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| BritishphilosopherG.E.Moorewroteafamous"defenseof"thisphrasethatinspired his later "Proof of an External World." This phrase titles a pamphletthatarguesitisabsurd for an island to rule a continent and which advocates for replacing the Magna Carta with a Continental Charter. For ten points, give this two word phrase that titles a Thomas Paine pamphlet advocating for American independence, a term which indicates obviouslycorrect beliefs. | Common Sense (accept "A Defence ofCommonSense") |
| A commission made up of, in part, Founding Father Gouverneur Morris drew the plans for this city between the modern streets of Houston and 115th. The Stonewall Inn Riots of the late 1960s occurred in this island's Greenwich Village. The DirectoroftheNew Netherlands Peter MinuitsupposedlyboughtthisU.S.islandfortwenty-twodollarsworthof beads and other trading goods. Fortenpoints,namethisisland,themostdenselypopulated New York City borough. | Manhattan (orManhattanIsland; prompt on"New York", "New York City", or "New York County"; prompt on "The City") |
| This period began after Visigothic nobleman Pelayo [[peh-LY-oh]] rebelled against Governor Munuza, establishing the Kingdom of Asturias. Large parias tributes were paid during this period,whichbeganwiththeBattleofCovadonga.Thisperiodincludedavictory over the Almohads at Las Navas de Tolosa, and this period ended with the conquest of Granada by the Catholic monarchs ofCastileandAragon.Fortenpoints,namethisperiodin which the Iberian peninsula was "reclaimed" from Muslim kingdoms. | Reconquista |
| A play in this genre depicts the general Cleon as a slave to Demos,whoseaffections are vied for by a sausage-seller named Agoracritus [[ah-gor-AH-krih-tus]]. Menander [[meh-NAN-der]] worked in the "Athenian New"schoolofthisgenre,whereasits"Old"form is seen in plays like The Knights and The CloudsbyAristophanes,whomadefunofSocrates. For ten points, name this lighthearted and often satirical ancient Greek genre of plays, contrasted with Tragedy. | Comedy (accept Ancient GreekComedy; or AthenianComedy; accept Old, Middle, or NewComedy) |
| A month before his death, this man prepared a 42-page manuscript criticizing the Compromise of 1850, to be read by his ally, Senator JamesMurrayMason.Thismanandhis wife Floride [["FLORIDA"]] perpetrated the Peggy Eaton affair during the Jackson administration. With Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, this politician formed the "Great Triumvirate" of influential elderstatesmen.Fortenpoints,namethisSouthCarolinasenator and seventh vice president of the United States. | John C (aldwell)Calhoun |
| In 1992, this modern nation invaded its eastern neighbor in an attempt to protect the independence of the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. TalaatPashaorderedforcedmarches through the SyrianDesertbythisnation'snamesakeethnicgroup,killingoveronemillionof them. Multiple wars with Azerbaijan have been fought by, for ten points, what Caucasian nation that faced a 20th century "Genocide" under the Ottoman Empire? | Republic ofArmenia (orHayastani Hanrapetut’yun;acceptArmenian Soviet Socialist Republic; orHaykakanSovetakan Soc'ialistakanHanrapetut'yun; accept Armenian Genocide) |
| Along with acting as watchmen, freedmen known as vigiles [[VIH-jih-less]] worked in this profession, often using a substance called acetum [[AH-keh-tum]]. Men in this profession in Ancient Greece used ox intestines as a flexible hose. Thefirstbrigadeofthese people in Rome notoriously refused to do their job untildistressedcitizensnegotiatedwith Crassus over the saleoftheirhomesforminimalprices.Fortenpoints,namethisprofession held by people who put out blazes. | Firefighters (acceptFiremen; orFirewomen) |
| This man was given the name "Big Turtle" after becoming the adopted son of Chief Blackfish following his capture by the Shawnee. This former Quaker led an expedition to scout the area which became the Wilderness Road. This head of the TransylvaniaCompany founded a namesake "Borough," one of the first colonial settlements west of the Appalachians. The Cumberland Gap was blazed by, for tenpoints,whatpioneerwhosettled modern Kentucky? | DanielBoone |
