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| A first lady during this war, Eliza Lynch, set up a camp to follow one army known as Las Residentas. Both enslaved freemen and people of African descent made up the Zuavos regiment during this war, making up the majority of the Brazilian army. The Battle of Cerro Cora killed both dictator Francisco Solano Lopez, the instigator of this war, and his successor. For the point, name this war against Paraguay named for a three way pact of South American nations. | War of the Triple Alliance [Accept Paraguayan War before mentioned] A |
| Saloon owner John Flammang Schrank shot a candidate of this party, failing to kill him due to the presence of a steel eyeglass case. The American Socialists and the AFL helped support Robert La Follette’s run for President using this party’s ticket. A party with this name actually garnered more votes in a Presidential election than a major candidate, beating the incumbent Republican president William Howard Taft. For the point, name this party that Teddy Roosevelt ran under in the Election of 1912. | Bull Moose Party [Accept Progressive Party] |
| Eric of Pomerania’s edict introducing “Sound Dues” led to a war between Denmark and this confederation. A city in thisRorganization, Thorn, was the site of the peace that ended the war between the Prussian Confederation and the Teutonic Order. This organization that takes its name for the German word for “convoy” included free cities like Lubeck and Hamburg. For the point, name this “League” of trade cities in the High Middle Ages. | Hanseatic League [Accept the Hansa] |
| This man was the first politician to be elected to the Senate by winning as a write-in candidate. This figure wrote the first draft of the Southern Manifesto, which denounced the results of Brown v. Board of EduDcation. This man gave the longest filibuster in Senate history to stop the Civil Rights Act of 1957. For the point, name this Dixiecrat who ran against Truman and Dewey in the Election of 1948. | Strom Thurmond |
| At one battle, this ruler’s foot infantry was routed by Pezhetairoi, or dismounted Companions, who were accompanied by Taxila auxiliary troops. This ruler of Paurava became a satrap overseen by the first Diadochi, Perdiccas. Near the modern Jhelum River, Alexander the Great engaged this ruler in the Punjab during the Battle of Hydaspes. For the point, name this Ancient Indian king. | King Porus |
| John Fitch earned the first official US patent in this year for his steamboat, The Perseverance. The Northwest Ordinance named for this year created the first official US Territory, made up of modern states like Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. In support of a certain document, Alexander Hamilton penned the first of the Federalist Papers in this year. For the point, name this year in the 1780s in which the Constitution was written. | Middle School National Bee 2019-2020 Playoff Round 2 |
| This author wrote about Ernst Roehm during the Night of Long Knives in his play My Friend Hitler. This author described the suicide of a couple following the Ni Ni Roku Incident in his short story “Patriotism.” During an attempted coup, this author demanded the return of the emperor to power and committed seppuku. For the point, name this Japanese author, who described the real life arson of the F title structure in The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. | Yukio Mishima (or Kimitake Hiraoka) |
| During this man’s tenure, Elys S Parker became this first Native American to successfully defend a national court case in Fellows v. Blacksmith. Out of character, this character upheld the black slaves’ on the Amistad right to defend themselves. This Jackson appointee who succeeded John Marshall stated Africans-Americans in the US aren’t and never will be citizens of the US in one case. For the point, name A this Chief Justice who made the Dred Scott decision. | Roger Taney |
| This man participated in a massacre of anti-slavery residents in Lawrence, Kansas as a part of the Quantrill Raiders. This man supposedly killed Major A.V.E. Johnston, who was leading the Union forces, by a shot to the head during the Centralia Massacre. This man and his gang partly led by Cole Younger robbed the Rock Island Line while disguised in KKK masks. For the point, name this “Robin Hood” figure of the West killed by the “Coward,” Robert Ford. R | Jesse James |
| During this uprising, Herbert Hoover used his engineering skill to assist building barricades while under siege. The Seymour Expedition led by the namesake admiral was ambushed by Kansu Braves at Langfang during this event. This uprising ended after Empress Dowager Cixi signed a protocol with the Eight Nation Alliance. For the point, name this anti-western uprising in Northeastern China. | Boxer Rebellion D |
| This one-time Whig was integral in the adoption of the Georgia Platform, which denounced secession in the early 1850s. At the Athenaeum, this figure gave the Cornerstone Speech declaring “slavery is natural and normal condition” of the black man. This man and his fellow cabinet members met with Lincoln at the Hampton Roads conference to end the Civil War. For the point, name this Vice President of the Confederacy. | Alexander Stephens |
