| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This empire's only African colony in Maputo was wiped out by malaria. This state lost Venetia after the Seven Weeks' War against the Prussians. This empire's heir apparent was killed in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip in an event that kickstarted World War One. For the point, name this dual monarchy with capitals at Vienna and Budapest. | Austria-Hungary Empire (accept Austro-Hungarian Empire; prompt on "The Dual Monarchy") |
| This country campaigned for independence under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Awami League. This country signed a peace accord with residents in its division of Chittagong. This country lost millions of nationalist forces in Operation Searchlight, which forced the intervention of India. For the point, name this country that gained its independence after seceding from Pakistan. | People's Republic of Bangladesh (accept Gônoprojatontrī Bangladesh) |
| Gaelic-speaking settlers founded this U.S. state's Argyll Colony, which is nestled in the Cape Fear River Valley. This state was the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, as well as a deserted location where the word "Croatoan" was found carved into a tree. The colony of Roanoke was founded in, for the point, what U.S. state with a capital named for Walter Raleigh? | North Carolina (prompt on "Carolina") |
| H. Jones was killed during this war at the Battle of Goose Green. The General Belgrano was sunk during this war, which was instigated by Leopoldo Galtieri. This conflict escalated after representatives of a South American country raised a flag on South Georgia Island. For the point, name this conflict between Argentina and the UK over a namesake archipelago. | Falklands War (or [a]Guerra de las Malvinas[/a]) |
| Many involved in this movement, including Cecily McMillan, set up camp at Zuccotti Park in a certain city's financial district. Participants in this movement united under the call "We Are the 99%," voicing their opposition to perceived wealth hoarding. For the point, name this protest movement against economic inequality, partially named for the location of the New York stock market. | Occupy Wall Street (prompt on partial answers) |
| Korean activist Lee Bong-chang tried to kill this man in the Sakuradamon [[SA-koo- rad-uh-MON]] Incident. This man authorized the use of toxic gas during the Battle of Wuhan and cited the Five Charter Oath while denouncing his divinity in the Humanity Declaration. Prime Minister Hideki Tojo served, for the point, what emperor who delivered the Jewel Voice Broadcast and led Japan during World War Two? | Hirohito (accept Showa Emperor) |
| One ruler of this empire successfully launched the Siege of Golconda. This empire lost land during conflicts between the French and British known as the Carnatic Wars. The Red Fort was the imperial residence for rulers of this empire that was established after victory at the First Battle of Panipat. For the point, identify this Indian empire founded by Babur and once ruled by Akbar the Great. | Mughal Empire (or Mogul Empire; or Moghul Empire) |
| Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith were enforcers during this period, which was initiated by the Volstead Act. Organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union advocated for the implementation of this period in which Eliot Ness and the Untouchables arrested bootleggers and speakeasy owners. For the point, name this alcohol-free period of American history begun by the Eighteenth Amendment. | Prohibition (accept Temperance before mentioned) |
| This man edited the newspaper Rheinische Zeitung [[rye-NEESH ZYE-toong]] in Cologne, and he is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery. This man moved to Brussels where he founded the German Workers’ Party and published a political tract with Friedrich Engels. For the point, name this German social theorist and revolutionary who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto. | Karl Heinrich Marx |
| This country's Barakzai dynasty was toppled by a coup led by Mohammed Daoud Khan, who was later usurped in this country's Saur Revolution. Hamid Karzai was once president of this country that was invaded by the Soviets in a conflict during which Pashtun rebels joined the Mujahedeen. For the point, name this Middle Eastern country where the Taliban sieged Kabul. | (Islamic, Democratic) Republic of Afghanistan (accept Kingdom of Afghanistan; Da Afġānistān; Jamhuri-ye Islami-ye Afġānistān; Pādešāhī-ye Afġānistān; or Dǝ Afġānistān Šahi Dawlat) |
