; prompt on "French Canadians” or equivalents) |
| Antonio de Mendoza was named the first leader of this polity, which contained one of the termini to which the Manila galleons traveled. The discovery of silver in Zacatecas led to increased mining in this polity, the first established by its ruling empire. Agustín de Iturbide [[ee-tuhr-BEE-deh]] led an independence movement that resulted in the dissolution of this polity. Officially a viceroyalty, for the point, what was this polity which ruled Mexico on behalf of a European empire? | Viceroyalty of New Spain (or Virreinato de Nueva España; accept Kingdom of New Spain; accept "Spanish Mexico" or "Colonial Mexico" before "Mexico"; do not accept or prompt on "Spanish Empire" or "Spain" or similar answers) |
| After overextending his position, the losing commander in this battle was apocryphally killed with a stone by Arimnestus. This battle occurred concurrently with the Battle of Mycale [[MY-kah-lee]]. This battle, which occurred a year after Thermopylae, saw the defeat of Mardonius by a Greek alliance. For the point, name this decisive land engagement of the Second Persian War. | Battle of Plataea (prompt on "Second Persian War") |
| Initially designed by Walter Gropius, this location was eventually closed under pressure from the Nazi regime for its left-wing association. When this institution moved locations in 1930, its director, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe [[mees-VAN-dehr-roh-ah]], transformed it into a private school and controversially discontinued its pottery shop. For the point, name this German art school which sought to combine visual aesthetics and everyday practicality. | Staatliches Bauhaus [[shtaht-LEE-kehs BOW-howss]] |
| The editor of The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison, founded the New England Anti- Slavery Society during this decade. Louisa May Alcott was born during this decade, three years before her father helped found the Transcendental Club. For the point, name this decade during which the Whig Party was formed and Martin Van Buren was elected to the presidency. | 1830s (prompt on "30s") |
| This composer, who tutored a young Beethoven, wrote sixty string quartets, including the Russian and the Erdödy [[EHR-doo-dee]]. This composer served as Kapellmeister for the Esterhazy family, during which time he wrote Symphony No. 45, his “Farewell” Symphony. For the point, name this Austrian classical composer who is considered the “Father” of the Symphony and String Quartet. | Franz Joseph Haydn |
| This man, who was opposed by the Old Regulars in his first run for governor, won that office with the slogan "Every man a king, but no one wears a crown." This man commissioned the tallest state capitol building in the U.S. and created a program to give free textbooks to students. For the point, name this populist U.S. senator and governor of Louisiana, nicknamed "The Kingfish." | Huey Long (prompt on "Kingfish") |
| This event's namesake "Ruler" inspired the medieval practice of appointing a "Lord of Fools" during the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Dice playing was allowed during this holiday, which was often paired with a Sol Invictus-themed festival ushering in the New Year. The Titan Cronus names this event's Greek equivalent. For the point, name this Roman holiday which featured excessive drinking and debauchery, named for the father of Jupiter. | Saturnalia (accept Kronia before "Cronus" is mentioned; prompt on "Saturn") |
| This man delivered alliterative barbs written by William Safire that labeled his opponents “hysterical hypochondriacs of history” and “nattering nabobs of negativism.” This man’s history of taking bribes while working in Baltimore County and as governor of Maryland forced his resignation in 1973. For the point, name this corrupt Greek-American vice-president under Richard Nixon. | Spiro T (heodore) Agnew |
| Andreas Baader led a group named for this color that killed over thirty people in 1977’s German Autumn. The group that committed the Piazza Fontana bombings and murdered Prime Minister Aldo Moro during the Years of Lead was named (this color] Brigades. An “Army” named for this color won battles at Kursk and Stalingrad against Nazi forces. For the point, name this color, commonly symbolizing Communist parties. | Red (accept Red Army Faction; or Red Brigade; or Red Army) |
| A massive theatre named after this god was located on the south slope of the Acropolis. The Bacchae, a tragedy written by Euripides, premiered at this god's namesake festival and won first prize. Three of the Homeric Hymns are dedicated to this god, who is described as "ivy-crowned" and the "god of abundant clusters." For the point, name this god, known to the Romans as Bacchus, the Greek god of wine and festivity. | Dionysus (prompt on “Bacchus” before mentioned by saying “whose is known in Greek as…?”) |
| This American general was the Military Assistance Commander during Operation Linebacker. This general’s main strategy was to "win the hearts and minds" of one country's inhabitants, in contrast to his predecessor, William Westmoreland. For the point, identify this Massachusetts-born commander of U.S. forces for the last five years of the Vietnam War, after whom the M1 main battle tank is named. | Creighton Abrams |
