| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The soldier Sam Steele led law enforcement during this event before serving in the Boer War. A Tagish man known as Keish, or Skookum Jim Mason, helped spark this event alongside the Carmacks. Participants in this event brought a year's worth of provisions by decree of the Royal Mounted Police. The cities of Skagway and Dawson City became boom towns during this event. For ten points, name this late 19th-century event in Yukon, which involved a mass migration of mineral prospectors. | Klondike Gold Rush (accept Yukon Gold Rush before mentioned; prompt on partial answers) |
| After being given an honorary degree by Harvard University, this man condemned Western countries as "weak" and "spiritually vapid." The epithet "Old Man Whiskers," or "batka usaty," was used to insult a leader in a novel by this author. With the approval of Nikita Khrushchev, this author published his first novella in Novy Mir, a year before this Russian’s last publication in the Soviet Union, Matryona’s Place. For ten points, name this Nobel laureate who critiqued the Soviet Union in The Gulag Archipelago. | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (or Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn) |
| This term was first used in a 1968 speech by William S. Gaud who said that it was different from Soviet and Iranian phenomena. Punjab was chosen to be the first part of India to undergo this process due to its ample water supply. 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug is called the "father of [this concept]." For ten points, name this colorful term for the widespread adoption of pesticides and specially-bred crops, such as dwarf wheat and rice, to drastically increase yields in many parts of the world in the mid-to-late 20th century. | Green Revolution (or Third Agricultural Revolution; prompt on partial answers) |
| The first organization to govern this sport was developed in 1959 by a collaboration of nine schools. In 1972, the KTA and the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism established the Kukkiwon as a national academy for this sport. Choi Hong-hoi, who is regarded as the founder of this sport, created its international federation before he was exiled for introducing it to North Korea. For ten points, name this Korean form of martial arts, emphasizing punching and kicking techniques. | Taekwondo (accept Korea Taekwondo Association) |
| During this century, the three-field crop system first came into use in Europe, as did the horizontal loom. The beginning of the Commercial Revolution began in this century due in part to the rediscovery of spices at the tail-end of this century during the First Crusade. In this century, Harold Godwinson legendarily took an arrow to his eye during the Battle of Hastings. The Norman invasion by the English title claimant William the Conqueror occurred in, for ten points, what century? | 11th century CE (accept the 1000s) |
| This ruler sponsored construction projects by Bartolomeo Rastrelli, as well as Lomonosov's foundation of the Moscow University. This ruler kept a pledge not to sentence anyone to death, pulling out the tongue of Natalia Lopakhina in an affair orchestrated to smear Aleksey Bestuzhev. This ruler's adversary wrote, "The Messalina of the North is dead" upon this woman's death, which caused the Second Miracle of the House of Brandenburg. For ten points, name this daughter of Peter I [[the First]], who fought Prussia in the Seven Years' War. | Elizabeth of Russia (or Elizabeth Petrovna; accept Yelisaveta or Elizaveta in place of Elizabeth) |
| In a controversial 2021 reform, this entity's Legislative Council increased its size from 70 to 90 members. That Legislative Council, when constituted, faced a boycott from this territory's pan-democracy coalition. That alliance, which took control of all of Kowloon's district councils in 2019, sympathized with this city's 2019 anti-extradition protests. For ten points, name this region of China whose Cantonese-speaking majority are de facto disenfranchised. | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (accept HKSAR; accept Xianggang) |
| One of these events, sponsored by National Bank and Rogers, is held at the former Aviva Centre, and the largest of these events in the Southern Hemisphere is hosted at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena. Larry Ellison owns one of these events, hosted in the town of Indian Wells in the Coachella Valley, and Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens hosts a major example of these events in the U.S. For ten points, name these events, exemplified by the "Grand Slam" events, including Wimbledon. | Tennis Tournaments (accept anything relating to Tennis events) |
| The elaborately adorned ganjifa were used in this activity until the Safavid Shah Abbas II [[the Second]] banned them in an effort to reform his state. Following the Tokugawa banning of Mekuri Karuta, the floral designed Hanafuda were introduced to circumvent this practice's ban. The Sociedade de Turismo introduced a legalized form of this practice to Macau, now the largest hub for this oft illicit activity. For ten points, name this industry, which led to an explosion in the economy of Las Vegas in the mid-20th century. | Gambling (accept word forms) |
