| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This event began in low-key fashion when Mariano Vallejo [[vah-YEH-ho]] shared drinks with Ezekiel Merritt prior to being put under arrest by William Ide [["EYED"]]. Kit Carson claimed to have a "shoot to kill" order while leading a group of osos in this event. For the point, identify this 1846 uprising against the Mexican government in California that was named for a banner which depicted the “Grizzly” variety of one mammal. | Bear Flag Revolt (accept "Rebellion" or "Uprising" in place of "Revolt"; prompt on answers indicating a war for Californian independence) |
| This man's art historian son developed the theory that imperfections in medieval churches were intentional "refinements." To secure a British patent, Thomas Hancock likely plagiarized the work of this man, who found that adding sulfur under heat solved longstanding problems with stickiness in the Eagle India company's products. For the point, name this American inventor of the rubber vulcanization process, whose name was later used by a major tire manufacturer. | Charles Goodyear |
| The unplanned development of an area left out of this design created the so-called "Dave Thomas Circle," a triangular block containing only a lone Wendy's outlet. This design became the basis for the 1901 McMillan Commission's establishment of new parks and memorials. Diagonal state-named avenues and alphabetical streets are a legacy of, for the point, what 1791 design for the national capital by a French-born architect? | L'Enfant Plan (prompt on answers describing the layout, urban plan, or city plan of Washington or Washington, D.C.) |
| Major voices from this group, which was known by colleagues as "the boys" due to their relative youth, included John Sevier and Felix Grundy. This group mostly represented Western states and cited issues of national honor such as impressment. The most prominent voice of this group was the newly-installed Speaker of the House, Henry Clay. For the point, identify this coalition of Congressmen who vigorously supported the War of 1812. | War Hawks (prompt on "Hawk (s)") |
| This word names a 1940s hairstyle consisting of curls arranged in two upward slopes, known as its namesake "rolls." Eighteen million areas named for this word, including one that Eleanor Roosevelt set up on the White House lawn, grew about a third of wartime produce. For the point, give this word that names home vegetable "gardens" planted for food during World War Two. | Victory (accept Victory Program; accept Victory Rolls; accept Victory Garden) |
| This man was the primary lobbying force behind the doubling of terms from 14 to 28 years in the Copyright Act of 1831. This man, who was subsidized by Alexander Hamilton to edit the pro-Federalist newspaper American Minerva, sought to replace British books in primary schools by authoring what became the "Blue-Backed Speller." For the point, identify this grammarian whose namesake English dictionary merged with that of the G & C Merriam Company. | Noah Webster, Jr. |
| This Clark University professor demonstrated the viability of another invention in 1926 at Auburn, Massachusetts after writing papers collected in 1920 as "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes." This man was the addressee of a 1969 "correction" which revoked a 1920 New York Times editorial denouncing his work. For the point, name this inventor who built the first liquid-fueled rocket. | Robert Goddard (or Robert Hutchings Goddard) |
| Throughout this episode, the first movement of Mozart's clarinet quintet is played several times after being taught to foreigners by Charles Winchester. Plotlines in this episode include Igor becoming a pig farmer, Soon-Lee's marriage to Klinger, and Hawkeye's decision to enter private practice. For the point, identify this 1983 television episode which depicted the end of the Korean War, the most-watched non-Super Bowl broadcast of all time. | Series finale of M*A*S*H (or "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen"; accept last episode or final episode in place of "series finale"; prompt on " M*A*S*H") |
| In the early 1990s, this company raced to roll out its new on-print system on Batman Returns prior to the competing CD-based DTS standard. In 2012, this company introduced a 3-D system called Atmos, which provided overheard sound. For the point, name this company that produces noise-reduction and digital encoding technologies for movie theatres and home audio. | Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (accept "Labs" in place of "Laboratories"; accept Dolby B; accept Dolby SR; accept Dolby Atmos) |
| This building once housed the Adolph Weinman sculpture Day, which was photographed in a garbage dump, leading to the formation of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The 1966 demolition of this building outraged architectural historians and led to the opening of a new depot underneath Madison Square Garden. For the point, name this main point of departure for inter-city train service from New York. | Old Penn Station (or New York Pennsylvania Station; or Old Pennsylvania Station) |
