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| This man criticized the minting of private coin in Ireland in his pamphlet “Drapier’s Letters.” This author criticized the Whig Government for not ending their involvement in the War of Spanish Succession in The Conduct of the Allies. This author of A Tale of the Tub satirically suggested to the Irish people that they should sell their infants to the English to ease economic troubles in A Modest Proposal. For ten points, name this author of Gulliver’s Travels. | Jonathan Swift |
| This man’s crew was nearly recalled by Juan Tafur, but the members who chose to stay with this man became known as the “Famous Thirteen.” After an enemy leader threw a Bible to the ground in the face of the priest Valverde, this man captured and ransomed that leader for a room full of gold. This man was victorious at the battle of Cajamarca in modern day Peru. For ten points, name this Spanish conqueror of the Incan Empire. | Francisco Pizarro |
| A caricaturist as a young man, this artist was mentored by Eug ́ene Boudin who taught him the “en plein air” technique for which this man became known. In response to regular rejections from the Salon de Paris, this man, along with Renoir, C ́ezanne, and others held a heavily criticized exhibition of their own in 1874, and their movement was given a name from one of this man’s paintings, Impressions: Sunrise. For ten points, name this Impressionist painter of the Water Lilies series. | Claude Monet |
| This city’s troops were defeated by Marcus Salinator, who executed a general from this city and threw that general’s head into the tent of his brother following the Battle of the Metaurus. Cato the Elder ended every speech advocating for the destruction of this city that was defeated by Scipio Africanus at the battle of Zama. For ten points, name this city that employed Hannibal Barca and opposed Rome in three Punic Wars. | Carthage |
| This man’s opposition to a proposed war with Austria prompted him to start publishing his newspaper, The Defender of the Constitution, and this man replaced the Cult of Reason with his Cult of the Supreme Being. This man gained power in his most notable position after the death of his former ally, Georges Danton, and this man was executed by guillotine in the Thermadorian Reaction. For ten points, name this Director of the Committee of Public Safety who led the Reign of Terror. | Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre |
| This man increased gas taxes to fund highway construction through the Collier Burns Act as Governor of California, a position he held a record three consecutive terms. This man replaced Fred Vinson in his highest position in which this man was succeeded by Warren Burger. For ten points, name this Chief of Justice of the Supreme Court who presided over the cases Miranda v Arizona and Brown v the Board of Education, as well as heading the commission that investigated the death of President Kennedy. | Earl Warren |
| This city is home to the headquarters of the SAARC and the site of the Pashupatinah Temple. This city’s name derives from a wooden shrine that stood in Durbar Square until it was destroyed by a 2015 earthquake. In 2001, Prince Dipendra carried out a massacre in Narayanhity Royal Palace in this city, which led to the death of ten members of the royal family, including King Birendra. For ten points, name this city, the capital of Nepal. | Kathmandu (accept pronunciations with either a “t” or a “th” sound) |
| In this city in 1891, over 1,000 people died when the General Slocum caught fire and sank in one of this city’s rivers, a river that the Dutch called the “North River.” Sheila Abdus-Salaam served on this city’s Civil Court, the first Muslim woman to serve as a judge in the United States. US Airways Flight 1549 took off from this city, hit several birds, then made a water landing without losing any of the 155 on board. For ten points, name this city whose LaGuardia Airport was the starting site of the “Miracle on the Hudson.” | New York City (accept NYC) |
| Less than ten miles from Dodge City is a two-mile portion of this route that is the longest portion of it remaining today. Trading caravans on this route had to cross a ferry at Arrow Rock, Missouri. A need to pay off debts caused by the Panic of 1819 led William Becknell to establish this route. Mexican caravans on this trail were often intercepted by U.S. troops in the Mexican-American War. For ten points, name this trail that takes its name from the city in which it ended in New Mexico. | Santa Fe Trail |
| The Santa Fe Trail crossed the northwestern portion of the territory of this Native American nation who fought a series of namesake wars from 1706 until their final surrender in 1875. | Comanche |
| In this man’s maiden speech at the House of Commons, he declared that Socialism stood for “Cooperation, not confrontation; for fellowship, not fear.” Under this man, the SAS was sent in to rescue hostages in Sierra Leone in Operation Barras. This man visited victims after the Omagh Bombing and helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement. This man, an adherent of the Third Way, led New Labour to victory in 1997. This leader, who supported George W. Bush’s campaign to invade Iraq, was succeeded by Gordon Brown. For ten points, name this Prime Minister of the UK from 1997 to 2007. | Tony Blair |
| Tony Blair was the youngest person appointed Prime Minister since the 1810s, but that distinction didn’t last long as this man took the title from him, holding the position from 2010 to 2016. | David Cameron |
