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| An editor who spoke for this group opined that one president was "Fungus from the corrupt womb of bigotry and fanaticism." Soldiers clashed with this group in the 1864 Charleston Riot in Illinois. George E. Pugh was an Ohio senator from this group, as was Congressman Alexander Long. Order Number 38 was used to punish members of this group including Lambdin Milligan and Clement Vallandigham, both part of the Knights of the Golden Circle. For ten points, name this group of "Peace Democrats" who opposed the Civil War. | Copperheads (accept Peace Democrats before mentioned) |
| A member of this organization named Trifko Grabež [[GRAH-besh]] was spared the death penalty because of his age. This organization, referred to as "Unification or Death," was established by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević [[drah-GOO-tin dee-mee-tree-YEH-vitch]], also known as Apis [[AH-peess]], who was executed on charges of treason in 1917. In 1903, this organization's founder carried out the May Coup, which culminated in the deaths of King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia. For ten points, name this organization responsible for planning the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. | The Black Hand (accept Crna ruka; accept Unification or Death before mentioned) |
| In the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, this island was referred to as “of the Dioscuri.” After the Battle of Barawa, Tristão da Cunha [[KOON-yah]] re-grouped his forces on this island, where the Mahra sultans ruled. Traders passed through the Guardafui Channel en route to this island, which is home to a tree named for its resemblance to dragon’s blood. The British ended their attempts to acquire this island following the capture of nearby Aden. For ten points, name this Yemeni island off the Arabian Peninsula. | Socotra (or Suquṭrā) |
| This author examined Robert Foster’s path to becoming a physician and Ida Gladney’s departure from a life of sharecropping in a 2010 book. In a 2020 book, this author lists “divine will” and “endogamy” as two of the eight pillars of the titular concept. This one- time editor-in-chief of the Howard University newspaper studied the Great Migration in her book The Warmth of Other Suns. Social stratification in America is compared to the caste system in a book by, for ten points, what Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American journalist? | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Many stories from this tribe’s oral tradition were preserved by its member John Joseph Mathews. Mollie Kyle and her family were among the members of this tribe affected in a campaign carried out by William Hale, who was sentenced to life in prison for a series of crimes against them. David Grann’s book Killers of the Flower Moon examines the violent attempts to profit from the oil deposits belonging to this tribe. For ten points, name this Great Plains tribe which shares its name with an Oklahoma county. | Osage Nation (accept Ni-u-kon-ska; prompt on “People of the Muddy Waters”) |
| An incident that inspired this song led Adrian Perkins to offer its singer an apology in 2019. René Hall arranged this song, which appears on the album Ain’t That Good News. The singer of this work claimed to have been inspired by “Blowin’ in the Wind” and wrote this song after an incident in which he was refused a room at a motel in Shreveport, Louisiana. The refrain, “It's been a long time comin', but I know” appears in this 1964 song which Jennifer Hudson sang at the 2020 Democratic convention. For ten points, name this Civil Rights-era song written by Sam Cooke. | "A Change is Gonna Come" |
| This man was killed by the daughter of Cocalus [[koh-KAH-luhs]] when she poured boiling water over him, after which this man became a judge of the dead. While ruling from Knossos, this man is said to have received direct instruction from his father, Zeus, on what laws to enforce against his people. Arthur Evans took this man's name for a civilization which used the Linear A writing system. Every nine years, this man sent fourteen Athenian boys and girls to his labyrinth to be eaten by a bull-headed man. For ten points, name this ancient king of Crete. | King Minos (prompt on "Minoan"; prompt on "Minotaur") |
| One leader of this dynasty was killed at a battle in which his opponents built a thorned zariba fence around the city of Gallabat. Though initially establishing "tent governments," this dynasty founded a capital at the city of Gondar. Yekuno Amlak, like other rulers of this dynasty, was given the title “Lion of Judah.” Claiming descent from the Queen of Sheba, this dynasty was led by a ruler worshipped by the Rastafari movement. Haile Selassie [[HAI-luh seh-LAH-see]] ruled, for ten points, what Ethiopian dynasty named for a biblical king? | Solomonic Dynasty (accept House of Solomon) |
| Historian Gwynne Dyer compared this battle to a "fully loaded 747 crashing…every 5 minutes for 8 hours." Pyotr Bagration [[pee-OH-ter bah-GRAY-tee-OHN]] helped set up lunettes and redans at this battle. Fleches were set up by Barclay de Tolly at the Kolocha [[koh-LOH-chah]] stream in this battle, which included a charge on the Raevsky Redoubt. Mikhail Kutuzov replaced a commander for Tsar Alexander I at this battle. For ten points, name this 1812 pyrrhic victory for Napoleon Bonaparte, after which he occupied Moscow. | Battle of Borodino |
