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| One of this state's congressional districts has been compared to a duck, and another has been described as "the snake on the lake." Jim Jordan (+) has served as the representative for this state's 4th District, while Senator Sherrod Brown formerly represented its 13th. (*) For the points, name this state whose Black representatives have included Joyce Beatty, Shontel Brown, and Marcia Fudge. | Ohio |
| Gunpowder and the compass were among the inventions developed in this dynasty, which was founded in the 10th century by (+) Emperor Taizu following the collapse of the Tang Dynasty. Succumbing in 1279 to a successful (*) Mongol invasion, for the points, what was this medieval Chinese dynasty? | Song Dynasty (or Sòng cháo) |
| When this man was removed from command, he wrote to his wife, “Those in whose judgment I rely tell me that I fought the battle splendidly and that it was a masterpiece (+) of art.” Removed from his command of the Army of the Potomac after failing to pursue Robert E. Lee's (*) army after a Union victory at Antietam, for the points, who was this Civil War general? | George B (rinton) McClellan |
| At this battle, the losing commander built a throne at Mount Aigaleo so he could watch. That man gave control of his army in this war to (+) Mardonius, who lost at Plataea. The fleet of Xerxes was defeated by the fleet of (*) Themistocles at, for the points, what naval victory for the Greeks over the Persians? | Battle of Salamis |
| This group, including Ernest Green and Minnijean Brown, congregated at Central High. “The Lost (+) Year” happened as a response to this group. Finding unwanted attention in Arkansas (*) in 1957, for the points, what name is given to this group of Black students who attended a white public school? | Little Rock Nine (accept descriptive answers relating to the students who attended Central High School in Little Rock before mentioned) |
| A highly publicized photograph of this man riding in an M1 Abrams tank was widely considered a public relations disaster that closed the (+) door on his presidential ambitions. Taking only ten states, including his home state of Massachusetts, (*) for the points, who was this man who lost the 1988 U.S. presidential election to George H.W. Bush? | Michael Dukakis (or Michael Stanley Dukakis) |
| This present-day country was the location of a Nazi-affiliated puppet state led by Jozef Tiso [[YAH-zef TISS-ah]]. In 2009, this country replaced its currency, the koruna, (+) making it the second Slavic country to adopt the Euro. Under Austrian rule, this country's capital was called Pressburg. Dissolving its union with another country in the 1993 Velvet Divorce, (*) for the points, what is this Central European country governed from Bratislava? | Slovakia (or Slovak Republic; or Slovenska republika; or Slovensko; do not accept or prompt on "Czechoslovakia") |
| This hero entered the underworld using a golden bough [[bow]] on the advice of the Cumaean [[koo-MAY-an]] Sibyl. One lover of this hero threw herself on a pyre when he left, ending her reign as the first queen of (+) Carthage. The son of Venus and Anchises [[an-KY-seez]] and the lover of Dido [[DY-doh]], (*) for the points, what hero names an epic poem about the founding of Rome by Virgil? | Aeneas (prompt on "Aeneid") |
| This region raised a peasant army that defeated Philip IV's forces at the Battle of the Golden Spurs. During the Spanish (+) Fury, thousands of civilians in this region were killed in the city of Antwerp. Located north of French-speaking Wallonia, (*) for the points, what region of Belgium has been populated for centuries by Dutch speakers? | Flanders (or Vlaanderen; prompt on "Belgium") |
| The composer's Coronation Ode for Edward VII [[the Seventh]] was taken from these pieces, the first of which includes the patriotic song officially titled "Land of Hope and Glory." (+) Premiering in Liverpool in 1901, two years after the composer's Enigma Variations brought him international fame, (*) for the points, what is this set of marches by Edward Elgar, part of which is often played at graduations? | Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches (or Pomp and Circumstance Marches) |
| Court gossips supposed this person’s biological father might be Napoleon II, and this person’s older brother became emperor of Austria. A series of paintings by Édouard (+) Manet depict this person’s execution. The Union may have launched the Red River Campaign partly to prevent this man from recognizing (*) the Confederacy. For the points, name this Habsburg, the only emperor of the Second Mexican Empire. | Maximilian I (or Ferdinand Maximilian Josef Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen; or Fernando Maximiliano José María de Habsburgo-Lorena) |
| In a 2005 revival of this play at the Abbey Theatre, its playwright, who also wrote Salome, was featured as a character, and the production (+) opened with that man drinking and daydreaming at a Parisian café. Geoffrey Rush played Lady Bracknell during a 2011 (*) revival of, for the points, what farcical comic play, Oscar Wilde’s final work? | The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People) |
| In 2009, this man lost to Tony Abbott by one vote but defeated Abbott two years later (+) to become prime minister. Advocating for same-sex marriage and enduring his country’s parliamentary crisis over dual-citizenship during his 2015 to 2018 (*) tenure as PM, for the points, who is this Liberal Party politician from Australia? | Malcolm Turnbull (or Malcolm Bligh Turnbull) |
| The phrases “Higher Law” and “Irrepressible Conflict” made this person anathema to Southern voters and likely cost him the (+) 1860 Republican nomination for president. Serving as Secretary of State from 1861 to (*) 1869, for the points, who was this politician who added nearly 600,000 square miles to the U.S. in his namesake "folly"? | William H (enry) Seward (accept Seward's Folly) |