| This actress gave a four-day tour duringtheKoreanWarcalled"AnythingGoes."The nation of Egypt unilaterally banned this actress's films due to her conversion to Judaism following her marriage to Arthur Miller. At Madison Square Garden, this actress performed "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" for then headofstateJohnF.Kennedy.ThefilmSomeLikeit Hotfeatures, for ten points, which cultural iconand actress from the mid-20th century? | MarilynMonroe (accept Norma JeaneMortenson;or Norma JeaneBaker) |
| In this state, the largest diamond found in the U.S., nicknamed "Uncle Sam," was discovered in its Prairie Creek mine. Henry Wharton Conway founded a political dynasty known as "The Family" in this state. Motivated by a false claim ofaraceinsurrection,white mobs in this state committed the Elaine Massacre of its Black population. President Eisenhower sent the national guard to desegregate a high school in, for ten points, what state's capital of Little Rock? | Arkansas |
| The Barbar Temple in modern Bahrain is dedicated to a god of this domain, the Sumerian deity Enki. Duringearly conversion efforts, Spanish colonists equated the biblical episode of the "Binding of Isaac" to instances of child-sacrifice to the Aztec god of this domain, Tlaloc. The citizens of Athens supposedly rejected the gift of a god of this domain, which took the form of a spring. For ten points, name this primary domain ruled by Poseidon. | Water (accept theOcean; or theSea; acceptrain; prompt on "rivers" or "storms") |
| The Lady of the Lake emerged from the water to give this sword to Arthur. Its scabbard supposedly prevented blood-loss, leading Merlin to state it was the greater treasure. | Excalibur (acceptCaledfwlch;Calesvol; orCaliburnus) |
| This disease's primary vector of transport was discovered by Paul-Louis Simond [[see-MOHND]] while in Bombay during its "third" major breakout. The most prominent symptom of this disease is the inflammationoflymphnodesinthegroin,neck,andarmpits. This disease iscausedbythebacteriumYersiniapestis,andhistoricallyspreadthroughblack rats carrying fleas aboard merchant vessels. For ten points, name this disease that killed about one third of the European population in a pandemic called the Black Death. | BubonicPlague (prompt on "Black Death" or"Black Plague" before mentioned; prompt on "plague") |
| Simond discovered that fleas carry the plague after being transferred to Bombay from Paris in 1897 by a non-profit Institute bearing the name of what French chemist who developed the vaccine for rabies and anthrax, as well as a namesake method for treating milk? | LouisPasteur (orPasteurInstitute; acceptPasteurization) |
| This location's Main Building is built in the French Renaissance style and was awarded a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition. This location's namesake "special" allegedly forced people to change their names. Between 1892 and 1954, nearly twelve million people were processed at this facility. For ten points, name this island that was the busiest immigration inspection center intheUnitedStates,nowpartoftheStatueofLiberty National Monument. | EllisIsland (prompt on "Statue of Liberty"before mentioned) |
| Another island in New York is this one that houses the city's notorious main jail complex. Due to low crime rates inNewYorkCity,thatfacilityonthisislandwasvotedtobe closed by 2026. | RikersIsland |
| The Treaty of Fort Stanwix set Indian Territory's southern border at this river, settlement near which sparked Lord Dunmore's War. This river was known as the "River Jordan" by enslaved people, who often had to cross it to escape North. Fort Pitt was constructed where this river is formed from the Allegheny and Monongahela [[mah-non-gah-HEH-lah]] Rivers. For ten points, name this river that forms the southern border of Indiana and a namesake midwestern state. | OhioRiver |
