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| This person was chosen by Victoria Woodhull to be her running mate during the 1872 presidential election. This social reformer was the only Black person to attend the Seneca Falls Convention. The phrase "Truth is of no Color" appeared in the motto of The North Star, a publication run by, for ten points, what influential former slave and abolitionist? | FrederickDouglass (orFrederickAugustusWashingtonBailey) |
| Under this prime minister’s administration, tensions between government and coal miners erupted into the Battle of Orgreave. The song "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" charted to number two ontheUKsingleschartafterthedeaththisformerprimeministerin 2013. For tenpoints,namethisprimeministerwhosestaunchnessearnedherthenickname ofthe“IronLady.” | MargaretThatcher (orMargaretHildaThatcher) |
| OnecodenameforthecreationofthesethingswasdesignatedastheDevelopmentof Substitute Materials. EnolaGayandBockscardroppedthesedevices,nicknamed"LittleBoy" and "Fat Man," on the citiesofHiroshimaandNagasaki.Fortenpoints,nametheseweapons developedbytheManhattanProject. | NuclearBombs (orNuclearWeapons;acceptAtomicBombs;prompton "Bombs"or"Weapons"or"Weaponsofmassdestruction") |
| One news outlet during this event was nicknamed "Radio Machete." The paramilitary Interahamwe [[in-the-rah-HAHM-weh]] started taking violent reprisalsduring this event following the capture of Kigali by a rival faction. For ten points, name this 1994 eventinanEastAfricannationwheretheHutusmassacredmembersoftheTutsiminority. | RwandanGenocide (prompton"RwandanCivilWar") |
| James Purnell, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions called for this man to resign after resigning himself. This man announced an inquiry into a conflict joined by his predecessor, Tony Blair, with the Chilcot Commission investigating the Iraq War. For ten points, name this most recentLabourPrimeMinisterofUnitedKingdom,leadingfrom2007 to2010. | GordonBrown (orJamesGordonBrown) |
| This decade was referred to as the Années folles [[an-NAY foll]] in France. This decade saw a failed rebellion by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party known as the Beer Hall Putsch. During this decade, Benito Mussolini founded the National Fascist Party in Italy. Vladimir Lenin died in, for ten points, what decade which saw Joseph Stalin became the leaderoftheSovietUnion? | 1920s (promptonthe"20s") |
| At this place, an employee named Arthur Crick claimed he heard a voice that said, “There’s only you and I here.” The Crown Jewels are held in this location, whose residents included Walter Raleigh and a set of princes held in it by Richard the Third. For tenpoints, namethishistoriccastleinEnglandthatservedasaprison. | TowerofLondon (orHisMajesty'sRoyalPalaceandFortressoftheTowerof London) |
| In August 2022, this country's Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the leader of the Azimio Party to challenge election results. The winner of that election in this country changed his allegiance to the United Democratic Alliance after serving as a Home Affairs Minister for President Daniel arap Moi. For ten points, name this African country where WilliamRutowonanelectiontosucceedPresidentUhuruKenyatta. | RepublicofKenya SecondQuarter |
| This ruler was put under house arrest after the flight to Varennes, and his government’s collapse was due to the policies of Jacques Necker. The Ancien [[ON-see-on]] Régime concluded with the death ofthisruler,whodealtwiththeaftermathofthestorming oftheBastille.Fortenpoints,namethiskingofFrancewhowasbeheadedduringtheFrench Revolution. | LouistheSixteenth (orLouis-AugustedeFrance,ducdeBerry;acceptCitizen Capet) |
| Louis the Sixteenth failed to stop thisevent,inwhichparticipantsmetatasporting venueandsworenottodissolveuntilaconstitutioncouldbeestablished. | TennisCourtOath |
| Conestoga wagons and trains appear in the background of a painting by John Gast that symbolizes this concept, American Progress. Another painting about this concept, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way, shows pioneers settling the West. For ten points, name this concept, the cultural belief that the USA was destined to expand across NorthAmerica. | ManifestDestiny |
| The Autry Museum housing American Progress is in what West Coast city, inwhich theGettyMuseumwasalsobuilt? | LosAngeles,California (orLA) |