| One philosophy outlined by this man, called Nasakom, combined nationalism, religion, and communism. This man outlined another political ideology with "five principles," (+) which included belief in one God and the unity of his country, the independence of which he proclaimed with Mohammed Hatta in 1945. The formulator of the Guided (*) Democracy, for the points, who was this first president of Indonesia? | Sukarno (or Koesno Sosrodihardjo; or Soekarno; accept Bung Karno; accept Pak Karno; accept Achmad Sukarno)) |
| Skeptics of this event were criticized in Gilbert Tennent's speech "On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry" in which those critics were compared to the Pharisees. The Old Side-New Side controversy happened (+) as a response to this event, which was ushered in by men such as George Whitefield [[WIT-feeld]] and Jonathan Edwards. (*) For the points, name this massive religious revival in America in the 1730s and 40s. | First Great Awakening (or Evangelical Revival; do not accept or prompt on "Great Awakenings" other than the "First") |
| This man was dubbed Shunro by his master, Katsukawa Shunsho. This man's sketches of landscapes, everyday life, and the supernatural are compiled in a manga (+) which shares the name by which this man is primarily known, taken on in 1798. A ukiyo-e (oo-KEE-oh-EH) artist known for his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, (*) for the points, who was this creator of The Great Wave off Kanagawa? | Katsushika Hokusai (accept in either order; prompt on "Katsuhika"; accept Hokusai Manga) |
| This artist also created several works depicting Teha'amana, one of his three so-called "native wives," including one of a nude lying on a bed while being watched by a ghostly figure, (+) Spirit of the Dead Watching. Spending nine months in 1888 painting at a house in Arles [[AHRL]] (*) with van Gogh, for the points, who was this French Post-Impressionist artist who spent his last ten years in French Polynesia? | Paul Gauguin [[goh-GAHN]] (or Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin) |
| During this man’s presidency, his main economic agenda adhered to the Vuskovic Plan, the policy of the Popular Unity government in this man's country. This man was the first (+) Marxist to be elected president of a liberal democracy in South America. Surrounded by troops at the La Moneda Palace during a 1973 coup before shooting (*) himself, for the points, who was this president of Chile? | Salvador Allende (or Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens) |
| This aviator earned “ace-in-a-day” status after shooting down five German planes in a single mission later that year. This man was profiled in Tom (+) Wolfe's The Right Stuff and was played by Sam Shepard in the film version of that book. Flying a rocket-powered Bell X1 named (*) "Glamorous Glennis," for the points, who was this man, the first to ever break the sound barrier? | Chuck Yeager (or Charles Elwood Yeager) |
| Louis de Jaucourt [[zhoh-KOHR]] penned the greatest number of contributions to this work, but many major Enlightenment figures, such as Andre (+) le Breton and Montesquieu, also added to it. Co-edited by Jean le Rond d’Alembert [[dah-lem- BEHR]], and Denis (*) Diderot, for the points, what is this influential French reference work? | Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (accept Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts) |
| This treaty was predicted to cause a “giant sucking sound” of jobs leaving the United States according to Ross Perot, and Donald Trump called this treaty (+) “the worst trade deal ever negotiated.” Agreed to in 1994 and signed by Bill Clinton (*), for the points, what is this 1994 agreement between Mexico, the USA, and Canada? | NAFTA (or North American Free Trade Agreement; or TLCAN; or Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte; or ALÉNA; or Accord de libre-échange nord- américain) |
| This ruler is characterized in Secret History by Procopius as a devil-like figure with a detachable head. This supporter of the Green Deme ruled during the (+) Nika Riots. Belisarius and Narses served this ruler during his conquests of North Africa and the Ostrogothic Kingdom. (*) For the points, name this emperor of Byzantium and husband of Theodora who reconstructed the Hagia Sophia. | Justinian I (or Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus; or Justinian the Great) |
| This person composed "Aloha ‘Oe" as well as "He Mele Lāhui Hawaiʻi," one of Hawaii’s anthems. In 1891, following the death of this person's brother, King Kalākaua, this person ascended (+) to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Overthrown by a coup led in 1893 by Sanford Dole, (*) for the points, who was this last sovereign monarch of the Kingdom of Hawai'i and its only queen? | Lili'uokalani (or Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha) |
| This person was visited by King Edward VII [[the Seventh]] a day before embarking on a 1901 journey on the Discovery. Fossils from the (+) Glossopteris tree were found with the body of this person when it was discovered in 1912. (*) For the points, what explorer died on an expedition on which he reached the South Pole five weeks after Roald Amundsen? | Robert Falcon Scott |
| This man was trapped by the nymph Calypso for seven years, during which his son, Telemachus [[the-leh-MAH-kus]], searched for him. This king of Ithaca, who claimed his name was (+) "Nobody," tricked and blinded Polyphemus in order to escape him. Spending ten years at sea trying to return to his wife, (*) Penelope, for the points, what Greek figure is the namesake of Homer's Odyssey? | Odysseus (accept Ulysses before "Odyssey" is mentioned; prompt on "Odyssey") |
| The giant Kuafu supposedly emptied this river and its (+) Wei tributary due to his excessive thirst. After this river experienced a "Great Flooding," Nuwa and her brother Fu Xi [[FOO SHE]] repopulated the Earth. (*) For the points, name this colorfully named river of Northern China. | Yellow River (or Huang He; accept Yellow River Cantata; accept Huánghé Dàhéchàng) |
| The Laghouat [[LAHG-waht]] expedition occurred in this country, which oversaw a siege that lessened the Portuguese influence over (+) Ceuta [[seh-YOO- tah]]. Hassan II was a ruler of this country who, in 1999, was succeeded by Muhammad VI. (*) For the points, name this country which is home to Tangier and Casablanca. | Kingdom of Morocco (or Al Mamlakah al Maghribiyah) |