| Two workers in this industry fatally dropped a concrete post on taxi driver David Wilkie. Mark Ashton created a "Lesbian and Gays" fundraising group to support workers in this industry who opposed Ian MacGregor's plan to close worksites. Pickets from this industry were charged by police in the Battle of Orgreave during a strike backed by the NUM [[N-U-M]] and led by Arthur Scargill. For ten points, name this industry in which workers extract a black fossil fuel from the earth. | Coal mining industry (accept synonyms for "mining industry"; prompt on "mining") |
| Survivors of one of these events in Kishinev were interviewed by poet Hayim Bialek, and that destructive example of these events led to thinker Theodor Herzl proposing that one minority be resettled in modern Uganda. In response to a wave of these events, the "Temporary Laws" restricted the residence of one minority to the "Pale of Settlement." For ten points, name these anti-Jewish purges in the Russian Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries. | Pogroms (prompt on descriptive answers such as "attacks on Jews") |
| Hayim Nahman Bialik wrote in both Hebrew and what other related language, historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews? | Yiddish |
| In an episode of this show, the two central characters lock themselves together without a key in a pair of Civil War handcuffs. The main characters in this show lived at the fictional address of 623 East 68th Street, which is actually located in the middle of New York’s East River. Jess Oppenheimer was the producer and head writer of this TV show, which ran on CBS from 1951 to 1957. For ten points, name this sitcom which starred real- life husband and wife Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz playing the Ricardos. | I Love Lucy |
| This monthly, pop culture magazine, founded by Jann Wenner and Ralph J. Gleason, ranked I Love Lucy as the 32nd greatest TV show of all-time as part of a 2016 article written by Rob Sheffield. | Rolling Stone |
| A poem named for this country's royal capital popularized the phrase "East of Suez" and names a character after Supayalat, queen of its last king, Thibaw. Maha Gandula led this country's forces in the first of three wars with a power who colonized this country. This country's first prime minister, U Nu, was deposed, and this country was the site of the 8888 Uprising, in which a revolutionary leader's daughter spoke at Shwedagon Pagoda. For ten points, name this country, whose democracy movement was led by Aung San Suu Kyi. | Republic of the Union of Myanmar (or Union of Burma; or Pyidaungzu Thammada Myanma Naingngandaw) |
| In 2008, the Burmese government relocated form Yangon to this planned city. This city is known for its wide boulevards and was the location of a 2021 coup. | Naypyidaw |
| Alongside his uncle, Shaista Khan, this leader defeated Governor Josiah Child in Child's War. This monarch created a Sharia-based law code called the Fatawa-e-Alamgiri. This ruler and his brother, Murad Baksh, were victorious at the 1658 Battle of Samugarh over their brother, Dara Shikoh. Tegh Bahadur was executed on the orders of this ruler for refusing to convert from Sikhism to Islam. This leader, who reinstated the jizya tax, was in power during the rise of the Maratha Empire. For ten points, name this son of Shah Jahan and sixth Mughal emperor. | Aurangzeb (accept Muhi-ud-din Muhammad; accept Alamgir) |
| Aurangzeb imprisoned his father, Shah Jahan, at a fort in this city. This city in Uttar Pradesh served as the capital of the Mughal Empire during the reigns of Babar and Akbar. | Agra |
| This ruler reclaimed his former realm with the help of Olaf Haraldsson. This king's subordinate, Byrhtnoth [[BEERT-nohth]], deliberately let an invading force cross onto the mainland, a battle recounted in a fragmentary poem, [i]The Battle of Maldon[i]. This king's alleged defecation into a baptismal font was taken as an omen of his misrule, such as ordering the St. Brice's Day Massacre and paying Danegeld to Vikings like Sweyn Forkbeard. For ten points, name this Anglo-Saxon king of England, known for his unflattering nickname. | Aethelred the Unready (or Aethelred II [[the Second]]) |
| Aethelred's second wife was this notable queen who later married Cnut [[kah- NOOT]] the Great. Her namesake Encomium is an important source concerning Anglo-Saxon history. | Emma of Normandy (or Aelfgifu; prompt on "Encomium Emmae Reginae"; prompt on partial answer) |
| Though first published in 1831, the original title of this novel contained the year 1482. A silent film adaptation of this novel starring Lon Chaney was released in 1923. This novel contributed to a revitalization of Gothic architecture in the country in which it is set. This novel features the minor characters Henriet Cousin, the city executioner, and Jacques Coictier [[kwahk-tee-EH]], the physician of Louis XI [[the Eleventh]]. Named after a cathedral in Paris, for ten points, what Victor Hugo novel features a bell-ringer? | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (accept Notre-Dame de Paris, 1482) |
