| Question | Answer |
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| George the Bearded formed an elite unit of these specific soldiers known as the "Black Band.” The Reisläufer [[RICE-loy-fer]], a Swiss predecessor to this specific unit, executed Charles the Bold. These units were often accompanied by "double-pay men" known as Doppelsöldner, who wielded an arquebus [[ARK-weh-buss]] and two-handed swords. For ten points, name these German mercenary pikemen of the early modern period who fought in the Thirty Years War. | Landsknecht [[LAHNS-nekt]] (prompt on "Pikeman" before mentioned) |
| This government employed the Rokuhara Tandai secret police after the retired emperor Go-Toba attempted a coup. This government, which was dominated by the Hojo clan, was established following the defeat of the Taira clan in the Genpei War. This government was established by Minamoto no Yoritomo and eventually collapsed in the Kenmu Restoration. For ten points, name this government that followed the Heian period, the first Japanese Shogunate. | Kamakura Shogunate |
| This non-Bohemian military figure adopted the "wagon fort" technique of the Hussites while supporting the son-in-law of King Sigismund as a mercenary. Pope Eugenius tasked this man with providing much of the manpower for the Crusade of Varna, which led to Murad the Second giving Serbia autonomy. The regent of the young King Ladislaus the Fifth was, for ten points, which influential Magyar commander, the sole regent of Hungary in the mid 15th century? | John Hunyadi (accept Janos Hunyadi) |
| This man adapted Vergil’s text directly into his five-act grand opera Les Troyens. This man, a composer and conductor, won the Prix de Rome in 1830 after studying at the Paris Conservatoire. This composer wrote the 1844 Treatise on Instrumentation, which influenced later composers Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. For ten points, name this composer who wrote the programmatic orchestra pieces Symphony Fantastique and Harold in Italy. | Hector Berlioz (or Louis-Hector Berlioz) |
| The album Voice of Fire was released by this man, who was influenced by the ideas of Benjamin Roden. This man succeeded Lois Roden as a leader of one movement, which was based out of the Mount Carmel Center. Allegations of polygamy and child abuse led the ATF and FBI to besiege this man’s compound for 51 days. Dying during that siege in Waco, Texas, for ten points, who was this leader of the Branch Davidians? | David Koresh (or Vernon Wayne Howell) |
| In 1781, this man, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, founded the Bank of North America, the first chartered bank in the U.S. This man served as one of the first senators from Pennsylvania, serving from 1789 until his retirement in 1795. Serving from 1781 to 1784 as Superintendent of Finance, for ten points, who is this American Founding Father, commonly known as the “Financier of the Revolution.” | Robert Morris (or Robert Morris, Jr. – prompt on Morris alone) |
| This man is the subject of three cantatas by the British composer Samuel Coleridge- Taylor. In another depiction, this son of Mudjekeewis and Wenonah is hailed as the inventor of writing. In his most famous depiction, this lover of Minnehaha lives on the shores of Lake Superior, which is referred to as Gitche Gumee. For ten points, name this real life Native American leader who was depicted in an epic poem by Henry Longfellow. | Hiawatha |
| The lack of a match between two components of this figure was established by surgeon David Waterson. Kenneth Oakley engaged in fluorine absorption dating to establish the falsity of claims regarding this figure, who may have been forged by the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Described as a missing link between humans and apes, for ten points, what is this allegedly fossilized human that was debunked as a fraud in 1953? | Piltdown Man |
| The earliest known depictions of this man show him sitting with crossed legs above a lion in statues from Mathura. While living in Vaishali, this man squatted beneath an Ashoka tree and obtained Kevala, or complete enlightenment. Along with Parshvanatha, this man is believed to be the only historical person on a list of 24 “Ford Makers.” For ten points, name this final Tirthankara, the historical founder of Jainism. | Mahavira (accept Vardhaman) |
| The protagonist of this work refuses to pay heed to Chilo's advice to surround the home of one love interest. The title of this work refers to a quote from an encounter on the Appian Way between Saint Peter and Jesus. A fictionalized son of the consul Marcus Vinicius falls in love with the Christian woman Lygia in this novel, subtitled "A Narrative of the Time of Nero". Written in Polish, for ten points, what is this historical novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz? | Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero (prompt on “Where are you going?”) |