| The Great Lakes region, including the Ohio River Valley, was the site of fighting during what indigenous uprising against British rule following the French and Indian War, led by a namesake Odawa war chief? | Pontiac's War (accept "Conspiracy" or "Rebellion"in place of "War"; accept Pontiac; orObwaandi'eyaag) |
| This regime's Admiral of the Fleet was assassinated by royalist Fernand de la Chapelle, who hoped to place Henry VI[[thesixth]]onthethrone.AsaresultofCaseAnton, this regime's naval secretary Gabriel Auphan [[oh-FAHN]] scuttled its fleet at Toulon [[too-LOHN]]. This state facilitated "round-ups," like at Vel' d'Hiv [[VEL DEEV]], to deport Jews to Nazi camps. For ten points, name this collaborationist regime of France during World War Two, led by Philippe Petain [[peh-TAHN]]. | VichyFrance (or Régime deVichy; acceptFrenchState; orÉtat français; prompt on "France" alone; do not accept "Free French" or "Free France") |
| The Free French who opposed the Vichy Regime were led by thistankcommander who became president of France from 1959 to 1969. | Charles deGaulle (or Charles André JosephMariede Gaulle) |
| A 1921 conference in this city installed the Hashemite [[HASH-eh-mite]] monarchy in Jordan. A 1943 conference in this cityaddedChinatothe"BigFour"powersandinvolved Chiang Kai-Shek, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt. At a 1981 parade in this city, Khalid al-Islambouli [[is-lahm-BOO-lee]] of theIslamicJihadmovementassassinatedAnwar Sadat. For ten points,namethislargestmetroareaintheArabworld,aNileRivercitythatis the capital of Egypt. | Cairo (or al-Qahirah) |
| Sadat was assassinated for agreeing to peace with Israel in this 1978 agreement brokered by Jimmy Carter at a namesake Maryland country retreat. | Camp DavidAccords |
| Near the Westfjords of Iceland, thirty sailors from this region were massacred for being foreigners. In Operation Ogre, the ETA separatist organization, agitating for the freedom of this region, killed Luis Carrero Blanco. The historical Kingdom of Navarre [[nah-VAHR]] was in this region, centered on the city of Pamplona. The city of Bilbao is located in, for ten points, what autonomous region of Northern Spain? | BasqueCountry (orEuskadi; or PaísVasco;acceptBasqueAutonomous Community; orEuskalAutonomia Erkidegoa; or ComunidadAutónomaVasca) |
| The Basque people speak a language that is not part of this large language family found throughout Eurasia. Its subdivisions include the Germanic, Romance, and Iranian languages. | Indo-Europeanlanguage family |
| The splinter group ISWAP launched an invasion of this organization's headquarters during the Battle of Sambisa [[sam-BEE-sah]] Forest, leading to the death of this group's leader, Abubakar Shekau [[ah-boo-BAH-ker sheh-KOW]], by suicide vest. This organization, whose name usually translates to "Western Education is Forbidden," attempted to scare civilians by kidnapping 200 school girls in Chibok. Al-Qaeda has materially supported, for ten points, which Nigerian terrorist organization? | Boko Haram (acceptJamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wahwa'l-Jihād; accept Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad;accept Wilāyat Garb Ifrīqīyā; acceptWestern Education is Forbiddenbefore mentioned;do not accept or prompt on "Islamic State's West Africa Province" or "ISWAP") |
| Boko Haram's first complex act of terror was bombing a UN building in what Nigerian capital? | Abuja |
| California city levelled by a 1906 earthquake. | San Francisco |
| 2005 Category-5 Hurricane which broke the levees of New Orleans. | HurricaneKatrina |
| Partially human-caused disaster during the Great Depression in which sandstorms ravaged the Western U.S. | Dust Bowl |
| State whose Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. | Texas |
| Volcano in the Cascades whose 1980 eruption caused deadly mudslides that reached the Columbia River. | MountSaint Helens (orLawetlat'la) |
| 2017 Hurricane which left denizens of Puerto Rico without power for years. | HurricaneMaria |