| William Douglass led the medical opposition to this practice, which was advocated by the doctor Zabdiel Boylston. On both medical and religious grounds, Cotton Mather supported this practice during a 1721 epidemic. For the point, name this method of protecting individuals from a devastating eighteenth-century infection, which was practiced in Boston 75 years before Edward Jenner invented the less risky procedure of vaccination. | Smallpox inoculation (accept Variolation; prompt on "inoculation"; do not accept or prompt on "smallpox vaccination") |
| This man's court decided the pro-zoning case Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty and invalidated a minimum wage law in Adkins v. Children's Hospital. This Chief Justice incorporated the right to freedom of speech to the states in Gitlow v. New York. For the point, name this Chief Justice from 1921 to 1930 who himself had earlier appointed Edward White to the position. | William Howard Taft |
| On her deathbed, this woman claimed that her televised 1995 baptism by Flip Benham of Operation Rescue was done in exchange for cash payments. This woman was referred to attorneys Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee as a test case after failing to claim a rape exception. For the point, name this plaintiff in a 1973 Supreme Court case against Dallas County district attorney Henry Wade that established a constitutional right to abortion. | Jane Roe (or Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey) |
| This material was used to create distinctive bulging-bottom drinking mugs known as "canns." This substance comprised the "Flowing Hair" and "Draped Bust" items issued in the 1790s. A man in a black vest sits behind tools for working with this material and holds a teapot made out of it in a 1770 portrait by John Singleton Copley. Paul Revere became a wealthy engraver and "smith" of, for the point, what precious metal often used to make dollar coins? | Silver (accept Ag; accept Silversmith) |
| This event immediately killed Dennis Sullivan, crippling emergency response efforts. The Lawson Report found that the underlying rupture that caused this event extended from San Juan Bautista to the Cape Mendocino triple junction along the San Andreas fault, with a Mercalli intensity as high as nine. For the point, identify this natural disaster that, along with a related fire, nearly leveled a northern California city in 1906. | 1906 San Francisco earthquake (accept Great San Francisco Earthquake; prompt on answers relating to the "fire" caused by the earthquake) |
| This Gross Receipts Tax advocate was recorded on an FBI wiretap stating, "I've got this thing" which is "golden" and "I'm not giving it up for...nothing," after which a unanimous vote removed him from office. After that, this man's appointee, Roland Burris, finished a legislative term. For the point, name this former Illinois governor who was imprisoned after selling off Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat. | Rod Blagojevich [[bluh-GOY-eh-vitch]] |
| This commander attempted to declare martial law in Missouri, instituting executions for Confederate irregulars and freeing all slaves. This man was earlier court-martialed after seizing California during the Mexican War. This man adopted a campaign slogan beginning "Free soil, free speech, free men." For the point, name this abolitionist "Pathfinder of the West" who ran with William L. Dayton in 1856 as the first presidential candidate of the Republican Party. | John C (harles) Frémont |
| The women who originally operated this device were the "Top Secret Rosies." This 18,000-tube machine, designed by Presper Eckert and John Mauchly [[MAWSH-lee]], immediately became the basis for a revised design suggested by John von Neumann [[NOY- mahn]] that incorporated the notion of stored programs. For the point, name this machine built at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania, the first programmable, general- purpose, electronic computer. | ENIAC (or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) |
| During a battle for control of this position, a man joked about intentionally wasting money on stunts such as using a ground sloth to spray caviar on a Picasso painting. After complaints from local news broadcasters, a change in this position was engineered by Jeff Zucker, following the failure of a plan to move a start time to 12:05 in advance of the Vancouver Olympics. For the point, name this entertainment position at NBC that Jay Leno retook from Conan O'Brien in 2010, and is now held by Jimmy Fallon. | Host of the Tonight Show |
| A preacher of this denomination named “Black Harry” Hosier was the first preacher to address a white audience in US history. Richard Allen founded an "African Episcopal" offshoot of this denomination. The largest Protestant branch in the United States for the first half of the nineteenth century was, for the point, what group founded by the Wesley brothers and named for its systematic approach to Bible study? | Methodism (accept Methodist Episcopal church; accept Methodist movement; accept African Methodist Episcopal church) |
| This woman's case was moved into federal court by the "Palm Sunday Compromise." This woman suffered a cardiac arrest as the result of bulimia in 1990 and was later the subject of a namesake law giving Jeb Bush the authority to override decisions on her care. For the point, name this Florida woman who was in a persistent vegetative state during a 2005 controversy over removing her feeding tube. | Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo [[SHY-voh]] (or Theresa Marie "Terri" Schindler) |
