| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This man was considered to be the founder of the Dionysian mysteries and a religion that venerated the god Zagreus [[zah-GREE-ehs]]. After being killed by the Maenads [[MY-nads]], this man's head continued to sing. This man used his lyre to protect the Argonauts by drowning out the Sirens and failed to rescue his wife, because he looked back to see her while leaving Hades. For ten points, name this poet and musician from Greek myth, the husband of Eurydice [[yoo-RIH-dih-see]]. | Orpheus |
| John Aislabie was sent to the Tower of London for his role in this event, which was preceded by the passage of the Royal Exchange and London Assurance Corporation Act. Bans on the creation of competing joint-stock companies contributed to this event, which launched the de facto prime ministry of Robert Walpole. For ten points, name this notorious 1720 economic "bubble" named for a British trading company. | South Sea Bubble |
| This person became a senator for the first time after Joseph Burton resigned. In 1923, along with Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., this man proposed the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment to both Houses. The only vice president whose home state was Kansas, for this man’s inauguration, he arranged for a Native American jazz band to play. A member of the Kaw Nation, for ten points, who was this vice president under Herbert Hoover, the only Vice President of indigenous American ethnicity? | Charles Curtis |
| The private military company Silvercorps USA assisted dissidents in this nation in their failed 2020 coup which aimed to seize Simón Bolívar International Airport. Popular Will Party leader Juan Guaidó [[gwah-ee-DOH]] continues to contest the 2018 presidential elections of this nation. In 2013, Nicolás Maduro was elected president of, for ten points, what South American nation led by longtime president, Hugo Chavez? | Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (or República Bolivariana de Venezuela) |
| This newspaper was the dominant voice of the Whig Party and the Republican Party from the 1840s to the 1860s. During the 1850s, this newspaper retained Karl Marx as its European correspondent. The founder of this newspaper ran under the Liberal Republican Party and was defeated by Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election. For ten points, name this now defunct newspaper which was originally published by Horace Greeley. | New-York Tribune (or New-York Daily Tribune; prompt on partial answers) |
| George Walker was among the casualties at this battle. A Marshal of France known as the Duke of Schomberg was killed at this battle, which occurred in Oldbridge during a conflict ended by the Treaty of Limerick. The Declaration of Finglas offered a pardon to Jacobite soldiers in the aftermath of this battle. Named for an Irish river, for ten points, what is this decisive battle of the Glorious Revolution? | Battle of the Boyne |
| Due to popular demand, seasons two and three of a TV show with this title were made available by Netflix in the U.S. in May 2022. The Party of Decisive Change rebranded itself under this name in 2017 under the leadership of Ivan Bakanov. Another leader of that party with this name won a 2019 presidential election against Petro Poroshenko. For ten points, name this phrase which titles a satirical television series and a political party led by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. | Servant of the People (or Sluha narodu; or SN) |
| When this woman joined GRU, she was given the codename “Agent Hola.” This woman’s job as secretary at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association made her privy to information about Tube Alloys. Described as “both the most important female agent in KGB history" and "the longest serving of all Soviet spies in Britain,” for ten points, who was this British communist who supplied state secrets to the USSR about the development of atomic weapons? | Melita Norwood (or Melita Stedman Norwood; or Melita Stedman Sirnis) |
| Because of this amendment, George W. Bush's selection of Dick Cheney as his running mate was controversial. This amendment forced Hillary Clinton to not name Bill Clinton as her running mate, as he is not eligible for the presidency. The last election prior to this amendment was the Election of 1800. For ten points, name this Constitutional amendment which restructured the method of electing the president and vice president. | 12th Amendment (or Amendment 12) |
| During a rebellion from this period, an emperor was abducted in the Siege of the Sanjō Palace. Opposing sects of Buddhism, called Tendai and Shingon, emerged during this period, which began when Emperor Kanmu relocated his capital from Nara. This period was dominated by the Fujiwara clan, and it featured the invention of katakana and hiragana script. For ten points, name this period of flourishing Japanese culture in which The Tale of Genji was written. | Heian Period (or Heian Jidai) |