| This body’s Bank for Investment and Development is often known as “The Fund.” Nana Akufo-Addo presides over this organization, whose leaders have included Siaka Stevens and members of the Gnassingbe [[nah-SING-beh]] family. Two members of this organization adopted a currency it introduced after opting out of the CFA franc. The Treaty of Lagos established this body, focusing on a region containing cities like Niamey [[nee-AH-meh]] and Accra. For ten points, name this organization which is centered in West Africa. | ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States; accept CEDEAO) |
| Blaise Compaoré [[kam-pah-OR-eh]], who briefly served as ECOWAS chairperson, was the longtime president of what country, whose communist president Thomas Sankara he overthrew? | Burkina Faso |
| In Euripides' The Bacchae [[BACK-ki]], this parent of Manto warns Pentheus not to oppose the worship of Dionysus. The origin story of the caduceus [[ka-DOO-shus]] is linked to this child of Chariclo, who was punished by Hera for beating two mating snakes by being turned into a woman. For ten points, name this man who was blinded for viewing Athena bathing naked, a soothsayer from Thebes. | Tiresias (or Teiresías) |
| In one work, Tiresias is asked by this character to shed light on the death of Laius, but displeases him by claiming this man was responsible for his own father's murder. | Oedipus |
| During this decade, the Murchison Letter hurt the Democrats during a campaign soiled by the Blocks of Five scandals. During an election in this decade, Neal Dow refused to withdraw from his presidential run, which may have resulted in a nomination for Winfield Scott Hancock. The winner of an election in this decade only survived six months in office before his assassination by Charles Guiteau [[GEE-toh]]. For ten points, name this decade whose presidents included James Garfield and Benjamin Harrison. | 1880s (prompt on "80s") |
| In the election of 1884, Grover Cleveland defeated this Republican, nicknamed the "continental liar from the state of Maine." | James Gillespie Blaine |
| Mygdon was a leader of this region, the capital of which was named for a farmer who fulfilled an oracle's prophecy that the next man to enter one of its cities would rule it. That ruler of this region owned a cart which became the source of the Gordian Knot. One ruler of this region hosted a satyr named Silenus before being granted the power of the golden touch. For ten points, name this west-central Anatolian kingdom once ruled by Midas. | Phrygia (prompt on "Anatolia," "Asia Minor," or "Turkey") |
| The story of the mythical King Midas was related in the Metamorphoses, written by this Roman poet. | Ovid (or Publius Ovidius Naso) |
| Along with John Campbell and Robert Hunter, this man formed the Confederate delegation at the Hampton Roads Conference of 1865. After the Compromise of 1850, this representative helped draft the Georgia Platform to strengthen pro-Union sentiment in his home state. Nonetheless, this man declared that slavery was a "great truth" and supported secession based on white supremacy. That declaration was made in, for ten points, what Confederate Vice President's Cornerstone Speech? | Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| Despite being a Whig, Stephens called for the impeachment of this Whig President who was elected in 1848 and served in the Mexican-American War. | Zachary Taylor |
| This man’s daughter, Heather Bresch, was accused of artificially inflating Epi-Pen prices while serving as president of Mylan. In 2019, while serving as the ranking member of the Senate’s Energy Committee, this man tweeted that he “was the only member of the Senate…who has consistently voted against efforts to use the so-called nuclear option to change the rules of the Senate.” Elected via special election to replace Senator Robert Byrd, for ten points, who is this Democratic West Virginia senator? | Joe Manchin (or Joseph Manchin III) |
| This man, who is currently the richest man in West Virginia, switched his party affiliation after being elected to the governorship as a member of the Democratic Party. | Jim Justice (or James Conley [Justice] II) |
| During this conflict, Ferdinand Claiborne ordered the destruction of one side's property along the Tombigbee River. The Battle of Holy Ground was an indecisive battle during this conflict, in which the namesake group was led by William Weatherford. The Fort Mims Massacre occurred during this conflict, brought to an end by the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. For ten points, name this war involving a group sometimes known as the Muscogee. | Creek War (or Red Stick War; or Creek Civil War; accept war against the Muscogee before mentioned; accept Muscogee Creek or Muscogee Creek Confederacy in place of Creek) |
| The American army at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend was led by this Major General of the West Tennessee Militia. | Andrew Jackson |
