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| Joseph Townsend wrote how, following this battle, mercenaries under Wilhelm Knyphausen [[neep-HOW-sehn]] ransacked the estate of Quaker Gideon Gilpin. The Marquis of Lafayette was wounded at this battle, which occurred near a creek off the Christina River. The largest single-day engagement of the American Revolution was, for ten points, what Pennsylvania battle, a victory for William Howe over George Washington during the Philadelphia campaign? | Battle of Brandywine Creek |
| During a national boycott, this person met with Gloria Steinem to rally support for one cause. This person created the AWA to pressure local governments to improve the condition of barrios. This woman co-founded the Stockton chapter of the Community Service Organization, which fought for increased Latino voting and provided economic support. For ten points, name this American labor leader who originated the phrase "Sí, se puede [[PWEH- deh]]," and, with Cesar Chavez, founded the National Farmworkers Association. | Dolores Huerta (or Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta) |
| The army of Cleomenes I defeated this city-state at the Battle of Sepeia, which was estimated to have wiped out 50% of its population. An entity known as "the Eighty" was part of the democratic government of this city-state found along Larissa Hill. The mythological hero Perseus was supposedly born in this city-state, which names a group that included Odysseus and Agamemnon. For ten points, name this city-state that lent its name to those who fought the Trojans during the Trojan War. | Argos |
| The Clark Amendment barred public funding from being spent during a conflict in this country, though CIA Director George H. W. Bush circumvented it by using Israel as a proxy. An umbrella movement known as "Fractionism" in this nation attempted to overthrow the Agostinho Neto regime, which earlier came to prominence in 1975 following Portugal's Carnation Revolution. The Communist MPLA defeated the Western-backed UNITA and FNLA in a three-decade civil war in, for ten points, which Southwest African nation? | Republic of Angola |
| One of the many causes of this period was a speculative asset price bubble caused by a policy mechanism known as "window guidance." This period began after inter-bank lending rates in 1989 tried to keep inflation in check but caused its country’s stock market to crash. The Plaza Accord was a joint agreement during this period in which the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar versus the yen was doubled. For ten points, name this period of economic stagnation in Japan caused by the asset price bubble’s collapse in late 1991. | Lost Decades (accept Lost 20 Years; or Lost 30 Years; accept Ushinawareta Jūnen) |
| The Annals of Metz recounts how this person won a major military victory at Amblève [[ahm-BLEEV]], defeating forces from Frisia and Neustria. Although never crowned king, this person’s role as "Mayor of the Palace" allowed him to act as the power behind the throne of Francia without a king. This person’s victory over Abdul Rahman Al-Ghafiqi [[gah-FEE-kee]] at Tours checked Umayyad expansion in Europe. For ten points, name this leader whose descendants supplanted the Merovingians. | Charles Martel (accept Charles the Hammer) |
| This city was sacked under the orders of Charles Grimaldi in 1338 during the Hundred Years' War. This city's Red Lion Inn was the site of a trial of this city's "plotters" against Henry V prior to the Battle of Agincourt. This city's Eastleigh Aerodrome later became this city's main airport and was where the first Spitfire prototype took flight. This city was the first departure point for both the Mayflower and the Titanic. For ten points, name this major port city in Hampshire on England's southern coast. | Southampton |
| In one book, this thinker claimed that the ideas of "militant nonviolence" were developed after a man was kicked off a train in South Africa. In another book, this thinker claimed that the title man experienced tension between his ideals of being a "good man" and a "good monk." This thinker used the example of a man crying out "I am not" on a choir floor to illustrate his concept of an identity crisis. For ten points, name this psychologist, the author of psychobiographies such as Gandhi’s Truth and Young Man Luther. | Erik Homburger Erikson |
