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| In an effort to pacify this deity's wrath, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia [[ih-FEH-jin-AY-ah]] at Aulis while enroutetotheTrojanWar.Ascorpionkillsthis woman's companion Orion, resulting in her placing him among the stars. An Ephesian Templeisdedicatedto,fortenpoints,whatGreekgoddessofthehunt? | Artemis (acceptDianabefore"Greek"ismentioned) |
| This system was proposedfollowingan1854choleraoutbreakand,fouryearslater, the “Great Stink” that arose from pollution. In 2016, this system began an enormous expansion called the Thames Tideway Scheme. For ten points, identify this system which removeswastefromlocationslikeKensingtonandWestminster. | LondonSewerSystem |
| After French tourists were killed in a nearby country, the Central Europe Rally was held in place of a cross-country rallythattraditionallyendedinthiscountry.AdamaBarrow has worked with this country’s Macky Sall on several infrastructure projects spanning the GambiaRiver.Fortenpoints,namethisformerFrenchcolonygovernedfromDakar. | RepublicofSenegal |
| ThismanwrotethefirstbiographyofaU.S.president,TheLifeofGeorgeWashington, and he briefly served as Secretary of State during the John Adams administration. This justice wrote decisions that outlined the principle of “judicial review” and laid the foundation for Native American “tribal sovereignty.” For ten points, name this longest-servingchiefjusticeoftheSupremeCourt. | JohnMarshall |
| This colonial power deepened ethnic distinctions between the Tutsis and Hutus during its rule of Ruanda-Urundi. Another colony of thiscountrybecameindependentafter once being ruled asa“FreeState”ofthiscountry’skingLeopoldtheSecond.TheDemocratic Republic of the Congo was long colonized by, for ten points, what French-and Dutch-speakingLowCountry? | Belgium (orBelgianEmpire) |
| This man reportedlysaid,“I'mtheonlyoneintheSenatewhomustvoteforthisbill,” during a debate over the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This senator executed a sixty-day filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and once recruited 150 men to establish a Ku Klux Klan chapter in Sophia, West Virginia. For ten points, name this longest-serving senatorinU.S.history. | RobertByrd (orRobertCarlyleByrd;orCorneliusCalvinSaleJr.) |
| This man’s first work, “On the Use of the Dart by Cavalry,” preceded another work about his former commander, Pomponius Secundus. This man died in Stabiae while attempting to rescue victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. For ten points, name this Roman statesman who wrote a work entitled Natural History and has a similarly named nephew. | PlinytheElder (orGaiusPliniusSecundus;promptonpartialanswers) |
| This conflict erupted in part from divergent understandingsoftheTreatyofPayne’s Landing. An ambush during this conflict resulted in the massacreofFrancisDadeandmore than a hundred of his men. Thomas Jesup arrested Osceola despite Osceola’s white flag during, for ten points, what conflict in which Zachary Taylor fought theundecisiveBattleof LakeOkeechobee? | TheSecondSeminoleWar (accepttheFloridaWar) SecondQuarter |
| This leader wrote the July Theses, which were inspired by thecultsofpersonalityof Kim Il-sung and Mao Zedong. After a violentuprising,thisdictatorandhiswife,Elena,were subjected to a show trial and executed by a firing squad on Christmas Day. For ten points, namethiscommunistleaderofRomaniafrom1965until1989. | NicolaeCeaușescu[[chow-CHESS-skyoo]] |
| In contrast to Ceaușescu's violent overthrow, the dissolution of the Communist governmentinCzechoslovakiawasnamedforthismaterial,duetoitsrelative“softness.” | Velvet (acceptVelvetRevolution;acceptSametovarevoluce) |
| After 10 years, this country wasgrantedfullindependencebytheTydings–McDuffie Act. Manuel Quezon [[KAY-zon]] was the first independent president of this country, in which the People Power Revolution overthrew Ferdinand Marcos. For tenpoints,namethis islandnation,thesiteoftheWorldWarTwoBattleofManila. | RepublicofthePhilippines (orRepublikangPilipinas) |
| This peninsula on Luzon was where 76,000 American and Filipino troops surrendered during World War Two. This peninsula was thereafter the site of a namesake "deathmarch." | BataanPeninsula (acceptBataanDeathMarch) |
| As colonial governor, Nicholas Cooke led this future U.S.state,whichwasthefirstto declare independence fromGreatBritain.SamuelKing'stenureasgovernorofthisstatewas challenged by Dorr's Rebellion. Brown University is located in, for ten points, what small NewEnglandstatefoundedbyRogerWilliams? | RhodeIsland |
