| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This place was established by Ulysses Grant after he signed the Act of Dedication following years of lobbying by Ferdinand Hayden. David Mech’s observations of animals at this place led him to reject his own theory of alpha and beta males. In 1995, wolves were reintroduced to this park in the Lamar Valley. For ten points, name this first national park in the United States, located primarily in Wyoming. | Yellowstone National Park |
| A duke of this polity thwarted a Swedish invasion during the Great Sleigh Drive. A forerunner to Kaliningrad served as the capital of this polity, which was once led by "the Great Elector," or Frederick William. Members of the House of Hohenzollern ruled this state, which was unified with other nearby states by Otto von Bismarck. For ten points, name this forerunner to the German Empire. | Prussia (or Prūsa; prompt on “Germany” or “German Empire” before mentioned) |
| In 2003, this party incorporated the "Three Represents" into its constitution, while in 1978 it abandoned the "Two Whatevers" policy. This political party was exiled into the Shaan- Gan-Ning region during World War Two. This party abolished its ten-year term limits in 2018, while its first Paramount Leader has been described as "70% good, 30% bad." For ten points, name this party that defeated the KMT and established Red China under Mao Zedong. | Communist Party of China (or CPC; or CCP; or Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng) |
| While working at Bletchley Park, this man chained his coffee mug to the radiator to stop thieves from taking it. When this man's body was discovered, a half-eaten apple was found nearby, possibly reenacting his favorite fairytale Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. This leader of the Hut 8 team had a namesake device that he referred to as the "a-machine." For ten points, name this English mathematician who cracked the Enigma code. | Alan Turing (or Alan Mathison Turing; accept Turing Machine) |
| This material was used to make the crown which Napoleon took while proclaiming himself King of Italy. This material served as a nickname for a man who defeated the French at the Battle of Salamanca in the Peninsular War. In a famous speech, Otto von Bismarck claimed that this substance and blood would solve the great problems of the day. For ten points, name this material that is combined with carbon to make steel. | Iron (accept Iron Duke; accept Blood and Iron) |
| During this man’s reign, Jewish revolts in Cyprus, Egypt, and Crete broke out, starting the Kitos War. This victor at the Battle of Sarmizegetusa [[SAR-meez-eh-geh-TOO-sah]] ordered a triumphal column in Rome commemorating the defeat of the Dacians [[DAY- shens]]. For ten points, name this emperor who ruled during the apex of Rome’s territorial expansion. | Trajan (accept Trajan's Column) |
| According to Greek myth, this body of water’s deity was the first individual to rush to Zeus’ aid during the war with the Titans. In another myth, Phaeton [[FAY-tohn]] died while piloting the chariot of the Sun after Helios swore an unbreakable oath on this body of water. Mortal souls began their afterlife by paying Charon [[KAY-ron]] to transport them across this body of water. For ten points, name this river of the underworld believed to be the source of Achilles’ invulnerability. | River Styx |
| The ariʻi rahi [[ah-REE-ee RAH-hee]] was a title held by chiefs of this island, one of whose rulers accepted the arrival of the Pandora. Breadfruit from this island was collected by William Bligh and members of the Bounty, whose mutineers returned here before relocating to Pitcairn Island. Annexed in 1880, for ten points, name this largest island of French Polynesia. | Tahiti (accept Otaheite) |
| After John Langdon turned it down, this man was nominated as James Madison’s second vice president. Along with Charles Pinckney and John Marshall, this man was one of the American diplomats involved in the XYZ Affair. A cartoon satirizing a process named after this man shows Essex County shaped as a dragon. For ten points, name this Massachusetts governor who lends his name to the practice of drawing congressional districts for partisan gain. | Elbridge Gerry (accept Gerrymandering) |
| In 2014, this person challenged Mike Enzi in a failed attempt at a U.S. Senate seat. This person was elected to the House of Representatives after Cynthia Lummis retired in 2016. This person, who was appointed Vice Chair of the House January 6th Committee, was removed as House Republican Conference chair in 2021 for criticizing Donald Trump. For ten points, name this former representative from Wyoming, the daughter of George W. Bush’s vice president. | Liz Cheney (or Elizabeth Lynne Cheney) |
