| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| While traveling through a cave on Mashu, this legendary figure meets a pair of scorpion men. After meeting Utnapishtim, this legendary man has an eternal life-giving plant stolen from him by a snake. This king slays Humbaba in the Cedar Forest with the help of his "wild man" companion, Enkidu. For ten points, name this title character of an ancient Sumerian epic, a partially divine king of Uruk. | Gilgamesh (accept Epic of Gilgamesh) |
| Stage productions with this title character have been produced by writers including James Nelson Barker and Sydney Grundy. Amy Clampitt’s poem “Matoaka” borrows its title from one of this person’s lesser-known names. For ten points, name this historical figure who sang "Colors of the Wind" in a 1995 Disney film about her. | Pocahontas (accept Rebecca Rolfe; or Amonute; accept Matoaka before mentioned) |
| Following a series of floods along the Prut River, this man was invited to help rebuild a namesake bridge. Though not Ferdinand de Lesseps, this man was hired to help design a lock-based canal to cross the Panama isthmus. For the 1889 Universal Exposition, this man designed a wrought iron structure on the Champs de Mars. For ten points, name this designer of a prominent tower in Paris. | Gustave Eiffel (or Alexandre Gustave Eiffel; or Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; accept Eiffel Tower; accept Eiffel Bridge) |
| During one meeting, this man quipped, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” This man initiated the Hundred Flowers Campaign, intended to encourage criticism of the government. Many of this man’s political ideas were formulated while leading the Long March, and this man’s quotations were collected in the "Little Red Book." For ten points, name this first chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. | Mao Zedong (or Chairman Mao; or Mao Tse-tung) |
| This conflict was triggered by the assassination of Jose Calvo Sotelo by agents of the Popular Front. Though this war ended in defeat for the Second Republic, the Alfonsines were themselves displaced by Falangists. With German and Italian support, the town of Guernica was bombed during this conflict. For ten points, name this 1936 to 1939 war in an Iberian country. | Spanish Civil War |
| This symphony's third movement includes a minuet based off an Austrian folk dance. This symphony was likely nicknamed by Johann Peter Salomon for its "magnificence." For ten points, name this last and longest symphony by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, nicknamed for the chief Roman god. | Jupiter Symphony (or Mozart's Symphony No. 41) |
| Mississippi senator Robert Walker advocated this process as a "safety valve" for potentially removing both enslaved and free Blacks from the South. This process ended the presidency of Anson Jones when it was approved by the Polk administration. For ten points, identify this process, completed in December 1845, which added an enormous slave state to the U.S. and created a disputed border with Mexico. | Annexation of Texas (or Texas statehood; accept clear-knowledge equivalents) |
| This man's Socialist Realist program shut down avant-garde art schools in favor of turning the fine arts into a national propaganda machine. This man planned the state funeral of Vladimir Lenin in 1923 and later headed Stavka during World War Two. For ten points, name this brutal dictator who led the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952. | Joseph Stalin (or Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) |
| This officer was ranked last out of thirty-four students in West Point’s 1861 class. A note this officer sent with his scout, Charley Reynolds, launched a gold rush in the Black Hills. This officer’s cavalry killed numerous Cheyenne women and children at the Battle of Washita River. For ten points, name this American officer whose Last Stand occurred at Little Bighorn. | George Armstrong Custer (accept Custer's Last Stand) |
| This man’s hidden financial documents were found inside an iron chest in the Armoire de Fer [[ahr-MWAH duh FEHR]] Affair. This ruler caused a diplomatic crisis with the Hapsburgs by refusing to consummate his marriage to his Austria-born queen. For ten points, name this husband of Marie Antoinette who was deposed in the French Revolution. | Louis the Sixteenth (prompt on “Louis”) |
| Peter Ellis introduced a version of this machine called the "paternoster." In 1854, a man publicly proved the reliability of this machine by ordering an axe-wielding assistant to sever the last rope, which activated the safety brake. Elisha Otis created the practical version of, for ten points, what vertical transportation device which made skyscrapers practical? | Elevator (or Lift) |
| Elisha Otis used early elevators in the E.V. Haughwout [[HOW-itt]] Building and Equitable Life Building in what major U.S. city? | New York City |
| After independence in 1948, this country was initially governed by the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, which was overthrown in a 1962 coup. That coup’s government, which deposed U Nu [[OO-NOO]], was itself defeated in the 8888 Uprising. A 2021 coup deposed the National League for Democracy's government in, for ten points, what country, formerly led by Aung San Suu Kyi [[CHEE]]? | Republic of the Union of Myanmar (or Union of Burma) |
| While the Rohingya are Muslim, the majority of Burmese people follow this faith, some of whose monks form the hardline Ma Ba Tha organization. | Theravada Buddhism (accept either underlined portion; accept Buddhist) |
| In 1625, Pietro Della Valle determined that this script was written left to right, but it wasn't deciphered until 1802 by Georg Grotefend. This script was used at Behistun by the Achaemenid Dynasty. This script, from which Ugaritic was derived, was used to write the Amarna Letters in Akkadian. For ten points, name this wedge-shaped script developed in Mesopotamia. | Cuneiform (prompt on "Persian," "Old Persian," or "Akkadian") |