| This man was legendarily a Cappadocian Greek and a member of the Praetorian Guard. Fifteen thousand men from “Silene” switched allegiance to this man’s faith after his most famous action. The Golden Legend tells this man’s story and relates how the Fourteen Holy Helpers attempted to get rid of a plague-bearing monster that was terrorizing a lake in Libya. That event led to this man using the king’s daughter as bait and wielding Ascalon, a mighty spear, to kill the offending dragon. For ten points, name this Roman martyr and patron saint of England. | Saint George of Lydda |
| Ascalon was named for a city that was captured by the crusaders at the last battle of the First Crusade in 1099. That city is today known as Ashkelon and is found in this country. | State of Israel |
| After this location was sacked by the Chams, a new capital was rebuilt at Thom [THUM], a few kilometers north. 92 asuras and 88 devas use Vasuki as a tool in one depiction in this complex, “The Churning of the Sea of Milk.” This complex is considered to be representative of India’s Mount Meru and was built by Suryavarman II in the 12th century. For ten points, what large temple dedicated to Vishnu was built by the Khmer people in Cambodia? | Angkor Wat |
| In 1860, King Norodom was installed as King of Cambodia by the Rattanakosin Kingdom of a country known at the time as Siam and today known by this name. | Kingdom of Thailand |
| This ruler’s reign was the subject of the final book of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. This ruler issued the First Statute of Repeal to nullify prior religious laws and burned Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley at the stake. This ruler imprisoned the author of the Book of Common Prayer, Thomas Cranmer, after she succeeded Lady Jane Grey. Known for her violent persecutions of Protestants, for ten points, name this ruler who re-Catholicized England before she was succeeded by Elizabeth I | Mary I (accept Mary Tudor, prompt on “Bloody Mary”) |
| Mary was Henry VIII’s oldest child but was preceded to the throne by this brother, 21 years her junior, who was on the throne for six years, dying at the age of 15. | Edward VI |
| One section of this work contrasts one idea with the notion that “vexation may be succeeded by content [cun-TENT].” In this text’s first section, the author calls the title discipline “a road either to safety or to ruin.” One section of this text lists five effective uses of fire including burning baggage trains and as a means of tipping arrows to rain down on an enemy. Written during the reign of Shenzong this text was penned during the Spring and Autumn Period. For ten points, name this Chinese military treatise written by Sun Tzu. | The Art of War (accept Sunzi Bingfa) |
| One of the earliest notable English translations of The Art of War was by British museum curator Lionel Giles who also made a noted translation of the Analects, a collection of sayings attributed to this Chinese philosopher. | Confucius (accept Kong Fuzi or Master Kong) |
| This man ensured peace with Russia in the Reinsurance Treaty. This leader was depicted in the cartoon “Dropping the Pilot” after he was succeeded in one post. This man, who attempted to subvert the Catholic church with his policy of Kulturkampf, edited the Ems dispatch to begin a war with France. This practitioner of “realpolitik” noted that “the great questions of the time” would be resolved by “iron and blood.” For ten points, name this “Iron Chancellor” who unified the German states in 1871. | Otto von Bismarck |
| Bismarck was born in this independent German kingdom that led the drive to unification, was the leading state of the Empire of Germany, and was dissolved into the Weimar Republic in 1918. | Kingdom of Prussia |
| This man paid $65 to have a photograph with a famous woman he met in Minnesota. Alfred Sully defeated an army in which this man served at the Battle of Killdeer Mountain. This man, who surrendered to David Brotherton at Fort Buford, was offered a job by John Burke that allowed him to meet Annie Oakley. This ally of Chief Gall and performer in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show once won a battle fought alongside Crazy Horse during which a “Last Stand” was conducted by George Custer. For ten points, name this chief of the Sioux. | Sitting Bull |
| Sitting Bull was killed on this South Dakota reservation that made the news again in 2016 after thousands of people went there to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline that had been rerouted to within half a mile of the reservation. | Standing Rock |
| President who instituted the Great Society as part of his War on Poverty | Lyndon B. Johnson (accept LBJ) |
| Legislation that outlawed racial discrimination in 1964 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Health insurance program created primarily to help senior citizens | Medicare |
| Program that used namesake coupons to provide food-purchasing assistance | Food Stamps program (accept SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) (5) 1968 federal legislation that banned housing discrimination ANSWER: Fair Housing Act (accept Civil Rights Act of 1968) |
| Agency created to support excellence in painting, theatre, and similar activities | National Endowment for the Arts (accept NEA) The Kingdom of Rome The Kingdom of Rome... |
| Was started by this mythical founder who killed his brother Remus | Romulus |
| Built this central plaza of Rome, the center of discussion and public life | Roman Forum |
| Started on this first of the Seven Hills of Rome | Palatine Hill |
| Relied on this order of priestesses to tend the sacred fire | Vestal Virgins (accept Vestals) |
| Had kings who wore the Toga Picta of this royal color | Purple |
| Was ruled by two kings of this name, the younger of whom was overthrown after the rape of Lucretia ANSWER: Tarquinius Chile Name the... (1) Capital city named after the biblical St. James | Santiago |
| Leader who overthrew his predecessor in 1973 | Augusto Pinochet |
| Socialist president who committed suicide after his 1973 overthrow | Salvador Allende |