| This woman won funding from Theodore Schroeder and Edward Foote's Free Speech League. In her late 70s, this woman brought together philanthropist Katharine McCormick and medical researcher Gregory Pincus for a project that extended her lifelong work. This woman was arrested under the Comstock Law for distributing her magazine The Woman Rebel. For the point, name this family planning advocate who founded the predecessor to Planned Parenthood. | Margaret Sanger (or Margaret Higgins Sanger; or Margaret Louise Higgins or Margaret Sanger Slee) |
| In a political cartoon, this man mutters “I’ve Had Enough of this” while fleeing Uncle Sam. This man's victory over José Inés Salazar at the Battle of Tierra Blanca was witnessed by Ambrose Bierce, who embedded with this man's forces just before vanishing. After encroaching on Columbus, New Mexico in 1916, this man was pursued in the Punitive Expedition by a force under John Pershing. For the point, name this northern Mexican revolutionary leader. | Francisco "Pancho" Villa (or José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) |
| 107 of these vehicles were reconfigured as drones to monitor atomic testing during Operation Crossroads. The last remaining instance of the "shark fin" model of this craft is the Swoose, and another of these planes went on 25 missions under Robert K. Morgan who named that craft the Memphis Belle. For the point, name this Boeing-produced heavy aircraft that dropped more World War Two bombs than any other model of airplane. | Flying Fortress (or Boeing B-17) |
| This conflict commenced as a response to the establishment of Fort Limhi, and Thomas Kane mediated this conflict. During this larger conflict, Fort Bridger was burned, and the Baker-Fancher [[FAN-cher]] wagon party was killed in the Mountain Meadows Massacre after James Buchanan dispatched federal troops. For the point, name this 1857 expedition in which Albert Sidney Johnston installed Alfred Cumming as a new territorial governor of Utah, deposing Brigham Young. | Mormon War (accept Mormon Rebellion; accept Utah War or Utah Expedition before "Utah" is mentioned; do not accept answers mentioning Missouri or Illinois) |
| This commander's 37th Battalion relieved the 101st Airborne at Bastogne [[bah- STOHN]] after leading the breakout from Utah Beach. As Army chief of staff, this commander oversaw the implementation of the All-Volunteer Force and the final stage of Vietnamization. For the point, identify this commander of American operations in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972, the namesake of the M1 battle tank. | Creighton Abrams (or Creighton Williams Abrams, Jr.; or Abe Abrams; accept M1 Abrams) |
| This man’s actions are glorified in books including Boots and Saddles and Following the Guidon [["GUY"-don]]. This man commanded a retinue including engineer William Ludlow and photographer William Ilingworth during a gold prospecting expedition in the Black Hills. Myles Keogh [[KEE-oag]] died fighting under this man in a confrontation with Gall and Crazy Horse in 1876. For the point, name this colonel who led half of the 7th Cavalry to destruction at Little Bighorn. | George Custer (or George Armstrong Custer; accept General Custer) |
| Over 3000 names are displayed in this building's "Hall of Heroes," and it was built on what was once Hoover Airport. Brehon [[BREE-hahn]] Sommervell proposed this structure as a replacement for the Munitions Building on the Mall. George Bergstrom's design for this building was modified to remove segregated restrooms by Franklin Roosevelt. In 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into, for the point, what headquarters of the Department of Defense? | The Pentagon |
| This law upheld the feudal seigneurial [[sen-yohr-YAHL]] system of land ownership and extended Guy [["GUY"]] Carleton's jurisdiction to the area between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The collection of Catholic tithes and the use of French civil law were allowed to continue via this act, which retreated from the Proclamation of 1763. For the point, name this 1774 Intolerable Act which reorganized a French-speaking province in modern Canada. | Quebec Act 1774 (or British North America (Quebec) Act 1774) |
| During this proceeding, a man was accused of lying about speaking "Marine to Marine" with Max Cordoba. During this proceeding, F. Lee Bailey used the "n-word" seven times while questioning Mark Fuhrman, and a man was unable to fit a leather glove on his hand. For the point, name this proceeding that ended in 1995 with a man being acquitted of killing Ron Goldman and his ex-wife, Nicole. | Criminal trial of O.J. Simpson (or The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson; accept answers referring to a murder or homicide trial of Orenthal James Simpson) |
| A credit in Lara Pudwell's 2007 paper on digit reversal credits this criminal with proving extensions of Alan Sutcliffe's discoveries. This man became devoted to the writings of Jacques Ellul during a period in which he targeted David Gelernter and other researchers, prior to the publication of his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future. For the point, name this terrorist who mailed bombs to colleges before being apprehended in 1995. | Unabomber (or Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski) |