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| This person became the first woman to testify before a congressional committee when she read a memorial in support of the New Departure to the House Judiciary Committee. A New York Sun headline called this woman and her sister, Tennessee Claflin, "petticoats among bulls and bears" when they opened the first woman-owned brokerage firm on Wall Street. For the point, name this American suffragette, the first woman to run for U.S. presidency. | Victoria Claflin Woodhull (or Victoria Woodhull Martin; or Victoria California Claflin) |
| One general at this battle ignored the ill omen of being thrown twice by his horse and rallied his forces on Mount Cortona. At this battle, Numidian commander Maharbal forced the surrender of the rival cavalry leader, Gaius Centenius, after his forces agreed to be disarmed and freed "with a garment apiece," according to Livy. With the disastrous battles of Trebbia and Cannae [[KAH-nay]], this loss motivated the implementation of the Fabian strategy of delaying. Hannibal ambushed a Roman army under consul Gaius Flaminius at, for the point, what lake-side battle of the Second Punic War? | Battle of Lake Trasimene [[trah-see-MEH-neh]] |
| This figure was the center of cults at Kom Ombo and Faiyum, and Amenemhat III built a large temple dedicated to this figure at Kiman Faras. Another temple of Medinet Madi was dedicated to this god, as well as his wife, Meskhenet. In the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, this figure often bore similarities to Ra, typically being depicted wearing a solar crown and carrying an ankh. For the point, name this Egyptian deity, known for personifying the power of the pharaoh and often depicted with the head of a Nile crocodile. | Sobek (or Sobki) |
| Iambulus [["eye"-AM-byoo-looss]] noted that one king from this city had "great love for the Greeks," and this city grew after Ajatashatru [[ah-jah-tah-SHAH-troo]] commissioned a wall around a village. Laurence Waddell led the first modern excavations of this city in 1895, and the first Greek mentions of this city were written by Megasthenes [[meh-GASS-theh- nees]]. This city became one of the largest in the world during the reign of Ashoka, and this city's foundations were laid at the junction of two rivers, the Son and the Ganges. For the point, name this city, adjacent to present-day Patna, the capital of the Mauryan Empire. | Pataliputra (prompt on "Patna" before mentioned) |
| At this battle, Frederick Hermann, 1st Duke of Schomberg, was killed, inspiring the creation of a namesake obelisk. A canyon at Roughgrange hindered fighting between both sides in this battle, which is commemorated on The Twelfth. This battle during the War of the Grand Alliance led to the signing of the Treaty of Limerick the following year. This battle finalized its victor's control of the British Isles prior to the Glorious Revolution. For the point, name this 1690 battle, during which William of Orange defeated James II near the namesake Irish river. | Battle of the Boyne |
| This island was the location to which, after a failed plot to assassinate her sibling with Praetorian prefect Publius Tarrutenius Paternus, Commodus's sister, Lucilla, was exiled and strangled by a centurion. False tales of debauchery were invented by historians like Suetonius [[sweh-TOH-nee-uhs]] to slander the emperor Tiberius during his reclusion to this island's Villa Jovis. The Gulf of Naples is the site of, for the point, which island and Ancient Roman resort? | Capri |
| This man moved to the United States in 1892 to become Director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City. This composer taught and mentored Joseph Suk and Rubin Goldmark. Embracing his new national identity, this man composed his String Quartet in F major, Opus 96, nicknamed “The American Quartet." For the point, name this Romantic-era Czech composer who composed nine symphonies, including the New World Symphony. | Antonín Dvořák [[DVOR-zhahk]] (or Antonín Leopold Dvořák) |
| Factions of this group established communities in Wellingborough and St George's Hill, which they renamed George Hill. A pamphlet called The Law of Freedom in a Platform, published before The New Law of Righteousness, was written by this group's major leader, Gerrard Winstanley. William Everard led this group, who advocated throwing off the "Norman Yoke." This group of Protestant radicals referred to themselves as the "True Levellers." For the point, name this English religious group which took its name from the act of carrying shovels. | Diggers (accept True Levellers before mentioned; do not accept or prompt on "Levellers") |