| The 1982 film adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame starred this Welsh actor as Quasimodo. This man won Best Actor Oscars for his performances in The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 and 2020's The Father. | Anthony Hopkins (or Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins) |
| In 2020, Adam Schiff introduced an amendment to a law named for these groups that included coverage of the Marine Corps and Space Force. That law named for these groups was passed a year after the Great Railroad Strike and tried to nullify the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. The use of the U.S. military in law enforcement was limited by a law named for these groups and "Comitatus." Called in to find fugitives and robbers, for ten points, what are these groups of armed citizens assembled by sheriffs to hunt down outlaws? | Posses (accept Posse comitatus) |
| In 1981, Congress passed a "drug exception" to the Posse Comitatus Act, allowing the DEA to acquire these types of main battle tanks named for a U.S. general during the Vietnam War. | M1 Abrams (accept Creighton Abrams; accept Creighton William Abrams, Jr.; accept either underlined portion) |
| This religion was allegedly declared to be compatible with Shintoism after the monk Gyoki visited the Ise [[EE-seh]] Grand Shrine. After witnessing the atrocities he committed in the Kalinga War, one ruler of the Mauryan empire converted to this religion. The founder of this religion discovered the Four Noble Truths and the Middle Way while meditating under a Bodhi tree. Mahayana and Theravada are sects of, for ten points, what Indian religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama? | Buddhism (accept Mahayana Buddhism; accept Theravada Buddhism) |
| Gyalwa Rinpoche is the 14th holder of this title given to the spiritual leaders of Tibetan Buddhism. | Dalai Lama |
| President who resigned that office in 1974. | Richard M (ilhous) Nixon |
| President who won every state save Minnesota in his 1984 re-election. | Ronald Reagan (or Ronald Wilson Reagan) |
| Most recent Republican to win re-election, serving during 9/11. | George Walker Bush (accept Bush II; or Bush the Younger, etc.; prompt on "Bush") |
| Subject of the Daisy ad who lost to LBJ in a 1964 landslide. | Barry Goldwater (or Barry Morris Goldwater) |
| New Yorker who did not, as reported by the Chicago Tribune, defeat Truman. | Thomas E (dmund) Dewey |
| First Republican to run (and lose) in 1856, an explorer of California. | John C (harles) Frémont |
| Republican who won only Maine and Vermont when facing FDR in 1936. | Alfred Mossman "Alf" Landon |
| 1940 Republican nominee from Indiana who helped FDR pass Lend-Lease. | Wendell Wilkie (or Wendell Lewis Willkie) |
| Capital which founded a namesake "Rus" state in the 800s. | Kyiv (accept Kievan Rus) |
| Port city whose "steps" feature in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. | Odessa |
| Ethnic group, native to Crimea, deported to Uzbekistan by Stalin. | Crimean Tatars (accept Tatarlar; accept Qirimlar) |
| Ideology followed by the Makhnovists during the Soviet-Ukrainian War. | Anarchism (or Anarchists) |
| Warrior people who settled along the Dneiper River. | Zaporozhian Cossacks (accept either underlined portion; accept Zaporozhian Host; accept Zaporozhtsy) |
| Southwestern region annexed from Poland after World War Two. | Eastern Galicia (accept Halychyna; prompt on "Kresy," "Lviv," "Stanislav," or "Ternopil") |
| River through Rostov whose Cossacks once claimed Ukraine as their own. | Don River |
| Hetman who rebelled against Poland and allied with Russia in 1654. | Bohdan Khmelnytsky (or Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky) |
| Semitic-speaking people whose legendary hero Goliath was defeated by a young David. | Philistines (accept Peleset) |
| Valley in which the oldest settlements in the Levant were found, sharing its name with a river. | Jordan Rift Valley (accept Jordan Valley; accept Jordan River) |
| People displaced by the migration of the Israelites into their namesake homeland. | Canaanites |
| Semitic language spoken as the lingua franca in the region during Jesus's life. | Aramaic |
| Language spoken in the Kingdom of Sargon I [[the First]], who adapted it into a written language. | Akkadian |
| Near East people who conquered Lower and Middle Egypt, causing the Second Intermediate Period. | Hyksos |
| Levantine fortress city where Thutmose III [[the Third]] defeated a coalition led by the king of Kadesh. | Tel Megiddo |
| Trade route linking Egypt and the Hittites, running parallel to the Mediterranean. | Via Maris (accept Way of Horus; accept International Trunk Road or Great Trunk Road; accept International North-South Road; accept International Coastal Highway) |
| In a demonstration of airpower using three of these aircraft, Curtis LeMay "intercepted" the ocean liner SS Rex 600 miles off the coast of the U.S. Remote- controlled varieties of this aircraft were used during Operation Crossroads, a series of nuclear tests in the Bikini Atoll. (*) One of these aircraft, known as the Memphis Belle, inspired a feature-length propaganda film due to completing 25 successful missions over Europe. The "Flying (*) Fortress" was the nickname of, for ten points, what mass-produced heavy bomber of the U.S. Army Air Corps? | Boeing B-17 (accept Flying Fortress before mentioned) |