| The Curragh Incident arose when officers failed to act against opponents of this policy during a namesake crisis. This policy was disparaged by replacing one word in its name with "Rome." After Isaac Butt led this policy's namesake league, the IPP, led by Parnell, moved Gladstone to introduced two namesake bills, eventually replaced by an alternative policy that created the Irish Free State. For ten points, name this policy of Irish self-government within, but not independent of, the United Kingdom. | Home Rule for Ireland (or Rialtas Dúchais; accept Irish self-government or Irish autonomy before "self-government" is read; prompt on "Irish nationalism"; do not accept or prompt on "Irish independence" or "Irish republicanism.") |
| This party, which supports Irish republicanism, was opposed to Home Rule. Leaders of this party like Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera were involved in the Easter Rising. | Sinn Fein [[SHIN FANE]] |
| This city's medieval Vauclair Castle was built by Henry II of England in the 12th century. Vice-Admiral Ernst Schirlitz surrendered this city to the Allies in World War Two. The Lantern, Chain, and Saint Nicholas Towers overlook this city's harbor, whose U-boat pens were a filming location in Das Boot. This city was seized by Louis XIII [[the thirteenth]] in 1622, which had earlier modeled itself as a republic based on the religion and ideas of Geneva. For ten points, name this capital of Aunis, a major Huguenot center in the 16th and 17th centuries. | La Rochelle |
| French Huguenots were granted substantial rights under this 1598 document issued by King Henry IV [[the Fourth]]. It would later be revoked by Louis XIV [[the Fourteenth]] in 1685. | Edict of Nantes [[NAHNT]] (or Edit de Nantes) |
| Spanish cartographers first named this location Laguna del Espíritu Santo, or “Lake of the Holy Spirit." This area is home to Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, as well as the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. In 1947, journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas described this area as a "river of grass," as many of the marshes in this area mostly contain sawgrass. During the 1904 gubernatorial race, future Florida governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward tried to promote the drainage of this area. For ten points, name this tropical wetland located in the southern portion of Florida. | The Florida Everglades |
| What river that forms the north part of the Everglades passes through a Florida lake with the same name before entering Lake Okeechobee? | Kissimmee River |
| After this man's death, one leader said that he was a "speech-giving everyman, with his soiled clothes and tattered briefcase." In 1955, this man rose to secretary-general of the JSP, which he helped found. This man, who founded the Labour-Farmer Party, led the drive to censure Saitō Takao and drew criticism for saying that the U.S. was "the shared enemy of China and Japan." Ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi used a wakizashi to assassinate this man in 1960 during a political debate. For ten points, name this leader of the Japan Socialist Party. | Inejirō Asanuma |
| This Japanese Prime Minister from 1960 to 1964 gave a heartfelt eulogy for Asanuma at the Diet. He developed the Income Doubling Plan and presided over the 1964 Toyko Olympics. | Hayato Ikeda |
| The Treaty of Tafna recognized a polity in this country ruled by Abdelkader before it was conquered by Robert Bugeaud [[BOO-joh]]. The Café Wars were fought between rival nationalist groups from this country. Massacres at Sétif [[Say-tif]] and Philippeville targeted this country's harkis and Pieds-Noirs [[Pieh-nwa]]. Houari Boumédiène [[Hua-ri Boo-may- DIEHN]] deposed Ahmed Ben Bella to seize control of the FLN in, for ten points, what African country that gained independence through the Évian Accords? | People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (or al-Jazāʾir; or Algérie) |
| This French West Indian political thinker analyzed the Algerian War of Independence in his anticolonial classic The Wretched of the Earth. | Frantz Omar Fanon |
| To mimic the success of Singapore, this city declared itself a "Free English Zone" where English is spoken as a second tongue. The opening salvos of one war occurred in this city, ending with the scuttle of Admiral Vsevolod Rudnev's ship Varyag in Chemulpo Bay. A surprise amphibious assault of this city by combined U.S. and ROK forces led to a breakthrough of the Pusan Perimeter in the early days of the Korean War. Seoul was recaptured following the occupation of, for ten points, which Asian port? | Incheon (accept Inchon; accept Chemulpo before mentioned) |
| The Battle of Chemulpo Bay was the opening engagement of this early 20th-century war ended by the Treaty of Portsmouth. | Russo-Japanese War |
