| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pope Alexander II allegedly gave a papal banner to the winner of this battle as a sign of support. The losing side in this battle had earlier been forced to face Harald Hardrada at Stamford Bridge. The housecarls took a defensive position upon the Senlac Hill during this battle, though they could not prevent Harold Godwinson from being hit in the eye by an arrow, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. For ten points, name this 1066 victory for William the Conqueror. | Battle of Hastings |
| A mint was established in this state at Dahlonega in the wake of an 1830s gold rush. During fighting in this state, Joseph Johnston was removed from command for his failure at Kennesaw Mountain. During the War of Jenkins’ Ear, this state’s St. Simons Island was the site of the Battle of Bloody Marsh. This state arrested Samuel Worcester for living in Cherokee territory within it. William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea ended with the capture of, for ten points, what southern state’s city of Savannah? | Georgia |
| This man gained a nickname after he insulted Frank Galluccio’s sister and was attacked. Frankie Yale mentored this man, an opponent of Adelard Cunin and the target of Eliot Ness’ Untouchables unit. Though this man’s agents attempted to kill Bugs Moran during the Saint Valentine’s Day massacre, this man was ultimately jailed for tax evasion. For ten points, name this Prohibition-era gangster, known as Scarface, who led the 1920s era Chicago Outfit. | Alphonse “Al” Capone (prompt on “Scarface” before mentioned) |
| ThiscountrywasknownasFrenchSudaninthecolonialeraanditenteredintoashort-livedfederation with Senegal in 1960. A recent Tuareg rebellion in the north of this country proclaimed the state of Azawad with its capital at Gao. This country is named for an empire that was founded by Sundiata. The Ghana Empire once ruled in what is now, for ten points, what arid West African country, the home of Timbuktu and Bamako? | Republic of Mali |
| Description acceptable. Stephen Roberts’ “historical induction” argument argues against this philosophical position. Alvin Plantinga argues for this philosophical position based on neo-Aristotelian models of modal logic. The “Ultimate Boeing 747 Gambit” was used to attack the watchmaker argument for this position by Richard Dawkins, one of the “Four Horsemen” who fought against it. Atheists reject, for ten points, what belief in the presence of a deity? | the existence of God (accept descriptions referring to the existence of one or more gods and equivalents; prompt on partial answers) |
| This color partially names a munitions depot in Jersey City that was bombed by German agents during World War I. Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers was symbolized by an eagle of this color. A political organization partially named for this color instituted the Free Breakfast for Children program in Oakland and was founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. For ten points, identify this color that names a militant Panther political party. | black (accept Black Tom Explosion; accept Black Eagle; accept Black Panthers) |
| The Indestructibles were a pair of stars considered only accessible by these figures. The action of raising the djed [jed] was performed to honor them at a celebration sometimes called the Feast of the Tail. That event, the Heb Sed, allowed one of these figures to establish the Amarna heresy. They were the pre-eminent preservers of the fundamental order of the universe, a concept known as Maat. One of these people mandated worship of a sun-disk known as Aten, and concurrently changed his own name to Akhenaten. For ten points, name these semi-divine rulers of ancient Egypt. | ancient Egyptian pharaohs |
| This ruler put down a revolt in Ghent against his sister, Mary of Hungary. The Battle of Villalar was one episode in an uprising against this man called the Revolt of the Comuneros. He renounced his claim to Burgundy in the “Ladies’ Peace” of Cambrai. His army captured Francis I at the Battle of Pavia, and he condemned Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms. For ten points, name this man who ruled as Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. | Charles V (accept Charles I of Spain or Charles I of Austria; prompt on Charles; do not accept or prompt on Charles I alone) |
| This group’s Comrade Duch [doyk] ran a high school-turned-prison camp known as S-21. This group gained support after allying with Norodom Sihanouk in an attempt to overthrow Lon Nol. After escaping this group, Dith Pran exposed their policy of mass murder in the “killing fields.” Under Pol Pot, this group attempted to transform its country into an agrarian society. For ten points, name this Communist regime that briefly controlled Cambodia. | Khmer Rouge |