| This man travelled with John Clarke to England in an attempt to get William Coddington's commission revoked. This man wrote A Key into the Language of America, the first-published English-language study of Native American languages. After writing a tract criticizing King James for stealing land from the Narragansett, this man moved to Salem and served as an assistant to Samuel Skelton. Providence Plantations was founded by, for ten points, what man who, after being expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded Rhode Island? | Roger Williams |
| In Britain, this period was marked by the creation of the Fetter Lane Society and one man's Aldersgate experience. A leader during this period created the Bethesda Orphanage in Georgia. During this period, books and clothes were burned by James Davenport, and William Tennent formed the Log College. Dartmouth, Yale, and Princeton were formed during this religious era, in which the Northampton Revival occurred. George Whitefield [[WIT-field]] was a leader during, for ten points, what religious revival in the mid-18th century? | First Great Awakening (accept Evangelical Revival; prompt on "Great Awakening") |
| This was perhaps the most influential sermon of the First Great Awakening, delivered in Enfield, Connecticut in 1741 by a noted Massachusetts revivalist and listing ten "considerations" intended to convince the wicked that they needed God's forgiveness. | "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
| Arthur Rostron was captain of this vessel, which made its maiden voyage to Boston from Liverpool in 1903. After sending traffic from Cape Cod, Harold Cottam received a message while serving on this vessel which prompted it to cut off hot water usage in order to save steam from the engines so it could cover 58 nautical miles as quickly as possible. That effort occurred when, after midnight on April 15, 1912, this vessel received a distress signal indicating that a ship had hit an iceberg. For ten points, name this ship which rescued survivors from the Titanic. | RMS Carpathia |
| The Carpathia was part of the Cunard fleet as is this ship, the largest ocean liner ever built. This ship is the second of its name, the first having been named for Queen Elizabeth II's grandmother, the consort of George V. | RMS Queen Mary 2 (accept QM2; prompt on "Mary") |
| This man’s book On Self-Pollution advocated for abstinence. The 1829-1851 cholera epidemic popularized the teachings of this man, who founded the American Physiological Society as part of his advocacy of “natural hygiene.” This man called for the avoidance of aluminum and chlorine additives in white bread, instead advocating for bread made with home-milled flour. Considered the “father of vegetarianism,” for ten points, what advocate of simple foods pioneered a namesake cracker? | Sylvester Graham (accept Graham Cracker) |
| One of the first mentions of the Graham Cracker appears in this author's novel, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. An 1851 novel by this American includes a quasi-scientific taxonomy presented in the chapter “Cetology.” | Herman Melville |
| This modern country is home to Africa's oldest mosque, the Mosque of the Companions, and much of its territory was once ruled by the Bajag and Medri Bahri kingdoms. When it was still an Italian colony, a 71-kilometer cableway crossed what is now this country to reach the base of the Red Sea Flotilla, which was scuttled until Edward Ellsberg raised the ships at Massawa. In Operation Fenkil, this country was targeted by Mengistu of Ethiopia. With a capital known as "Little Rome," for ten points, what is this East African country, officially independent since 1993? | State of Eritrea (accept Italian Eritrea; prompt on "Italian East Africa") |
| One of the most recognizable elements of Eritrean culture is a ceremony surrounding this substance which involves roasting, wafting, boiling, and pouring into a finjal. | Coffee (or Bun [[BOON]]) |
| The board of this institution was first presided over by Claudius Crozet, a civil engineer who sought to model it partly on the École Polytechnique. James Lane graduated from this institution, whose first superintendent, Francis Henney Smith, previously taught at Hampden-Sydney College. Students of this institution participated in the Battle of New Market, and this institution was created in Lexington from the remnants of a state arsenal. “Stonewall” Jackson taught at this institution, whose cadets were relocated in 1864 to Richmond. For ten points, name this state military academy. | Virginia Military Institute (accept VMI) |
| In U.S. v. Virginia, VMI's male-only admissions policy was struck down in 1996. This Supreme Court justice, a nominee of George H.W. Bush, recused himself from the case as his son, Jamal, was a senior cadet at VMI at the time. | Clarence Thomas |
| Agent Orange was first deployed during this event, in which Sir Gerald Templer implemented a system of internment camps known as "new villages" as part of the Briggs' Plan. This event included the Batang Kali massacre, in which 24 unarmed villagers were killed by British troops, known as "Britain's My Lai [[mee-LAI]]." One side which fought in this event was known as the MNLA and was led by Chin Peng. For ten points, name this guerilla war fought in a Southeast Asian country from 1948 to 1960 between pro- independence Communists and the British Empire. | The Malayan Emergency (accept Darurat Malaya) |