| The "Father of Comparative Religion" wrote to this thinker to critique his Aristotelian notion of an eternal universe. This man and Al-Farabi were criticized in books like Deliverance from Error by Al-Ghazali. This man devised an argument by which one could attain self- knowledge without sense perceptions, known as the Floating Man argument. This man used the idea of a "necessary existent" in his Proof of the Truthful to argue for the existence of God. For ten points, name this Iranian Islamic philosopher and physician known for his Book of Healing. | Avicenna (or Ibn Sina) |
| Avicenna's Floating Man argument is often compared to this thinker's Cogito. This thinker names a coordinate system central to algebraic geometry. | René Descartes |
| Native Americans who lived at this location called themselves Ahwahneechee, or "dwellers." James Mason Hutchings and Thomas Ayres helped promote this location, whose Wawona Hotel opened in 1879. The Raker Act enabled the construction of the O'Shaughnessy Dam at this location. The U.S. Army clashed with Native Americans at this park in the Mariposa Wars. Gifford Pinchot supported the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in this park contrary to John Muir. For ten points, name this historically significant California national park. | Yosemite National Park |
| Yosemite was declared federally preserved land through the 1864 Yosemite Grant, paving the way for this national park to become the first in the U.S. in 1872. | Yellowstone National Park |
| Four-term president under whom he served during the late 1930s. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt (accept FDR) |
| Congressional position he held from 1931 to 1933, as did Newt Gingrich and Paul Ryan. | Speaker of the House of Representatives |
| State for which he served as a Congressman, just like LBJ did later. | Texas |
| 1948 Progressive Party nominee whom he preceded as vice president. | Henry A (gard) Wallace |
| Nickname he gained due to his support of a certain plant for the state flower. | Cactus Jack |
| Michigan city whose sit-down strike he supported breaking up through federal intervention. | Flint |
| Nation whose regime under Louis Philippe collapsed in 1848. | France (accept French Republic; accept République française; accept Kingdom of France) |
| Italian island on which the first failed revolution broke out in January. | Sicily (or Sicilia) |
| Ethnic group that revolted against Prussian occupation while led by Ludwik Mierosławski [[mee-roh-SWAHF-skee]]. | Polish People (accept Poles) |
| Organizer of the Congress of Vienna who fled for London after being ousted by the Diet of Austria. | Klemens von Metternich (accept Prince Metternich) |
| Duchy which, with Holstein, was contested in a short-lived 1848 war between Denmark and Prussia. | Schleswig (accept First Schleswig War; accept Schleswig-Holstein) |
| Swedish dynasty of French origin whose ruler Oscar I [[the First]] dealt with the "March Unrest" at the Storkyrkan [[stohr-KEER-kahn]]. | Bernadotte |
| U.S. president who outlined its basic structure in his Fourteen Points. | Woodrow Wilson (or Thomas Woodrow Wilson) |
| Organization devised at the Tehran Conference meant to succeed it. | United Nations (accept U.N.) |
| Emperor of Ethiopia who appealed to the league to censure Italy for an aggressive invasion. | Haile Selassie I [[the First]] (accept Ras Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael) |
| Term for its protectorates transferred from the defeated Central Powers to the Allied nations. | Mandate (accept Mandatory) |
| Industrial territory on the Franco-German border which it oversaw until it voted to return to German control. | Saar Region (accept Saarland) |
| High Commissioner who attempted to reach the North Pole during the Fram expedition. | Fridtjof Nansen (or Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen) |
| Albrecht Altdorfer created an oil painting of this ancient battle but included accounts of the recent defeat of Suleiman the Magnificent at the Siege of Vienna to compare the two as "Western" victories. It's not the Battle of Granicus, (+) but Greek mercenary captain Memnon of Rhodes attempted to replicate the formation of the Macedonian Phalanx at the battle. The satrap Sabaces [[sah-BAH-kees]] died while protecting a fleeing Darius III from the elite Companion cavalry at this battle. The Hellenic League under Alexander the Great routed the Persians at, (*) for ten points, which 333 BCE battle in Syria? | Battle of Issus (accept Battle of Issos) |
