| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Despite being the first to feature multiple candidates, this country's 2014 presidential elections were won by the ophthalmologist son of a former president. The father of this country's president served as Minister of Defense, during which time this country lost its southwest to Israel. This Ba'athist country, once governed by Hafez, is now governed by Bashar. For ten points, name this country, ruled by the Assad family, which claims the Golan Heights. | Syrian Arab Republic (or Al Jumhuriyah al Arabiyah as Suriyah) |
| This person wrote a book titled The Mint about his interwar service in the Royal Air Force. This person was an illegitimate son of the last Chapman Baronet and worked as an archaeologist for the British Museum. This person’s fatal accident led a doctor attending his deathbed to encourage people to use motorcycle helmets. In The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, this person detailed his role in a revolt in the Middle East. For ten points, name this person, a British advisor to Bedouin Arabs during the First World War. | Thomas Edward "T.E." Lawrence (accept Lawrence of Arabia) |
| In a 2016 film titled for this nickname, Teterboro is considered too far following an incident brought about by a group of birds. In the film Uncharted, Nathan Drake is hired by a treasure hunter with this nickname in an attempt to find a lost fortune once owned by explorer Ferdinand Magellan. A film of this name focuses on the real-life efforts of a Tom Hanks-played pilot to land a commercial plane on the Hudson River. For ten points, give this nickname often given to individuals with the surname Sullivan. | Sully |
| This institution was nicknamed "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" after a cartoon by James Gillray which depicted Pitt the Younger. In 1992, a crisis ensued after this institution abandoned its ERM policy. In 1998, Gordon Brown granted this institution operational independence. This institution was led by Mervyn King and was "broken" by George Soros after short-selling 10 billion dollars in pounds on Black Wednesday. For ten points, name this institution governed by Andrew Bailey, the chief financial institution of the United Kingdom. | The Governor and Company of the Bank of England |
| In exchange for expropriated furs and jewelry, this man traded American businessman Armand Hammer for sixty thousand dollars-worth of medicine to end a typhus epidemic. This man abolished an edict which allowed the seizure of grain, in the more market- driven "New Economic Policy." This man agreed to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, surrendering much of Eastern Europe to the Kaiser in exchange for his state pulling out of the First World War. The October Revolution was launched by, for ten points, which Bolshevik leader? | Vladimir Lenin (or Vladimir Ilych Lenin; or Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) |
| This institution is the primary subject of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel. Many students "bicker" to join this school's exclusive "eating clubs," which include the Tiger Inn, and Albert Einstein frequently lectured at this school, the oldest in the Mid-Atlantic region. Formerly led by Woodrow Wilson, for ten points, what is this Ivy-League university in New Jersey? | Princeton University |
| This man was the running mate of perennial candidate Rocky De La Fuente in the 2020 California presidential election. In 2018, Candace Owens claimed this man designed merchandise for the "Blexit" movement. "Nah Nah Nah" was the "theme song" of this man's presidential campaign, in which he ran under the self-created "Birthday Party." For ten points, name this rapper who has won 24 Grammys and divorced Kim Kardashian in 2022. | Kanye West (or Kanye Omari West; accept either underlined portion; accept Ye) |
| After this event, more than forty people died in the Holy Week Uprisings. Restaurant owner Loyd Jowers claimed that this event was perpetrated by the Mafia. This event’s victim was referring to "Take My Hand, Precious Lord, when he said, “Play it real pretty” to Ben Branch. That victim of this event had traveled to Memphis to participate in a sanitation strike, and the site of this event is now the National Civil Rights Museum. James Earl Ray perpetrated, for ten points, what event which occurred at the Lorraine Motel? | Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (accept MLK; accept synonyms for assassination such as "Shooting", "Killing", etc.) |
| This city's Congregation Mickve Israel, located on Monterey Square, is the third-oldest synagogue in the U.S. This city was founded after the ship Anne landed at Yamacraw Bluff. William Hardee led a military evacuation of this city, which was blockaded after the capture of a fort on Tybee Island. A plan of 24 squares in this city surrounded by residences was called the Oglethorpe Plan. This city was presented as a "Christmas gift" to Abraham Lincoln after a campaign starting in Atlanta. For ten points, name this Georgia city, captured after Sherman's "March to the Sea." | Savannah |