| This ruler’s forces were repulsed by Stephen Bathory in the Livonian War. This ruler kept the boyars in check with his oprichnina [[oh-PREECH-nee-na]] policy and its namesake secret police. This ruler killed his heir apparent, resulting in the reign of Feodor I. The Massacre of Novgorod was ordered by, for the point, what fearsome first Tsar of Russia? | Ivan the Terrible (or Ivan IV Vasilyevich) |
| This policy was carried out at places such as Heart Mountain, Tule Lake, and Manzanar. The legality of this action was upheld in Korematsu v. United States, and FDR's Executive Order 9066 initiated this policy. For the point, name this policy enacted during World War Two, through which people of a certain East Asian ethnicity were imprisoned without trial. | Japanese Internment (accept descriptive answers indicating the Imprisonment or Internment of Japanese-Americans) |
| This location was known as Hi-Catoctin when it was initially built by the Works Progress Administration. This location was once known as “Shangri-La." A golf course was added to this location at the direction of President Dwight D. Eisenhower after whose grandson this location is named. Located in Maryland, this is, for the point, what retreat for the President of the United States? | Camp David (accept Shangri-La before mentioned) |
| This man sent 230 military advisers to aid Agostinho [[AGG-uh-stee-nyoh]] Neto’s MPLA in the Angolan Civil War. This man led his country through the Special Period of Time and Peace after he organized a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks. This man established his country as a one-party communist state after leading an overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. For the point, name this nationalist who led Cuba from 1959-2008. | Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz |
| This man called for a “Day of Fasting and Prayer” after the passage of the Intolerable Acts. This Founding Father joined the Committee of Five where he and others would draft a certain document, and he helped re-stock the Library of Congress after the British set fire to Washington. For the point, name this President of the United States and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. | Thomas Jefferson |
| As punishment for one crime, this god was tied to a rock and had a serpent drip venom into his eyes. This god once tried to flee in the form of a salmon, but was caught at the tail by Thor. This god tricked the blind Hodr into killing Baldr with a spear made of mistletoe. This god's children include Odin's eight-legged horse Sleipnir, and the Midgard Serpent. For the point, name this Norse trickster god. | Loki |
| This man was elected to his role in 1978 after his predecessor died just 33 days into his term. This man's tenure included the creation of the World Youth Day initiative. This spiritual leader was the first pope to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and the first pope born outside of Italy in more than 400 years. For the point, name this long-serving Polish pope who was canonized in 2014. | Pope John Paul II (or Karol Józef Wojtyła [[VOY-tee-wah]]) |
| This document was declared “not only shameful and demeaning but also illegal and unjust” by Pope Innocent III. This document was drafted after an Allied army led by King Otto IV was defeated at the Battle of Bouvines, and the annulment of this document led to the First Barons’ War. For the point, name this royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede on June 15, 1215. | [a]Magna Carta[/a] Libertatum (or Great Charter of Freedoms) |
| The key to this now-demolished location is currently on display at Mount Vernon. In one incident, this location's cannons were fired during the Battle of the Faubourg St. Antoine. After the Fronde, this location reverted to royal control and was used by King Louis XIV [[the FOURTEENTH]] to imprison upper-class members of society. For the point, name this French prison stormed on July 14, 1789. | Bastille Saint-Antoine |
| A statue of a boot honors this person's contribution to victory at the Battle of Saratoga. This person suffered a leg wound while attempting to take Quebec, and they halted a British advance at the Battle of Valcour Island. Despite their service, this person plotted to surrender West Point to the British. For the point, name this person best known for his failed conspiracy with Major John Andre. | Benedict Arnold |
| People engaged in this crime are targeted by Combined Task Force 150. Profits from this crime expanded the towns of Haradhere, Eyl, and Bosaso in the 2000s. An incident of this crime targeted the Maersk Alabama and its victims included Captain Richard Phillips. The largest component of Somalia's economy may be, for the point, what crime in which ships are attacked for theft or ransom? | Piracy (accept answers referring to being a Pirate or Somali Pirate) |