| Felix Onama was appointed Defense Minister under this president, whose government was investigated in the Gold Scandal. This man's second term came to an end due to a coup led by military leaders like Bazilio Olara-Okello and Tito Okello. The Mengo Crisis (+) was caused by a conflict between this man and his country's monarch, Mutesa II, whom this man forced out of power. This man presented the Common Man's Charter before his country's Congress two years before being overthrown in 1971 by (*) Idi Amin. For ten points, name this early Ugandan president. | [Apollo] Milton Obote |
| This man's son authored a Preliminary Discourse championing the use of inductive reasoning in scientific experimentation. Two years after one effort by this man, he was given an annual stipend of 200 pounds by King George III. Anders Johan Lexell (+) verified the orbital nature of a finding by this man, who spent nearly a decade cataloging double stars. This inaugural President of the Royal Astronomical Society originally thought he spotted a comet in 1781, but that finding turned out to be a (*) planet. For ten points, name this discoverer of Uranus. | [Frederick] William Herschel (accept Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel) |
| This man parodied the war-mongering ways of the general Lamachos [[lah- MAH-kohs]] in the lost play The Merchant-Ships. Mask-makers were too fearful to make a caricatured mask of the vengeful general (+) Cleon for a play by this man, in which he was depicted as a Paphlagonian [[pah-flah-GOH-nee-ahn]] slave. A satirical depiction of Socrates, whom this playwright depicts as the fraudulent head of "The Thinkery," is claimed by Plato to have contributed to his 399 C.E. execution. (*) The Clouds and Lysistrata were comedies by, for ten points, which Athenian playwright? | Aristophanes |
| At the Battle of El Roble, this man shouted, "Live with honor, or die with glory!" This man was briefly made governor of Concepción, settling at the Hacienda de Cuiva [[SWEE-vuh]] and the Hacienda Montalván. (+) Although this leader lost to Mariano Osorio at the Battle of Rancagua, he, along with José de San Martín, achieved victories at Maipu and (*) Chacabuco. For ten points, name this Supreme Director of Chile who was notably of Irish descent. | Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme |
| Richard Washburn Child gave his support for this event, which occurred in the aftermath of the Red Biennium. A set of Quadrumvirs was appointed days before this event, (+) in which the Royal Guards sided with Luigi Facta's government. The PNF carried out this event, during which a declaration of a state of siege was annulled by Victor Emmanuel III. The Blackshirts carried out this 1922 event that enabled the (*) Fascist Party to obtain power. For ten points, name this Benito Mussolini-led march. | 1922 March on Rome (accept Marcia su Roma; prompt on partial answers) |
| This leader's right-hand man, former interior decorator Martin Luther, unintentionally revealed the existence of the Wannsee [[VAHN-see]] Conference to the Allies. This man's relations with Heinrich Himmler's SS deteriorated after they supported the Iron Guard in their failed attempt to overthrow (+) Ion Antonescu. This man was executed after the Nuremberg Trials for orchestrating the Anschluss and organizing foreign emissaries to deport Jewish populations. The broker of the Pact of Steel with Fascist Italy, (*) for ten points, what Nazi foreign minister names a non- aggression pact with Vyacheslav Molotov? | Joachim von Ribbentrop (accept Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) |
| Thomas of Britain may have been the first to record a version of this man’s story as part of its "courtly" branch This man married a daughter of King Hoel, whose brother is Kahedin. This man engages in his most famous undertaking after defeating a warrior named Morholt. (+) In one branch of a story about this man, a certain effect on him lasts for only three years as opposed to a lifetime. This nephew of King Mark falls in love with the woman who is supposed to marry his aforementioned uncle after ingesting a love potion. (*) For ten points, name this knight who illicitly loves Isolde. | Tristan (accept Tristram; accept Tristrain; accept Drest; accept Drustanus) |
| The region of Near Jushi was dominated by this dynasty following their defeat of nomads led by Wugui, with assistance from Tarim Basin allies. The Red Eyebrows Rebellion weakened the strength of this dynasty's usurper, the regime of (+) Wang Mang, allowing its Gengshi Emperor to take the throne. This dynasty's Emperor Wu sponsored Sima Qian [[CHYAN]] to write The Records of the Grand Historian. (*) For ten points, name this dynasty which names the majority ethnic group of China. | Han Dynasty |
| Which state was the site of the Battle of Tippecanoe, a victory for its governor William Henry Harrison? | Indiana |