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| An Episcopal reverend named Samuel Marquis was appointed as the head of this company's sociology department. An agreement to make $13 million worth of purchases resulted in the establishment of a Soviet building operated by this American company under the name Gorky. (+) During the Second World War, B-24s were manufactured in the Willow Run plant of this company, whose Highland Park plant was where its namesake founder introduced the (*) assembly line. For ten points, name this American company which manufactured the Model T. | Ford Motor Company (accept Ford Model T) |
| It's not in Texas, but this city was founded on land that was previously Fort Dallas. This city's Overtown neighborhood became a center of Black culture during the Jim Crow Era. This city became the only major U.S. city founded by a woman when Julia Tuttle convinced Henry (+) Flagler to extend a rail line further south. The Lemon City neighborhood was officially renamed Little Haiti (*) in 2016 in, for ten points, what city, the seat of Florida's most populous county? | Miami (accept Miami-Dade County) |
| In this city, William Herschel equipped Juan de Villanueva's [[vee-yah-NWEH- vahs]] Royal Observatory with a reflecting telescope. The Laureate Plate of this city was the highest military award given to members of a republic whose presidents included Manuel Azaña [[ah-ZAH-nyah]]. On two occasions in 1435, the courts of (+) Castile convened in this city, where Muhammad the First constructed a fortress along the Manzanares [[mahn-zah-NAH-rehs]] River. A square in this city named after Charles the Fifth can be found along this city's Paseo del (*) Prado. For ten points, Francisco Franco resided in what capital of Spain? | Madrid |
| In 1952, William A. Turner created the current design of these things, which had their chemical makeups updated by Sam Porcello in 1993 to remove lard. Despite a common misconception, these products were created to compete with Hydrox, not the other way around. In 2015, Donald (+) Trump called for a boycott of these things due to the relocation of several American factories to Mexico. Produced by Mondelez and (*) Nabisco, for ten points, what is this sandwich cookie, the world's most popular, consisting of creme between two chocolate cookies? | Oreo |
| This man ordered the kidnapping of jazz pianist Fats Waller so he would play a three-day birthday party in East Cicero. A politician known as "Diamond Joe" Esposito" was killed by this man's Chicago (+) Outfit in a drive-by shooting. This man's gang eliminated the rival bootlegger operation known as the North Side Gang of Bugs Moran during the (*) St. Valentine's Day Massacre. A charge of tax evasion led to, for ten points, what Prohibition-era criminal being sent to Alcatraz? | Al Capone (or Alphonse Gabriel Capone; prompt on "Scarface") |
| One leader of this country's Communist Party had a nickname translating as "The Best" and is the namesake of a city in which the Russian car company Lada is based. One thinker from this country claimed that the use of certain institutions by the bourgeoisie (+) to maintain power constituted a form of cultural hegemony. The Prison Notebooks were written by a thinker from this country, where the Blackshirts (*) led a march on the capital. For ten points, name this country which was home to Marxist thinkers like Nicola Bombaci and Antonio Gramsci. | Italy (or Italian Republic; accept Repubblica Italiana; accept Kingdom of Italy) |
| This country’s Girl’s War erupted following a dispute between two native women over the affections of the whaler William Darby Brind. European encroachment in this country was protested by cutting down a flagpole, starting the Flagstaff War. (+) Internal power struggles following the introduction of firearms to this country led to the Musket Wars. This country’s colonial system was formalized with the Treaty of Waitangi. (*) For ten points, name this former British colony, the home of the Maori people. | New Zealand Bonus Combos |
| The earliest known church of this denomination was led by English dissenter John Smyth in Amsterdam. The history of this denomination was traced in The Trail of Blood by J.M. Carroll, a pastor from the American (+) "Southern" branch of this denomination. That "Convention" of this denomination is the largest (*) Protestant group in the United States. For ten points, name this large Christian denomination, known for "immersing" its adherents in water during its namesake sacrament. | Baptists (accept Baptist Church; accept Southern Baptist Church; accept World Baptist Alliance; accept specific churches with the name Baptist; do not accept "Anabaptists") |
| The mills at Lowell, Massachusetts primarily processed this fiber, a "gin" for which was developed by Eli Whitney. | Cotton (accept Cotton Gin; accept King Cotton) |
| This man reportedly asked, “How can you govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?” After attempting to assassinate this man, Jean Bastien-Thiry [[bahs-TYEHN tee-REE]] was the last person to be executed by firing squad in France, (+) and following a series of 1940 speeches on BBC radio, this man was sentenced to death in absentia by a French military court. Declaring "Je vous ai compris" [[zhuh-VOOS-eh-kahm-PREE]], or "I have understood you," on a 1958 trip to Algeria, (*) for ten points, who was this founder of the French Fifth Republic? | Charles de Gaulle (or Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle) |
| This Massachusetts governor and U.S. president ascended upon the death of Warren Harding and was known for speaking very little. | Calvin Coolidge (or John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.) |
| In his autobiography, this man wrote, “I did not like the violence of boxing. I was more interested in the science of it – how you move your body to protect yourself [and] how you use a plan of attack.” Not removed from the U.S. terror watch list until 2008, this man married the former first (+) lady of Mozambique on his eightieth birthday, while serving as the president of his nation. Sharing a Nobel Peace Prize with F. W. (*) de Klerk, for ten points, who was this South African anti-apartheid activist? | Nelson Mandela (or Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela) |
| It is commonly believed that this element, with atomic number eight, was discovered independently by Carl Wilhelm Scheele [[SHEH-leh]] and Joseph Priestley, but it was actually isolated by a Polish alchemist nearly two centuries prior. | Oxygen |