| The Amarna letters were mostly written by local Canaanites during the reign of this Egyptian pharaoh who created an unpopular monotheistic sun cult. | Akhenaten (accept Amenhotep the Fourth) |
| This general, who placed fifth in the first Olympic modern pentathlon competition, was the grandson of Los Angeles mayor Benjamin Davis Wilson. This general served as a decoy in the lead-up to the D-Day invasion of Normandy, during which time he commanded an army of plywood planes and inflatable tanks. Criticized for slapping two subordinates at a field hospital in Italy, for ten points, who was this American general? | George S (mith) Patton, Jr. |
| Serving under Patton in Operation Torch, this man became the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1949 and was promoted to five-star general in 1950, the last person to hold that rank. | Omar N (elson) Bradley |
| This figure abandoned one quest to search for his companion, Hylas. The great- grandson of Perseus and Andromeda, this man died after donning a tunic covered in the poisoned blood of the centaur Nessus. Tricked into killing his wife and children by the goddess Hera, for ten points, who is this Greek hero, known for completing twelve labors as penance for murdering his family? | Hercules (or Heracles; accept Alcaeus; accept Alcides) |
| For his ninth labor, Hercules was tasked with retrieving the belt of Hyppolite, the queen of what mythical group of warriors? | Amazons |
| This entity traded with Edo-period Japan on an artificial island off the coast of Nagasaki called Dejima. An employee of this company, Jan van Riebeek [[REE-bek]], established the Cape Colony in 1652, serving as a stopover for those en route to Batavia. For ten points, name this joint-stock company which controlled much of modern Indonesia from the Low Countries. | Dutch East India Company (prompt on partial answers or references to “The Netherlands” as a country) |
| Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, corresponds roughly to this present-day world capital. | Jakarta |
| This founder of the American Philosophical Society invented a musical instrument called the glass harmonica. One of the two men featured on the first U.S. postage stamps issued in 1847, this founding father has a kind of stove named after him. For ten points, who was this man, appointed the first U.S. postmaster general by the Continental Congress? | Ben (jamin) Franklin (accept Franklin stove) |
| Franklin left money in his will to be distributed for educational purposes in which two cities, where he was born and where he died? | Boston and Philadelphia |
| This meeting secured Francis IV as the Duke of Modena, and gave all of Swedish Pomerania to the Prussians. This conference was chaired by Klemens von Metternich, whose native Austria gained several regions of Northern Italy. Reactionary monarchs were the primary beneficiaries of, for ten points, what diplomatic event which set the post-Napoleonic European order? | Congress of Vienna |
| During the middle portion of the Congress of Vienna, the United Kingdom was represented by this general, who left to face Napoleon at Waterloo. | Duke of Wellington (or Arthur Wellesley) |
| Decade in which the war ended. | 1970s (prompt on "70s") |
| Capital city of South Vietnam the Viet Cong captured during "Black April." | Saigon (accept Ho Chi Minh City) |
| Ohio university at which unarmed student protestors were shot by the National Guard. | Kent State University (accept Kent State Massacre) |
| U.S. secretary of state who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the Paris Peace Accords. | Henry Kissinger (or Henry Alfred Kissinger; or Heinz Alfred Kissinger) |
| Surprise campaign launched by North Vietnam on Lunar New Year. | Tet Offensive |
| Event, codenamed "Pinkville," for which William Calley was sentenced to life in prison. | My Lai [["ME"-"LIE"]] Massacre |
| South Vietnamese resettlement program which was sabotaged by Albert Thao. | Strategic Hamlet Program |
| Individual who leaked the Pentagon Papers. | Daniel Ellsberg French Presidents Name the president of France who... |
| Was challenged by the Yellow Vests over fuel prices in 2019. | Emmanuel Macron [[mah-KROHN]] (or Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron) |
| Faced the 1968 Wildcat Strikes as the first president of the Fifth Republic. | Charles de Gaulle |
| Proclaimed himself emperor in 1852. | Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (accept Napoleon III [[the Third]]; prompt on partial answers) |
| Faced the Financial Crisis of 2008. | Nicolas Sarkozy (or Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa) |
| Ordered the sinking of Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in 1985. | Francois Mitterand |
| Defeated Jean-Marie Le Pen [[luh-PEHN]] in a 2002 landslide. | Jacques Chirac [[shee-RAHK]] (or Jacques René Chirac) |
| Served for five years and today names a world-famous "Centre" for Arts and Culture in Paris. | Georges Pompidou (accept Centre Pompidou) |
| Was the first president of the French Third Republic. | Adolphe Thiers [[tee-EHR]] (or Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers; accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| Brothers, with first names Raul and Fidel, who overthrow the Batista government. | Castros (accept Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruiz; accept Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz) |
| Argentine revolutionary who served as minister of industries and began a land redistribution in Cuba. | Ernesto "Che" Guevara (accept either underlined portion) |
| Soviet general-secretary who placed nuclear warheads in Cuba. | Nikita Khrushchev (or Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev) |