| The logo of the largest faction of this group featured three black arrows in a red circle. Maurice Thorez [[tor-REH]] is credited with developing what would become this group's name. This group's refusal to help the Spanish Republicans angered many within it, and this group's immediate predecessor was the Cartel of the Left. For ten points, give this term for the broad coalition of left-wing parties that came to power in 1936 and was led by French socialist Leon Blum. | Popular Front (or Front populaire) |
| The 1936 French legislative elections would be the last democratic elections under this French government that was formed after the Franco-Prussian War and was ended by the German occupation. | French Third Republic (Troisième République) |
| State in which the majority of the campaign occurred. | New York |
| Country in which U.S. ally Tadeusz Kosciuszko [[tah-DEH-ooss kohss-CHOO-skoh]] was born. | Commonwealth of Poland (accept Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; accept Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) |
| Mercenaries for Britain, mainly from a certain Central German region. | Hessians |
| Losing British general whose surrender ended the campaign. | John Burgoyne |
| Battle near a Vermont town, considered the turning point of the campaign. | Battle of Bennington |
| Pioneer and colonel whose sharpshooters killed Simon Fraser during the Battle of Bemis Heights. | Daniel Morgan |
| General in the campaign, known for his Bunker Hill order, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." | Israel Putnam |
| Article of clothing depicted in a battlefield monument that does not mention its primary honoree. | Boot (of Benedict Arnold) Barbarians Regarding the tribes and peoples regarded by the Romans and others as "Barbarians," name the... |
| Much-feared fifth century ruler of the Huns who invaded Italy. | Attila the Hun |
| Religion to which the Franks were converted, following their king, Clovis. | Christianity (or Christians; or Catholicism; accept Roman Catholics) |
| Saint who died while the Vandals besieged the city of Hippo. | Augustine of Hippo |
| Last Western Roman Emperor deposed in 476 AD by the Ostrogoths. | Romulus Augustulus (accept Romulus Augustus – do not accept or prompt on partial answer) |
| Peninsula on which the Suebi established a kingdom in the fifth century. | Iberian Peninsula |
| Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century, permanently ending Roman rule over most of the peninsula. | Lombards (accept Langobards) |
| Alliance which conquered Pannonia before launching the Siege of Constantinople in 626. | Avars (or Obri; or Abaroi; or Varchonitai; or Pseudo-Avars; or Apar; or Avar Khaganate) |
| Germanic peoples who led a confederation against Marcus Aurelius in a series of namesake wars. | Marcomanni (accept Marcomannic Wars; prompt on "German and Sarmatian Wars"; do not accept or prompt on "Sarmatian") |
| Cartel of nations meant to maintain the price of oil, co-founded by Venezuela. | OPEC [[OH-pek]] (accept Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) |
| Country in which socialist president Hugo Chávez was succeeded by Nicolás Maduro. | Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (or Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela) |
| Nation which experienced a temporary relocation of its capital to Guayaquil [[gwy- ah-KEEL]] following anti-Moreno riots. | Republic of Ecuador (or Republica del Ecuador) |
| First indigenous head of state in Latin America who experienced temporary exile from Bolivia. | Evo Morales (or Juan Evo Morales Ayma) |
| Recently re-elected Brazilian president who was imprisoned for his involvement in Operation Car Wash. | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (accept either underlined portion) |
| Last name of Peronist [[peh-ROH-nist]] presidents of Argentina who held back-to- back tenures. | Kirchner (accept Christina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner; accept Nestor Carlos Kirchner) |
| Former Catholic bishop who ended the Colorado Party's dominance in Paraguay. | Fernando Lugo (or Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez) |
| Female Chilean president who earlier served as the head of UNASUR. | Michelle Bachelet [[bah-cheh-LEH]] (or Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria; accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| One king of this realm was accidentally burned alive after being wrapped in brandy-soaked bandages. That king, Charles the Bad, used this kingdom as a base to oppose Peter the Cruel and repeatedly make and break alliances with Edward (+) the Black Prince. The south of this kingdom was conquered by Ferdinand of Aragon in 1512. A later king of this kingdom quipped that "Paris is Well (*) Worth a Mass" before becoming Catholic and assuming the throne of France. For ten points, what was this small, majority-Basque kingdom in the Pyrenees mountains? | Navarre |
