| Question | Answer |
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| The expedition of Gil Eannes [[ZHEEL ee-YUH-nesh]] was launched from this kingdom's African port of Lagos. Through his descent from this kingdom's House of Aviz, Philip II [[the Second]] of Spain annexed this neighboring nation. The royals João I [[zhoo-OW the First]] and Henry the Navigator were from, for ten points, what Iberian kingdom? | Kingdom of Portugal |
| During one campaign, this man criticized NAFTA by saying that there would be a “giant sucking sound” south of the border. Ahead of the 1996 presidential election, this man established the Reform Party. For ten points, name this independent Texas business magnate who received almost twenty percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential election. | H (enry) Ross Perot [[PEH-roh]] |
| This ruler attempted to promote religious unity with his Din-i Ilahi [[deen-ee-ee-LAH- hee]] faith, a synchretization of Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. This ruler’s liberalizing reforms included outlawing sati, allowing widows to remarry, and ending the Jizya [[JIZ-yah]] tax on non-Muslims. For ten points, name this third Mughal emperor, often stylized “the Great.” | Akbar the Great |
| One person with this profession, Germaine Tailleferre [[tye-FEHR]], was the only female member of a French group called Les Six [[leh-SEEKS]]. A woman with this profession named Fanny Mendelssohn created hundreds of Lieder für Klavier [[LEE-duh FOO-uh klah- VEE-uh]]. For ten points, name this profession of both Clara Schumann and her husband, whose output included sonatas and symphonies. | Composer (accept clear knowledge equivalents such as writing music; prompt on "musician" or “pianist” or “conductor” or "classical music" or similar, less specific answers) |
| This man redeemed his surrender at the Battle of Queenston Heights with a victory at Chippawa [CHIH-pah-wah]]. This general led an amphibious invasion of Veracruz before capturing a certain capital. During the U.S. Civil War, this officer proposed the Anaconda Plan to defeat the Confederacy with limited violence. For ten points, name this man whose rigorous adherence to military etiquette earned him the nickname "Old Fuss and Feathers." | Winfield Scott |
| During this conflict, the Kansu Braves repelled an attempt by the Seymour Expedition to relieve the siege of the International Legations. In the aftermath of this conflict, Empress Dowager Cixi [[SEE-SHEE]] authorized the New Policies. Put down by the Eight Nation Alliance, for ten points, what was this anti-Western Chinese rebellion led by the Righteous and Harmonious Fists? | Boxer Rebellion (accept synonyms such as "Insurrection" or "Uprising" in place of "Rebellion"; accept Yihetuan Movement) |
| Former physics professors from this university include Edward Teller and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. It’s not Stanford, but sixteen elements were discovered at this university, including an element named after this university. For ten points, name this Bay Area University of California whose mascot is the Bears. | University of California, Berkeley (or UC Berkeley; or Cal Berkeley; prompt on "Cal" or "California") |
| The Liberum Veto allowed any member of a legislature in this country to block the passage of a law. This country was joined with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Union of Lublin to form a "Commonwealth". Dismembered in three partitions, for ten points, what is this country which remained occupied by Austria, Prussia, and Russia until 1918? | Poland (or Polska; accept Kingdom of Poland; accept Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) |
| This band's lyric "sending the men to the front line / Hoping they don't catch the hell- fire" appears in their anti-war song "Highwire." Two members of this band, who are sometimes called the "Glimmer Twins," co-wrote the opening track from that album which repeats "War, children / It's just a shot away." For ten points, name this English rock band which included themes of war in songs like "Gimme Shelter." | The Rolling Stones (prompt on "Stones") |
| Protestant diplomat Jacob Sturm negotiated this city’s position in the Schmalkaldic [[shmall-KAHL-dik]] League in alliance with theologian Martin Bucer [[BYOO-ser]]. Charles the Bald and Louis the German allied against Lothair the First in “oaths” named for this city. For ten points, name this Alsatian city which now hosts the Council of Europe and the European Parliament. | Strasbourg (accept Oaths of Strasbourg) |