| The Federation of Malaya became officially independent in 1957 during the administration of this British prime minister, a supporter of decolonization, who had succeeded Anthony Eden in January of that year. | Harold Macmillan (accept 1st Earl of Stockton) |
| J. Howard Miller incorporated this phrase into one work, which inspired a street artist named Phoenix to use it in another work commemorating the election of Julia Gillard as prime minister of Australia. This four-word phrase was popularized in a campaign run by Westinghouse Electric’s War Production Coordinating Committee. This phrase appears in a blue speech bubble above a woman who flexes her arm and wears a red bandana. For ten points, name this motivational phrase found above Rosie the Riveter on U.S. World War Two posters. | "We Can Do It!" |
| In 1943, Rosie the Riveter appeared on the Memorial Day cover of this magazine. Other noted covers of this magazine include Little Spooners, featuring two children on a bench watching a sunset, and the Four Freedoms series. | The Saturday Evening Post |
| Garnier de l’Aube [[gahr-NYEH duh LOHB]] once claimed that the “blood of” this man “choked” another man into inaction. This man gave a speech in which he claimed, “To conquer them we must dare, dare again, always dare.” That speech by this subject of a play of Georg Büchner [[BYOOK-nuh] was thought to have contributed to the September Massacres. En route to his execution, this man’s last words were, "My only regret is that I am going before that rat, Robespierre." The first head of the Committee of Public Safety, for ten points, who was this early leader of the French Revolution? | Georges Danton |
| Robespierre was executed nearly four months after Danton. Those executions by guillotine took place, as did that of Louis XVI, in this public square, the largest in Paris, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées [shahms eh-lee-SEH]]. | Place de la Concorde (accept Place de la Révolution) |
| Midwestern city, the site of the Columbian Exposition. | Chicago |
| Woman whose autobiography describes her visit to the expo with Anne Sullivan and Alexander Graham Bell. | Helen Keller |
| Three ships which were reproduced in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage to the Americas. | La Niña, La Pinta, La Santa Maria (accept in any order; accept Santa Clara in place of Niña; accept La Gallega in place of Santa Maria) |
| Carnival ride built by a namesake civil engineer, which could hold 2,160 guests. | Ferris Wheel (prompt on "Chicago wheel") |
| Patriotic song whose description of "alabaster cities" was inspired by Katherine Lee Bates's visit to the expo. | "America the Beautiful" |
| Name given to the collection of Expo buildings, painted by Francis Davis Millet and ushering in the "City Beautiful" movement. | White City |
| Chicago mayor assassinated a few days prior to the expo. | Carter Harrison, Sr. |
| German arms firm which had a pavilion at the expo and later built the largest land howitzer of World War One, "Big Bertha." | Friedrich Krupp AG |
| Macedonian conqueror with whom Trajan was compared in Roman propaganda. | Alexander the Great (or Alexander III of Macedon) |
| Number of "Good Emperors," including both Trajan and his adopted son Hadrian. | Five |
| Facilities, known to Romans as Thermae, which Trajan built near the Oppian Hill. | Baths (accept Bathhouse (s)) |
| Roman silver coin devalued by Trajan while fighting his foreign wars. | Denarii (accept Denarius) |
| Emperor who staved off rebellion by appointing Trajan as his successor. | Nerva |
| Trans-Danubian territory conquered by Trajan, roughly where Romania and Moldova are today. | Dacia [[DAY-shah]] (accept Dacians; accept pronunciation as [[DAH-kyah]]) |
| King of that region who Trajan defeated in two wars and at the Battles of Adamclisi and Sarmisegetusa [[sar-mih-seh-geh-TOO-sah]]. | Decebalus (or Diurpaneus) |
| Welfare program for orphans introduced by Trajan. | Alimenta |
| Capital which was re-founded by Curt von François. | Windhoek [[WIND-hook]] |
| Nation with the colony of "South West Africa" of which it was a part until 1915. | German Empire (accept Imperial State of Germany; accept the Second Reich; accept the Kaiserreich) |
| Actinide element discovered in Namibia in 1928, providing for a large portion of the world's nuclear power. | Uranium |
| Tribe who were the targets of a 1905-1908 genocide along with the Nama. | Ovaherero |
| Territories set aside for Black inhabitants in an attempt to enforce apartheid prior to its independence. | Bantustans (accept Bantu homeland) |
| Man elected its first president in 1990. | Sam Nujoma |
| Party which has served as its governing party since independence in 1990. | SWAPO Party of Namibia (accept South West Africa People’s Organisation) |
| Revolutionary Namaqua chief who is honored on three separate banknotes. | Hendrik Witbooi |
| A “Declaration of Principles” outlining the aims of this group was partly written by its co-founder, Monroe Trotter. Members of this group lobbied critics in Chicago to ignore a play titled The Clansman. Following the Springfield Race Riot of 1908, members of this group joined with white activists to form the (+) NAACP. Allegedly named for the “mighty current” of change it aspired to achieve, this movement was founded in 1905 by a group including (*) W.E.B. Dubois [[doo-BOYSS]]. For ten points, name this civil rights organization named for a New York-Ontario waterway near where it first met. | Niagara Movement (prompt on "NM") |
