| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A woman nicknamed “the flute ninja” formed Miho’s Jazz Orchestra to raise money in this event's aftermath. After this event, an architect invited by Reverend Craig Dixon voluntarily designed a replacement cathedral made out of cardboard. A nearby country’s leader, Julia Gillard, attended memorial services for this natural disaster, which affected South Island. For the point, name this 2011 earthquake that devastated a major New Zealand city. | Christchurch Earthquake (earthquake not needed after mention; also accept Canterbury Earthquake) |
| Some Russian chronicles referred to these people as White Oghurs to distinguish them from the Magyars. Tarkhans served the Kagan Bek in the army of these people, who allied with the Byzantines against the Sassanians before the Alans turned on them. Controlling the western borderlands of the Silk Road for much of the early Middle Ages, for the point, who were these semi-nomadic Turkic peoples? | Khazars (accept Khazar Khaganate; accept White Oghur before mentioned) |
| During the Broad Bottom ministry, this man was made Vice Treasurer of Ireland before being promoted to paymaster general in the same year. This man, nicknamed the "Great Commoner," formed a ministry with the Duke of Newcastle during the Seven Years' War. This onetime Leader of the House of Commons was a staunch opponent of American independence. For the point, name this 1760s British prime minister who had a son of the same name. | William Pitt the Elder (accept William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham; prompt on "William Pitt" or “Pitt” alone) |
| Mexicans annually commemorate Los Niños Héroes, six cadets who died during this battle. This battle climaxed with the execution of thirty members of the Saint Patrick’s Brigade on the orders of Winfield Scott. For the point, name this battle, during which United States forces captured a palace they inaccurately called the “Halls of Montezuma.” | Battle of Chapultepec |
| Prior to this conflict, Gustave Eiffel was invited to help reconstruct a flood-stricken bridge that was then reopened three days before it began. A volunteer force known as the Opalchentsi took part in the Battle of Shipka Pass during this conflict. This war’s Siege of Plevna occurred after one army that traversed the Danube met a force led by Osman Pasha. For the point, name this last of a series of 19th century conflicts that pitted the Ottoman Empire against a northern neighbor. | Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 (accept War of '93; accept 93 Harbi) |
| Army deserter James Lewis wrongly claimed that this city was Sangala, a city in the kingdom of Porus. The oldest mention of this city details the defeat of the Vrcivants by Abhyavartin [[ahb-yah-VAHR-tihn]] Cayamana. This city’s archaeological site was damaged by British efforts to build the Lahore-Multan Railway through Punjab. For the point, name this ancient city in present-day Pakistan that originally named the Indus Valley Civilization. | Harappa (accept Harappan Civilization) |
| This man's summer residence of Bull Head Lodge and Studio can be found near the Going-to-the-Sun Road. A man is launched in the air as he clings to the reins of a horse in a work by this man titled The Tenderfoot. A depiction of the Lewis and Clark Expedition made by this man is found in Helena within the state capitol of Montana. Known as "the cowboy artist", for the point, who was this painter known for his depictions of the Old West? | Charles Marion Russell (accept C.M. Russell; accept Charles M. Russell; accept "Kid" Russell; accept Charlie Russell) |
| Almost Live! reported that this structure collapsed as an April Fool’s joke in 1989, causing a local panic. The architect John Graham became involved in developing this structure after designing one of the first modern shopping centers, Northgate Mall, just seven miles north of it. This structure was inspired by the Stuttgart Tower in Germany. For the point, name this structure that was built for the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. | Space Needle |
| In 1889, this man received the first patent for a mechanism that recycled escaping gas as the power source on the Model 1895. This man, who invented the telescoping bolt and the .45 caliber cartridge, made the standard design for semi-automatic pistols. The company named for this man now makes hunting and fishing equipment and sports a deer-head logo. For the point, name this American inventor whose pistols, automatic rifles, and machine guns were ubiquitous U.S. military equipment in the twentieth century. | John Browning (or John Moses Browning) |
| One oil painting by this artist depicts the death of José de Barboza in an unsuccessful siege of Gibraltar. This painter inaccurately showed Charles Cornwallis personally surrendering to George Washington after the Battle of Yorktown. This man's most famous painting has appeared on the back of the two-dollar bill since 1976. For the point, name this “Painter of the Revolution” whose work, Declaration of Independence, is displayed in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. | John Trumbull |
| A photo taken prior to this event showed the victims praying with the inscription, “It isn’t that we don’t trust you, Joe, but this time we’ve decided to go over your head.” Roger Chaffee, Ed White, and Gus Grissom all perished in this event. This 1967 event was likely caused by faulty wiring exacerbated by a pure-oxygen environment. For the point, name this event, the first in a series of missions leading up to the landing of astronauts on the moon. | Apollo 1 Fire |
