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| This preisdent’s inaguration ceremony featured the recitement of Robert Frost's "The Gift Outright." This president described a torch being "passed to a new generation of Americans" in an address that told theaudience"askwhatyoucandoforyourcountry."For tenpoints,namethispresidentwho,in1963,wasassassinatedbyLeeHarveyOswald. | JohnF (itzgerald)Kennedy (orJFK) |
| While serving as Defence Minister, this man ordered his country’s bombing campaigns inYemen,andin2018,thismanendedhiscountry’slongstandingbanonwomen drivers. U.S. intelligence agencies contend that this man ordered the murder ofWashington Post columnist JamalKhashoggi.Fortenpoints,namethiscrownprinceanddefactorulerof SaudiArabia. | MohammadbinSalmanbinAbdulazizAlSaud (acceptMBS) |
| After a feud, this monarch was excommunicated by Pope Innocent the Third. With Philip the Second, this king signed the Treaty of Le Goulet, which caused England to surrender their Angevin lands to France. Fortenpoints,namethisKingofEnglandfromthe houseofAnjouwho,aftertheBarons’Revolt,issuedtheMagnaCartain1215. | KingJohn (acceptJohnLackland;acceptJeansansTerre) |
| This country’s Chimor people built a large city whose name literally means “sun sun.” In addition to Chan Chan, this country is home to an adobe brick temple, called the Huaca del Sol, that was used by the Moche culture. This country’s massive geoglyphs are known as the Nazca Lines. For ten points, name this South American country home to the formerIncancapitalofCuzco. | RepublicofPeru (orRepúblicadelPerú) |
| This state was hometoStephanieKwolek,whoinventedKevlarin1965,andWallace Hume Carothers, who invented nylon in 1935. This state’s representative to the Second Continental Congress, Caesar Rodney, cast the deciding vote for independence. For ten points, name this U.S. state that shares its name with a river notably crossed by George Washington. | Delaware (acceptWashingtonCrossingtheDelaware) |
| According to Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed, a product made by this company could fail into a “tuck under” mode due to a poorly designed swing-axle suspension. This company's CEO, Charles Wilson, was confirmed as Secretary of Defense after stating "what was good for the country was good for [this company]." For ten points, name this largest Americanautomaker. | GeneralMotors (orGM;prompton“Chevrolet”or“Chevy”) |
| The Treaty of Karlowitz[[KAR-loh-vitz]]ledthisempiretocedeareasoftheBalkans to the Habsburgs. The devshirme [[dev-SHEER-meh]] system recruited Christian boys to fill this empire's elite Janissary [[JEH-nih-seh-ree]] units. For ten points, name this empire whoseSultanMehmedtheConquerorendedtheByzantineEmpire. | OttomanEmpire (orOttomans;orOsmanliTurks;orOsmanliTürkleri;or OttomanTurks;prompton"Turkey"or"Turks") |
| This man created a mobile classroom designed to educate rural farmers that he named for his financier Morris Ketchum Jesup. This man was invited by Booker T. Washington to head the Agriculture Department at Tuskegee. For ten points, name this African-American researcher and inventor, who developed hundreds of applications for sweetpotatoesandpeanuts. | GeorgeWashingtonCarver SecondQuarter |
| Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez argued that this war was engineered using false intelligence as part of a Soviet objective to slow nuclear weaponsdevelopment.Onthefirst day of this war, Operation Focus destroyed almost every jet in the Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrianairforces.Fortenpoints,namethis1967warnamedforitsbriefduration. | Six-DayWar (accept1967Arab-IsraeliWarbefore"Israeli"ismentioned) |
| During the Six-Day War, Israel bombed this U.S. naval intelligence vessel under unclearcircumstances. | USSLiberty (acceptUSSLibertyIncident) |
| This man was hired by Judge Richard Henderson to establish the Transylvania Company, for which this man bought the Cherokee claim on Kentucky. This man blazedthe Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap. For ten points, name this American frontiersmanwholegendarilyworeacapmadeofraccoonfur. | DanielBoone |
| During the Civil War, the Cumberland Gap was occupied by this Confederate commander of the ArmyofTennessee,whowasroutedintheBattlesforChattanooga.Afort inNorthCarolinawasnamedforhimbutisnowbeingrenamedasFortLiberty. | BraxtonBragg |