| Since 2017, this man has served as the chair of the International Olympic Committee's Ethics Commission. This man, who served as South Korea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, oversaw South Korea’s response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2006, this man competed against candidates like Shashi Tharoor and Ashraf Gani for the position for which he is best known, then held by Kofi Annan. For the point, name this man who served as UN Secretary-General from 2007 to 2016. | Ban Ki-moon (prompt on "Ki-moon") |
| The Treaty of Bassein was a decisive step in the dissolution of this empire after the Battle of Poona. Under the leadership of Baji Rao II, this empire was defeated at the Battle of Assaye. Hereditary prime ministers called peshwas ruled this empire, which between 1775 and 1818, fought three wars with the British East India Company. After the decline of the Adilshahi sultanate of Bijapur, this empire was founded by Shivaji. For the point, name this empire, founded by an Indian warrior caste following the Mughals. | Maratha Confederacy (accept Maratha Empire) |
| This city hosts two professional football teams, including one that has been managed by the Agnelli family almost continuously since 1923. After being annexed by Napoleon, this city became the seat of the Pô Prefecture, though it was restored as the capital of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in 1814. Forming an "industrial triangle" with Milan and Genoa, this is, for the point, what Northern Italian city whose Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist hosts a religious relic that purportedly bears the image of Jesus Christ? | Turin (accept Torino; accept Torino Football Club or Torino FC; accept Shroud of Turin) |
| When Franklin Roosevelt asked another leader whether he wanted this polity, the other replied, "Under no circumstances!" Ernest Constans was among the governor-generals of this polity, which broke apart after the Geneva Conference in 1954. The Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan [[GWAHNG-ZHOH-WAHN]] was part of this polity, which also included Annam, a protectorate led by Bao Dai, much like Tonkin. The Nguyen [[WIN]] Dynasty's laws remained effective in certain parts of this polity, whose motto was "Liberté, égalité, fraternité." For the point, name this colonial territory whose capital Saigon? | French Indochina (accept Indochinese Union; accept Indochinese Federation) |
| A king of this region was nicknamed the "Iron and Golden King" for his victory at the Battle of Kressenbrunn. Ottokar II of the Přemyslid Dynasty ruled this region, in which the Taborites clashed with the Utraquists. Count Thurn led a revolt in this region's capital that culminated in the Battle of White Mountain. Several kings named Wenceslaus ruled this region, which was also led by Ferdinand II and Frederick the Winter King. For the point, name this region in which the Thirty Years' War began after the Second Defenestration of Prague. | Kingdom of Bohemia (accept Bohemian Revolt) |
| This woman replaced her Quaker clothing with more stylish dress after being hired as headmistress at the Canajoharie [[kan-uh-juh-"HAIR"-ee]] Academy. William McKinley invited this woman to celebrate her 80th birthday at the White House. This woman co- founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society after being prevented from speaking at a conference due to her gender. For the point, name this woman who clashed with her lifelong friend, Frederick Douglass, when he changed his mind on universal suffrage. | Susan B. Anthony |
| One event in this country sought to rescue the detained Governor-General Paul Scoon and saw participants struggle to locate True Blue Campus. One leader of this country founded the People's Revolutionary Government after overthrowing Eric Gairy, but was himself arrested by Bernard Coard, his rival in the New Jewel Movement. The safety of hundreds of American medical students was used to justify Operation Urgent Fury, the invasion of, for the point, what Caribbean island state once led by Maurice Bishop? | Grenada |
| This work of art was conceived as part of a larger work entitled The Gates of Hell. The game show Concentration modeled it’s Challenge of Champions trophy, named “The Connie,” after this work of art. The first casting of this statue, called Le Penseur [[luh-pahn-SUHR]] in French, was made in 1904 and is currently displayed at a museum in Paris dedicated to its sculptor. Originally named The Poet, this is, for the point, what bronze creation of Auguste Rodin [[roh-DAHN]] in which a man is displayed in a contemplative pose? | The Thinker (accept Le Penseur before mentioned) |