| A scientist who died in this country established a relationship between mass and exhaust velocity in his "rocket equation." A biologist who directed the Institute of Genetics at this country's Academy of Sciences developed a concept known as "vernalization" and denied natural selection. For ten points, name this country of Maria Klenova, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Trofim Lysenko. | Soviet Union (accept USSR; accept Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; accept CCCP; prompt on "Russia") |
| Nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov helped develop Tsar Bomba, an example of what type of second-generation nuclear weapon? | Hydrogen Bomb (or H Bomb; accept Thermonuclear Weapon; or Fusion Weapon; accept "Bomb" and "Weapon" interchangably) |
| This deity favored the Greeks during the Trojan War but intervened to save the life of Idalos [[EE-dah-lohss]], the son of an innocent Trojan priest. According to one version of the myth, this deity was cast from Mount Olympus by his mother due to his ugliness. This Greek god constructed a woven metal net to expose his wife’s adultery. For ten points, name this husband of Aphrodite, the Greek god of fire and metalworking. | Hephaestus [[heh-FEH-stuss]] (or Hephaistos; accept attempts at phonetic pronunciation; do not accept or prompt on "Vulcan") |
| According to Greek mythology, Hephaestus designed Talos, a bronze automaton, to protect this island from pirates and invaders. | Crete [[KREET]] (accept pronunciation as [[KREH-teh]] or [[KREE-tee]]) |
| Though he sometimes named works in this genre for continents, William Billings often titled these pieces for towns in New England. Isaac Watts was a prominent creator of works of this type, one of which demands “Let Earth receive her king” after claiming “the Lord is Come." “Joy to the World” is an example of, for ten points, what Christian songs? | Hymns (accept Carol; prompt on descriptive answers such as "worship songs" or "songs of praise") |
| The tune “Toplady” was named for the creator of this hymn about a “cleft” entity. Its title was also used for a 2006 jukebox musical and its 2012 film version. | "Rock of Ages" |
| People in this industry in Paris killed their masters' cats in retribution for poor living conditions in the "Great Cat Massacre." A device historically used in this industry names a type of capitalism in Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities. William Caxton was a leader in this industry, which was developed in Mainz after the invention of movable type. For ten points, name this industry, pioneered by Johannes Gutenberg to mass produce books. | Printing industry (accept Publishing industry; accept Printing-press capitalism; prompt on descriptive answers such as "making books") |
| The oldest publishing house in the world was founded in 1499 in Monistrol de Montserrat in this Spanish autonomous region, whose literature often spread to neighboring Andorra. | Catalonia |
| This man was almost a casualty of the USS Princeton disaster, which occurred near his residence on the Potomac River. This man was elected vice president in the Election of 1840, completing a campaign slogan saying "Tippecanoe and [this man, too]." For ten points, name this tenth U.S. president, assuming the office following the death of William Henry Harrison. | John Tyler (accept Tippecanoe and Tyler too) |
| Much of Tyler's time in politics was marked by his rivalry with this fellow Whig and member of the "Great Triumvirate," commonly known as the "Great Compromiser." | Henry Clay Sr. |
| Colonial governors from this empire created the Council of Twelve during a war fought by this empire against Wappinger and Lenape [[luh-NAH-peh]] Indians. On behalf of this empire, Peter Minuit [[MIN-yoo-it]] may have traded around 24 dollars worth of beads for an island. For ten points, name this empire whose West India Company employed Peter Stuyvesant [[STY-veh-sahnt]] as a governor from a colonial capital in New Amsterdam. | Dutch Empire (or United Provinces of the Netherlands, accept either; accept Holland) |
| The Dutch Patroons were landholders in what present-day U.S. state, where New Amsterdam was located? | New York State |
| A political party called the PRD was established in this city in which "Boy Heroes" defended a fortress in 1847. This city, which hosted the 1968 Summer Olympic Games, is the site of Chapultepec Castle. Built upon a city ruled by Montezuma and conquered by Hernan Cortes, for ten points, what is this capital of the third-largest North American country by area? | Mexico City (do not accept or prompt on "Tenochtitlan") |
| The PRD was founded by the son of Lázaro Cárdenas, who founded what Mexican state-owned oil company? | Pemex (or Petróleos Mexicanos) |