| This company was founded by Cadwallader C. Washburn and John Crosby. This company’s electronics division developed the DSV Alvin, a deep-ocean vehicle that was used for exploring the Titanic. The Supreme Court ruled against this company after they sued an economics professor for creating a game called “Anti-Monopoly.” For ten points, name this company that owns Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, and a variety of breakfast cereals. | General Mills, Inc. |
| In May 2021, it was announced that General Mills acquired this company’s pet treat business for $1.2 billion dollars. This company owns such brands as Jimmy Dean and Hillshire Farm. | Tyson Foods, Inc. |
| One myth from this region describes the ghosts of ancient warriors in The Legend of the Night Marchers. One of the “four great gods” in the mythology of this region is Kū, who has many different names corresponding to earthly phenomena. The Earth Mother goddess, Papa, is central to the myth of this region, along with Laka, the deity of a dance associated with these islands. For ten points, name these islands, whose mythical figures include Maui. | Hawaii (or Hawaiian Islands) |
| This deity of Hawaiian myth was born from the spirit Haumea. This goddess of volcanoes created the Hawaiian Islands. | Pele |
| This region's Cornwallis Island was the destination of a forced Cold War-era relocation program. Alongside the North-Western Territory, this territory’s land was handed over to one government in the Deed of Surrender. Population growth on Ellesmere Island and in Iqaluit prompted this territory’s formal declaration in 1999. For ten points, name this newest territory of Canada, home to many Inuit people. | Nunavut |
| Nunavut is the smallest Canadian territory by population. This province, with just over 150,000 people, is the smallest province. Under French rule, it was called the Ile Saint- Jean. | Prince Edward Island (accept PEI) |
| A character played by this actor once said, "They call me Mister Tibbs!" which ranked number 16 in the American Film Institute's list of greatest movie quotes. This actor's death on January 6, 2022 was confirmed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Bahamas. This actor won an Oscar in 1964 for his role in Lilies of the Field. For ten points, name this first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. | Sidney Poitier [[PWAH-tyay]] |
| From 1997 to 2007, Sidney Poitier was the Bahamian ambassador to what country, to which he traveled in 1967 to visit the director of the film Rashomon. | Japan |
| On an island in what would become part of this country, the Afro-Shirazi Party launched a coup and assassinated Arabs in Stone Town. A process of villagization was launched by the first president of this country as part of the ujamaa policy. An invasion of Uganda by a president of this country ousted Idi Amin. For ten points, name this African country once led by Julius Nyerere [[nyah-RAY-ray]] after the merging of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. | United Republic of Tanzania |
| Tanzania moved its capital to Dodoma from which city in 1996, which is still by far its largest in terms of population? | Dar es Salaam |
| Since March 2021, this department has been led by Xavier Becerra. In 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported that this department ignored most of the HIPAA violations they received. This department was established as the Federal Security Agency, and included the Education before the 1979 creation of a namesake department. Employing the Surgeon General, for ten points, what is this federal department that protects the well-being of U.S. citizens? | Department of Health and Human Services (accept HHS; do not prompt or accept "Department of Health, Education, and Welfare") |
| The Department of Human Services are headquartered in a building named after this man, a former senator from Minnesota who served as vice president under Lyndon B. Johnson. | Hubert Humphrey (or Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.) |
| This city is home to King George Square, which was visited by Queen Elizabeth the Second in 1954 and Pope John Paul the Second in 1986. On December 1st, 1864, the Great Fire of this city began in the cellar of a drapery. The World Expo 88 was held in this city, with the mascot being an Australian platypus named Expo Oz. The 2032 Summer Olympic Games were chosen to be held in, for ten points, what Australian city, the capital of Queensland? | Brisbane |