| This man's sometimes rocky relationship with his cabinet inspired the book Team of Rivals. This man petitioned President James Polk with the Spot Resolution. This man gave military control to Ambrose Burnside and others after relieving George McClellan of command of the Army of the Potomac. For the point, name this American president who was assassinated in Ford's Theater. | Abraham Lincoln |
| A blue-tiled gate from this city is housed in Berlin’s Pergamon Museum. The Enuma Elish is the creation myth of this city, which describes the killing of Tiamat by Marduk. This city and home of the Ishtar Gate was also the location of a greenery legendarily built to combat the homesickness of Queen Amytis. For the point, name this city where Hammurabi may have commissioned the Hanging Gardens. | Babylon |
| The Alexander Mosaic is preserved in this city's House of the Faun. Pliny the Elder died en route to rescuing residents of this city where the Villa of the Mysteries stands among the remains of more than 100 people preserved by pumice and volcanic ash. For the point, name this city that was destroyed along with Herculaneum by the 79 C.E. eruption of Mount Vesuvius | Pompeii |
| Some of the scientific facts used in this book, such as the use of silken parachutes, were taken from the works of noted entomologist John Henry Comstock. This book begins with the protagonist asking where her Papa is going with an ax. A young girl named Fern is the main character of, for the point, what beloved 1952 book by E.B. White about a pig named Wilbur? | Charlotte's Web |
| Westerners learned to ward off this disease through a technique learned from Ottoman Turks and African slaves called variolation. One physician noticed how this disease hardly affected milkmaids who had contracted cowpox, leading him to develop the first- ever vaccination. For the point, identify this disease that was officially eradicated thanks to inventions such as Edward Jenner's vaccine. | Smallpox (accept Variola major before "Variolation") |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth claims a prince of this city named Brutus founded the kingdom of Albion. A degenerate from this city named Pandarus facilitates an affair between Troilus and Cressida in a William Shakespeare play. A prince of this city leaves Dido, prompting her suicide in the Aeneid. Hector and Paris hailed from, for the point, what semi- mythical city captured by the Greeks in a Homeric epic? | Troy (accept Hisarlik; accept Ilion) |
| Arnold Böcklin depicted a personification of this phenomenon riding a bat-like creature over a decrepit city in the work Plague. Jacques Louis David painted this phenomenon affecting French Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat [[muh-RAH]] while in a bathtub. A work by Albrecht Dürer depicts horsemen representing Pestilence, War, Famine, and, for the point, what phenomenon often personified by the Grim Reaper? | Death (accept Death of Marat; accept Plague before mentioned; accept Grim Reaper before mentioned) |
| This man defended allegations of financial impropriety with the well-received “Checkers Speech.” In 1968, this man appeared on Laugh-In to appeal to younger voters after performing poorly in a 1960 TV debate against his confident and photogenic opponent, John F. Kennedy. The Watergate Scandal tarnished the reputation of, for the point, what U.S. president who resigned in 1974? | Richard Nixon (or Richard “Dick” Milhous Nixon) |
| This culture's rain god rules an underworld home to people who died of disease, floods, or lightning strikes. This culture's mythology holds that a series of gods became the Five Suns. In one myth from this culture, a god known as the "Smoking Mirror" sacrificed his foot to a crocodile monster. For the point, name this Mesoamerican culture whose gods include Quetzalcoatl [[KET-zull-ko-OTT-ull]] and Huitzilopochtli [[HWIT-zuh-luh-"poked"- lee]]. | Aztec Empire (or Aztecs; or Aztecan; or Mexica Empire) |
| This person was the last ruler of the longest-lasting dynasty established by the Diadochi. This person was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to speak the most common language of the people over which she ruled. This person committed suicide after losing the Battles of Actium and Alexandria. For the point, name this Egyptian queen who died from ingesting poison, not by handling an asp. | Cleopatra VII [[the SEVENTH]] Philopator |
| The title character of this musical refers to his partner as the "best of wives and best of women." Songs from this musical dramatize events such as the Battle of Yorktown and a duel involving Thomas Jefferson's first vice president. For the point, name this Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda about the life of the first Secretary of the Treasury. | Hamilton: An American Musical |