| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This U.S. city's Dragon Gate is a gift from Taiwan that now marks one entrance to its Chinatown, the oldest in the United States. This city's Russian Hill neighborhood is home to Lombard Street, which has been dubbed the "crookedest street" in the world. For the point, identify this California city situated on a namesake bay and separated from Marin County by the Golden Gate Bridge. | San Francisco (accept San Francisco Bay) |
| A clay oven is used to make the taboon variety of this food enjoyed in Israel. Another type of this food popular in India is often flavored with garlic and is called naan. Due to restrictions on chametz [[HUH-METZ]], a particular form of this food called matzo [[MOTT- zuh]] is eaten during Passover. For the point, name this food item that is often buttered and heated to make toast. | Bread |
| This subject was called "the dismal science" by Thomas Carlyle. This subject and law are at the heart of a theorem developed by Ronald Coase who was aligned with its New Institutional school. Interest in this subject's Austrian School revived after the Nobel Prize for this subject was awarded to Friedrich Hayek. For the point, identify this social subject studied by monetarist Milton Friedman, as well as thinkers like John Maynard Keynes. | Economics |
| This American man said "twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!" while successfully lobbying for relief to Bolsheviks in the Povolzhye famine. This president defeated the first major Catholic candidate, Al Smith, and promised a "chicken in every pot." The stock market crash on Black Tuesday occurred during the administration of, for the point, what Republican president who preceded FDR? | Herbert C (lark) Hoover |
| Aztec lovers Popocatépetl [[poh-poh-cah-TEH-pell]] and Iztaccihuatl [[es-tee-cee- HWA-teal]] were transfigured into these specific features outside modern Mexico City after their deaths. Using her control of fire, a Polynesian deity created examples of this feature such as Kīlauea [[kill-ah-WAY-ah]]. The Hawaiian goddess Pele lives in, for the point, what type of geographical feature known for spewing lava? | Volcanos (prompt on "Mountain") |
| It's not in India, but this nation's Coromandel Peninsula contain the basalt quarries at Opito Bay, a part of the larger Bay of Plenty region. This nation that contains the Southern Alps is closely associated with a type of flightless bird known as the kiwi. The Cook Strait separates the North and South Islands of, for the point, what nation that contains the cities of Auckland and Wellington? | New Zealand (accept Aotearoa; or NZ) |
| The Tudor era English navy abandoned the use of ballista for a primitive form of this military technology known as the culverin. Mehmed II hired the engineer Orban to construct the "Dardanelles Guns," an example of these weapons meant to control the namesake strait. Bombards were a medieval example of, for the point, what gunpowder weapon used in artillery that fires namesake balls? | Cannons (accept Artillery before mentioned; accept Hand-Cannons; prompt on "Guns" before mentioned) |
| In one of Aesop's fables, this fruit is deemed undesirable by a fox who can't reach them, deciding they are "sour." This fruit is also found in the title of a John Steinbeck novel whose title is taken from the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." For the point, name these berries "of wrath" that are used to produce wine. | Grapes (accept "The Fox and the Grapes;" accept The Grapes of Wrath) |
| The paper “A Short History of a ‘Family Security System” dissuaded this president from enacting a Universal Basic Income encouraged by advisor Milton Friedman. This man signed SALT I with Leonid Brezhnev, and his Vice President, Spiro Agnew, resigned following a corruption scandal. The first manned moon landing occurred during the presidency of, for the point, what California Republican who resigned following Watergate? | Richard Milhous Nixon |
| The appearance of this person inspired one side's victory at the Battle of Patay. This military figure was jailed in Beaurevoir [[boh-ray-VWAH]] by the Burgundians and later moved to Rouen [[roo-EHN]] to be burned at the stake for wearing men's clothes. For the point, identify this French hero of the Hundred Years War, a sainted figure known as the "Maid of Orleans" [[or-lay-AWN]]. | Joan of Arc (accept Jeanne d'Arc; prompt on the "Maid of Orleans" before mentioned) |