| A popular Savannah historic site was the home of Juliette Gordon Low, who founded this organization after meeting Robert Baden-Powell. | Girl Scouts of the USA (accept GSUSA) |
| This ruler brought the Hand of St. James to Reading Abbey after the death of her husband Henry V [[the Fifth]] of Germany. This ruler's half-brother, Robert of Gloucester, was captured at the Rout of Winchester but exchanged for this ruler's nemesis. This ruler escaped a siege by crossing the river Isis wearing white during the winter. The death of her brother, William Adelin, in the White Ship Incident caused a succession crisis in which this leader won the Battle of Lincoln. For ten points, name this English empress who fought Stephen of Blois [[BLWAH]] for the throne during The Anarchy. | Empress Matilda (or Empress Maude) |
| Matilda's father was this son of William the Conqueror, known as Beauclerc, who may or may not have been involved in the death of his older brother, King William II, but who took over his throne. | Henry I (prompt on "Henry" or "Henry Beauclerc") |
| One queen of this dynasty ordered the construction of a hollow, bronze tube filled with coals, which dissenting nobles were forced to hug to death. That queen of this dynasty was the dedicatee of the Deer Terrace Pavilion, a tree of sausages floating in a pond of wine. In addition to Daji, another queen of this dynasty, Fu Hao, was known to oversee pyromancy rituals that produced this dynasty’s so-called “oracle bones.” For ten points, name this second major Chinese dynasty, which succeeded the Xia [[SHEE-AH]] and preceded the Zhou [[ZHOH]]. | Shang Dynasty (or Yin Dynasty) |
| The virtue of this first king of Shang was used by later rulers as the basis for the Mandate of Heaven, which this king seized by overthrowing the wicked King Jie [[JEE-EH]] of Xia. | Cheng Tang (or Tang of Shang; or Zi Lu; or Da Yi; prompt on "Cheng") |
| The basis for this novel comes from the 1941 short story "Slight Rebellion Off Madison," which wasn’t published in The New Yorker until 1946. In 1960, a Tulsa teacher was fired for assigning her students to read this novel. Adam Gopnik, who called this novel one of the "three perfect books" in American literature, said, "No book has ever captured a city better than [this novel] captured New York in the fifties." For ten points, name this 1951 novel by J.D. Salinger, centered around Holden Caulfield. | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Known for directing films like On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire, this stage and screen director was denied by J.D. Salinger the rights to direct a Broadway stage adaptation of The Catcher in the Rye. | Elia Kazan (or Elias Kazantzoglou) |
| In a cave on this island in 2018, scientists discovered the oldest-known figurative art painting. A critically endangered species of orangutan is named after this island on which Willie Smits established an Orangutan Survival Foundation in Kalimantan in 1991. The first American season of Survivor has this largest island in Asia as a subtitle. For ten points, name this maritime southeast Asian island, formerly governed by the British and the Dutch, that is today divided between Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia. | Borneo (accept Kalimantan before mentioned) |
| Borneo is located to the east of this Indonesian island which is the largest island fully within the Indonesian territory and was the site of the "Free Aceh [[AH-cheh]] Movement." | Sumatra |
| A southern reach of this realm used the technique of waru waru farming in the altiplano region which elevated irrigation canals to create artificial floodplains. This empire made use of a mandatory service of labor of its subjects known as the mit'a, later abused by the Spanish to populate the Potosí silver mines. Huayna [[WHY-nah]] Capac and Pachacuti ruled as the Sapa of, for ten points, what Pre-Columbian Andean empire? | Incan Empire (accept Tawantinsuyu; accept Incas) |
| Pachacuti and Tupac Inca Yupanqui [[yoo-PAHN-kee]] conquered what people of Western Peru, known for their intricate tapestries and succeeding the Moche? | Chimú Empire (or Kingdom of Chimú; or Chimú Culture; accept Chimor in place of Chimú) |
| In contrast to the writings of Dicuil [[DEE-kweel]], one account states that Grímur Kamban was one of the first settlers of this region. During World War Two, the British operated a military base in this region's Skansin fortress. This region's parliament, the Løgting [[LUK-ting]], was abolished in 1816 in place of a larger judiciary. On this region's Tinganes [[TING-ah-ness]] peninsula, the Norse established a parliament in 850. During the Gunboat War, the HMS Clio entered this region's capital of Tórshavn [[TAO-shaon]]. For ten points, name this North Atlantic archipelago, administered by Denmark. | Faroe Islands (accept Faroes) |