| Late-19th century Pennsylvania flood caused by the failure of the South Fork Dam. | JohnstownFlood (orGreat Flood of 1889) |
| Town in Missouri where a series of 1811 and 1812 earthquakes led to increased support for Tecumseh's Confederacy. | New MadridEarthquakes |
| City which fought with Rome at the Battle of Cape Ecnomus during the First Punic War. | Carthage (acceptCarthago; orQart-ḥadašt) |
| Maritime civilization that founded cities like Tyre and Sidon, and who developed the earliest-known alphabet. | Phoenicians |
| Mediterranean island whose harbor was adorned with an ancient colossus representing Helios. | Rhodes (orRhodos) |
| Island on which the proto-Greek palace city of Knossos was built. | Crete (acceptKrete; orKriti) |
| Naval battle which ended Xerxes's invasion of Greece in 480 BC. | Battle ofSalamis[[SAL-ah-miss]] |
| Boarding device named for "crows" used by the Romans during the First Punic War. | Corvus |
| Greek ships which served a military and merchant purpose and later evolved into the bireme, named for having 50 oars. | Penteconter |
| Kingdom in modern Somalia that heavily traded with its northwestern neighbor, Egypt. | Kingdom ofPunt (orPwenet; accept Land ofPunt) |
| General who exercised control over Ottoman Egypt for a short time following the Battle of the Pyramids. | NapoleonBonaparte (accept either underlinedportion) |
| Colonial power and historical rival of France that almost went to war following the Fashoda Incident. | United Kingdomof GreatBritainand Ireland (accept either underlined portion; acceptUK; acceptEngland) |
| Large island nation that fell under French control after the downfall of the Merina Kingdom. | Madagascar (orMadagasikara) |
| Kingdom which became a French protectorate following the Treaty of Fes. | Kingdom ofMorocco (or al-mamlaka al-maḡribiyya) |
| North African nation whose FLN fought a civil war with the French in the 1950s and 1960s. | People's Democratic Republic ofAlgeria (oral-Jumhūriyya [/a]al-Jazāʾiriyya[/a] ad-Dīmuqrāṭiyya aš-Šaʿbiyya) |
| Horn of Africa nation and neighbor to Ethiopia once known as French Somaliland. | Republic ofDjibouti (accept République deDjibouti; or JumhūrīyahJībūtī) |
| Former West African colony whose first president, Leopold Senghor, founded the literary movement Negritude. | Republic ofSenegal (or République duSénégal) |
| Tiny Indian Ocean island which preferred to stay a French overseas department rather than join nearby Comoros. | Mayotte |
| A tribe who lives primarily in this region called the Pirahã [[pee-RAH-hah]] speak a language that notably lacks words for specific numbers. The Yanomami are (+) another widely-studied native group from this region. The Vale do Javari [[hah-VAH-ree]] is a massive reserve for indigenous peoples in the Brazilian (*) portion of this region. Indigenous rights and territories are threatened in, for ten points, what largest rainforest in the world? | AmazonRainforest (accept FlorestaAmazônica;accept SelvaAmazónica) |
| Under the flag of truce, this rebellion's leader, James McFarlane, wasshotbya rogue soldier, leading to a marchonPittsburgh.This(+)insurrectionwascausedbya tax meant to allow the federal government to pay off Revolutionary War debts. The greatest domestic crisis of the Washington administration (*) was, for tenpoints,what Pennsylvania rebellion caused by a tax on alcohol? | WhiskeyRebellion (accept "Revolt" or "Insurrection"for "Rebellion") |
| Christopher Marlowe was a member of this figure's counter-cultural circle known as the "School of Atheism." This Governor of Jersey was tried and imprisoned in the Tower of London for (+) hisinvolvementintheMainPlot,anattempttodepose James Stuart. The word "Croatoan" was etched in a tree near the lost colony of Roanoke, which (*) was founded by this man. For ten points, name this Elizabethannoble who is the namesake of the capital of North Carolina. | Sir WalterRaleigh |
