| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Naturalist Joseph Banks hired one of these people, Tupaia [[too-pah-EE-ah]], to serve as navigator on the Endeavour. These people used a specific type of outrigger boat known as the ama, which they used to colonize the modern-day countries of New Zealand and Hawaii. The Pacific Ocean was traversed by, for ten points, which Oceanic people whose subgroups include the Maori and Samoans? | Polynesians (prompt on specific groups like "Samoan (s)", "Maori", or "Hawaiian (s)" before mentioned) |
| Due to this lawyer's previous failed lease of the Bastrop Tract from the Spanish government in present-day Louisiana, he was tried and acquitted of treason. After losing a gubernatorial election for New York, this man challenged a former Secretary of the Treasury to a duel. For ten points, name this vice president under Thomas Jefferson who shot and killed Alexander Hamilton. | Aaron Burr Jr. |
| This war's Danubian phase ended when Omar Pasha defeated Prince Gorchakov at Silistria. In one battle in this war, only the ship Taif [[TAH-eef]] escaped an attack by Pavel Nakhimov at Sinope [[SIH-noh-pee]]. This war included battles at Malakoff Redoubt and the Great Redan by French and British forces as part of the Siege of Sevastopol, an effort to capture the Tsar's Black Sea Fleet. For ten points, name this 1853 to 1856 war between Russia and an Ottoman-European coalition. | Crimean War |
| During a 1980s dinner Nancy Reagan apocryphally asked what this man has done to be at a White House dinner, with this musician responding " I've changed the course of music five or six times." With Gil Evans, this musical figure created arrangements for the George Gershwin opera, Porgy and Bess. The Birth of the Cool and Kind of Blue were albums by, for ten points, which American Jazz trumpeter of the work Miles Ahead? | Miles Davis |
| Athenian tyrant Perillos died in this manner due to the "Brazen Bull," which he supposedly invented. Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức [[THICK KWAN DOOK]] performed this action on himself to protest the persecution of his fellow monks in South Vietnam. Hammurabi decreed arsonists should be executed via this method in his namesake "Code." Christian heretics were most often executed by, for ten points, what method also known as immolation? | Burning (accept equivalents like being set on fire; accept more specific examples like burning at the stake; accept immolation or self-immolation before mentioned) |
| Despite being known as the "Iron Man of India," Vallabhbhai Patel is depicted using this substance in the tallest statue on Earth, the Statue of Unity. Rodin [[roh-DAHN]] faced false accusations that he used a real person as the mold for his lifelike sculpture, The Age of [this metal]. The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen and The Thinker are cast in, for ten points, which historically valued metal alloy composed of Copper and Tin? | Bronze (accept Age of Bronze) |
| The abduction and killing of Madge Oberholtzer by this state's Klan leader, D.C. Stephenson, led to a sharp decline in the second KKK's membership. A Republican senator representing this state interrupted the two non-consecutive terms of Grover Cleveland by winning the Election of 1888. Benjamin Harrison and his grandfather William Henry Harrison both governed, for ten points, which Midwestern state? | Indiana |
| When this group began to overrun the FANK, the U.S. initiated Operation Eagle Pull to evacuate personnel. This regime closed most schools as part of its campaign against the "New People" and used a former high school building as "Security Prison 21." This party's government killed over a quarter of its country's population at sites known as "Killing Fields." For ten points, name this Communist party led by Pol Pot that controlled Cambodia in the late 1970s. | Khmer Rouge |
| The "Joe and Jerry" show took place in this election year, which featured the first formal vice presidential debate. The loser in this election year used a "Rose garden" strategy to present as a leader compared to his opponent. That same candidate sank in the polls in this election year after claiming "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe." For ten points, name this U.S. presidential election in which Gerald Ford was defeated by Jimmy Carter. | 1976 United States Presidential Election |
| Though Jimmy Carter won the election, he suffered in the polls due to an interview with this lifestyle magazine, in which he claimed to have "lusted in my heart" for women other than his wife. | Playboy |
| The RTLM radio station and Kangura magazine incited hatred towards that group in this country, referring to them as "tall trees" to be cut down. After its president's plane was shot down in 1994, this country suffered a series of massacres until Paul Kagame's [[kah- GAH-mehs]] "Patriotic Front" seized control of the government. For ten points, name this country where a genocide occurred against the Tutsi people. | Republic of Rwanda (accept Repubulika y'u Rwanda; République du Rwanda; or Jamhuri ya Rwanda) |
| A 2004 drama starring Don Cheadle depicts a manager of what kind of business in Kigali attempting to harbor refugees during the Rwandan Genocide? | Hotel (accept Hotel Rwanda; accept Hôtel des Mille Collines) |
| The "phantom time hypothesis" claims that in this century, Pope Sylvester II and Otto III made up three centuries of European history to legitimize Otto's claim to the Holy Roman Empire. In this century, Callinicus [[kah-lee-NYE-kuss]] of Heliopolis created the incendiary "Greek Fire" weapon. Byzantine Emperor Heraclius lost the possessions of Roman Syria and Egypt to the Rashidun Caliphate in this century. Islam emerged during, for ten points, what early medieval century? | Seventhth Century (accept the 600s) |