| Barras bravas are organized football hooligans in this nation who were implicated in starting riots outside José Amalfitani Stadium, causing the Arturo Frondizi government to implement martial law. In this nation's capital, right-wing snipers targeted leftist youth and (+) Montoneros during the Ezeiza Massacre. A member of the literary "Generation of 1837," Domingo Sarmiento, guided this nation as president through its participation in the War of the Triple Alliance. Juan Manuel de Rosas and (*) Juan Perón led, for ten points, which South American nation? | Republic of Argentina (or Argentine Republic; or Republica Argentina) |
| The Erromintxela [[eh-roh-meen-CHEH-lah]] mixed language combines this language's grammar with Kalderash Romani vocabulary. Whalers speaking this language formed a pidgin influenced by languages like Mi'kmaq [[MIK-mak]]. Speakers of this language led the Kingdom of (+) Pamplona and more recently launched Operation Ogre, killing Luis Carrero Blanco. The Burgos trial boosted the prominence of the ETA, a terrorist (*) group seeking independence for speakers of, for ten points, what language isolate, also known as Euskara, spoken by an ethnic group straddling France and Spain? | Basque (accept Euskara before mentioned) |
| The writer Martial tells the tale of Santra, a scoundrel who attends parties in these locales and steals food from them, selling them the next day at the market. Christian writer Tertullian condemned multi-story examples of these structures known as the Felicula (*) due to their matching the home of the gods. Emperor Nero lowered the heights of these structures from twenty to eighteen meters following the "Great Fire of Rome" after poor regulation of these domiciles worsened the blaze. Insulae (*) are Roman examples of, for ten points, what type of homes, often for the lower classes? | Apartments (accept Tenements; accept Flats; accept Insulae before mentioned; prompt on "homes") |
| This philosopher, who visited the Louisiana Purchase World Fair in a study of capitalism in the U.S., died from Spanish Flu while completing his work Economy and Society. This political scientist helped draft the Weimar [[VYE-mar]] Constitution, and his opposition to the Treaty of Versailles likely stopped (*) Friedrich Ebert from appointing this man as ambassador. The effect a monopoly has on the "legitimate use of violence" was outlined by this political thinker. The author of The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism, (*) for ten points, who was this early 20th-century German sociologist? | Max Weber [[VEH-buh]] (or Maximilian Carl Emil Weber) |
| Description Acceptable; Western Union employee John Freeks died during this conflict, which led one side's advocate to publicly denounce the other's system. Harold Brown railed against one side in this conflict and asked, "Why must the public submit to constant danger from sudden death?" (+) Brown later killed a horse at a West Orange laboratory in this conflict which wound down as Thomson-Houston merged with Edison Electric (*) to form G.E. For ten points, name this late 19th-century conflict involving electric power transmission systems. | War of the Currents (accept clear-knowledge equivalents mentioning a conflict surrounding alternating and direct current) |
| This amendment's passage was paved by the court case Oregon v. Mitchell, in which Hugo Black used the "Times, Places and Manner" clause to state, "Congress has ultimate supervisory power over congressional elections." Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Emanuel Celler claimed one group's "lack of (+) good judgement" made the passage of this amendment impossible. The Vietnam War inspired the slogan "Old enough to fight, old enough to (*) vote," which supported the passage of this amendment. The right to vote of the U.S. citizen was decreased from 21 to 18 by, for ten points, which amendment in 1971? | 26th Amendment |
| This event caused the cancelation of an episode of Teppen—!!!, and many have drawn parallels between this event and the 1936 2-26 [[two twenty-six]] Incident. In the aftermath of this event, one organization cited the lack of donation records from the mother of this event's instigator who had earlier planned to (+) kill Hak Ja Han, the leader of the Unification Church. This event occurred during an LDP campaign speech outside a train station near Nara. (*) For ten points, name this July 2022 event in which Tetsuya Yamagami used a homemade firearm to kill a former Japanese prime minister. | Assassination of Shinzo Abe (accept clear-knowlege equivalents) |
| William H. Seward sold a plot of land to this figure and their spouse, Nelson Davis, where they operated a brick business until Nelson's enlistment into the Union army. First-wave feminist Martha Coffin Wright befriended this figure while she operated her (+) Auburn home as a "station" on the Underground Railroad. The nickname (*) "Moses" was given to, for ten points, what woman who rescued many escaped enslaved people during the Antebellum period? | Harriet Tubman (accept Araminta Ross) |
| This country straddles Europe and Asia, and its first president, serving from 1923 to 1938, was born in the Ottoman Empire with the name Ali Riza oglu Mustafa. | Republic of Turkey (or Turkey Cumhuriyeti) |