| The earliest confirmed version of this instrument was the 1932 cast aluminum “frying pan” invented by Harry Watson. Charlie Christian and Grant Green were early players of this instrument in jazz bands. Ted McCartney designed the Gibson Les Paul version of this instrument. Feedback from these instruments was a key feature in the development of rock and roll. For the point, name this string instrument played by Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix. | electric guitar (prompt on guitar) Middle School National Bee 2019-2020 Playoff Round 2 |
| During this emperor’s reign, the Jew Lukuas declared himself leader of Cyrenaica and sparked a revolt in his homeland, Israel, leading to the Kitos War. It has been speculated that the Empress Plotina and not this emperor chose Syrian governor Hadrian as his successor. After a victory at Tapae over Decebalus by this emperor, much of Dacia across the Danube came under Roman control. For the point, F name this one of “Five Good Emperors” who led Rome to its maximum territorial size. | Caesar Nerva Trajanus |
| This man’s attempt to dislodge Judge Benjamin Pavy led Pavy’s son-in-law Carl Weiss to attack this man at the State capital. Robert Penn Warren fictionalized this man’s political career with the character Willie Stark in All the King’s Men. Using the catchphrase of his “Share Our Wealth Program,” this politician sang a song outlining his basic tenets named “Every Man a King.” For the point, name this A Southern populist governor of Louisiana. | Huey Long [The Kingfish] |
| The New York based Wide Awakes were an urban youth movement with this primary cause. The Oneida School of this movement supported the dogma of “Immediatism,” moving away from the “Back to Africa” movement. Both the North Star and The Liberator supported this position popular in the North. For the point, name this cause opposed by the rebelling Confederacy. | Abolition of Slavery [Accept descriptions like Slavery Ending] R |
| This region names a 1774 act by the UK that protects the right to practice Catholicism and gave this region land from the Indian reserve. Jean Lasage began the secularization and removal of separartist cells of this region in the Quiet Revolution. The paramilitary FLQ of this province agitated for independence herefromthegovernmentofPierreTrudeau.Forthepoint,namethisFrenchspeakingprovinceofCanada. | Quebec (17D) Along the St. Johns River in Florida, Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere founded Fort Caroline as a safe haven for these people. To promote civil unity with these people, Henry IV passed the Edict of Nantes only to be revoked 80 years later by the Edict of Fontainebleau of Louis XIV. These people were decimated by a mob of Catholics during the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre. For the point, name these French Protestants during the Wars of Religion. ANSWER: Huguenots [Prompt on “Protestants” until mentioned] |
| Senegal lost the second highest amount of combatants in a coalition during this war due to a helicopter crash. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. led the coalition forces during this war, earning the ire of Dick Cheney so much that Colin Powell had to act as an intermediary between the two. This war began after the Saddam Hussein government demanded 10 billion dollars from Kuwait, leading to an invasion of Kuwait. For the point, first US-led invasion of Iraq, which took place during the presidency of George H.W. Bush. | Operation Desert Storm [Accept Gulf War] Middle School National Bee 2019-2020 Playoff Round 2 |
| During this conflict, Simon de Monfort abandoned a primary army during the Siege of Zara. Shortly after this conflict, Baldwin of Flanders declared himself Latin Emperor and blinded Alexios V. Innocent III called for this conflict that was supposed to capture the Holy Land from the Ayyubids but instead attacked the Byzantine Empire. For the point, name this crusade that culminated in the 1204 sacking of F Constantinople. | Fourth Crusade |
| During this period, nobles played Mehen, a board game on a coiled snake where the lion piece likely chased the other pieces. Pepi II’s death and the rise in autonomy of the nomarchs led to the collapse of this period into the First Intermediate Period. The semi-legendary Menes (MEH-nace) unified both the Lower and the Upper Nile Valley, beginning this period. For the point, name this first era of Egyptian A Pharaohs that built the pyramids. | Old Kingdom of Egypt [Prompt on “Egypt” alone; Accept Early Dynastic Period] |
| Jacques Le Goff claims that this location was derived from the Jewish doctrine of Gehenna. Catholic theologians trace the doctrine of this location to a passage in 2 Maccabees chapter 12 about praying for the dead. Martin Luther protested the sale of indulgences to reduce the amount of time spent in this location. The Second Council of Lyon codified, for the point, what location where believers go to have their sins burned away before entering heaven? R | purgatory (do not accept or prompt on hell) |
| This man accused Ananias and Sapphira of lying to God about papal donations. During one event, this man cut off the ear of Malchus. Nero ordered the execution of this man, who asked to be crucified upside-down as he was not worthy to die in the same way as his Savior. This man denied knowing Jesus three times. For the point, name this brother of Andrew often said to be the first Pope. | Saint Simon Peter (accept either underlined name) D |