| As a teacher, this man wrote Principles of Chemistry and he received his doctorates after writing "On the Combinations of Water with Alcohol." This man referred to elements X and Y as Newtonian and Coronium, respectively. The Royal Society of London awarded Julius Lothar Meyer and this man a Davy Medal for “their discovery of the period relations of the atomic weights.” For the point, name this Russian chemist who organized the periodic table. | Dmitri Mendeleev (or Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev) |
| This man's brother-in-law was Archibald Hill, whose study of muscle function won him the Nobel Prize in 1922. This man believed a recession would occur when savings exceeded investments in A Treatise of Money. Time Magazine claimed that this man “may have saved capitalism” by proposing that “governments should spend money they don’t have.” For the point, name this influential British economist who wrote The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. | John Maynard Keynes |
| This man's speech against the government allocation of funds for a military widow is often titled "Not Yours to Give." This man used the phrase "garden sport of the world" to describe a state where he fought under William Travis. This man once lost a congressional race in Tennessee, after which he said, "You can all go to hell. I’m going to Texas." For the point, name this American frontiersman who died at the Alamo. | Davy Crockett (or David Crockett) |
| Members of this people killed Major Thomas Thornburgh during the White River War, which is sometimes named after Nathaniel Meeker. The name of the Comanche derives from a word of these people, who came into contact with Fifty-Niners during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. These people had to resettle after the arrival of the Mormons. For the point, identify these indigenous people who also name the mascot of the University of Utah. | Utes |
| Russian Mennonites fleeing the Soviet Union founded this region's Fernheim Colony. One war named for this region, which saw the first arial dogfights in the Western Hemisphere, is also called the "War of Thirst.” This wetland region was claimed entirely by Argentina before the War of the Triple Alliance. The site of a 1930s resource war between Paraguay and Bolivia, for the point, name this plain east of the Andes, in which oil was not actually discovered until 2012. | Gran Chaco (or Dry Chaco; accept Chaco War) |
| During a Baltimore riot, this party was represented by its affiliate gang, the Pug Uglies. This party was organized out of Charles Allen’s New York-based Order of the Star-Spangled Banner. This party’s sole electoral college votes came with former Whig President Millard Fillmore winning Maryland in the 1856 election. For the point, identify this anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant party, which was named in reference to their secrecy. | Know Nothing Party (or Native American Party) |
| Franchises of this company, whose breakfast sandwiches Doug Ford controversially praised during a COVID-19 press conference, were criticized for removing paid breaks in response to a minimum wage increase. After a 2021 collaboration with Justin Bieber, this company’s merchandise sold for hundreds of dollars online. For the point, name this iconic Canadian coffee chain founded by a hockey player. | Tim Hortons, Inc. |
| This author drew on his time at Cambridge when writing The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. This author "Signs and Symbols" was inspired by the killing of his father by Russian monarchists to include a similar scene in Pale Fire. In another of this author's novels, the playwright Clare Quilty is murdered by Humbert Humbert. For the point, identify this Russian novelist of Lolita. | Vladimir Nabokov (or Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov; accept Vladimir Sirin) |
| From 1947 to 1968, this country was governed under a UN trusteeship by Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. This country, whose native inhabitants were almost relocated to Curtis Island as a consequence of strip mining, was annexed by Germany in 1888 after its civil war. This country housed a Regional Processing Centre to detail migrants to Australia. For the point, name this Pacific Island nation, the world's smallest republic. | Republic of Nauru (or Repubrikin Naoero) |
| The Ming and Qing [[CHING]] dynasties pioneered an "eight-legged" type of this literary form used for imperial examinations. A group of exploratory works that gave this form its name included one about cannibals and came from the French word for "attempt." Michel de Montaigne [[mon-TAYN]] pioneered, for the point, what short literary form often presenting an author's argument? | Essays |
| These people once ritually adopted bear cubs and raised them as people until sacrificing them. These people engaged in the Koshamain and Shakushain rebellions against the politically dominant Yamato. Following World War Two, these people were deported by the Soviet Union from Sakhalin. For the point, name this indigenous group that primarily lives in northern Japan. | Ainu |
| One of this building‘s brass-clad purple porphyry [[POHR-free]] columns drips water purported to cure illnesses, including an emperor’s headaches. This building's minarets were added by Mimar Sinan [[mee-MAR see-NAHN]], who tried to recreate this building in his other works. One of this building's mosaics depicts Mary seated between Constantine and its builder, Justinian. The world’s largest church until 1453, this is, for the point, what mosque in Istanbul? | Hagia Sophia [[AH-yah soh-FEE-ah]] (or Ayasofya; or Holy Wisdom; or Sancta Sapienta; accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| This city, whose motto is “A new kind of energy,” has been the home of the United States Oil and Gas Association since the organization’s founding in 1917. The 2019 HBO drama Watchmen was set in this city and incorporated into its plot a 1921 race massacre. That massacre saw the destruction of the Greenwood District, known as "Black Wall Street." For the point, name this second-largest city in Oklahoma. | Tulsa (accept Tulsa Race Massacre) |