| In June 2016, this figure lined up a “sweet summer gig” installing above-ground swimming pools. He once asked a colleague to get him “some of those real throwing stars” while on a diplomatic trip to Japan; in December 2016, this man forged that colleague’s signature on an executive order naming December “Dokken History Month.” For ten points, name this politician, nicknamed “Diamond Joe” according to the last eight years of Onion articles about the hijinks of America’s “President of Vice.” | ”Diamond” Joe Biden (prompt on “Diamond Joe” before mentioned) |
| This leader lost Calais to Henry II of France. The Holy Roman ambassador Eustace Chapuys mentored this leader, who was targeted by Wyatt’s Rebellion. This leader ordered bishops to be burned at the stake as part of the Heresy Acts and made Reginald Pole Archbishop of Canterbury and principal advisor. Her marriage to Philip II and her Catholicism led to severe dissent among her subjects. For ten points, name this daughter of Henry VIII and sister of Elizabeth, a Queen noted for her many executions. | Mary I (or Bloody Mary or Mary Tudor; prompt on Mary; do not accept Mary, Queen of Scots) |
| Mary was preceded as queen by this great-granddaughter of Henry VII, who only reigned for nine days before being sent to the Tower of London. | Lady Jane Grey (prompt on Jane) |
| An abandoned city in this country is centered on an “Avenue of the Dead” and is home to a fresco showing a ritual blood-letting. The sites of San Lorenzo and La Venta in this country included depictions of “were-jaguars” and ball courts. The Codex Mendoza shows the founding of an empire’s capital city near Lake Texcoco in this country. For ten points, name this modern country, the home of the Olmec and Aztec civilizations. | Mexico |
| This Aztec capital was founded at the site where an eagle perched on a cactus. After the Spanish conquest, Mexico City was built over this city. | Tenochtitlan |
| This man ordered the United Nations Emergency Force to withdraw as a precursor to one conflict. This man was a member of the Free Officers Movement that overthrew King Farouk and created the Mukhabarat secret police. This man was one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement and joined his country with Syria into the United Arab Republic. He faced an invasion by Britain, France, and Israel after his nationalization of the Suez Canal. For ten points, name this first President of Egypt. | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| To protect shipping near the Bab-el-Mandeb, Nasser supported the republicans in a civil war in this country. This country began reunification in 1990 and, at least according to its constitution, has capital at Sana’a. | Yemen (accept North Yemen) |
| This treaty’s Protocol of Queretaro was later ignored because one side’s representatives did not have the power to agree to it. Article XI of this treaty attempted to resolve cross-border raids by the Apache tribe, and territorial disputes arising from this treaty were later settled by the Treaty of Mesila in the Gadsden Purchase. The Rio Grande was set as the southern boundary of Texas in this treaty, which grantedCaliforniatotheUnitedStates.Fortenpoints,namethistreatythatendedtheMexican-American war. | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was embraced by those who supported this expansionist belief. This concept, whose name is usually attributed to John O’Sullivan, argues that American exceptionalism entitles the U.S. to expand to the Pacific coast. | Manifest Destiny |
| This composer wrote an opera inspired by James Agee and Walker Evans’ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and wrote a two-movement Clarinet Concerto for Benny Goodman. This composer of The Tender Land depicted the life of an outlaw who was shot by Pat Garrett in another work. This composer also wrote a work for Martha Graham that includes variations on the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts.” For ten points, name this American composer of the ballets Billy The Kid and Appalachian Spring. | Aaron Copland |
| A speech by Vice President Henry Wallace inspired this short Copland work for brass and percussion. This fanfare was commissioned by Eugene Goossens of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1942. | Fanfare For The Common Man (”fanfare” not needed after mentioned) |
| During a protest in this city organized by Vanessa Wruble, this city’s police force made no arrests. Sean Spicer’s description of another event in this city used “alternative facts,” according to Kellyanne Conway on Meet the Press. This city’s Metro system saw its ridership decrease, compared to a normal weekday, by 10% on January 20th, 2017. For ten points, name this city that hosted a Women’s March the day after hosting Donald Trump’s poorly-attended inauguration. | Washington, D.C. (accept District of Columbia or D.C.) |