| The surrender of a weather station on Svalbard brought the last of this organization's forces under Allied control. In 1941, the OKW issued the Commissar Order, which instructed this organization's members to summarily execute captured political officers. A memorandum submitted to the Nuremberg tribunal insisted that this organization was apolitical and largely innocent of the Nazi regime's crimes. For the point, name this military organization of Nazi Germany whose branches included the Heer, the Kriegsmarine, and the Luftwaffe. | Wehrmacht (prompt on "Heer" or "Kriegsmarine" or "Luftwaffe" before they're mentioned; prompt on "German Army" or "Army of the Third Reich" or "Nazi Army") |
| This man re-established the Council of Wales and the Marches shortly after being restored to the throne. Perkin Warbeck claimed to be the second son of this man, whose many mistresses included Jane Shore and Elizabeth Lucy. The Treaty of Picquigny [[pee-keen-YEE]] gave 50,000 crowns per year to this man who defeated Warwick the Kingmaker at the Battle of Barnet. At Tewkesbury, Margaret of Anjou personally led Lancastrian forces against this man, though she ultimately lost. For the point, name this man whose claim to the British throne came from his father, Richard, Duke of York. | Edward IV (prompt on "Edward") |
| One of these people, called Baida in folk songs, organized a subgroup of these people who lived in the area of Wild Fields. A revolt by these people after the Czaplinski Affair was launched against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was named after Khmelnytsky. The city of Kazan was sacked during a revolt of these people, whose Zaporozhian group was painted by Ilya Repin. Stenka Razin and Yemelyan Pugachev led revolts of, for the point, what nomadic horsemen of Ukraine and Southern Russia? | Cossacks |
| This man's government ordered its citizens to wear black clothing, red-and-white krama scarves, and sandals made of car tires to emulate the peasantry. This man studied engineering in France and later taught at a private school around the time he met his first wife, a fellow revolutionary named Khieu Ponnary. After becoming General Secretary of his country's Communist party, this man pushed his country's society toward agrarian socialism. For the point, name this man who led the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian genocide. | Pol Pot (accept Saloth Sâr) |
| This person served as the director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Salvador Luria served as this man's doctoral advisor at Indiana University. In his autobiography, Avoid Boring People, this man ironically attacked Harvard President Lawrence Summers about their comments on women in science, despite having previously used unauthorized data collected and analyzed by Rosalind Franklin. For the point, name this biologist who was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for modeling the double-helix structure of DNA along with Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick. | James Watson (or James Dewey Watson) |
| Immigrants from this country established their first permanent settlement in Kendall, New York. The so-called "Sloopers," who voyaged to America from this country aboard the Restauration, included members of the Haugeans, a movement followed by several characters in the play Peer Gynt. Settlers from this country, including Hans Hansen Bergen, were among the first to occupy the colony of New Amsterdam. For the point, name this Scandinavian country whose American descendants are famously concentrated in North Dakota. | Kingdom of Norway (or Kongeriket Norge; accept Norwegians) |
| A "White" example of these structures in Chiang Rai is owned by artist Chalermchai Kositpipat and includes an ordination hall called an ubosot. Aruna inspired the name of one of these structures on the Thonburi with a distinctive spire, or prang. The five central towers of one of these structures represent the five towers of Mount Meru. A national flag features that example of these structures built by Suryavarman II. For the point, name these structures, which include a Cambodian example in Angkor. | Wats (accept Buddhist Temples or Temple to Buddha; accept Wat Rong Khun; accept Wat Arun; accept Angkor Wat; prompt on "White Temple," "Temple City," or "Temple of the Dawn") |