| Guidelines advocating against the excessively long hair growth of rulers can be found final section of a work by this man with a name meaning "royal gift". A section on Satanic illusions can be found in a dissertation on necromancy authored by this man. Those works by this man are Basilikon Doron and Daemonologie. A work by this man titled The True Law of Free Monarchies outlined the concept of the divine right of kings and was published in Edinburgh. For the point, name this scholar and Scottish king who became the first Stuart King of England. | James the First of England (accept James the Sixth of Scotland; prompt on "James") |
| This person lost his first senate race to Paul Laxalt but won his second in 1986 after Laxalt retired. In 2005, this man succeeded Tom Daschle [[DASH-el]] as Senate Minority Leader. Serving as chairman of a certain state’s Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981, for the point, who was this Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015, a longtime senator from Nevada? | Harry Reid (or Harry Mason Reid Jr.) |
| An early event in this conflict was the Autumn Harvest Uprising. This war paused after the Xi’an incident, in which one leader was detained to force him to focus on the invading Japanese. This war’s winning side successfully retreated in the Long March, while in 1949 this war’s losing side was forced to retreat to Taiwan. For the point, name this decades-long war in which Mao Zedong’s Communists defeated Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT. | Chinese Civil War |
| Though now known primarily as a composer, this man was a noted actuary in his lifetime, publishing Life Insurance with Relation to Inheritance Tax. This man, viewed as the father of American experimental music, utilized polyharmony and polytonality throughout his work, but particularly in his organ piece Variations on America. For the point, name this American modernist composer who wrote The Unanswered Question and Concord Sonata. | Charles Ives (or Charles Edward Ives) |
| The first sure mention of these people was in a speech by Julian, who said they were allies of Magnentius. Gildas's sermon claims that these people were defeated at Mount Badon. The tree Irminsul was sacred to one group of these people, which was burned as part of a campaign against them by Charlemagne. For the point, identify these Germanic people who migrated to Britain in the 5th century and merged with the Angles. | Saxons (accept Anglo-Saxons) |
| The HMS Pandora was wrecked at this location in 1791. In 2018, the National Geographic said half of this place was dead “akin to a forest after a devastating fire.” James Cook is said to have discovered this geographical feature after the HMS Endeavour was nearly shipwrecked when it ran aground. For the point, name this coral system located off the coast of Queensland, Australia. | Great Barrier Reef |
| A losing candidate in this election succeeded Alexander Dallas as Secretary of the Treasury and was the running mate of Nathaniel Macon. The House of Representatives selected the winner of this election after William Crawford didn't gain enough votes. The Second Party System began following this election, whose loser called it a "corrupt bargain." For the point, name this election in which John Quincy Adams defeated Andrew Jackson. | 1824 U.S. Presidential Election |
| The film Silkwood depicts the death of an activist from this industry who blew the whistle on unsafe practices at the Kerr-McGee plant in Oklahoma. Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas starred in a film depicting a disaster in this industry, The China Syndrome, which premiered weeks before the Three Mile Island accident. For the point, identify this industry depicted in films like Chernobyl and The Atomic Café. | Nuclear Energy |
| Elbridge Gerry was criticized by the Federalist Party for provoking this incident following his return to the United States. This event's name was used to hide the identities of Jean-Conrad Hottinguer [[hoht-teen-GEHR]], Pierre Bellamy, and Lucien Hauteval. The impetus for this incident occurred when two out of three diplomats refused to pay bribes to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand. For the point, name this "affair" between the United States and Republican France that led to the Quasi-War. | XYZ Affair |
| This island was where the Phaistos Disc was discovered. The double axe was a popular motif on this island, and the leaping bull motif is found on frescoes on this island’s city of Knossos. According to myth, King Minos ruled this island, also the site of the labyrinth and the Minotaur. For the point, name this large Greek island home to the Minoan civilization. | Crete (or Kriti) |
| One of these objects was damaged at Kiev’s [[KEE-ehv]] Golden Gate. Variants of this type of weapon include the katzbalger and the claymore. Quillons [[kweh-YOHN]] and pommels can often be found as parts of these weapons, whose “bastard” variety could be utilized with a shield, unlike the Zweihänder [[ZHWY-hahn-der]] type, which required both hands. For the point, identify these weapons that include rapiers, cutlasses, and sabers. | Swords (accept Sabers before mentioned; accept Longswords; accept Broadswords) |
| This faith proposes the appearance of a devilish false savior named Dajjal who will be beaten by his counterpart after he stares him in the eyes. Adherents of this faith wore amulets of handmade glass named nazar to ward away the "Evil Eye." This faith's mythos includes the cannibalistic, graveyard-dwelling Ghuls, which was borrowed from Pre-Arabic folklore. For the point, identify this Abrahamic religion initiated by Muhammad. | Islam (accept Muslims) |