| A Byzantine emperor of this name persecuted the Manichaeans [[mah-neh-KAY- ans]] in the 7th century. A "Great" emperor of this name reconquered much of the Western Empire with help from his strategos, Belisarius. | Justinian (accept Justinian I; or Justinian II) |
| Despite winning this battle, one commander's resignation was called for by the public, leading the president to reply, "I can't spare this man; he fights." W.H.L. Wallace's men managed to hold the Hornet's Nest during this battle, which was won after the arrival of the Army of the Ohio under Don Carlos Buell. William T. Sherman emerged as a war hero following, for ten points, what 1862 Civil War victory for General Grant in southwestern Tennessee? | Battle of Shiloh (accept Battle of Pittsburg Landing before mention) |
| During the Battle of Shiloh, which Kentucky-born general was killed during the fighting, becoming the highest ranking Confederate officer to be killed in combat? | Albert Sidney Johnston |
| Thomas Cresap was from the colony that became this U.S. state, which used the Necessary and Proper clause to attempt to tax a federal institution led by James McCulloch. With Virginia, this state agreed to give up territory to establish the District of Columbia. The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis was founded in, for ten points, which Mid-Atlantic state on the Chesapeake? | Maryland |
| McCulloch v. Maryland arose out of attempt by the state to tax what federal institution, whose last president was Nicholas Biddle? | Second Bank of the United States (accept Second Bank of the U.S.; or Second B.U.S.; do not accept "First Bank of the United States") |
| Otto Jaekal [[YEH-kul]] excavated for these animals in the mines of the occupied Belgian town of Bernissart. The rivalry between American scientists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh led to the "Bone Wars," a period of discovery of this general class of animals. The ancient Chinese believed to have found "dragon bones" after discovering the remains of, for ten points, what general class of reptiles which include T. Rex? | Dinosaurs (accept Dinosaur fossils; prompt on "Reptiles"; accept Iguanadons before "Edward") |
| Marsh earned the right to excavate for dinosaur fossils in which native tribe's Black Hills by negotiating with Chief Red Cloud? | Sioux (accept Lakota; or Oglala Lakota; or Dakota; accept Očhéthi Šakówiŋ; or Seven Council Fires) |
| Description acceptable. After speculation that Armando Marsans and Rafael Almeida broke this regulation, managers assured the public that "they were as pure white as Castile soap." Branch Rickey and Bill Veeck both attempted to break this regulation, which was successfully broken when both Larry Doby and another player appeared on rosters. Jackie Robinson was the first player to break, for ten points, what regulation in Major League Baseball? | Baseball color line (accept Baseball color barrier; accept descriptions about how Black baseball players were prohibited from playing in the MLB) |
| Which MLB team was the last to integrate due to resistance from owner Tom Yawkey? Other controversies surrounding this team included Bill Buckner's error during the 1986 World Series. | Boston Red Sox (accept either underlined portion) |
| It's not Cro-Magnons, but these people are hypothesized to have created the oldest known musical instrument, the "Divje Babe [[div-YEH BAH-beh]] Flute." This species' namesake 2010 genome project revealed that non-African homo sapiens often intermixed with this people's "Altai Mountain" branch. A valley in Germany names, for ten points, which extinct human species known for protruding foreheads and comparatively shorter limbs than modern humans? | Neanderthals (accept Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) |
| Which other species of archaic human are believed to be the ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans? They were likely the first archaic humans to spread throughout Eurasia. | Homo erectus (prompt on "Upright Man") |
| Primarily Black neighborhood that rioted following the death of Martin Luther King? | Harlem |
| Former Nation of Islam spokesman assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom in 1965? | Malcolm X (or Malcolm Little; or el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) |
| New name given to Idlewild Airport in 1963, following the assassination of a president? | JFK Airport (or John F. Kennedy International Airport) |
| Greenwich Village gay bar whose patrons confronted police in June 1969? | Stonewall Inn |
| Historic railroad station in NYC that was demolished in 1963? | Penn Station |
| Highway advocate who ended his long tenure as city Parks and Planning commissioner in 1960? | Robert Moses 19th-Century British Politics In the politics of the 19th-century United Kingdom, who or what was the... |
| Two-time Conservative prime minister of Jewish ancestry? | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Controversial laws restricting the import of grain repealed in 1846? | Corn Laws |
| Opponent of the Conservatives that was later overshadowed by the Labour Party in the early twentieth century. | Liberal Party (or Liberals; accept Whigs) |
| Series of laws expanding suffrage starting in 1832? | Reform Bills |
| Foreign Secretary who intervened in the Don Pacifico Affair and became prime minister during the American Civil War? | Lord Palmerston (or Henry John Temple) |
| 1839 constitutional crisis over monarchial power to choose ceremonial personal attendants? | Bedchamber Crisis Japan in World War Two Concerning Imperial Japan's war effort in World War Two, who or what was the... |
