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| During the first of these events, a young J. Edgar Hoover helped facilitate the so-called Palmer Raids and the deportation of people like Emma Goldman. The House of un-American Activities persecuted men like the Hollywood Ten during the height of this period. Witch hunts in the government led by Joseph McCarthy characterized the second of these periods. For the point, name these two distinct panics where many believed communists infiltrated the government. | Red Scare [Accept McCarthyism before mentioned] A |
| This organization ran the Ahnenerbe (AHN-en-AIR-buh), a research group that failed to get a copy of Tacitus’ Germania after Mussolini reneged on giving it to them. Major Josef Gangl led a force that turned traitor on this organization, protecting Itter Prison in a joint Allied-German assault that freed the prisoners. This organization’s head, Heinrich Himmler, masterminded the first extermination camps and the Einsatzgruppen. For the point, name this elite paramilitary organization of Nazi Germany. | SS [Accept Schutzstaffel; Accept Defense Echelon] |
| Phillis Wheatly was so inspired by the first of these movements she wrote “On Being Brought from R Africa to America,” dedicating it to George Whitfield. A prominent center for the second of these was New York’s Burned-Over District, and a byproduct of this event was the rise of fringe breakaways from Protestantism like Mormonism. For the point, name these two unique periods of religious revivalism in the US. | Great Awakenings |
| Proceso 8000 was an investigation into how one person in this position, Ernesto Samper, funded his campaign through drug money. The phrase “Big Heart, Firm Hand” was used by Alvaro Uribe, who D cooperated with the US during his nation’s War on Drugs. The Nobel Peace Prize went to a person in this position, Juan Manuel Santos, after he negotiated a peace with FARC. For the point, name this position held by executives in Bogota. | President of Colombia |
| After the excommunication of a monarch by Pope Pius V, Archbishop Parker pushed through the Forty-Two Articles of this faith. The Book of Common Prayer, used for this faith’s Communion, first came into use during the short reign of Edward VI. The Act of Supremacy passed by Parliament established Henry VIII as head of this faith. For the point, name this Protestant faith of England sometimes known as Episcopalianism. | Anglicanism [Accept Church of England and Episcopalians before mentioned] Middle School National Bee 2019-2020 Playoff Round 1 |
| The Federal Register Act of 1936 required these decrees to be both published and written down in official documentation. Bill Clinton circumvented Congress by using one of these decrees to involve the US in the Kosovo War. One of these decrees by President Truman desegregated the armed forces prior to the Korean War. For the point, name these presidential decree that number in the tens of thousands, F justified by Article Two of the Constitution. | Executive Orders |
| This artist created the political cartoon Gin Lane, showing a scene of depravity in London street due to easily accessible spirits. This artist created six painting series about an ill-conceived betrothal where her lover kills her husband in Marriage A-la-Mode. This artist featured a rich merchant’s son in an 8 part series wasting his money on vices and ending up in a Sanitorium. For the point, name this English painter A of Rake’s Progress. | William Hogarth |
| A member of this family employed engineer Benjamin Tyler Henry until he broke off due to poor compensation. That member of this family bought the original iteration of Smith & Wesson, then called the Volcanic Arms Company. Another member of this family, Sarah, built a labyrinth-like mansion in California haunted by victims of her husband’s company. For the point, name this family that started a namesake repeating rifle company. R | Winchester Family |
| During this period, a merchant named Kuzma Minin funded a volunteer army after Ryazan governor Prokopy Lyapunov fell in battle. The rumoured bastard son of Stefan Batory successfully claimed the throne as the first of many “False Dmitris” in this period. The death of Fyodor I sparked this crisis, even weakening the state to the point that Poland-Lithuania occupied Muscovy. For the point, name this period of Russian history dominated by Boris Gudanov. | Time of Troubles [Accept Smuta] D |
| This empire established trade posts known as karum according to the Ebla tablets, which reveal early information on the Canaanites. An octagonal prism illustrating the conquests of the Hatti and Mushku people by this empire was ordered by its king, Tiglath Pileser I. Babylon allied with the future king Cyrus the Great to capture the city of Harran, ending this empire. For the point, name this ancient Mesopotamian kingdom centered on the similarly named city of Assur. | Assyrian Empire [Accept Neo-Assyrian Empire] |