| 38 members of this tribe were hanged at Mankato in the largest one-day mass execution in U.S. history. Little Crow led this tribe in retaliation against the U.S. government during an 1860s war. This tribe was forced to cede land in the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which included the Black Hills. With the Cheyenne, this tribe defeated the 7th Cavalry of George Custer under the leadership of Crazy Horse. The Battle of Little Bighorn was won by, for ten points, what Great Plains tribe led by Sitting Bull? | Sioux (or Great Sioux Nation; accept Lakota or Dakota or Nakota; accept Santee) |
| The U.S. 7th Cavalry massacred members of the Sioux at this South Dakota location in 1890, at which Black Coyote refused to give up his rifle. | Wounded Knee Creek (accept Wounded Knee Massacre; accept Battle of Wounded Knee) |
| Leonardo Bruni took his concept of historical study from this man and wrote that this man claimed Italy had brought Europe out of the darkness of the Middle Ages. This writer possibly faked his ascent of the Provencal peak Mount Ventoux [[vahn-TOO]] in his Epistolae familiares [[eh-PEES-toh-leh fah-meel-yee-AH-rehs]], an early example of the travelogue. A style of "Sonnet" is named for, for ten points, what early Italian Renaissance writer of Il Canzionere [[eel-kan-zee-oh-NEH-reh]], or The Song Book? | Petrarch (or Francesco Petrarc; accept Petrarchan Sonnet) |
| Petrarch influenced this author to write On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles. This Italian also authored The Decameron. | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| This man was sponsored by Isadore Sharp, who gave him free stays at Four Seasons Hotels. Doug Alward worked as a driver for this man, who controversially did not identify as disabled, during an event that began in St. John’s and concluded prematurely in Thunder Bay. Millions of dollars are raised on the Sunday after Labour Day at runs commemorating this man. For ten points, name this Canadian amputee who’s “marathon of hope” ended in 1980 when he died of cancer. | Terry Fox (or Terrance Stanley Fox) |
| Rick Hansen coached Terry Fox in this sport and traveled across four continents in an object which is central to this sport in his "Man in Motion" world tour. This sport's Gold Cup world championship was first played in 1973 in Bruges [[BROOZH]] and has been won six times by the U.S. | Wheelchair basketball (accept IWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championship; prompt on partial answers) |
| This man has a downtown Oklahoma City urban redevelopment initiative named after him. The answer to the penultimate question for John Carpenter, the first million- dollar winner on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, was this man. On December 13th, 1964, this man was chosen to design the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Designing the glass pyramid located in the courtyard at the Louvre, for ten points, who was this Chinese- American architect? | I.M. Pei [[PAY]] (or Ieoh Ming Pei) |
| First awarded to Philip Johnson in 1979, and won by Sydney Opera House architect Jørn [[YORN]] Utzon in 2003, I.M. Pei won what annual international architecture award in 1983. | The Pritzker Architecture Prize |
| Fought around locations including Bloody Pond, much of this battle centered on the Hornet's Nest, on which P.G.T. Beauregard led an attack after the death of his superior. At this battle, a Confederate attempt to keep the Union from reinforcing after the Battle of Fort Donelson was thwarted when the Army of the Ohio joined Grant's Army of the Tennessee. For ten points, name this April 1862 U.S. Civil War battle, named for a local church, the name of which means "place of peace" in Hebrew. | Battle of Shiloh (accept Battle of Pittsburg Landing before "church" is mentioned) |
| The death of this Confederate general at Shiloh, the highest-ranking Southern officer to die during the war, was believed by Jefferson Davis to be "the turning point of our fate." | Albert Sidney Johnston |
| This work ends with a sketch of Robert Taft's controversial opposition to the Nuremburg Trials, claiming they violated ex post facto law. This work, likely written by speechwriter Ted Sorenson, begins with a praise of John Quincy Adams breaking away from his father's Federalist Party. This non-fiction work chronicled eight senators showing signs of bravery when facing adversity. John F. Kennedy was given a Pulitzer Prize for, for ten points, what non-fiction work? | Profiles in Courage |
| Profiles in Courage celebrates this man, who served as both a senator and a representative from Mississippi, as secretary of the interior, and as a Supreme Court justice. This man eulogized Charles Sumner on the Senate floor and opposed the Bland-Allison Act. | Lucius Lamar (or Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar) |