| A 1956 reform named for either this man or Evsei Liberman focused on profitability and included an article titled "For All and For Oneself." This man mediated the Tashkent Agreement between India and Pakistan in 1966 and managed 1973 and 1979 economic reforms to counter the Era of (+) Stagnation. Lyndon Johnson and this man met at the Glassboro Summit, leading up to the Moscow Treaty with (*) West Germany and the Soviet Union. For ten points, name this Soviet statesman who served as premier alongside First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev from 1964 to 1980. | Alexei Kosygin (accept Kosygin reform) |
| A cameo on this show was the answer to the winning question for the first million-dollar winner of the U.S. version of Who Want’s to Be a Millionaire, John Carpenter. On this show, Judy Carne said “It may be rice wine to you, but it's still (+) sake [[SAH-keh]] to me.” Running from 1968 to 1973, this show was the most popular T.V. show in America in its first three seasons. Richard Nixon appeared in a cameo on this show during which he said its catchphrase (*) “sock it to me.” For ten points, name this sketch comedy show co-hosted by Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. | Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In |
| The apportionment of land brought about by this treaty prompted one ethnic group to organize the League of Prizren. Nicholas Ignatiev helped negotiate this treaty, which was partly reversed by the Treaty of Berlin. This treaty is commemorated on Liberation Day in (+) Bulgaria. An independent Romania was created via this agreement, which also established the Kosovo Vilayet. Bringing an end to an (*) 1877-1878 war between Russia and a western neighbor, for ten points, what is this treaty which restructured Ottoman holdings in the Balkans? | Treaty of San Stefano (accept Peace of San Stefano; accept Ayastefanos Antlaşması; accept Ayastefanos Muahedesi) |
| A work by this man was printed unbound in prints of five every month to avoid depositing to British libraries. Joseph Mason painted backgrounds for this man's best known work, which was printed as the "Double Elephant Folio." Scientists doubt this man's (+) banding experiment for having a 40 percent rate of return. Specimens depicted by this man were sent to him from Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth's expedition and feature extinct (*) birds such as the passenger pigeon. For ten points, name this French-American ornithologist who published The Birds of America. | John James Audubon (accept Jean-Jacques Rabin) |
| During this offensive, which began with the Battle of Amiens, the Allies managed to break through the Hindenburg line after the Battle of St. Quentin Canal. This event reversed (+) German gains made during the Spring Offensive and forced them to retreat behind the Rhine. The last soldier to die during this offensive was Henry (*) Gunther, who charged a German roadblock and was shot dead one minute before an armistice went into effect. For ten points, name this series of Allied offensives which ended World War One. | Hundred Days Offensive (or Grand Offensive) |
| Moore v. Dempsey vacated the death sentences of six people involved in this event. Prior to this event, Robert L. Hill organized a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America at Hoop Spur at which two (+) white deputies arrived and exchanged shots. The NAACP sent Walter F. White to investigate this 1919 event, in which Governor Charles Brough requested Federal troops to put down a "Black insurrection" in (*) Phillips County. For ten points, name this massacre of Black farmworkers in Arkansas, the bloodiest racial conflict in U.S. history. | Elaine massacre (accept Elaine race riot) |
| German U-boats sank twenty merchant ships during a battle named for this river that involved fighting at the Strait of Belle Isle. On June 26th, 1959, Queen Elizabeth II and (+) Dwight D. Eisenhower attended the official opening of a waterway connecting this body of water to a larger one. In 1535, (*) Jacques Cartier [[kar-TYEH]] became the first European explorer to traverse this river, which he named after the feast day of a martyred Catholic deacon. For ten points, name this river which forms part of the international boundary between Canada and the United States. | St. Lawrence River (accept Battle of the St. Lawrence) |
| Backers of this man were identified by the University of Bristol project as Father Giovanni Antonio de Carbonarris and the Bardi Family. This man's supporter, William Weston, likely led the first (+) Northwest Passage expedition. This man searched for Hy-Brasil, and this man's "John Day letter" recorded his first voyage. In his second voyage, this man found Cape Bonavista and St. (*) John's while sailing the Matthew. For ten points, name this Italian who explored the coast of Newfoundland for Henry VII of England. | John Cabot (accept Giovanni Caboto; accept Zuan Cabotto) |
| This woman took many of the surviving color photographs and films of Adolf Hitler and died with him in the Führerbunker in 1945. | Eva Braun (accept Eva Hitler) |