| Emperor of Japan during the war? | Hirohito (or Shōwa) |
| Long-range carrier-based fighter planes that were used in most of Japan's naval battles? | Zero (or Zeke; accept Mitsubishi A6M; accept Navy Type Zero carrier fighter; or rei-shiki-kanjō-sentōki) |
| Initial commander-in-chief of naval forces for Japan in the War of the Pacific. | Isoroku Yamamoto |
| American battleship on which the formal instrument of surrender was signed on September 2, 1945? | USS Missouri |
| Skirmish outside of Beijing that started the Japanese invasion of China? | Marco Polo Bridge Incident (accept Lugou Bridge Incident; or Double-Seven Incident) |
| Name for the emperor's recorded announcement of initial surrender? | Jewel Voice broadcast (or Gyokuon-hōsō broadcast) |
| Frenchman George Psalmanazar pretended to be from this region in the 18th century, even constructing a false alphabet. After expelling the Dutch from this region, Ming Loyalist Coxinga [[coh-shin-GAH]] (+) established the short-lived Tungning Kingdom in its south during the 17th century. The Urheimat of Austronesian languages is found on this island in the South China Sea. The Chinese (*) Nationalists formed the Republic of China on, for ten points, what East Asian island? | Taiwan (accept Formosa) |
| Though it was written for publication in The New York Times Magazine, this document was not published there despite protests from editor Harvey Shapiro. This document was written in response to “A Call (+) for Unity," an open letter by white clergymen referring to this document's author as an "outsider." Claiming "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," (*) for ten points, which open letter was written from a cell by Martin Luther King Jr.? | Letter from Birmingham Jail (accept Letter from Birmingham City Jail; or The Negro Is Your Brother) |
| With a set of scientists, including Walther Gerlach, this physicist was detained in England through Operation Epsilon to determine how close the Nazis were to creating an atomic bomb. Albert (+) Einstein nominated this scientist for a 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics he won for determining limits to predicting physical quantities of particles. An "Uncertainty (*) Principle" is named for, for ten points, which "Father of Quantum Mechanics"? | Werner Heisenberg (or Werner Karl Heisenberg; accept Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle) |
| Robert Burnell served as chancellor to this king, who enforced substitution as the only means of alienating lands by the terms of the statute, Quia Emptores. Oliver Cromwell overturned a policy set by this man that removed one ethnic group over suspicion of blood libel, as well as their practice of usury. The Edict of (+) Expulsion of the Jews was passed by this man, whose forces were defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. This son of Henry III captured and hanged William (*) Wallace of Scotland. For ten points, name this English king who was nicknamed for his height. | Edward I of England (accept Edward Longshanks; prompt on "Edward") |
| Historians discovered that several 18th dynasty rulers may have suffered from familial epilepsy due to the Dream Stele [[STEE-lee]] situated in front of this monument. A now debunked theory claimed this monument lost its (+) nose to cannon fire from Napoleon's army during the Battle of the Pyramids. The Pharaoh Khafre is depicted with the body of a (*) lion in, for ten points, which monumental statue in Giza? | Great Sphinx of Giza |
| Under these laws, the naturalization period for some immigrants was changed from five to fourteen years, and non-citizens deemed dangerous could be (+) deported. These laws were adamantly opposed by Jeffersonian Republicans in the Virginia and (*) Kentucky Resolutions. For ten points, name this set of laws that made it harder to become a U.S. citizen and criminalized "false statements critical of the federal government." | Alien and Sedition Acts (accept Alien and Sedition Laws; prompt on any of the individual laws, such as the "Naturalization Act," the "Alien Friends Act," and the "Sedition Act" ) |
| Frank Jay Haynes became the official photographer of this park, recording Rutherford B. Hayes' visit there while fighting poor health. The Washburn (+) Expedition of 1870 explored this parks Upper and Lower Geyser Basin, naming the largest one "Old Faithful." The oldest national park in the (*) U.S. is, for ten points, what nature reserve that lies in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana? | Yellowstone National Park |
| This language, which has an official committee on what children can be named, formed an unusual pidgin with Basque due to Iberian whalers needing to communicate with locals. Snorri (+) Sturluson wrote the Prose Edda in an early form of this tongue, describing the creation of the Aesir [[AY-seer]]. Old Norse is (*) most-closely related to, for ten points, what Germanic language spoken in Reykjavík? | Icelandic (or Islenska; prompt on "Old Norse" before mentioned) |
| In this nation, the 2007 April Unrest occurred due to the relocation of a memorial to fallen Red Army soldiers, resulting in this nation's Moscow embassy being besieged for a week. The domination of this state's Vaps Movement led to to a period dubbed the (+) "Era of Silence," and its president, Konstantin Päts, formally submitted to a Soviet ultimatum of occupation in 1940. With (*) Lithuania and Latvia, this country achieved a non-violent independence during the Singing Revolution. For ten points, name this Baltic state that was once the target of the Livonian Crusade. | Republic of Estonia (or Eesti Vabariik) |
| Which "Good Emperor" was a known Grecophile who created a widespread cult to his dead lover, Antinous? | Hadrian (accept Caesar Traianus Hadrianus) |