| Another organizer of the 2017 Women’s March was Linda Sarsour, an American activist for this ethnic group. The goal of a “two-state solution” in the Middle East would provide land for this ethnic group separate from Israel. | Palestinians (accept Palestinian-American and word forms) |
| This man supported the role of the Church by passing the Falloux [fall-ooh] Laws to reform schools. This ruler launched a failed coup at Strasbourg and was imprisoned in a fortress at Ham. This man, who was opposed by Adolphe Thiers in the National Assembly, sought to protect Constantinople by starting the Crimean War and was captured in 1870 at the Battle of Sedan during a disastrous defeat to Prussia. For ten points, name this final Emperor of France. | Napoleon III (or Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte; do not prompt on Napoleon alone) |
| Napoleon III supported an expedition to install this Austrian as Emperor of Mexico, but he failed to completely overthrow Benito Ju´arez and was executed in 1867. | Maximilian I of Mexico |
| This state achieved its present-day boundaries when it gained most of what was Pah-Ute Country from its southeastern neighbor. This state was home to Bugsy Siegel’s Flamingo Hotel and is home to a city that bills itself as “the biggest little city in the world.” This state’s motto, “Battle Born,” refers to how it was granted statehood just in time for the 1864 election. Carson City is the capital of, for ten points, what Western state, also home to Reno and Las Vegas? | Nevada |
| Virginia City, one of the first boomtowns in Nevada, was built to exploit what rich vein of silver, discovered in 1859? | Comstock Lode |
| Included how many positions? This number also follows “four score” in the Gettysburg Address. | seven |
| Included three former Republican rivals in what year’s Presidential election, which Lincoln won? | Election of 1860 |
| Was the subject of Team of Rivals, a 2005 work that won what annual prize for writing bestowed by Columbia University? | Pulitzer Prize (for History) |
| Inspired what American historian to write Team of Rivals? | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| Included what Secretary of State who purchased Alaska? | William Seward |
| Included what Secretary of War who Andrew Johnson couldn’t fire due to the Tenure of Office Act? | Edwin Stanton |
| Included what Secretary of the Treasury, who resigned in 1864 and became Chief Justice? | Salmon P. Chase |
| Included Montgomery Blair in what position, no longer in the Cabinet? | Postmaster General |
| Title held by Nicholas II as ruler of Russia. | tsar |
| Conflict that Nicholas II lost, leading to his overthrow and the rise of the Soviet Union. | World War I |
| Grandmother of Nicholas II, a long-lived Queen of Britain whose descendents married into many royal houses. | Queen Victoria |
| Russian mystic who Nicholas employed to treat his son’s hemophilia. | Grigori Rasputin |
| Country that defeated Nicholas’s Russia at the Battle of Tsushima Straits. | Japan |
| Dynastic house that Nicholas II belonged to. It began to rule Russia in 1613. | House of Romanov |
| Legislature that Nicholas was forced to convene after the Revolution of 1905. | Duma |
| Politician that headed the Provisional Government after the abdication of Nicholas and was overthrown by the Bolsheviks, beginning the October Revolution. | Alexander Kerensky |
| Country that occupied Japan after World War II. | United States of America (or USA, or America) |
| Organization that Japan was prevented from having in its new constitution. | a military (accept equivalents like armed forces) |
| Emperor that announced the Japanese surrender with the 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast. | Hirohito (or Emperor Showa) |
| Son of that emperor, who succeeded him and continues to rule. | Akihito |
| Post-war Japanese industry, including Mitsubishi and Toyota, that rivals Detroit’s “Big 3.” | automobile industry (accept anything to do with the production of cars) |
| Major index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange that topped out at nearly 39,000 during the late 80s asset price bubble. | Nikkei 225 (accept any additional information, such as the Nikkei (stock) index) |
| Japanese author who led an attempted coup in 1970 before committing seppuku. | Yukio Mishima |
| Economic problem, in which a central bank’s injections of money fail to lower rates, that Japan experienced during the “Lost Decade.” | liquidity trap |
| This man massacred the crew of the Miri while attempting to force a treaty upon the Zamorin. Nicolau Coelho [ko-way-loh] delivered reports of this man’s successes to Manuel I after the Berrio managed to reach port faster than the flagship (+) Sao Gabriel. Under the sponsorship of Henry the Navigator, this man landed in (*) Calicut by following Bartolomeu Dias’ route around the Cape of Good Hope. For ten points, name this first European explorer to reach India by sea. | Vasco da Gama |