| A woman who worked on this entity pretended to read a newspaper in response to an arrest warrant claiming she was illiterate. The song "Follow the Drinking Gourd" may have guided people along this entity, along which many Quakers assisted people as "conductors." Canada was often the final destination of, for ten points, what entity, a group of informal routes used by enslaved people to achieve freedom? | Underground Railroad |
| This abolitionist, nicknamed "Moses," helped escaped enslaved people along the Underground Railroad and earlier helped organize the raid on Harpers Ferry. | Harriet Tubman (or Araminta Ross) |
| Political party which he led throughout the 1930s and 1940s. | Democratic Party (or Democrats) |
| Vice president who later made the decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan. | Harry S. Truman |
| Electric utility corporation which helped develop the region around a certain river in the South. | Tennessee Valley Authority (or TVA; prompt on partial answers; prompt on "Tennessee River") |
| One-term vice president who also served as secretary of both commerce and agriculture. | Henry A (gard) Wallace |
| Three-word term FDR coined to describe the efforts of US industry to arm the Allies during World War Two. | Arsenal of democracy |
| National work program for young men who planted more than three billion trees. | Civilian Conservation Corps (or CCC) |
| Woman who served as secretary of labor for the entirety of the administration. | Frances Perkins (or Fannie Coralie Perkins) |
| Two-term vice president deemed a “hickory conservative who does not represent the Old South” by Time. | John Nance Garner III (or Jack Garner; or “Cactus Jack” Garner) |
| Corsican general who became Emperor of France in 1804. | Napoleon the First (or Napoleon Bonaparte; accept either) |
| Absolute monarch who was dubbed "the Sun King" | Louis the Fourteenth |
| King sometimes called the "Father of Modern France", who was captured at Pavia. | Francis the First |
| Monarch dubbed the "Citizen-King" due to his initial popularity. | Louis-Philippe the First |
| Louis who ceded New France to Great Britain and Spain. | Louis the Fifteenth |
| Navarrese ruler who converted to Catholicism to take the French throne in 1589. | Henry the Fourth (accept Henry the Third of Navarre; prompt on “Henry of Navarre” or “Henry” alone) |
| Italian kingdom over which Louis the Twelfth became king in 1501. | Naples (prompt on "Sicily") |
| Ruler nicknamed the "Universal Spider" due to his intrigue and cunning. | Louis the Eleventh (or Louis the Prudent) |
| City invaded in a Homeric epic, the ruins of which were excavated by Heinrich Schliemann. | Troy (or Ilion; or Ilium) |
| King of the Franks whose paladin, Roland, is the subject of a noted chanson [[shahn- SOHN]]. | Charlemagne (or Charles the Great; or Carolus Magnus) |
| Subject of the Lusiads, the first person to lead a voyage by sea to India. | Vasco da Gama |
| Protagonist of a Virgil Epic who abandons Dido and settles in Italy, where his descendants founded Rome. | Aeneas (accept Aeneid) |
| Longest epic ever written, telling the story of cousins during the Indian Kurukshetra [[koo-rook-SHET-rah]] War. | Mahabharata [[mah-hah-bah-RAH-tah]] |
| Son of Odysseus and subject of the first four books of the Odyssey. | Telemachus (prompt on "Telemachy") |
| Semi-mythical epic written by Ferdowsi [[fehr-doh-SEE]], the name of which means "Book of Kings". | Shahnameh (or Shahnama) |
| Language used to write the Mahavamsa, a chronicle of the island of Sri Lanka. | Pali |
| The Battle of the Ten Kings was fought in this region, in which the Cathaeans were defeated in a city burned to the ground. Menander the First founded the city of Sagala in this region, and the Paurava ruled in this region, whose five rivers include the Hydaspes, (+) at which Alexander the Great defeated Porus in 326 BC. Akbar moved the Mughal capital from a city in Uttar Pradesh to this region's city of (*) Lahore [[luh- HOHR]]. For ten points, name this region of Pakistan and India, the historical home of the Sikhs. | Punjab (prompt on "India" or "Pakistan" before mentioned) |
| One member of this family married a woman who was adopted by Elizabeth and Thomas Sparrow. Dennis Hanks was cousin to the that woman who married into this family, members of which lived in Knob Creek Farm. A carpenter named Thomas (+) was a member of this family who fathered a child in Larue County, Kentucky in 1809. That member of this family later represented the 7th District of Illinois before being elected as the first Republican (*) president. For ten points, name this family whose members include the 16th U.S. president. | Lincoln family (accept Abraham Lincoln; accept Thomas Lincoln) |