| The first of these institutions had the task of removing continentals from circulation and was bought by Stephen Girard in 1811. The second of these institutions, headed by Nicholas Biddle, had its rights upheld in McCullough vs. Maryland. Andrew Jackson opposed the second of these institutions, passing the Coinage Act to weaken it. For the point, name this de facto financial institution from the late 18th and early 19th century first centered on Philadelphia. | Bank of United States [Accept B.U.S.] [Accept National Bank Middle School National Bee 2019-2020 Playoff Round 1 |
| In response to hearing about his cousin Devadatta’s wealth, this figure compared him to a plantain that is destroyed by its own fruit. This figure’s previous animal incarnations are depicted in the Jataka Tales. Prior to his birth, this figure’s mother had a vision of a white elephant entering her side. While living as a prince, this figure saw the four sights of an old man, a diseased man, a dead man, and an F ascetic. This figure achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. For the point, name this Nepal born religious leader, the founder of a namesake meditative religion. | the Buddha (or Siddhattha Gautauma accept either underlined portion) |
| White Supremacists in this state overthrew the rightful government of Daniel L. Russell in the Wilmington coup. Black men such as Joseph McNeil who form the Greensboro Four organized sit-ins at Woolworth’s in this state. The first African-American mayor of a major Southern city, Clarence Lightner, A led this state’s municipality of Raleigh. For the point, name this state with cities like Charlotte. | North Carolina |
| The Romans built the Hexamilion Wall near this city to protect one landmass from Visigothic invasion in the early 400s. This city names a post-Peloponnesian War conflict where it allied with Athens, Thebes, and Argos to challenge Spartan supremacy. Near this city was the Diolkos, a passageway that allowed ancient shippers to cross this city’s namesake isthmus. For the point, name this Greek city-state in the northeast Peloponnese. R | Corinth |
| This politician banned five-hundred and two thousand bills of legal tender to force “Black Money” to declare itself for taxation. This man likely turned a blind eye to anti-Muslim violence during his home state’s 2002 Gujarat Riots. This Prime Minister revoked the limited autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir. For the point, name this current prime Minister of India. | Narendra Modi D |
| This man was the only one to defend black athlete Willis Ward’s right to play football while playing in the South while serving as Center for the Michigan Wolverines. In The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan lambasted this President for his “Whip Inflation Now” campaign. It is speculated that his pardoning of Richard Nixon hurt his 1976 election campaign against Jimmy Carter. For the point, name this only official to not be voted into the positions of Vice President and President. | Gerald Ford |
| This object was first discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi, a member of the “celestial police,” who mistakenly identified this object as a planet. This body’s highest point is Ahuna Mons. This object was predicted to exist by the empirical Titius-Bode law. This is the only object in the asteroid belt to be rounded by its own gravity. For the point, name this dwarf planet, the largest asteroid. | Ceres Middle School National Bee 2019-2020 Playoff Round 1 |
| This man convinced the son of a rival king, Chlodoric, to kill his father to weaken the kingdom and eventually conquer it himself. This monarch killed the so-called “King of the Romans,” Syagarius, after defeating a Roman rump state called Soissons. This tribal king pacified much of the Roman province of Gaul. For the point, name this Merovingian King who converted the Franks to Christianity. F | Clovis I |
| The result of the second of these battles led to the exile of John Pope, who was sent to a post in Minnesota. At the first of these battles, Thomas Jackson earned the moniker “Stonewall” while leading the Virginians. At one of these battles, Washington elites picnicked nearby expecting to see a quick Irvin MacDowell victory. For the point, give this name of two Virginia battles, the first being the first major battle of the Civil War. A | Battle of Bull Run [Accept the 1st or 2nd Bull Run; Battle of Manassas] |
| Only fifty speakers of this city’s unique creole named Patua remai, and this city was first settled by Europeans after they had driven out the wakou. An incident named for this city saw the HMS Intrepid protect an Asian convoy from French and Spanish ships-of-the-line. This gambling city that earns six times that of Las Vegas was given back by the Portuguese to an Asian nation in 1999. For the point, name this Special Administration Region of China on the Pearl River. | Macau [Accept Macao] R |
| Seattle Seahawks Hall of Fame Receiver Steve Largent later served as a House Representative from this state. In the Greenwood district of this state, a race riot occurred after Dick Rowland was wrongly accused of assaulting a white girl. This state, once known as the Indian Territory, had its capital bombed by terrorist Timothy McVeigh. For the point, name this state with the cities of Tulsa and a namesake capital. | Oklahoma D |