| In thisempire,theChakitakllawasafootplowusedbyfarmersduetoalackof large pack animals. This state employed chasqui [[CHAH-skee]] couriers, who kept record of transactions using the quipu [[KEE-poo]] knotted-string (+) system. This empire experienced a civil war between Huascar and Atahualpa [[ah-tah-HWAHL-pah]]priortoitsconquestbytheSpanish.(*)Fortenpoints,namethis Andean empire that was conquered in 1533 by Francisco Pizarro. | Incan Empire (or theIncas; acceptTawantinsuyu;orRealm of the Four Parts; orFour Parts Together) |
| This politician and his wife, Lou, nursed injured soldiers in Tianjin [[TYAHN-JIN]] during the Boxer Rebellion. Douglas MacArthur ignored this president's order to halt the tear-gassing and eviction of the Bonus Army (+) camp under the guisethattheveteransplannedtooverthrowthegovernment.Shantytowns during the early Great Depression were named for this president. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (*) occurred during, for ten points, what Republican's single presidential term? | HerbertHoover (or Herbert ClarkHoover; acceptHoovervilles) |
| In 1910, a Russian scientist invented a synthetic form of this substancecalled polybutadiene [[pah-lee-BYOO-tah-deen]], made from potatoes. Bolivia and a neighboring nation signed the Treaty of Petropolis in (+) an effort to avert war over the Acre [[AH-kruh]] state, a center for this commodity. To circumvent the monopoly on this good held by British Malaya, Fordlandia was established toproducethisgood in Brazil.CharlesGoodyear(*)developedthevulcanizationof,fortenpoints,whatnatural polymer known for its elasticity? | Rubber (acceptLatex) |
| This archipelago's Bogoslof volcano erupted in 2017, briefly interrupting air trafficbetweenNorthAmericaandAsia.TheRatIslands,NearIslands,andFoxIslands are (+) part of thisarchipelago,whichwasknownuntil1867astheCatherineIslands. This group's islands ofKiskaandAttuwereoccupiedbyJapanduringWorldWarTwo. Unalaska is the (*) most populous community in, for ten points, what group of islands southwest of the Alaskan Peninsula? | Aleutian Islands (orAleuts; acceptAleuticIslands; acceptCatherine Archipelago before mentioned) |
| A composer from this nation dedicated the piece Anchor and Star to its navy following the outbreak of war with Imperial Germany.Thisnation'sentranceintothe Second World War inspired the compositionofFanfarefortheCommonManbyAaron Copland. (+) This nation's native composer John Adams created the piece On the Transmigration of Souls in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks here. John Philip Sousa composed Stars and Stripes (*) Forever to serve as a military march for, for ten points, which Western nation? | United Statesof America (orUSA; prompt on"America" alone) |
| This battle occurred concurrently with Operation Stösser[[STUH-suh]],which reportedly called for the use of carrier pigeons. During a siege at this battle, one commander responded to a surrender demand by simply replying (+) "Nuts!" Also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, this battle is considered the last roll ofthe dice for Adolf Hitler. (*) For ten points, name this World War Two battle which is named for a distinct shape in Allied lines. | The Battle of theBulge (acceptArdennes Counteroffensivebefore mentioned) |
| Ancient Athens hidthemethodofmakingan"oil"fromthisfruitusedasdressingin salad and as fuel for lamps. | Olive (acceptOliveOil) |
| It's not Italy, but under King Hassan II, this country's "Years of Lead" saw extreme political repression. This country's Alaouite [[ah-LOO-ite]] dynasty took power in the1600sandincludesitsrulersince1999,MohammadVI[[sixth]].This(+) country organized the 1975 "Green March" to seize land claimed by the Spanish Polisario Front and has ongoing territorial disputes with Ceuta [[SYOO-tuh]] and Melilla [[meh-LEE-yah]], the only Spanish cities on (*) Africa's mainland.Fortenpoints, name this country that occupies most of Western Sahara. | Kingdom ofMorocco (accept al-Mamlaka al-Maḡribiyya;or theWestern Kingdom; accept Tageldit n lmeghrib; or Royaume duMaroc) |
| This 19th-century period in the South after the U.S. Civil War led to a temporary expansion of civil rights for minorities before being replaced by the Jim Crow era. | Reconstructionera |