| The oldest evidence for the domestication of these animals is tied to the Botai Culture in Siberia. Chinese sources record stories about "Heavenly" examples of these animals in the Ferghana Valley, whose descendants are a national symbol of Turkmenistan. (+) Alexander the Great founded a city in honor of one of these animals named Bucephalus [[byoo-SEF-ah-luss]]. According to legend, one of these animals named Incitatus [[in-kee-TAH-tooss]] (*) was made a consul by Caligula. For ten points, name these animals, historically used by cavalry units. | Horses (accept equivalents) |
| After this woman was prosecuted for violating the Comstock Act with her book Family Limitation, she fled to England where she met Marie Stropes after speaking at the Fabian Society. Upon this writer’s return to the U.S., she opened a family planning (+) clinic in Brooklyn, and this woman was arrested with her sister for distributing contraceptives. Opening the first birth control (*) clinic in the United States, for ten points, who was this woman who established the foundations for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America? | Margaret Higgins Sanger (or Margaret Louise Higgins; or Margaret Sanger Slee) |
| In a work centering on these people, one of them performs the solo "No Way", which incorporates elements of the Blackfriars speech. One of these people sings "I Don't Need Your Love" in a musical in which one scene parodies a dating app in Hans Holbein's (+) studio. These real-life people appear in a musical in which the second of them sings "Don't Lose Ur Head." Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss wrote a musical comedy about these people presented as a pop concert. The musical (*) Six is about, for ten points, what group which includes Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn? | Wives of Henry the Eighth (accept clear knowledge equivalents; prompt on partial answers; prompt on "Six") |
| With his wife Beate [[beh-AH-tuh]], Serge Klarsfeld performed this action, leading to the convictions of Maurice Papon and René Bousquet. The actions of Hermine Braunsteiner and Franz Stangl were uncovered by one of the most prominent people known for this action, Simon Wiesenthal [[VEE-sen-thahl]]. (+) "The Butcher of Lyon," Klaus Barbie, was a major target of people who performed this action, as was Josef (*) Mengele [[MEN-geh-luh]]. For ten points, name this action, often taken by Holocaust survivors to track down former members of the party of Adolf Hitler. | Nazi hunting (accept clear knowledge equivalents regarding finding Nazis) |
| In this country, following the signing of a 1912 treaty that declared it a protectorate, soldiers revolted against their commanders and attacked Jewish quarters in an event known as the Tritl [[TREE-tul]]. That event occurred in a city of this country that was founded by the Idrisid (+) Dynasty and shares its name with an item alternatively called a tarboosh. The Bloody Days of (*) Fez occurred in, for ten points, what Berber-populated country of North Africa whose cities include Tangier and Casablanca? | Kingdom of Morocco (or Al Mamlakah al Maghribiyah; accept French protectorate in Morocco) |
| "Little Willie" was a prototype of these weapons, which were originally developed in "male" and "female" versions depending on armament. The French Renault FT pioneered a swivel (+) design for armaments on this weapon. These weapons were first utilized at the 1916 Battle of the Somme, but were of chief importance to the Fall of Poland in 1939 due to Germany's (*) Blitzkrieg tactic. For ten points, name these key vehicles for World War Two-era maneuver warfare, exemplified by the German Panzer. | Tanks (accept Panzers before mentioned) |
| During one conflict in this city in 1992, referred to by Koreans as "four-two- nine," many Korean business owners armed themselves with rifles to patrol the roofs of their shops. "White flight" from this city’s suburbs intensified following the Watts (+) Riots. After members of this city’s police were acquitted for the 1991 beating of a Black motorist, (*) massive riots broke out. For ten points, name this Southern California city which was rocked by the Rodney King Riots. | Los Angeles |
| In 1932, Abdulaziz founded this modern state and became its first king. One of his 45 sons, Salman, was crowned king of this country in 2015. | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (or Al Mamlakah al Arabiyah as Suudiyah; prompt on "KSA") |