| Denmark retained possession of the Faroe Islands as a result of this treaty, following the Napoleonic Wars, signed in a city in the Duchy of Holstein. | Treaty of Kiel (accept Peace of Kiel) |
| A Supplement was added to one of these works prepared by Ephraim Chambers that drew from an earlier work by John Harris. Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell created one of these works in Edinburgh. Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt [[zhoh-KOHR]], contributed significantly to one of these works, which was edited in part by Jean le Rond d’Alembert [[dah- lem-BEHR]]. Articles about democracy, France, and government were added to one of these works edited by Denis Diderot [[deh-NEE dee-deh-ROH]]. For ten points, name this type of work which includes a version titled Brittanica. | Encyclopedias (accept Encyclopédie; accept Enclyclopedia Brittanica; accept Cyclopedia, or a Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences) |
| The Encyclopédie was created partially in secret because of its highly placed supporters including this member of the French court. This woman was the official chief mistress of King Louis XV [[the Fifteenth]] from 1745 to 1751. | Madame de Pompadour (accept Jeanne Antoinette Poisson; accept Marquise de Pompadour) |
| Imperial power that sold it to the U.S. | Russia (accept Russian Empire; accept Rossiya) |
| President who enacted the Alaskan Statehood Act in 1958. | Dwight D (avid) "Ike" Eisenhower |
| Former governor who ran on a ticket with John McCain in the 2008 election. | Sarah Palin (or Sarah Louise Palin) |
| Island chain which was briefly occupied by the Japanese during World War Two. | Aleutian Islands (accept Aleut Islands) |
| Secretary of State who negotiated the purchase of Alaska. | William H (enry) Seward |
| Oil tanker that ran aground off the coast, dumping millions of gallons of oil in 1989. | Exxon Valdez (prompt on partial answers) |
| City of which he served as mayor until his resignation from the Politburo. | Moscow |
| Prime Minister under Yeltsin who later served as president, beginning in 2000 | Vladimir Putin (or Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin) |
| Reformer General Secretary and proponent of glasnost who supported his career. | Mikhail Gorbachev (or Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev) |
| General term for businessmen like Mikhail Fridman who dominated the Russian economy during the 1990s. | Russian Oligarchs |
| Breakaway republic in the Caucuses of which he ordered an invasion in 1994. | Chechnya (accept First Chechen War) |
| Upper house he re-established which derives its name from a legislative assembly during Imperial Russia. | State Duma |
| Merchant "Road" of which the Han attempted to establish a maritime version in Southeast Asia. | Silk Road (accept Maritime Silk Road) |
| Muslim eunuch and admiral who explored the Indian Ocean with the Ming treasure fleets. | Cheng Ho (accept Zheng He; accept Ma He) |
| War in which the British sailed up the Pearl River and bombarded Canton, resulting in the cession of Hong Kong to the UK. | Second Opium War (or Second Anglo-Chinese War; or Second China War; or Arrow War; prompt on "Opium War"; do not accept or prompt on "First Opium War") |
| Chinese style of ship with fully battened sails, used by traders across East and Southeast Asia. | Junks (accept Juncos; accept Jong) |
| Naval battle near a namesake landform where Cao Cao's advance south was stopped at the Yangtze River. | Battle of the Red Cliffs (accept Battle of Chibi) |
| Battle on a river on the border of China at which the Matsushima sank much of the Chinese navy. | Battle of the Yalu River |
| Proconsul Cornelius Balbus traveled south to this city, following his conquest of the Garamantes people of Fezzan, after crossing the Ahaggar Mountains into the "Land of the Lions." After the Battle of Tondibi, Judar Pasha seized much of this city's gold and exiled its Islamic (+) scholars from the University of Sankore. The Djinguereber [[jihn-gehr-REH-behr]] Mosque was built in this city following the return of Musa I (*) from the hajj. For ten points, name this city on the Niger [[nee-ZHEHR]] River, a mythically wealthy metropolis in the historic Mali Empire. | Timbuktu |
| A poem by this author was the inspiration for Frederick Douglass's assumed surname. That creation of this author also names a wrecked steamboat in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Novels such as Guy Mannering (+) follow a book by this author, often regarded as the first historical novel, whose title character joins the army before the Jacobite uprising of 1745. This author of Waverley wrote about a man who fought with King Richard during the Crusades and falls in love with (*) Lady Rowena. For ten points, name this Scottish author of Ivanhoe. | Walter Scott |