| Sparsely populated region shared by Chile and Argentina that was subject to territorial disputes around Mount Fitz Roy. | Patagonia (prompt on “Andes”) |
| 19th-century conflict named for a major body of water in which Chile gained the Atacama Desert from Bolivia. | War of the Pacific (accept Saltpeter War, Guerra del Salitre, or Guerra del Pacifico) |
| U.S. university at which a group of economists that helped stabilize the economy were taught by Milton Friedman | University of Chicago |
| One candidate in this election year published the book A Call to Economic Arms, detailing his ideas about the federal deficit, and that man, Paul Tsongas, dropped out of this year’s race after placing third in Michigan. One speech during this election year began “Who am I? Why am I here?” During this year’s race, (+) Pat Buchanan delivered his “culture war” speech, and a third-party candidate discussed the “giant sucking sound” that would be created by (*) NAFTA. For ten points, name this year in which Texas billionaire Ross Perot finished third behind incumbent George H.W. Bush and winner Bill Clinton. | U.S. Presidential Election of 1992 |
| A secret police force in this country with roughly 30,000 members was known as the Sigurimi. Ponzi schemes triggered a 1997 civil war in this country during which mass protests were held in its city of Vlore. An invader of this country angrily said “the (+) cub has escaped” after finding that the son of King Zog had fled the country. For 44 years, this country was ruled by the communist regime of (*) Enver Hoxha [HODJ-uh]. Located along the Balkan Peninsula, for ten points, name this country centered at Tirana. | Albania |
| Near the end of this film, one character buries two figurines of the protagonist’s relatives claiming “I will see you again.” This film begins at a battle in Vindobona that occurred during the Twelve Year Campaign. After being taken to Mauretania, the protagonist of this film is given to (+) Proximo. A reenactment of the Battle of Zama sees the protagonist of this film lead his Carthaginian side to victory before revealing himself to the brother of Lucilla. The antagonist of this film kills his father (*) Marcus Aurelius after learning that he is not to be named successor. For ten points, name this 2000 Academy Award winning film in which Russell Crowe stars as Maximus. | Gladiator |
| A mining rights concession that this man negotiated with the Matabele king Lobengula paved the way for the creation of a namesake southern African colony. This man supported the Jameson Raid and founded the (+) De Beers diamond company in Kimberley. A cartoon in Punch depicted this man as a colossus astride Africa as a result of his advocacy for a (*) railroad spanning the continent from “Cape to Cairo.” For ten points, name this Victorian imperialist for whom a prestigious scholarship at Oxford University is named. | Cecil (John) Rhodes |
| This painting was hidden after a failed student uprising, the June Rebellion, led to it being seen as incendiary. This painting is set during the “Three Glorious Days” during which the (+) July Monarchy was established. This painting’s primary subject wears a symbolic Phrygian cap and is flanked by a university student wearing a bicorne. The depiction of Notre Dame in this painting’s background notably features a flying flag, apart from the (*) tricolourthatMarianneholds.Fortenpoints,namethisEug`eneDelacroixpaintingshowingthe personification of freedom at the forefront of revolution. | Liberty Leading the People |
| The Battle of Klushino during this period resulted in a group of seven nobles offering their support for Prince Wladyslaw. Marina Mneszich was appointed queen during this period thanks to an invasion led by (+) Sigismund III of Poland. Three men known as the False Dmitris attempted to claim the throne during this period that began after the death of Feodor led to the end of the (*) Rurik dynasty. For ten points, identify this period of turmoil in Russian history that ended with the coronation of Michael Romanov. | Time of Troubles (accept Smuta) |
| Henry Gough became known as the “hammer” of people of this religion, and the second war against a state named for this religion occurred after Patrick Vans Agnew was sent to take (+) Multan. An empire of this religion contained four provinces, including Peshawar and Lahore. That empire of this religion was created after the misals were united under the “Lion of the (*) Punjab,” Maharaja Ranjit Singh. For ten points, name this religion based on the teachings of Guru Nanak, the fifth largest organized religion in the world. | Sikhism (accept Sikhil) |
| This man served as a New York delegate in opposition to Andrew Jackson’s candidacy in 1828 and was an Anti-Mason when elected to Congress in 1837. Later in this man’s career, he became a (+) “Know Nothing” and finished third in the U.S. presidential election of 1856. As Vice President, this man presided over debates on Henry Clay’s Omnibus Bill and the issue of slavery in the (*) Mexican Cession. For ten points, name this man who advanced the Compromise of 1850, the 13th President of the United States. | Millard Fillmore |
| During this battle, the oiler Neosho was attacked by Japanese pilots who mistook it for an aircraft carrier. The Lexington was severely damaged in this battle that prevented the Japanese invasion of (+) Port Moresby. As the opposing fleets never sighted or directly fired upon each other, this naval battle was the first to be fought with carrier (*) aircraft alone. For ten points, name this May 1942 naval battle that took place in a namesake sea northeast of Australia. | Battle of the Coral Sea |
| This city in Northern Italy is home to the oldest university in the world, the site of an Allied victory in 1945 that forced the Germans north across the Po, and the namesake of a classic sausage. | Bologna |