| Besides Nicholas Cooke, Jonathan Trumbull was the only man to govern both a British colonyandaU.S.state.Trumbullgovernedwhatstatethathiditsfoundingdocument inthe“CharterOak”? | Connecticut |
| In a 1975 monograph partially titled for this man, J. G. A. Pocock contends that the American Revolution was the last great act ofcivichumanismoftheRenaissance.Thisman, who reportedly said, "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both,” wrote a 1532 treatise onhowtoacquireandretainpower.Fortenpoints,namethisItalianauthorof ThePrince. | NiccolòMachiavelli (orNiccolòdiBernardodeiMachiavelli;acceptThe MachiavellianMoment) |
| In a 2020 biography, Barry Gewen argues that this U.S. secretary ofstate,the1973 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, should be remembered as more than a modern-day Machiavelli. | HenryAlfredKissinger (orHeinzAlfredKissinger;acceptTheInevitabilityof Tragedy:HenryKissingerandHisWorld) |
| This man said, "There will be no ‘bottlenecks’ in our determination to aid Great Britain," before coining thephrase"arsenalofdemocracy."Thispresidentgaveaspeechthat declared that the U.S. was "suddenly and deliberatelyattackedbynavalandairforcesofthe Empire of Japan." For ten points, name this president who gave the "Day of Infamy"speech aftertheattackonPearlHarbor. | FranklinDelanoRoosevelt (acceptFDR) |
| FDR gave a 1938 speech on the 75th anniversary of this battle, after which one president stated how the U.S. was "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition thatallmenarecreatedequal." | BattleofGettysburg (acceptGettysburgAddress) |
| In 1933, pilots Steponas Darius and Statys Girénas [[STEH-tees geh-REH-nas]] of this country flew a namesake plane from New York across the Atlantic Ocean beforefatally crashing. This country was formerlypartofa“Commonwealth”withPoland.ThefirstSoviet republic to declare independence in 1990, for the point, what is this Baltic state governed fromVilnius? | RepublicofLithuania |
| The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was formed by the Union of [this city] in modern-day Poland. Like Krakow, this city came under Austrian occupation during the Partitions. | Lublin (acceptUnionofLublin) |
| Ariana DeBose won an Academy Award for her role in this production sixty years after it was won by anotheractressforthesamerole.Thatactress,RitaMoreno,wonaTony and an Oscar for her portrayal of this musical's character Anita. For ten points, name this musicalthatfeaturesarivalrybetweentheJetsandtheSharks. | WestSideStory |
| This lyricist of West Side Story, who passed awayin2021,alsowrotethemusicand lyricsforthemusicalsCompany,SweeneyTodd,andIntotheWoods. | StephenSondheim (orStephenJoshuaSondheim) |
| Though this country introduced universal male suffrage in 1879, Frederick Nene Russell was one of itsfirstfournonwhitemembersofparliamentby1868.Thiscountrywas settled by Europeans following the Musket Wars and the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Cook Islands was annexed by, for ten points, what native country of the Māori [[MOW-ree]]? | NewZealand (orAotearoa) |
| This youngest female prime minister in the history of New Zealand unexpectedly resignedinearly2023. | JacindaArdern ThirdQuarter Thecategoriesare: 1.IranHostageCrisis 2.NicholastheSecond 3.SouthAfrica IranHostageCrisis ConcerningtheIranHostageCrisis,namethe... |
| Countryoforiginofthe52diplomatswhowereheldhostage. | U.S.A. (orUnitedStatesofAmerica;acceptAmerica) |
| Presidentwhowascriticizedforhishandlingofthecrisis. | JimmyCarter (orJamesEarl"Jimmy"Carter,Jr.) |
| Capitalcityinwhichthehostageswereheld. | Tehran |
| ReligiousleaderoftheIranianrevolutionwhogainedpowerafteroverthrowingthe Shah. | AyatollahKhomeini (orSayyidRuhollahMūsaviKhomeini;promptonthe "Ayatollah") |
| AforementionedShahwhowasexiledtoEgyptfollowinghisdisposal. | MohammadRezaPahlavi (orMohammedRezaShah;prompton"Shah,""Reza," or"Pahlavi") |
| Unsuccessfulrescueattemptwhichresultedinthedeathofeightservicemen. | OperationEagleClaw (orOperationTabas) NicholastheSecond ConcerningthelastRussiantsar,namethe... |
| GlobalconflictintowhichheledRussiaonthesideoftheTripleEntente. | WorldWarOne (orFirstWorldWar;orGreatWar) |
| EarlierconflictintowhichheledRussia,endedbytheTreatyofPortsmouth. | Russo-JapaneseWar (acceptwordforms;acceptineitherorder) |
| RevolutionaryMarxistfactionthatexecutedhimaftertheOctoberRevolution. | Bolsheviks (orBolshevists;prompton"communists") |
| Royalfamilytowhichhebelonged. | Romanov |