| Brisbane is named after Sir Thomas Brisbane, who, from 1821 to 1825, was the governor of what other east coast state of Australia? | New South Wales (accept NSW) |
| At the age of nineteen, this man was knocked unconscious by a bullet to his helmet while fighting the Austrians at Königgrätz. While testifying on the origins of the Great War, this man stated that his army had been “stabbed in the back” by disloyal citizens and corrupt politicians. This victor at Tannenberg acceded to his advisors’ demands to appoint Adolf Hitler as Chancellor. For ten points, name this World War One general and last president of Weimar Germany. | Paul von Hindenburg (or Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) |
| Hindenburg commanded the German Army alongside this quartermaster-general who joined Hitler in the Beer Hall Putsch. | Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff |
| Capital city was also the first capital of the Confederate States of America? | Montgomery |
| City was the site of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, which killed four girls? | Birmingham |
| Deaf and blind activist was honored with a statue in National Statuary Hall? | Helen Keller (or Helen Adams Keller) |
| Governor declared, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”? | George Wallace (or George Corley Wallace, Jr.) |
| Alabama native served as George W. Bush’s secretary of state? | Condoleezza Rice |
| Atlanta Braves player from Alabama broke Babe Ruth’s home run record? | Hank "Hammer" Aaron (or Henry Louis Aaron; accept Hammerin’ Hank Aaron) |
| 1995 Oscar-winning film featured the song “Sweet Home Alabama?” | Forrest Gump |
| Minister, who lends his name to an international airport, served as the fifth president of the SCLC? | Fred Shuttlesworth (or Frederick Lee Shuttlesworth; or Fred Lee Robinson; accept Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport) |
| Man who landed on San Salvador Island in 1492, beginning Spanish colonization efforts in the Americas. | Christopher Columbus |
| Man killed in the Philippines in 1521 while leading an attempt to circumnavigate the world. | Ferdinand Magellan |
| First European to see the Pacific Ocean after crossing the Isthmus of Panama. | Vasco Núñez de Balboa |
| Portuguese explorer who was the first European to reach India by sea. | Vasco da Gama |
| Spaniard who explored present-day Florida while searching for the "Fountain of Youth." | Juan Ponce de León |
| French-Breton explorer, the first European to map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. | Jacques Cartier [[kahr-TYEH]] (accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| Portuguese sailor who was the first European to explore Brazil. | Pedro Alvares Cabral (or Pedro Álvares de Gouveia) |
| Dutch explorer who discovered Spitsbergen and was trapped on Novaya Zemlya for a year. | Willem Barentsz |
| Country that controlled Haiti prior to the revolution. | France |
| Decade in which the revolution began, the same as the death of Louis XVI [[the Sixteenth]]. | 1790s |
| Syncretic religion of Dutty Boukman and other early revolutionaries. | Voodoo (or Voudun) |
| Prominent leader of the revolution who named himself "Governor-General for Life." | Toussaint L'Ouverture [[loo-vehr-TUHR]] (or François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture; or Toussaint Bréda) |
| First emperor of independent Haiti. | Jean-Jacques Dessalines (or Jacques I [[the First]]) |
| French colony in Western Hispaniola to which General Charles Leclerc led an expedition. | Saint-Domingue [[sehn-doh-MAHNG]] |
| Language family from which the Taíno [[tah-EE-noh]] name Haiti is taken. | Arawakan (or Maipurean; accept Lokono Dian) |
| Only monarch of the short-lived northern Kingdom of Haiti. | Henri Christophe (or Henry I; prompt on "Henry") |
| Robert Neer wrote An American Biography of this weapon, which Nuodex was originally tasked with creating. E.B. Hershberg worked in secret at Harvard University on the development of this weapon with Louis Fieser, who was partly inspired by a (+) Dupont compound known as divinyl-acetylene. Used during an attack on Outpost Harry, this weapon was used by B-29s after thermite bombs were exhausted. Dow Chemical was widely boycotted for its manufacture of this weapon during the (*) Vietnam War. For ten points, name this incendiary weapon often used in bombs and flamethrowers. | Napalm |