| Moderate members of this sect tried to reconcile with the Catholic church in the Compacts of Basel. Commanders of these peoplelikeJanŽižka[[ZHEEZH-kuh]]usedwagon forts to defeat invading crusaders. The Utraquist [[YOO-trah-kwist]] and Taborite [[tah-BOR-ite]] factions resulted in the split of, for ten points, what Proto-Protestant movementthatemergedin15thcenturyCzechia? | Hussites (orKališníci) |
| The Taborites followed the teachings of this earlier English church dissident, who authoredanamesakeBibletranslationintoMiddleEnglish. | JohnWycliffe |
| Books in this language were produced after soldiers learned printing techniques from Chinese captives at the Battle of Talas. Many historical records from the Songhai Empire are in this language, used for many medical and mathematical treatises from the House of Wisdom. For ten points, identify this language spoken by Ibn Khaldun and Muhammad. | Arabic (oral-arabiyyah) |
| Arabic texts,includingthebismillah,havebeenusedasdecorativemotifsforthisart form,whosenashkandkufictraditionsarecommoninIslamicart. | Calligraphy |
| This city was going to be the first city targeted by theJapaneseinaDecember1944 biological weapons attack known as Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night. This city has hosted two World’s Fairs, the 1915 Panama-California Exhibition and the 1935 California Pacific International Expedition. For ten points, name this California city home to a famous zoo. | SanDiego (acceptSanDiegoZoo) |
| San Diego lost this franchise, its former professional football team, when they relocatedin2016. | SanDiego (orLosAngeles)Chargers |
| In the original Japanese version, the main antagonists this character faced were named Fickle, Chaser, Ambusher, and Stupid, but in English, those characters became the ghosts named Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde. In 1982, afemalecounterparttothischaracter debuted. Fortenpoints,namethisvideogamecharacterwhoresemblesapizzapiewithone slicemissing. | Pac-Man (donotacceptorprompton“Ms.Pac-Man”) |
| Toru Iwatani developed Pac-Man for this video game company, which produced classicslikeGalagaandTekken.ThiscompanymergedwithBandaiin2006. | NamcoLtd. (acceptBandaiNamcoEntertainment;acceptNakamura SeisakushoCo.,Ltd.) |
| This city, known as the “Paris of the Prairies,” was settled in 1882 as a temperance colony. During the North-West Rebellion, rebel leaders like Charles Trottier and Chief Whitecap passed through this city on the road to Batoche. The arrival of Barr colonists caused the boom of, or the point, what city which has become the largest by population of Saskatchewan? | Saskatoon |
| Chief Whitecap joined the North-West Rebellion, which was led by what Métis resistanceleader,afounderofManitoba? | LouisRiel |
| Stanley Baldwin's foreign secretary had this surname, negotiating the Locarno Pact with Charles Dawes. After allowing the annexation of the Sudetenland at the Munich Conference, a politician with this surname proclaimed "peace for our time." For ten points, namethissurnameofBritishpoliticiansincludingWinstonChurchill'spredecessor,Neville. | Chamberlain (acceptAustenChamberlain;acceptNevilleChamberlain) |
| British statesman Joseph Chamberlain was the Secretary of State for the Colonies duringthisconflict,endedbytheTreatyofVereeniging. | SecondBoerWar (prompton"BoerWar") ThirdQuarter Thecategoriesare: 1.PeopleonU.S.Currency 2.Romania 3.TheStar-SpangledBanner PeopleonU.S.Currency RegardingU.S.currency,namethe... |
| CoinonwhichThomasJefferson'simageisfound. | Nickel (orFivecents) |
| Escapedenslavedwomanandabolitionist,slatedtoreplaceAndrewJacksononthe twenty-dollarbillby2030. | HarrietTubman (orAramintaRoss) |
| CoinonwhichJFKhasappearedsincetheLBJadministration. | KennedyHalfdollar (acceptFiftycents) |
| OnlynativeoftheislandofNevisdepictedonUScurrency. | AlexanderHamilton |
| DemocraticpresidentfromNewYorkdepictedontheone-thousand-dollarbill. | GroverCleveland (orStephenGroverCleveland) |
| PrincetonUniversitypresidentdepictedontheonehundred-thousand-dollarbill. | WoodrowWilson (orThomasWoodrowWilson) Romania ConcerningRomania,namethe... |
| CapitalcitynamingapeacetreatyinwhichtheycededlandtotheCentralPowers. | Bucharest (acceptTreatyofBucharest) |
| 900-milelongmountainrangecrossingthecountryandnamedforasecondcentury tribe. | CarpathianMountains (orCarpathians;prompton"Carpi"or"Carpiani") |
| Regionwhich,withWallachia[[vah-LAH-kee-ah]],isassociatedwithVladthe Impaler. | Transylvania |
| Westernneighbor,ledbyMiklos[[MEE-klohsh]]Horthy,towhichitlostterritoryin theSecondViennaAward. | KingdomofHungary (prompton"Regency") |