| EngineeringprojectconnectingMoscowandVladivostokthatwascompletedduring hisreign. | Trans–SiberianRailway (accept"Rail"or"Railroad"inplaceof"Railway"; prompton"TSR") |
| LawyerwholedtheProvisionalRussiangovernmentafteroustinghiminthe FebruaryRevolution. | AlexanderKerensky (orAlexanderFyodorovichKerensky) SouthAfrica RegardingthehistoryofthenationofSouthAfrica,namethe... |
| Systemofsegregationthatstartedin1948. | Apartheid |
| Largestofitsthreecapitals,formerlyaDutchEastIndiatradingport. | CapeTown (oriKapa) |
| SmallenclavecountryfromwhichTomThabane[[tah-BAH-neh]]fledtoSouthAfrica duringa2020coup. | KingdomofLesotho[[luh-SOO-too]] (acceptphoneticpronunciations) |
| IslandonwhichMandelawasheldprisonerforeighteenyears. | RobbenIsland |
| SportfeaturedinInvictus,aboutthe1995WorldChampionshipteam. | Rugby |
| PresidentwhowasjointlyawardedtheNobelPrizewithNelsonMandela. | F.W.deKlerk (orFrederikWillemdeKlerk) FourthQuarter |
| This man called upon Black men to “Cast down your bucket where you are.” This man called on freed Black people (+) to enter the workforce in the American South in his Atlanta Exposition Speech, which W. E. B. DuBois[[doo-BOYS]]derisively dubbed the "Atlanta (*) Compromise." For ten points, name this African-American educator,thefounderoftheTuskegeeInstitute. | BookerT (aliaferro)Washington |
| This man introduced a gold coin known as the solidus. According to a biography by Eusebius, (+) this emperor saw the words "In this sign thou shalt conquer" appear above the Sun prior to the Battle of (*) Milvian Bridge. Fortenpoints, namethisRomanemperorknownforhisconversiontoChristianity. | ConstantinetheGreat (acceptConstantinetheFirst;orFlaviusValerius Constantinus;orKonstantinostheFirst) |
| Former NBA player Dennis Rodman claimed he played a role in the release of American student Otto Warmbier from this country. (+) In an attempt to bolster its film industry, operatives from this country kidnapped director Shin Sang-ok from its (*) southern neighbor. For ten points, name this East Asian country governed by the Kim familyfromPyongyang. | NorthKorea (orDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea;acceptDPRK;prompt on"Korea") |
| Oskar Potiorek failed to make one man aware of a shift in the route prior to another attempt to do this action. Sophie, Duchess (+) of Hohenberg, was among the victims of a man who committed this action, Gavrilo (*) Princip. For ten points, name thisaction,thekillingoftheheirtotheAustro-Hungarianthrone. | AssassinatingArchdukeFranzFerdinand (acceptclear-knowledgeequivalents; promptonpartialanswers) |
| An 1807 painting of one of these events inaccurately includes the central figure's mother, Maria Ramolino. (+) That samepaintingfalselydepictsPopePiusthe Seventh blessing its title figure at (*) Notre Dame in this event. Fortenpoints,namethis typeofeventthatwilltakeplacethisspringforCharlestheThird. | Coronation (acceptConsecration;acceptTheCoronationofCharlemagne; acceptTheCoronationofNapoleon) |
| During Romanantiquity,thisregion,whichcontainsthecityofRennes[[REN]], formed Armorica's western terminus. According to legend, a mythical city (+) in this region was thought to have sunk underneath the ocean. Ys [[EESS]] legendarily was found in (*), for ten points, what western region of France that lies north of the Bay of Biscay? | Brittany (orBretagne;orBreizh;orBertaèyn) |
| This rite mingled Native beliefs with elements of Christianity and prophesied the return of the dead and bison herds, (+) as well as the removal of white people from America. The Paiute [[PAH-yoot]] leader Wovoka spread this rite to (*) Native peoples. For ten points, identify this rite, which names a war that culminated in the WoundedKneeMassacre. | GhostDance (acceptGhostDanceWar) |
| Arthur Meighen [[MEE-un]] briefly succeeded this man as prime minister following a constitutional crisis. (+) That crisis started when Governor General Lord Byng refused this man’s request to dissolve (*) parliament. For ten points, name this longest-servingCanadianPrimeMinisterwhowasinofficeduringWorldWarTwo. | WilliamLyonMackenzieKing ExtraQuestion |
| With her lover, this royal executed the "Donations of Alexandria," giving Armenia to her son Alexander Helios while (*) Caesarion wasnamedthelegitimateheir to his father, Julius Caesar. According to legend, this woman died by exposing herself to poisonous asps. For tenpoints,namethisparamourofMarkAntonyandQueenofPtolemaic Egypt. | CleopatratheSeventhPhilopator |
| TheattackonwhatSouthCarolinafortbyConfederateforcesisconsideredtobethe beginningoftheCivilWar? | FortSumter |