| One president of this country, Victor Paz, seized control in 1952, deposing an oligarchic regime which had ruled this country since its loss of the Litoral Department. Another president of this country, René Barrientos, ordered the death of Che Guevara. In 1934, Daniel Salamanca resigned as president of this country following Paraguay's victory in the "War of Thirst," fifty years after this country's loss of its coast to Chile. For ten points, what country was led by Evo Morales before his 2019 resignation? | Plurinational State of Bolivia (or Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia) |
| One of the major moves of the Morales administration in Bolivia was to reduce dependence on this institution, once led by Robert McNamara. Begun at the Bretton Woods Conference, along with the IMF, this institution helps to develop low- and middle-income nations. | The World Bank |
| The conquest of this country by one empire was concluded with the fall of Vidin and the Despotate of Dobrudja, leading this country to become the province of Rumelia. Bogdan Filov held the prime ministry of this country during World War Two, during which it was led by Tsar Boris III as a member of the Axis Powers. Established by the 1878 Treaty of Berlin, for ten points, what was this country, governed since the Ottoman occupation from Sofia? | Bulgaria |
| Though initially led by Georgy Dimitrov, Communist Bulgaria was led for thirty-five years by what longest-serving Head of State in the Warsaw Pact? | Todor Zhivkov |
| Was the first U.S. vice president. | John Adams (prompt on "Adams"; do not accept "John Quincy Adams") |
| Led the Raiders to a win in Super Bowl XI [[Eleven]] and lends his name to an NFL video game series. | John Madden (or John Earl Madden; accept Madden NFL; accept John Madden Football) |
| Was the author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. | J. R. R. Tolkien (or John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) |
| Was the fourth of his name and the wealthiest casualty on the Titanic. | John Jacob Astor IV [[the Fourth]] |
| Wrote and recorded "Instant Karma!" and "Imagine." | John Lennon (or John Winston Ono Lennon) |
| Is a legendary "steel-driving man" from American folklore. | John Henry |
| Authored The Affluent Society and served in the administrations of four Democratic presidents? | John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith |
| Is known as the "Chekhov of the suburbs" and wrote The Wapshot Chronicle. | John Cheever (or John William Cheever) |
| Pirate who coiled smoking fuses into his facial hair to intimidate his enemies. | Blackbeard (or Edward Teach; or Edward Thatch) |
| English monarch whose "revenge" was used as the name of that pirate's ship in 1717. | Queen Anne (accept Queen Anne’s Revenge) |
| "Dragon" who led the first English circumnavigation of the Earth. | Francis Drake |
| 1987 cult classic film featuring Wesley assuming the identity of the Dread Pirate Roberts. | The Princess Bride |
| Country that is home to former pirate haven Port Royal. | Jamaica |
| Female pirate who abandoned her husband in Nassau to partner with Calico Jack Rackham. | Anne Bonny (or Anne Cormac) |
| Barbados land owner who became known as the "Gentleman Pirate." | Stede Bonnet |
| "King of the Pirates" who raided the Mughal Ganj-i-Sawai [[GAHNJ-EE-sah-"WHY"]] on its way to Mecca. | Henry Every (or Henry Avery; or Benjamin Bridgeman; accept Long Ben; accept "Jack" or "John" in place of "Henry") |
| Future Indian independence leader who formed group of a stretcher-bearers during the war. | Mohandas Gandhi (or Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; accept Mahatma Gandhi) |
| Future prime minister of the UK who served as a war correspondent for The Morning Post in Pretoria. | Winston Churchill (or Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill) |
| Judicial capital of modern South Africa, the 1900 capture of which caused the collapse of the Orange Free State. | Bloemfontein [[BLOOM-fahn-tayn]] (accept Bloem) |
| Anglo-Irish commander who expanded refugee camps against Boers and later served as war secretary during World War One. | Herbert Kitchener (or Horatio Herbert Kitchener; or 1st Earl Kitchener) |
| Boer republic which, with the Orange Free State, fought the United Kingdom. | Transvaal Republic (accept South African Republic; do not accept or prompt on "South Africa") |
| Term for the British-occupied colony in South Africa from which they launched invasions of the Boer states. | Cape Colony (accept Cape of Good Hope) |
| Battle named for a hilltop, where the Boers repelled a British attempt to relieve the besieged Ladysmith. | Battle of Spion Kop |
| Treaty ending the Second Boer War. | Treaty of Vereeniging [[veh-ree-EN-uh-hung]] (accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| The artist's studies for this painting include one depicting an acrobat from Santo Domingo named Joseph. The inspiration for this painting involved the rush to make Julien-Désiré [[deh-see-REH]] Schmaltz the French colonial governor of Senegal. The artist drew from corpses (+) he saw at Hospital Beaujon [[boh-ZHOHN]] for this painting, whose subjects are arranged in two pyramidal structures. A Black man waves a red and white cloth in an attempt to (*) hail a passing ship in, for ten points, what painting depicting the survivors of an 1816 shipwreck by Théodore Géricault [[zheh-ree-KOH]]? | The Raft of the Medusa |