| Trans-DanubianRomanprovinceconqueredbydefeatingtribesledbyDecebalus [[deh-KEH-bah-luss]]. | Dacia[[DAY-shuh]] (acceptDacians;acceptphoneticpronunciations) |
| SecretpoliceofRomania'scommunistera. | Securitate[[seh-koo-ree-TAH-teh]] (acceptphoneticpronunciations) “TheStar-SpangledBanner” RegardingthenationalanthemoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica,namethe... |
| Americansymboloftennicknamedthe"star-spangledbanner." | U.S.Flag (acceptobviousequivalents) |
| Authorandpoetwhowrotethelyrics. | FrancisScottKey |
| Warduringwhichitwaswritten. | Warof1812 |
| Baltimorefortoutsideofwhichitwaswritten. | FortMcHenry |
| Presidentwhosigneda1931billofficiallymakingitthenationalanthem. | HerbertHoover (orHerbertClarkHoover) |
| Singerof“ParadisebytheDashboardLight”whosangitmemorablyatthebaseball AllStarGame. | MeatLoaf FourthQuarter |
| One man of this first name chronicled the development of the Norden bombsight and the firebombing of Tokyo in his most recent book, The BomberMafia. (+) Alex Haley wrote an “Autobiography” of a MuslimCivilRightswiththisfirstname. (*) For ten points, give this firstnameofapopularjournalistwithsurnameGladwellandan activistwhorenamedhimself“X.” | Malcolm (acceptMalcolmGladwell;acceptMalcolmX) |
| Though not in Sri Lanka, this city’s Uppatasanti Pagodasupposedlycontainsa tooth of the Buddha. A 2006ArmedForcesDayparade(+)resultedinmembersofthe National League for Democracy relocating to this city, which was given a status once heldby(*)Yangon.Fortenpoints,namethiscapitalcityofMyanmar. | Naypyidaw (orNayPyiTaw) |
| After his tenure in one office, this man gave a seriesofinterviewswithBritish talk-show host David Frost. (+) After his unsuccessful run for president, this Republican wrote Six Crises, where he talked about his tenure as Dwight (*) Eisenhower’s vice president. For ten points, name this president who resigned during the Watergatescandal. | RichardNixon (orRichardMilhousNixon) |
| A ruler of this name reestablished the League of theThreeEmperors,echoing the formation of the Holy Alliance (+) by an earlier ruler of this name. A different ruler set up zemstva [[ZAMST-vah]] before being assassinated by a group named People's (*) Will. For ten points, give this name shared by the Tsar who emancipated the serfs. | Alexander (orAleksándr;acceptAlexandertheFirst;orAlexanderthe Second;orAlexandertheThird;acceptAleksándrOsvobodytel) |
| Sar-i-Sang was known for its numerous mines of this good, which provided it for the Royal Treasury of Ur and the tomb of King Tut. (+) This good was often used during the Middle Ages as a source for ultramarine. Described by Pliny the Elder as "sprinkled with (*) specks of gold,” for ten points, what is this metamorphic rock known foritsintensebluecolor? | LapisLazuli |
| While working at Liberty Hall, this man urged local workers to resist Chinese and Syrian immigration. This man was convicted of mail fraud (+) related to the financing of his shipping company, the Black Star Line, which he foundedtofacilitate Black migration to (*) Liberia. For ten points, name this Jamaican born leaderoftheBack toAfricamovement. | MarcusGarvey (orMarcusMosiahGarveyJr.) |
| ThecoronationmassforthismanwascomposedbyJean-FrançoisLesueurand Giovanni Paisello. Symphony No. 3 (+) was rededicated "to the memory of a great man" after this man became emperor. Beethoven's Eroica (*) Symphony was originally dedicatedto,fortenpoints,whatFrenchcommander,whosearmywasdefeatedattheBattle ofWaterloo? | NapoleonBonaparte (accepteitherunderlinedportion;orNapoleone Buonaparte) |
| This author wrote an essay titled Experience, and this author notes how "all mean egotism vanishes" as he becomes like a "transparent eyeball" (+) in his essay Nature. This man wrote that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblinof(*)littleminds" inan1841essay.Fortenpoints,namethisTranscendentalistwhowrote"Self-Reliance." | RalphWaldoEmerson ExtraQuestion |
| To promote Georgistideas,Lizzie(*)Magie[[muh-GEE]]createdapredecessor to this game, which was called (+) The Landlord’s Game. Charles Darrow patented a version of this game withpropertiesnamedafterlocationsin(*)AtlanticCity,although it was rejected by Milton Bradley. For ten points, name this board game in which players attempttobankrupttheiropponents. | Monopoly |
| Born in Venezuela, this man established the Third Republic and is regarded as a nationalheroinmanySouthAmericancountries,whereheisknownas"TheLiberator." | SimónBolívar |