| When this ruler oversaw the Disputation of Paris, vast numbers of Talmuds were burned in the street. This ruler’s mother, Blanche of Castille, ordered the continuance of the Albigensian Crusade early in this man’s reign. This leader of the Seventh and Eighth Crusades in North Africa died of dysentery in Tunisia. For the point, name this only French king to be canonized. | Louis the Ninth (or Saint Louis or Louis the Saint) |
| In the Gospels, Jesus says that a "wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign" but will only receive "the sign of [this prophet]." This prophet’s tomb is held to be in the ruins of the Assyrian capital of Nineveh, where this man was sent by God to preach. For the point, name this Jewish prophet who, according to the Old Testament, spent three days in the belly of a big fish. | Jonah (or Jonas) |
| The Humble Petition and Advice aimed to allow this man's son, Richard, to succeed him. This MP for Huntingdon requested that a portrait of him be painted "warts and all." This dissolver of the Rump Parliament served under Thomas Fairfax at the Battle of Naseby. For the point, name this leader of the New Model Army who became Lord Protector of England during the Interregnum. | Oliver Cromwell |
| This man faced a congressional investigation over his actions in the Archive War. This man opposed secession, stating, "The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are." Due to holding the Tennessee governorship, this man is the only person to have served as governor of two states. For the point, who was this namesake of a city on the Gulf of Mexico, the first president of the Republic of Texas? | Sam (uel) Houston |
| The founding father of this profession, George E. Davis, built the tallest chimney in the U.K., and, before becoming CEO, Jack Welch worked predominantly in this profession at General Electric. People with this profession developed technology like fuel cells and hydrogen power for companies such as BASF and DuPont. For the point, name this profession of people who operate industrial plants to carry out large-scale chemical reactions. | Chemical engineers (accept Chemical engineering; prompt on "chemist" or "engineer") |
| The Battle of Ramillies [[RAH-mee-lee]] was fought during this conflict, the peace of which resulted in the transfer to England of the asiento. This war began with the assertion of French noble Philip of Anjou as king of one country. The childlessness of Charles the Second resulted in, for the point, what war over a future ruler of an Iberian country? | War of the Spanish Succession |
| In 1641, this country replaced Portugal on the artificial Japanese trading island Dejima. This country’s East Indies became Indonesia, and descendants of colonists from this country in South Africa are known as Boers and Afrikaners. For the point, name this European Low Country whose maritime empire was launched from cities like Rotterdam and Amsterdam. | Kingdom of the Netherlands (or Holland) |
| A man with this surname served as secretary of state of India and twice as chancellor of the exchequer. That man with this surname worked with Gustav Stresemann and Aristide Briand on drafting the Locarno Pact. Another man with this surname served as prime minister between Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill. For the point, give this surname of a man who signed the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler. | Chamberlain (accept Arthur Neville Chamberlain; accept Joseph Austen Chamberlain; accept Joseph Chamberlain) |
| An alias inspired by a character in this movie was used by Silk Road drug operator Ross Ulbricht. Another character in this film is of Basque descent and may have been inspired by Saint Ignatius of Loyola. A giant native of Greenland named Fezzik appears in this film based on a novel by William Goldman. For the point, name this 1987 fantasy-themed movie featuring the Dread Pirate Roberts and Spanish fencer Inigo Montoya. | The Princess Bride |
| In this nation, officer Angus Campbell led Operation Sovereign Borders, which turned back maritime immigrants and placed them in detention centers in places like Nauru. A Prime Minister of this nation vowed in 2022 to implement the Indigenous Voice to Parliament group following his open support of the “Uluru Statement from the Heart.” Anthony Albanese and Malcolm Turnbull served as prime ministers of, for the point, what nation “down under”? | Australia |
| This leader established a base at Taganrog after defeating the Turkish navy. This leader tried to make civil service more meritocratic by introducing the Table of Ranks, and suffered a defeat when a snowstorm blew into his troops’ eyes at Narva. This ruler imposed a “beard tax” on the boyars in his efforts to modernize his country and defeated Charles the Twelfth in the Great Northern War. For the point, name this Westernizing tsar who has a Russian seaport named after him. | Peter the Great (or Peter the First) |
| This empire, which was organized into four major provinces named suyus, used a system of knot record-keeping called quipu [[KEE-poo]]. Worshipping the sun god Inti, this empire was ruled by kings called Sapas. For the point, name this pre-Columbian South American empire based in modern-day Peru. | Incan Empire (accept Tawantinsuyu before "Suyu" is mentioned; accept Realm of the Four Parts; or Four Parts Together) |