| This man, after arriving late for a book signing for Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon, said, “I know you’re all saying I can go to the moon, but I can’t find Pasadena.” This man’s diagnosis of Ménière's disease prompted him to be replaced duringGemini3.Fortenpoints,namethisfirstAmericaninspace. | AlanShepard (orAlanBartlettShephardJr.) |
| Shepard famously demonstrated the moon’s light gravity by performing this sport onthemoon. | Golf |
| This island was originally named Isla Juana [[EE-lah HWAH-nah]] for a Spanish prince. This country's government under Fulgencio Batista [[ful-HEN-see-oh bah-TEE-sta]] was overthrown by a set of brothers whose communist government still governs it today. Fortenpoints,namethisCaribbeanislandnationonceledbyFidelCastro. | RepublicofCuba |
| The current leader of Cuba is Miguel Díaz-Canel, who succeeded this brother of FidelCastroasCuba'sleader. | RaúlCastro (orRaúlModestoCastroRuz;prompton"Castro") |
| This Ghibelline city held a church council that elected Alexander the Fifth as pope and aimed to end the Western Schism. A physicist from thiscitywroteDialogueConcerning the Two Chief World Systems and purportedly dropped balls from a building here. Galileo wasbornin,fortenpoints,whatcityinTuscanyknownforitsLeaningTower? | Pisa (acceptCouncilofPisa;acceptLeaningTowerofPisa) |
| Pisa, like Florence, lies on this Italian river, across which the retreating German armydestroyedmanybridgesinWorldWarTwo. | Arno |
| A singer born in this state recorded a live album at San Quentin State Prison. In 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower called the National Guard to enforce school desegregation in this state's capital city. Johnny Cash and Bill Clinton were from, for ten points,whatstatewhoseCentralHighSchoolintegratedtheLittleRockNine? | Arkansas |
| Arkansas native C. Vann Woodward wrote a book which Martin Luther King, Jr. called "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." That book was titled The Strange Careerof[thisconcept],anamegiventolawsenforcingracialsegregation. | JimCrow (acceptJimCrowLaws) |
| Cleitus the Black was killed in this city after claiming that Alexander the Great was minimizing the achievements of his father. This city is home to theGur-e-Amirmausoleum, which contains the remains of themanwhodefeatedBayezidtheFirstandTokhtamysh.For tenpoints,namethisancientUzbekcitythatonceservedasthecapitalofTimur’sempire. | Samarkand (acceptMaracandabeforementioned) |
| The first paper mill in the Muslim world was established at Samarkand under the rule ofthiscaliphate,whocapturedChineseprisonersfromtheTangDynastyattheBattleof Talas. | AbbasidCaliphate (orAbbasids) |
| Prior to his inauguration, this man and his wife, Jane, survived a train accident, despite losing their son. This man’s Secretary of State, William Marcy, resolved the Koszta [[KOSH-tuh]] Affair, and his diplomats issued the embarrassing Ostend Manifesto. For the point, name this northern Democrat and anti-abolitionist who served asthefourteenthU.S. President. | FranklinPierce |
| Franklin Pierce attended Bowdoin College in this U.S. state, as did Civil War hero ColonelJoshuaChamberlain. | Maine ThirdQuarter Thecategoriesare: 1.HistoryinPopularMusic 2.Czechoslovakia 3.TheMaya HistoryinPopularMusic Fromthehistoryofpopularmusic,namethe... |
| 2012alt-rocksongbyBastilletitledforatowndestroyedbyMountVesuvius. | "Pompeii" |
| ABBAsingle,titledforthebattleatwhichNapoleonwasdefeated. | "Waterloo" |
| Crosby,Stills,Nash,andYoungprotestsong,titledforthestateinwhichtheKent StateMassacretookplace. | "Ohio" |
| Leadsingerof"TheCrickets"whodiedinaplanecrash,astorytoldinthesong "AmericanPie." | BuddyHolly (orCharlesHardinHolley;acceptBuddyHolleyandtheCrickets) |
| ConquistadorwhoisthesubjectofaNeilYoungsongaboutthefalloftheAztec empire. | HernánCortés (accept"CorteztheKiller") |
| AlanJacksonsongcomposedofquestionsaboutreactionstotheSeptember11 attacks. | "WhereWereYou (WhentheWorldStoppedTurning)" Czechoslovakia ConcerningtheformercountryofCzechoslovakia,namethe... |
| DualmonarchyfromwhichitbrokeawayafterWorldWarOne. | Austria-Hungary (orAustro-HungarianEmpire;promptonpartialanswers) |
| Czechcitynaminga"Spring"ofliberalizationin1968. | Prague (acceptPragueSpring) |
| GermancitythatnamesanAgreementallowingpartofthecountrytobeannexedby NaziGermany. | Munich (orMunichAgreement) |
| German-speakingregionthatwastakenbyGermanyin1938. | Sudetenland |