| Construction of this city’s namesake cathedral, the site of a reliquary of the Magi, began in 1248 and was completed more than six centuries later. Napoleonic France took temporary control of this city, and Johann Maria (+) Farina was living in this city when he invented a substance named for this city. This largely Catholic city was governed for nearly two decades by Konrad Adenauer. (*) For ten points, name this city where a certain fragrance for men originated. | Cologne (accept Köln) |
| The origins of one dynasty from this country are recounted in the Kebra Nagast. This country’s church uses the ancient Semitic language Ge’ez. This country was home to the (+) Aksumite Empire, whose eponymous capital claims to house the Ark of the Covenant. This country was once ruled by the (*) Solomonic Dynasty, which claimed descent from the Queen of Sheba. For ten points, name this East African country formerly ruled by Haile Selassie from Addis Ababa. | Ethiopia |
| The rules of this game were codified by a non-prime minister named Neville Chamberlain. In 2019, this sport’s Rebecca Kenna sparked a controversy when she was barred from playing a league match at a gender-segregated league. (+) This game uses a total of 22 balls including 15 red balls and has been dominated in the 21st century by Ronnie O’Sullivan. Comic strip character Andy (*) Capp is an inveterate gambler at, for ten points, what cue-and-table sport that is more popular than billiards or pool in the United Kingdom? | Snooker |
| A member of this group was banished as punishment for stabbing and killing John Snyder, a teamster. According to another member of this group, future President Abraham (+) Lincoln almost joined this expedition but opted not to at the urging of his wife. Another member of this group reported to her cousin, “we have all got through and [are] the only family that did not (*) eat human flesh.” For ten points, name this group of American pioneers, who spent the 1846 to 1847 winter trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. | Donner Party (accept Donner-Reed Party) |
| After being partially paralyzed during World War Two, this man credited his recovery to Armenian-American surgeon Hampar Kelikian. This man’s association with Richard Nixon nearly led to his defeat by William Roy in a 1974 election. This man’s second wife, Elizabeth (+) Hanford served as a senator in North Carolina before being ousted by Kay Hagan in 2008. This man was Gerald Ford’s running mate in 1976 and represented (*) Kansas for over thirty years. For ten points, name this Republican Senate Leader and candidate for president in 1996. | Bob Dole |
| During World War Two, this island was briefly renamed to Ōmiya-jima before it was retaken. This island, which celebrates Liberation Day on July 21, was bloodlessly taken from (+) Spain in 1898. This island, found to the south of Rota, was occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1944 before it was recaptured by U.S. Marines along with Tinian (*) and Saipan. For ten points, name this Pacific island which now hosts an expanded U.S. military presence after the closure of bases in the Philippines. | Guam |
| The namesake of this agreement was a former Andrew Jackson aide who served as president of the South Carolina Railroad. William Carr Lane's efforts as a filibuster may have contributed to one side's agreement to this treaty, which resulted in an exchange of the equivalent of (+) $230 million in 2020 dollars. Also known as the Treaty of Mesilla, this 1853 agreement involved the transfer of land below the Gila River and included parts of (*) New Mexico and Arizona. For ten points, name this large American land purchase in what is now the country's southwest. | Gadsden Purchase (accept Venta de La Mesilla or The Sale of La Mesilla or Treaty of Mesilla until "Mesilla" is mentioned) |
| After this man enrolled at the Inner Temple to become a barrister, he returned to his home country upon the 1891 death of his mother. Following repeated attempts to establish his own law firm in his home country, this man was hired to help a merchant’s cousin in (+) Johannesburg. In South Africa, this political ethicist volunteered in the Second Boer War to form the Natal Indian Ambulance (*) Corps. For ten points, name this nationalist whose methods of non-violent resistance led to India’s independence from the British Empire. | Mahatma Gandhi (or Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) |
| Seeking to impress actress Jodie Foster, this man attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981, critically wounding Press Secretary James Brady. | John Hinckley Jr. (or John Warnock Hinckley, Jr.) |