| This deity’s name became the first part of Biblical Hebrew expressions usually translated as a royal plural name of God and as “God most high.” In the Ugaritic texts, a god by this name lives at a double fountain, which is the source of two rivers, and has at least 70 children with Asherah. (+) This name is the first component of a two- word Biblical epithet for God usually translated as “God Almighty” which combines this name with the word (*) “Shaddai.” For ten points, give this name which was used for the chief god of the Canaanite pantheon. | El (accept El Shaddai; accept Eloheinu; accept El Elyon; accept Elohim) |
| This man was inspired by an account published in a magazine known as the The Knickerbocker as well as the memoir Two Years Before the Mast when writing his best-known work. This man's experiences jumping ship in the Marquesas Islands inspired his book (+) Typee [[TY-pee]]. A stamp set in New Bedford commemorated this author, who began one work with the line "Call (*) me Ishmael." For ten points, name this American sailor whose experiences in the whaling industry inspired his novel Moby-Dick. | Herman Melville |
| This quote is notably written on an object provided by a prison warden whose reverse contains a quote inspired by Willard Duncan Vandiver. Joe Biden used the words "with me" to replace the last word in this quote in a 2021 speech regarding withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. (+) A sign in the Oval Office whose reverse said "I'm from Missouri" contained this quote associated with a president who ordered the (*) dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. For ten points, name this Harry Truman quote indicating the finality of the president's decisions. | "The buck stops here" |
| This figure was said to be able to travel from Valladolid [[bah-yah-doh-LEED]] to Burgos in only five hours. Wounded on eight occasions, this figure was brought to a European country following the Battle of Abukir, a decade before he took part in an engagement at Wagram. (+) Measuring just over fourteen hands, this figure can be seen with legs outstretched in a depiction of a the crossing of the Alps (*) created by Jacques-Louis David [[dah-VEED]]. For ten points, name this war horse of Napoleon which was named for a June 1800 battle in Italy. | Marengo (accept Battle of Marengo; prompt on answers such as the "horse" of "Napoleon") |
| This man’s doctoral thesis, “X-Ray Diffraction: Polypeptides and Proteins,” earned him a job with David Harker at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. There, this man and his future collaborator postulated spherical viruses had icosahedral [["eye"- kah-sah-HEE-drull]] symmetry. In Nature, this molecular (+) biologist wrote that nucleotides carry genetic information. For a model based on Photo 51, this neuroscientist won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962, with Maurice Wilkins and (*) James Watson. For ten points, name this co-writer of a paper on the structure of DNA. | Francis Crick (or Francis Harry Compton Crick) |
| This man killed Ranuccio [[rah-NOO-chee-oh]] Tommasoni in a duel with swords, which resulted in a sentence of beheading. That charge forced this man to go into self-imposed exile, during which his composition The Seven Works of Mercy became the altarpiece for the church in (+) Naples, Italy. A distinct style used in this artist’s works is now known as "tenebrism," influencing later Baroque artwork. Called “the most famous (*) painter in Rome," for ten points, who was this painter of The Beheading of St. John the Baptist? | Caravaggio [[kah-rah-VAH-zhee-oh]] (or Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; or Michele Angelo Merigi da Caravaggio; accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| American Adventurer Homer Lea [[LEE]] successfully joined this man’s military retinue by falsely claiming descent from Robert E Lee. While in exile in Japan, this man organized a shipment of Imperial (+) arms be sent to the Philippines to fight the Americans. This man, whose provisional government came to power after the Xinhai [[ZHIN-HYE]] Revolution, signed an agreement with Adolphe (*) Joffe to work with the Chinese Communists. For ten points, name this "Father of the Nation" and first provisional president of China. | Sun Yat-Sen |
| Adult Africans in this U.S. state were freed in adulthood in the earliest constitutional ban on slavery in North America. A revolutionary brigade in this state was founded at the Windsor Tavern. The city of St. Albans (+) in this state was the site of the northernmost military action of the Civil War. A group of troops from this state assisted Benedict Arnold in capturing a neighboring state’s (*) Fort Ticonderoga. For ten points, name this U.S. state, the home base of the Green Mountain Boys. | Vermont |
| Revered by Muslim scholars as the "First Teacher," this Greek philosopher studied under Plato and established his own school at the Lyceum. | Aristotle |