| Until 2005, this country's Senate had four former military commanders assigned to it at all times. From 1989 to 2013, this country used a binomial legislative voting system prescribed at the end of an authoritarian regime. In 2019, protests in this country destroyed much of its capital city's Metro infrastructure and provoked a Constitutional Convention. For the point, name this South American country whose government was ruled by a military junta under Augusto Pinochet. | Republic of Chile (accept República de Chile) |
| A politician of this ethnicity was overthrown by Dési Bouterse [[BAO-ter-suh]] in a bloodless military coup. Another politician of this ethnicity married Janet Rosenberg after graduating from dental school and served with Prime Minister Sam Hinds. The first Muslim president of a country, governed from Georgetown, is of this ethnicity and is named Irfaan Ali. Most South American politicians of this ethnicity have power in Suriname and Guyana. Cheddi Jagan and Ramsewak Shankar share, for the point, what ethnicity of most Hindu South Americans? | Indian-Caribbean (accept Indo-Caribbean) |
| Averroes spoke of this man as an "exemplar" for all future philosophers, while other Muslim scholars described him as a "first teacher." In his work On Generation and Corruption, this man added to the Empedoclean elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire by adding heavenly aether. This founder of the Peripatetic school talked about the golden mean and eudaimonia in his Nicomachean Ethics. For the point, name this Greek philosopher. | Aristotle (or Aristoteles) |
| This country's main ethnic group can be divided into at least 18 subgroups, including the Merina of the central highlands. This country’s first settlers likely came from Indonesia, and this country's national language is most similar to the Dayak languages of Borneo. This country was united under Merina nobles, but its monarchy ended in 1897 after the country became part of the French Empire. For the point, name this island country, previously known as the Malagasy Republic. | Republic of Madagascar (or Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; or Republique de Madagascar; accept Kingdom of Madagascar) |
| This type of event was condemned in the document Gaudiem et Spes published by the Second Vatican Council. In two mathematical papers, Lewis Fry Richardson sought to determine what causes these events and how to prevent them. The psychoanalyst Joost [[HOOST]] Meerloo declared that “[this event] is often a mass discharge of accumulated internal rage,” and psychoanalysts, like John Bowlby, declared these events occur because humans are inherently violent. For the point, name these types of armed conflict exemplified by two “world” examples. | Wars (accept World Wars; accept World War One; accept World War Two; accept Act (s) of War) |
| The only foreign-born president of this church exiled himself at the Gardo House after the government passed the Edmunds–Tucker Act. Following the Battle of Crooked River, Lilburn Boggs issued Executive Order 44, forcing this church's migration to Nauvoo, Illinois. This church's founder was killed by a mob while being held on charges of treason, leading to a succession crisis involving James Strang. For the point, name this church whose 1890 manifesto officially suspended its support for plural marriage. | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (accept LDS Church; accept Mormon or Mormons Church; accept Mormon War) |
| This woman was fourteen when she made her first public speech, stating, "It will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place." This woman avoided an assassination attempt in Lithgow, New South Wales, but that was not revealed until 2009. This woman called the year 1992 her "annus horribilis" thanks in part to demonstrators throwing eggs at her in Dresden and Mauritius removing her as head of state. For the point, name this female British royal who didn't pay income tax until 1993. | Elizabeth II (prompt on "Elizabeth") |
| The NEPman were a class of businessmen in this state who took advantage of the introduction of small-scale manufacturing as a part of the "New Economic Policy." Transport vehicles known as "Black Marias" were used by this state's secret police known as the Cheka. The Peace of Riga ended a war between the Second Polish Republic, led by Józef Piłsudski [[YOO-zehf pyoo-SOOD-skee]], and this state, which recovered parts of modern Belarus and Ukraine in that 1920s war. The defeat of the Whites during the Russian Revolution led to the rise of, for the point, what Communist state led by the Vladimir Lenin? | Soviet Union (or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; accept USSR; do not accept or prompt on "Russia") |