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| TIEBREAKER: One region known by this term called Aouzou [[OW-zoo]] was fought over in the 1987 Toyota War between Chad and Libya. Another region known by this term was traded by the Germans to gain access to the Zambezi River and is called Caprivi. Hotels like Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, and Caesars Palace are located on a street known by this term. For the point, identify this type of long, narrow region found in places like Las Vegas and Gaza. | Strip |
| TIEBREAKER: Mary Reed and Anne Bonney were two women involved with this occupation who escaped execution by claiming to be pregnant. Henry Morgan engaged in this occupation, and Calico Jack Rackham was executed for engaging in this illegal occupation. Edward Teach was a privateer before focusing on this occupation as captain of the Queen Anne’s Revenge. For the point, name this occupation practiced by Captain William Kidd and Blackbeard. | Pirates (accept Privateer before mentioned; accept word forms such as Piracy) |
| TIEBREAKER: This date names a cabinet shakeup during the administration of Gerald Ford. On this date Ralph Lee of Greenwich Village organized what was America’s only nighttime parade, and Harry Houdini died on this date. Said to have been influenced by the Gaelic festival of Samhain [[SOW-win]], this is, for the point, what holiday celebrated on the eve of All Saints' Day that falls on October 31st in the Gregorian calendar? | Halloween (accept October 31st before mentioned; or Hallowe’en or Allhalloween or All Hallows’ Eve or All Saints’ Eve) |
| TIEBREAKER: One of these illegal events in Sweden led to the widespread use of the term Stockholm syndrome. Pretty Boy Floyd is said to have destroyed mortgage and loan documents while participating in these events that also made Bonnie and Clyde famous. For the point, identify these illegal events in which a criminal holds up a financial institution for money. | Bank Robberies (accept word forms such as Robbing a Bank or Robbing Banks; accept Holdups; accept Stickups; prompt on "Robbery" alone) |
| After betraying this city, Tarpeia was crushed to death by enemy shields. Legendarily, the walls of this city were protected by a flock of sacred guardian geese. In other legends about this city, its early settlers kidnapped and married the Sabine women, and it was founded by descendants of Aeneas who were nursed by a female wolf. For the point, name this city at the center of an empire where gods such as Janus and Jupiter were worshiped. | Rome (or Roma) |
| A pact named for this country's capital brought together four Asian countries and Britain, but was officially known as the Central Treaty Organization. This country left that pact in 1958, shortly before a Ba'athist takeover and eventual war against both its eastern neighbor and the Kurdish north, and the president who led this country during that war was captured by American soldiers in 2003. For the point, name the country once governed by Saddam Hussein. | Republic of Iraq (accept Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq; accept al-Mamlakah al- ʿIrāqiyyah ʾal-Hāshimyyah, accept al-Jumhūrīyah al-'Irāqīyah, Jumhūriyyat al-ʽIrāq; accept Komarî Êraq) |
| The British gained rights to the distribution of this practice after the transfer of the Asiento in the Treaty of Utrecht. This practice was the subject of a conflict between Bartolomé de las Casas and Ginés [[HEE-nays]] de Sepúlveda known as the Valladolid debate. This practice was instituted through in the New World through the Spanish Encomienda system. For the point, name this practice of forced servitude facilitated by the Atlantic triangular trade. | Slavery (accept Slave Trade; accept Atlantic Slave Trade) |
| Factions of this political party included the Half-Breeds, Mugwumps, and Stalwarts, who mainly disagreed about civil service reform. Major power brokers within this party included Roscoe Conkling and James G. Blaine, the only person nominated by this party who never became president between 1860 and 1916. William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt were members of, for the point, what political party whose first president was Abraham Lincoln? | Republican Party (or Republicans; accept Grand Old Party; or GOP) |
| As a Liberal, this man who later rejoined the conservatives served as First Lord of the Admiralty, but was sacked following a defeat at the hands of Mustafa Kemal in World War One. As a Conservative, this man declared the existence of an "Iron Curtain" across Europe, and despite his earlier loss at Gallipoli, secured his country's independence during The Blitz. For the point, name this British Prime Minister during World War Two. | Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
| Following World War Two, this man led the successful August Movement. This man’s birthday is commemorated worldwide as the International Day of Nonviolence, and this man led the Dandi Salt March to protest a British monopoly. For the point, name this Indian civil rights activist who used hunger strikes as a form of peaceful protest. | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (or Mahatma Gandhi; accept Bapu) |