| An equestrian statue of this city’s founder was camouflaged with sandbags to protect it during World War II and sits on the massive Thunder Stone. An institute for girls in this city was the site of the (+) Kirov assassination. Nevsky Prospekt is the main street of this city, which contains the Bronze Horseman and Smolny Isntitute. This city on the mouth of the (*) Neva River is home to the Winter Palace, which housed the tsar from 1732 to 1917. For ten points, name this city, which was known as Leningrad in the Soviet era. | St. Petersburg (prompt on “Petrograd;” prompt on “Leningrad” before mentioned) |
| The Morley-Minto reforms allowed this region to have a degree of self-governance. This region was divided into provinces and princely states and garrisoned by three Presidency armies. The (+) independence of this region was the subject of an agreement with Lord Irwin at a Round Table Conference, as well as the earlier Lucknow Pact. This region came under direct rule after the (*) Sepoy Mutiny and the dissolution of its ruling company. For ten points, name this former British colony ruled from Calcutta and New Delhi. | the (British) Raj (or British India) |
| Violence in this city was investigated by the McCone Commission. The 1964 repeal of the Rumford Fair Housing Act flared tensions in this city, as did Marquette Frye’s arrest for drunk driving a year later, culminating in 34 deaths in a week of (+) rioting in 1965. In 1992, a man asked “can we all get along?” on TV days after Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell, members of this city’s (*) police department, were acquitted of beating him. For ten points, name this California city that suffered the Watts and Rodney King riots. | Los Angeles (or LA) |
| The protagonist of this novel duels an officer after he perceives an insult to his wife at the English Club, then later obsesses over killing an enemy monarch who is occupying a foreign capital. This novel depicts the obese, one-eyed General (+) Kutuzov as a spiritual man who kneels in thanks before an icon. Princess H´el`ene dies near the end of this book, which contains lengthy descriptions of the (*) Battles of Austerlitz and Borodino. For ten points, name this novel set during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia by Leo Tolstoy. | War and Peace (or Voyna i mir) |
| This man was able to capture Kimpo airfield after landings at Red, Blue, and Green beaches in Operation Chromite. This man was replaced by Matthew Ridgway, despite leading a difficult (+) landing at Inchon, after a series of disagreements with Harry Truman in the Korean War. In another conflict, this commander vowed “I (*) shall return” when the Japanese forced him to retreat from the Philippines. For ten points, name this American general who commanded Allied troops in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. | Douglas MacArthur |
| The occurrence of one of these events during a battle between the Medes and the Lydians caused both sides to put down their weapons and declare peace. Certain predictions from Einstein’s theory of (+) general relativity were confirmed following Arthur Eddington’s observation of light deflection during one of these events in 1919. Historians have attempted to place the exact date of Good Friday by assuming that the (*) darkness described at Jesus’ crucifixion was one of these events. For ten points, name these events in which the moon passes between the Sun and the Earth. | solar eclipse (prompt on eclipse) |
| After this man added battering rams to his armies for a successful campaign, Anatolius negotiated peace with him on behalf of Theodosius. In one battle, this man’s camp was accidentally stumbled upon by (+) Thorismund. This man was finally defeated by Flavius Aetius and Theodoric I at the Catalaunian Plains. This brother of (*) Bleda allegedly died of a nosebleed on the night of his marriage to a Gothic bride. In 452, Pope Leo convinced this man to refrain from attacking Rome. For ten points, name this “Scourge of God,” a 5th-century ruler of the Huns. | Attila the Hun |
| In the aftermath of this event, Daniel Burnham’s attempts at restoration led to the construction of Coit Tower. Following this event, Eugene Schmitz ordered Frederick Funston’s troops to “shoot to kill” any (+) looters. The destruction of numerous recordkeeping offices in this event allowed many Chinatown residents to claim U.S. citizenship. A (*) rupture in the San Andreas Fault caused, for ten points, what 1906 earthquake that struck the Bay Area of northern California? | 1906 San Francisco Earthquake |
| A brutal civil war in this nation was known as La Violencia. It fought a guerilla war against FARC with the aid of the United States, as part of the War on Drugs. | Colombia |