| Authorwhobecamethelastpresidentofthecountryin1989. | VáclavHavel[[HAH-vuhl]] (acceptphoneticpronunciation) |
| SportinwhichitsathletesMartinaNavratilovaandIvanLendlcompeted. | Tennis TheMaya RegardingtheancientMayacivilization,namethe... |
| PeninsulajuttingintotheGulfofMexicowheretheMayaflourished. | YucatánPeninsula |
| TypeofstructureexemplifiedbyElCastillo[[cass-TEE-yoh]]atChichenItza [[CHEE-chenEET-zah]]. | Step-pyramid (prompton"temple") |
| "LongCount"toolformeasuringtimedevelopedbytheirastronomers. | LongCountCalendars |
| Sporttheyplayedonacourtwithastonering. | Mesoamericanballgame (orPitz;orOllamaliztli;orPokTaPok) |
| StaplecropforwhichHunHunahpu[[huhn-huhn-ah-PUH]]wasthechiefdeity. | Corn (orMaize) |
| EpicthattellstheircreationstoryandthejourneyoftheHeroTwins. | PopolVuh (orPopolWuj) FourthQuarter |
| This man served as president of the general board of the United States Navy until he died in 1917. This man’s flagshipwastheUSSOlympia,(+)whichwasusedto command the Navy to victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish- (*) American War. Fortenpoints,namethisfive-starAdmiraloftheUnitedStatesNavy,theonly persontoeverattaintherank. | GeorgeDewey |
| This nation’s prime minister, A. N. R. Robinson, was held hostage in “the Red House” (+) during a six-day coup conducted bytheorganizationJamaatalMuslimeen [[moos-SLEE-mehn]]. This nation has been negotiating with Venezuela to construct new joint (*) oil pipelines. For ten points, name thistwo-islandformerSpanishandBritish colonygovernedfromPortofSpain. | TrinidadandTobago (promptonpartialanswers) |
| This man's reports attackedThomasBainbridgeafterhisfriendRobertCastell died in Fleet Prison. This man founded a colony (+) whose namesake "experiment" initially bannedtheownershipofAfricanslavesandservedasanalternativetoprison for English (*) debtors. For ten points, name this reformer who founded the city of SavannahandthecolonyofGeorgia. | JamesOglethorpe (orJamesEdwardOglethorpe) |
| Kurt Cobain turned down a $10 million headlining opportunity at this event and died the day after (+) Nirvana dropped out. In 2010, radius clauses were examined amidst an antitrust investigation of this event during the mayorship of Richard M. (*) Daley. For ten points, name this annual music festival in held in Chicago's GrantPark. | Lollapalooza |
| During this period, a father and son duo formed the Campbell Movement. Regions of New York (+) came to be known as the "burned-over district" during this period, in which circuit riders were used to promote (*) Methodism. For ten points, namethisAmericanreligiousrevivalofProtestantismduringtheearly1800s. | SecondGreatAwakening (prompton"GreatAwakening") |
| After his daughter Francine’s death, this man allegedly constructed a wooden automatontoreplaceher.AfterhearingaboutGalileo’shousearrest,thismandelayed the publication of his (+) Treatise on the Light. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First (*) Philosophy were othernotableworksof,fortenpoints,whatFrenchphilosopher whostated,“IthinkthereforeIam”? | RenéDescartes |
| Before this man’s arrest, he wrote Industrial Society and Its Future and promised The New York Times he would “desist from terrorism” (+) if theypublished his essay. Following The Washington Post’s publication of this man’s essay, this man’s brother reported his suspicions to the (*) FBI. For ten points, name this domestic terrorist,whosenationwidebombingcampaignearnedhimthenickname,"Unabomber." | TheodoreJohn"Ted"Kaszynski (acceptUnabomberbeforementioned) |
| Josephus records that following this man’s execution, Herod Antipas’ army suffered massive defeats as punishment. (+) In Christianity, this man is identified with Elijah as a forerunner of the (*) messiah. For ten points, name this Jewish prophet describedintheGospels,whoimmersedJesusintheJordanRiver. | JohntheBaptist (prompton“John”) ExtraQuestion |
| The Ethiopian Regiment comprised many of these people who had been promised emancipation (+) from slavery by Lord Dunmore. One of Benjamin Franklin's sons, who served as New Jersey governor, was notablyoneofthesepeople, who expressed discontent with tactics like tarring (*) and feathering. For ten points, namethesecolonistswhomaintainedtheirallegiancetoGeorgetheThird. | Loyalists (acceptKing’sMen;acceptTories;acceptRoyalists) |
| This composer's work was rediscovered in a 19th century "revival." Who was this creatoroftheBrandenburgConcertosandTheWell-TemperedClavier? | JohannSebastianBach |