| US military base which Cuba considers "illegal under international law." | Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (or Naval Station Guantanamo Bay; accept NSGB; accept Gitmo) |
| CIA-backed invasion of Cuba by an exile force repelled at Playa Giron [[hee-ROHN]] | Bay of Pigs Invasion |
| Common name for the communist movement, recognizing the date of the Moncada Barracks attack. | 26 July Movement (accept date in either order; accept 26th of July Movement)) |
| Yacht used to return fighters to Cuba from Mexico in 1956. | Granma |
| Country to which Cuba sent soldiers to support the MPLA against UNITA during their civil war. | Angola (or Angolan Civil War) |
| For conspiring with this group, a Bishop of Rochester named Francis Atterbury was arrested. George Murray served under John Cope during a battle fought by this group, whose efforts were chronicled in the novel Waverley. The Battle of Culloden [[kuh-LAH-den]] (+) Moor involved this group, partly led by a man sometimes called "the Young Pretender." Prominent in the Highlands and opposed to the reign of William and (*) Mary, for ten points, what is this group which led two attempts to restore the Stuarts? | Jacobites (accept Jacobitism or Jacobitists) |
| Criticism of the promotion of relaxing activities in a location of this type prompted the founder of that location to state, "All men seem to desert me." The death of Hannah Mills at a location of this type inspired William Tuke to found one of these locations known as "The Retreat." (+) An undercover assignment on Blackwell's Island, overseen by Joseph Pulitzer, involved Nellie Bly making observations (*) of a place of this type. For ten points, name these institutions which housed those labelled "insane." | Asylum (accept Mental asylum, Insane asylum, and similar answers; accept Mental hospital and similar answers; prompt on "hospital") |
| This man was the presiding officer in a trial in which two lieutenants were court-martialed for accidentally dropping bombs over Zurich. This man trained aviators in New Mexico and was featured in a recruitment piece titled Winning Your Wings. Commissioned as a second lieutenant in the (+) Air Force, this man had earlier starred in a film for which Burton Wheeler inspired this man's character, a senator with no political experience. (*) For ten points, name this actor who starred in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. | Jimmy Stewart |
| Josephus claimed that this man was removed from office after killing of a group of Samaritans on Mount Gerizim [[geh-ree-ZEEM]]. This man responds, “What I have written, (+) I have written” after a group protests a sign reading “king of the Jews.” This man appeased an angry mob by releasing the murderer Barabbas [[bah-RAH-bahss]] during Passover (*) instead of an accused heretic. For ten points, name this Roman governor of Judea who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus. | Pontius Pilate |
| One of the first of these venues was established in 1921 by Claude V. Caver in Comanche, Texas. Richard Hollingshead patented these venues and established a 400- slot example in Pennsauken, New Jersey. Thousands of these venues sprung up throughout the 1950s and 60s, the largest (+) of which is the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, displaying East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, (*) and similar works. For ten points, name these venues in which viewers could watch a film from their car. | Drive-in movie theatre (prompt on descriptive answers) |
| In the wake of the Minneapolis George Floyd protests, this city removed a statue of former mayor Frank Rizzo in 2020. A World War One Liberty Loans parade in this city caused an outbreak of Spanish Flu that killed over 12,000 people. Richard Newcourt designed the original (+) grid plan for this city, initially located between the Schuylkill [[SKOO-kull]] and Delaware Rivers. (*) For ten points, name this city, founded by William Penn, the location of the Constitutional Convention and the Second Continental Congress at Independence Hall. | Philadelphia |
| Lithographic copies of a photo of this man led to the Supreme Court case Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony in which it was ruled that said photo was not to be given copyright protection. A calling card left at the Albemarle Club prompted this man to initiate a (+) suit against the Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. This man was the subject of a trial that ultimately led to his writing De Profundis while imprisoned in (*) Reading Gaol [["JAIL"]]. For ten points, name this Irish playwright imprisoned for gross indecency. | Oscar Wilde |
| With the Central Committee of the Free Officers Movement, this man initiated Operation Jerusalem and overthrew the monarchical government of his unpopular predecessor through the White Revolution. Four years after the coup in which this man usurped power from King Idris I [[the First]], (+) this man proclaimed the beginning of the “Popular Revolution". Ruling as dictator from 1969 to 2011, (*) for ten points, who was this "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution" of Libya? | Muammar Gaddafi (accept Qaddafi in place of Gaddafi) |
| This man was promoted to major by Winfield Scott following his rescue of Magruder’s Battery during the Battle of Chapultepec Castle. It's not Robert E. Lee, but this military figure and his VMI cadets guarded John Brown during his execution. The Battles of Winchester (+) and Kernstown occurred during this Confederate's Shenandoah Valley campaign. Actions while leading Virginians at the First Battle of Bull (*) Run led to, for ten points, what general acquiring the nickname "Stonewall"? | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (or Thomas Jonathan Jackson) |
| Which long-time socialist president of Venezuela oversaw the nation's entry into OPEC and was succeeded by Nicolas Maduro? | Hugo Chávez (or Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías) |