| It's not Rome, but a Gallic chieftain named Brennus sacked this precinct in a 279 expedition, with his Celtic warriors later settling and naming Galatia after the failure of the invasion. This precinct names an iteration of the Amphictyonic [[am-fik-tee-AH- nik]] League (+) which fought various "Sacred Wars" in the 4th century BCE. Games named for this precinct always occurred two years after the Olympic Games and gifted victors a bay laurel, a sign of the sacred god Apollo. The (*) Pythia was the official sibyl of, for ten points, which Greek city-state, known for a namesake "Oracle"? | Delphi (accept Pytho or Pythian Games before "Pythia" is mentioned; accept Delphic Amphyctionic League; accept Oracle of Delphi or Delphic Oracle) |
| The first man in this position separated his city into four distinct calpulli, and he greatly increased the arable land of his people by using chinampas. One of these people was executed following a murder plot that was revealed by Juan Velásquez, and that man's uncle, (+) who held this position, supposedly offered to cede his entire realm to Charles V [[the Fifth]] while under duress from conquistadores. Cuauhtémoc [[kwah-TEH-mock]] and (*) Moctezuma held, for ten points, what regal position of Mesoamerica, which was formally abolished following subjugation to the Spanish Empire? | Emperor of the Aztecs (or Huey Tlatoani; accept answers which include Aztec and a synonym for Emperor such as King or Ruler; prompt on partial answers) |
| Dmitri Shostakovich quoted this piece in juxtaposition with the "Infernal Gallop" in the score for the film The New Babylon. Hector Berlioz arranged this piece for soprano, chorus, and orchestra. During the Russian Revolution, a "Worker's" version of this piece (+) called for the destruction of the monarchy. Tchaikovsky quoted this piece amid cannon fire in symbolizing Russian victory at the Battle of Borodino in his 1812 Overture. Originally called "War Song for the Army of the (*) Rhine," for ten points, what song by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle is the French national anthem? | "La Marseillaise" (accept "Worker's Marseillaise"; accept "War Song for the Army of the Rhine" or "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" before mentioned) |
| Description acceptable; Among the last words of the central figure in this photograph was a call to “take a mind of compassion towards the people of the nation.” A cushion was used as part of the central event in this photograph that was taken by Malcolm Browne (+) of the Associated Press. Occurring amidst the promotion of Catholicism, this photograph depicts a figure whom David Halberstam describes as “blackening and charring” from the central activity. Taken in 1963 during the Ngo (*) Dinh Diem regime, for ten points, what is this photograph of a Buddhist immolating himself? | The Burning Monk (accept answers indicating a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire; accept references to self-immolation instead of fire before mentioned; accept either underlined portion of Thích Quảng Đức or Lâm Văn Túc in place of Monk) |
| This term was used to label the rich, white landowners who dominated the politics of late-19th century Mississippi, including Thomas C. Catchings, who defended the use of "sound money" as a member of the "Gold Bugs." The turn of one party's political establishment against the policies of (+) Grover Cleveland, including a move to bimetallism, led to the downfall of this political faction and the rise of populism in one major political party. Named dually for a Kentucky (*) whiskey and a French dynasty, for ten points, what was this conservative faction of the Democratic Party? | Bourbon Democrats (prompt on "Democrats") |
| One effort to retrieve this object was approved by Pope Leo X [[the Tenth]], but this object was hidden in a wall by monks in the Basilica di San Francesco. The original owner of this object was exiled for siding with the White Guelphs in his home city. A female figure representing poetry (+) weeps over a book and holds a laurel wreath in a monument by Stephano Ricci that pointedly does not include this object and is found in the Basilica of Santa Croce. Ravenna is the (*) actual home of, for ten points, what object, the remaining physical remnants of a noted Florentine poet? | Body of Dante Alighieri (accept synonyms for Body; accept Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri in place of Dante) |
| The title of this novel comes from a line in "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," which says, "He is trampling out the vintage." This novel is based on a series of articles that the author wrote for the San Francisco News called "The Harvest Gypsies." Characters in this novel include Connie Rivers, Muley Graves, and Noah Joad, the brother of the protagonist, Tom. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940, for ten points, what John Steinbeck novel is set during the Great Depression? | The Grapes of Wrath |
| What English soldier was the first Englishman to map the area around the Chesapeake Bay and whose life was legendarily saved by Pocahontas? | John Smith |