| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| At this event, John Marshall was hanged in effigy in Baltimore for making invalid the (+) "constructive" definition of the crime prosecuted. This (+) event charged a man with conspiring with James Wilkinson to break off the western U.S. and (*) Spanish lands into a new country. For the point, name this 1807 proceeding that ended with a former vice-president being acquitted of treason. | Trial of Aaron Burr for conspiracy to commit treason (accept any answer mentioning Aaron Burr being put on trial as long as it does not specify some other crime besides "treason" and/or "conspiracy") |
| This man billed William Henry Johnson as "the man-monkey." This man also employed individuals including Commodore (+) Nutt, Lavinia Warren, and Charles Sherwood Stratton. In 1851 this man paid 26 journalists to hype the nationwide tour of the "Swedish Nightingale," Jenny Lind. Many (*) hoaxes were created by, for the point, name this novelty show exhibitor, who in 1871 co-founded a travelling circus with James Bailey? | Phineas Taylor "P.T." Barnum |
| This man made the initial donation to create the General Education Board, which shaped medical school curricula in the Flexner Report and eradicated hookworm in the (+) South. With Samuel Andrews and Henry Flagler, this man founded a company that was broken up under a 1911 antitrust ruling and targeted in a muckraking "history" by Ida (*) Tarbell. For the point, name this magnate who led Standard Oil. | John D (avidson) Rockefeller, Sr. |
| This man arranged a secret meeting with Ben-Hur author and sitting governor Lew Wallace to acquire clemency. This man became involved with a paramilitary force that supported John Tunstall's dry goods business, known as the Lincoln (+) County Regulators. After escaping a death sentence for killing Sheriff William Brady, this man was himself killed at Fort Sumner, New (*) Mexico in 1881 by Pat Garrett. For the point, name this Old West gunfighter who was known for his youth. | Billy the Kid (or Henry McCarty; or William H. Bonney) |
| This man's alliance with Johnny Dio to create "paper locals" against Dave Beck led to the formation of the McClellan committee. This man appears in the subtitle of the 1960 book The Enemy (+) Within by Robert F. Kennedy, whose squad dedicated to "getting" this man put him in prison until 1971, after which his pardon forbade him from leading any labor (*) union. For the point, name this longtime Teamsters president who disappeared in 1975. | Jimmy Hoffa (or James Riddle Hoffa) |
| This event was the culmination of a controversial day in which a man mentioned "rockets...on the assembly line" in a speech at Los Angeles (+) Town Hall. The person at the center of this event asked if "an epidemic of cholera" or "gangsters tak[ing] over the (*) place" were the source of security issues. For the point, identify this denied September 1959 request by a visiting Soviet leader to see a California amusement park. | Nikita Khrushchev's attempt to visit Disneyland (accept answers referring to Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and a thwarted or unsuccessful attempt to visit Disneyland; do not accept answers indicating that the visit took place; do not accept answers referring to "Disney World") |
| Gossip columnists reported on this man's appearance on a train with Virginia Clay, with whom he exchanged a three-year correspondence after being imprisoned with her husband, Clement, at Fort (+) Monroe. A 2018 novel by Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier follows this man's widow, Varina, whom he married after the death of his first wife Sarah Knox, the daughter of Zachary Taylor. Alexander (*) Stephens served as the only Vice President of, for the point, what President of the Confederacy? | Jefferson Davis (or Jefferson Finis Davis) |
| This jurist succeeded Henry Kissinger as chancellor of William & Mary. This author of the majority opinion in Strickland v. Washington also wrote for the Court in the enemy combatant case Hamdi v. (+) Rumsfeld. This replacement for Potter Stewart was known as a supporter of abortion rights prior to joining the Supreme (*) Court. For the point, name this Arizonan who was appointed in 1981 as the first woman Justice. | Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Samuro Ishikawa drew an early depiction of people doing this activity at the YMCA International Training School. William Chase was the only player who scored in the one-to-nothing first game of this sport, which required ladders to (+) retrieve items from peach containers when it was invented in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891 by Dr. James (*) Naismith. For the point, name this sport now played by the Dallas Mavericks. | Basketball |
| News producer Alan Weiss learned of this event when he saw its victim in the hospital, leading to Howard Cosell breaking national news of this event during Monday Night Football. The person responsible for this event was arrested (+) at the scene reading The Catcher in the Rye and claimed to be upset about anti-religious statements such as being "bigger than Jesus." Mark David (*) Chapman committed, for the point, what crime in New York against a former member of the Beatles? | Death of John Lennon (accept Murder or Shooting or Assassination in place of "death"; accept John Winston Ono Lennon in place of "John Lennon") |