| Daniel Vose House took three days to edit a set of documents introduced into one body by this man. The book Liberty's Martyr focuses on this man, whose death was allegedly said to have been equivalent to the loss of 500 men by Thomas (+) Gage. William Dawes and a silversmith were dispatched on one mission by this physician. John Trumbull painted a work focusing on this man's death after an attack on a redoubt at (*) Breed's Hill. For ten points, name this Massachusetts Founding Father who was killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill. | Joseph Warren |
| A corp of these units named the “Aswaran” would carry a heraldic banner known as the “Drafsh,” depicting mythical creatures like the Bashkuch. This military unit was vital in breaking the line of the Vandals led by Gelimer at Ad Decimum and Tricamerum, leading to (+) Belisarius keeping this unit in his corps during the later Italian campaign. This type of horseman derives its name from the Greek word for “to be enclosed” or simply “armor,” and they typically wielded a cavalry lance known as a (*) kontos. For ten points, name these heavy cavalry units used by the Sassanids, Parthians, and the Byzantine Empire. | Cataphracts (accept Kataphraktoi) |
| The name of this group is thought to have originated with Peter Geren, who claimed that one group "choked" in a certain fashion. A leader of the Boll Weevils named Charlie Stenholm (+) was among the founding members of this group, which currently is comprised of nineteen members, such as Arizona's Tom O'Halleran and Hawaii's Ed Case. Unlike those within the Congressional Progressive (*) Caucus, members of this caucus often lean further to the right than most members of a major party. For ten points, name this caucus of conservative Democrats. | Blue Dog Democrats (accept Blue Dogs; accept Blue Dog Coalition; prompt on descriptive answers) |
| In the face of negative publicity surrounding The Observer, this man moved away from St. Louis, Missouri. After this man was murdered, John Quincy Adams declared it prompted “a shock as of an earthquake throughout (+) this country,” and this man’s death inspired John Brown to say, “from this time, I consecrate (*) my life to the destruction of slavery.” For ten points, name this abolitionist fatally shot in Alton, Illinois, by a pro-slavery mob. | Elijah Parish Lovejoy |
| After one engagement, this man allegedly said that “for a few grains of [millet] I almost lost the entire kingdom.” This man waged war against Maldeo Rathore of Marwar and was killed while besieging Kalinjar. The first known (+) rupee currency was instituted by this man, who extended one system westward from Chittagong. This commander under Babur rose to power while Humayun was away from court. This “teacher of kings” greatly expanded the Grand Trunk Road and ruled the Indian subcontinent from 1540 to 1545. (*) For ten points, name this founder of the Sur Empire who was idolized by the Mughal Emperors. | Sher Shah Suri (accept Farid Khan; prompt on partial answers) |
| The Gilchrest Road crossing accident may have inspired the content of one figure in this segment, whose lyrics were written by Dave Frishberg. This 1976 segment was created in anticipation of the bicentennial and later inspired an SNL skit in which a character who plays Barack (+) Obama pushes the central figure down a flight of stairs repeatedly, unlike an executive order. Discussions of veto power occur in this segment, whose central figure notes how he is "sitting here on (*) Capitol Hill". For ten points, name this Schoolhouse Rock! segment about a piece of legislation's attempts to become a law. | "I'm Just a Bill" |
| The Palacio de Gobierno [[goh-BYEHR-noh]] contains a painting of this man in which he appears to wave a torch. The overthrow of José de (+) Iturrigaray contributed to the decision of this one-time professor at the Colegio [[koh-LEH-hyoh]] de San Nicolás Obispo to call for supporters of Ferdinand the Seventh to revolt against a group of Spaniards. That speech was delivered by this man in the city of (*) Dolores. For ten points, name this Catholic priest who was a central leader of the Mexican independence movement. | Miguel Hidalgo (or Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor) |
| Upon receipt of an honorary doctorate from Leipzig University, this man served as the youngest professor at Switzerland’s University of Basel. After suffering a third stroke, this bachelor was buried by his sister, who compiled this man’s unpublished notes in The Will (+) to Power. This philologist’s Gay Science was where he first considered the idea of eternal recurrence and featured the statement “God (*) is dead.” For ten points, name this philosopher who introduced the concept of the Übermensch in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| What Korean city, later the site of Seoul’s primary international airport, was the location of a successful Korean War seaborne invasion? | Incheon |