| This man appointed Frederick Douglass as the first Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. This man’s failure to win a single Southern state against Winfield Scott Hancock marked the start of Democratic dominance in the Solid South. This man died of sepsis 79 days after being shot by a man who believed he was owed a consulship, Charles Guiteau [[gee- TOH]]. For the point, name this U.S. president who was succeeded by Chester Alan Arthur. | James A (bram) Garfield |
| This city was captured by the Ayyubids shortly after their defeat of its king, Guy of Lusignan [[loo-see-NYAHN]], at the Battle of Hattin. Frederick Barbarossa and Richard the Lionheart led an expedition to recapture this city after its 1187 fall to Muslim forces under Saladin. For the point, name this holy city of the Abrahamic faiths that was targeted during the Crusades. | Jerusalem (or Yerushalayim; or al-Quds; accept Kingdom of Jerusalem) |
| One neighborhood in this city was named after longtime mayor and KKK member Benjamin Stapleton until 2020. This city's current airport is the largest in the U.S. by area, and its unique design and artwork has spawned many conspiracy theories. Originally founded as Montana City, for the point, name this "Mile-High City", the capital of Colorado. | Denver |
| This man's poem "The Great Army of the Sick" resulted from his quest to locate his brother George during the Civil War. Ezra Pound praised this poet saying, "He is America." Two of this man's poems, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "Oh Captain, My Captain," were dedicated to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. For the point, name this poet and author of Leaves of Grass whose poem "Song of Myself" is still widely anthologized. | Walt Whitman |
| This empire lost much of its territory to Alp Arslan's forces when it lost the Battle of Manzikert to the Seljuks. Alexios Doukas ruled this empire when its capital was sacked by Venetian forces in the Fourth Crusade. This empire's last remnant fell in 1453 when the Ottomans conquered the city now known as Istanbul. For the point, name this empire, ruled for a millennium from Constantinople. | Byzantine Empire (accept Eastern Roman Empire; accept Byzantium; accept Basileia tōn Rhōmaiōn) |
| A merchant named Robert Murray offered to pay all damages caused by this event but was turned away. Participants in this event charged to Griffin’s Wharf with a minority dressed as Mohawk natives. For the point, name this 1773 dumping of a namesake plant used to make a beverage by the Sons of Liberty. | Boston Tea Party |
| This man disastrously treated his friend Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow’s morphine addiction by giving him cocaine. This man’s patients included people known as “Little Hans” and the “Wolf Man.” This man proposed the existence of the Oedipal complex and divided the unconscious into the ego, superego, and id. For the point, name this Austrian psychologist, the founder of psychoanalysis. | Sigmund Freud |
| During Nadir Shah's invasion of the Mughal Empire, jewels were stolen from the "Red" example of these structures in Old Delhi. Akbar ordered one of these structures to be built in Agra near the Taj Mahal. For the point, name these reinforced structures, the "star" variety of which were built to maximize defense. | Forts (or Fortifications) |
| Due to an amendment to this state's constitution, Paul Patton was the first governor of this state to serve two consecutive terms since 1800. During the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers attempted to form a shadow government in this border state's city of Russellville. For the point, name this "bluegrass state", the birthplace of both Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. | Kentucky |
| Producers of this substance lobbied against the use of artificial coloring in a synthetic competitor invented by Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès [[ee-poh-LEET MEZH moh-ree-ESS]] in 1869. In the Roman Empire, this substance was a staple fat of poor northern peasants who could not afford olive oil. For the point, name this dairy product whose lobby attempted to minimize the market share of margarine. | Butter |
| A privateer known as the "White Lion" made a landing in this colony while operating under a Dutch letter of marque. This colony's Point Comfort was where a group of Portuguese-captured Angolans were brought in 1619, during the tenure of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr. The first enslaved persons in British America were brought from Africa to, for the point, what colony containing Jamestown? | Colony of Virginia (accept Jamestown before "Point Comfort") |
| For most of its existence, the power of this government was held by regents of the Hojo clan. This was the first bakufu, or “Tent Government.” The Mongol Empire launched two failed naval invasions against this government which were repulsed by “Divine Winds," or kamikaze. After the Genpei War, this government was established by the Minamoto clan. For the point, name this first shogunate of Japan. | Kamakura Shogunate (or Kamakura Bakufu) |