| Captain Solon Borland led a militia that perpetrated extrajudicial killings of followers of this man. This man’s defense attorney, Thomas Ruffin Gray, published the Confessions of this man prior to his hanging. An uprising in Southampton County led by this man began when he saw a solar eclipse, leading to the death of 60 white slave owners and their families. For the point, name this black preacher who led an 1831 slave rebellion in Southern Virginia. | Nat Turner |
| The love of the paramilitary Wild Tiger Corps by a king with this name led to an army revolt that fell apart when a plotter felt guilty and told the king’s brother. The tenth king of this name recently ruled alongside the military junta, National Council for Peace and Order led by Prayut Chan-o-cha. Under a boy-king of this name, one Southeast Asian kingdom was forced to join Japan’s Co-Prosperity Sphere as an ally. For the point, give this name to ten kings of Thailand. | Rama Middle School National Bee 2019-2020 Playoff Round 2 |
| In one debate, this man said that if Young Earth Creationism was true, there would be a newspaper column dedicated to the hundreds of new species discovered every day. In 2014, this man debated Ken Ham about the truth of evolution. One tv show hosted by this man contains the segments “Consider the Following” and “Way Cool Scientist.” For the point, name this American engineer, known for TV shows F named “this man” Saves the World and [this man] the Science Guy. | Bill Nye |
| Ferdinand Pecora led a commission to investigate the causes of this event, eventually leading to Congress passing the Glass-Steagall Act. Shortly before this event, Irving Fisher declared that “Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” This monetary collapse was preceded by the London Stock Exchange’s fall in September of that year. For the point, name this collapse of Wall A Street during the 1920s that led to the Great Depression. | Wall Street Crash of 1929 [Accept the Great Crash; Accept Black Monday or Black Tuesday; Accept of the Panic of 1929] |
| Theterm“holocaust”originallyreferedtoaformofthispracticewhereitssubjectwasentirelyburnt. In Greek mythology, humans are able to take the better portion of this practice because Prometheus tricked Zeus by covering bones in fat. In ancient Judaism, this practice was only permitted at the Tabernacle or Temple’s altars. In Christianity, the death of Jesus replaced this practice. For the point, name this practice of rituallyRkilling an animal for a deity. | animal sacrifice (accept burnt offering; prompt on offering; do not accept or prompt on “human sacrifice”) |
| This man who was a “Pagan saint” to Gnostics is likely the origin of the American use of the term “E pluribus unum.” The disenchanted veterans of Sulla planned to overthrow this man and his fellow consul in the Catiline Conspiracy, until it was exposed by this politician. The Second Triumvirate opposed this politician after he favored a non-Mark Antony candidate for governor of Gaul. For the point, name thisDfamed orator of the Late Roman Republic. | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| The poison of the shrub known as tangena was used in legal proceedings on this island, so if the accused person lived they were innocent. During the Kabary Speech, Ranavalona I, Queen of Imerina, kicked out European missionaries and banned Christianity on this island. This island, populated by the Malagasy people, became a protectorate of France during the Scramble for Africa. For the point, name this largest island of Africa now centered on Antananarivo. | Madagascar |
| This future leader sang in the kids choir at the Atlanta premier of Gone with the Wind. This figure supposedly plagiarized his doctoral thesis from Boston University on the competing thoughts of theologians Paul Tillich and Henry Wieman. This civil rights leader later cited Mahatma Gandhi as a primary inspiration while receiving his Nobel Peace Prize, and he led the Selma to Montgomery March. For the point, name this Civil Rights leader who gave the “I Have a Dream” Speech. | Martin Luther King Jr. [Accept MLK] Middle School National Bee 2019-2020 Playoff Round 2 Extra Tossups |
| A military aide of this man named John Armstrong was found complicit in the Newburgh Conspiracy filled with disgruntled members of the Continental Army. With ThomasFConway, this general sent a sternly worded letter to the Second Continental Congress attempting to discredit and replace General Washington. Lord Cornwallis supported by Loyalists decisively defeated this man at Camden. For the point, name this victor at the Battle of Saratoga. | Horatio Gates |
| The Kontinental Hockey League of Eastern Europe and China renamed their cup title name to reference this Russian figure. This “Hero of the Soviet Union” is often falsely attributed as saying “I don’t A see any God up here,” when, in fact, that is a paraphrasing of something said by Nikita Khrushchev. Departing from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, this man travelled on Vostok 1 around the Earth. For the point, name this first person in space. | Yuri Gagarin R D |