| The National Memorial for Peace and Justice features a quote by this author in its outer wall. In an interview, this author referred to Bill Clinton as the “first Black president” in response to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. This author based a novel in which Pecola desires the title body parts on her own home town of Lorrain, Ohio. Another novel by this author centers on the escape slave Margaret Garner, whose murdered baby returns as a ghost. For the point, name this author of The Bluest Eye and Beloved. | Toni Morrison |
| A newly built navy introduced the corvus bridge in this war, scoring victories at Mylae and Tyndaris. One power’s failure to pay their hired swords in this war led to Hanno the Great fighting the Mercenary War around the city of Utica. Hiero the Great of Syracuse agreed to become a Client King of Rome during this war. For the point, name this first mass conflict between Rome and Carthage. | First Punic War Middle School National Bee 2019-2020 Playoff Round 1 |
| To divert resources from this island, Operation Barclay was an invasion of the Balkans by the fictitious 12th Army . The Allied invasion of this island, codenamed Operation Husky, was partially assisted by foreign allies of Lucky Luciano’s. Bernard Montgomery and George S. Patton agreed to race to this island’s city of Messina, with Patton winning by a few hours. For the point, name this largest Italian F island to the southwest of Italy’s mainland. | Sicily |
| Supported by the Portuguese, Louis Botha led an invasion of this former colony during the First World War. In the late 1990s, Mishake Muyongo of the CANU led an independence movement in this nation’s Caprivi Strip. The Whitaker Report classified the German killing of the Herero people in this nation as the first genocide of the 20th century. For the point, name this African country that was once a A protectorate of South Africa with the cities of Walvis Bay and Windhoek | Republic of Namibia |
| The discovery of this material in the Black Hills caused thousands of people to settle in the city of Deadwood. The town of Skagway was founded as people migrated to the Klondike region to look for this material. The discovery of this material at Sutter’s Mill led to the massive growth of cities such as San Francisco. For the point, name this precious metal at the center of a California “rush.” | gold R |
| This city was supposedly ruled by Tyndareus, who made his daughter’s suitors vow to support whoever was chosen to marry that daughter. According to legend, this city was originally named Lacedaemon and was renamed for a daughter of Eurotas. During the Trojan War, this city was ruled by an exiled prince of Mycenae and brother of Agamemnon, Menelaus. The Trojan War was started when Menelaus’ wife was kidnapped by Paris from this city. For the point, name this Greek city state, a rival of Athens. | Sparta D |
| A Hiroshige artwork depicts Sixty-Nine Stations of roads that all lead to this city. A monk burning a cursed garb legendarily started the Great Fire of Meireki in this city. This city names a period of Japan when the shoguns of the Tokugawa clan reigned supreme over the emperor. For the point, name this historical city on the Kanto Plains that became modern Tokyo. | Edo [Prompt on “Tokyo” before mentioned] |
| While a representative, this figure attempted to shut down the US Military Academy due to it exclusively being attended by the wealthy. With William Travis, this man undertook a daring mission to try to recruit fellow rebelling Texans in Goliad to reinforce one fort. This folk hero is often portrayed as wearing a coonskin hat and carrying a rifle. For the point, name this Tennessee frontiersman who died defending the Alamo. | Davy Crockett Middle School National Bee 2019-2020 Playoff Round 1 |
| After his papers were burned by the Nazis, this psychologist told Ernest Jones that “they are content with burning my books,” whereas Medieval clerics would have burned him as well. A former student of this man accused him of having an affiar with his sister in-law, Minna Bernays. In addition to Carl Jung, this man’s other students included Alfred Adler. For the point, name this Austrian psychologist, the F author of The Interpretation of Dreams and the founder of psychoanalysis. | Sigmund Freud Extra Tossups |
| Newspapers and the titans of this medium agreed to the Biltmore Agreement, only allowing the dissemination of news by this medium after 9 PM. DAirector Orson Welles tricked many of the listening public that aliens were attacking through this medium in 1937. FDR used this medium to deliver his “Fireside Chats” to the US public. For the point, name this medium that was outcompeted in the 1950s by the TV. | Radio |
| A member of this family named Alessandra,who originally acted with aunt Sophia Loren, became a member of the Senate representing Campania. Her grandfather of this family led the ill-fated Salo Republic until he was captured, executed and hung up outside an Esso station. That man with this last R name stylized himself as Il Duce and he formed the Pact of Steel with Hitler’s Germany. For the point, name this prominent Italian family of dictator Benito. | Mussolini D |