| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jacob Allbright testified at this event that its target ordered armed men to stop Edward Tupper from arresting Harman Blennerhasset. John Marshall was hanged in effigy in Baltimore for making invalid the (+) "constructive" definition of the crime prosecuted at this event. 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 hired architect Leopold Eidlitz to build his mansion "Iranistan." This man formulated a fake language to enhance the mystery around William Henry Johnson, billed 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. 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's six-week buying spree of 22 companies in 1872 became known as the "Cleveland Massacre." 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 Lew Wallace at which he informed on the murderers of Huston Chapman in exchange for 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 organized a fake company called Test Fleet as part of a kickback scheme. 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 thwarted event was to take place after a tour hosted by Frank Sinatra of the set of Can-Can, at which the man at the center of this attempted event complained about revealing costumes. 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 an 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 time at the homestead of Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey and his appearance on a train with Virginia Clay, with whom he exchanged a three-year correspondence after being (*) imprisoned with Virginia's 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. For the point, name this only president of the Confederacy. | Jefferson Davis (or Jefferson Finis Davis) |
| A ruling authored by this Justice put forth the two-part test for ineffective assistance of counsel. 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 |
| The first drawing of people engaging in this activity was made for The Triangle magazine by Samuro Ishikawa, who participated in the first-ever instance of 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." For the point, name this 1980 event perpetrated by Mark David Chapman 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") |