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| This battle featured the arrival of Jean Lannes to save an ill-advised attack on the Prince of Hohenlohe. A commander remarked “Tell your marshal he is seeing double” after receiving a report that Davout defeated an army twice his size at this battle. This battle’s losing side signed the Capitulation of Erfurt and gave up Berlin. For the point, Prussia fell under Napoleon’s control after what pair of 1806 battles? | Battle of Jena-Auerstadt (accept the Battle of Jena on first line; prompt on just Jena or Auerstadt afterwards) |
| This deity once birthed three women after eating the sword of her brother. This deity was lured out of a tree by a legendary mirror, one of the three items of the Imperial Regalia. Born when her father washed his left eye, this deity is said to be the ancestor of Jimmu. For the point, name this daughter of Izanagi, the sun goddess from whom all Japanese emperors claim descent. | Amaterasu |
| This empire crowned a ruler while he was still in his mother’s womb. An enemy of this empire was flayed and had his skin dyed vermillion. This empire succeeded in taking a Roman emperor captive after Valerian was defeated at the battle of Edessa. This empire was founded by Ardashir and greatly expanded by Shapur the Great. For the point, name this Persia-based empire that succeeded the Parthians. | Sassanid Empire (accept Sassanians or Sassanids; prompt on Persia) |
| This man rose to fame after dispersing rioters in the aftermath of Hinton Johnson’s beating. This man described the death of John F. Kennedy as “chickens coming home to roost.” Known as “Detroit Red,” this man’s “Ballot or the Bullet” speech encouraged blacks to take up guns if the government would not allow them to vote. For the point, name this radical African-American minister who was assassinated in 1965. | Malcolm X (accept Malcolm Little; accept el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) |
| This man sent Robert of Artois to Flanders to avenge the Bruges massacre but his army was defeated in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. This man burned Jacques de Molay at the stake during his campaign to end the power of the Knights Templar. His feuds with Pope Boniface VIII led to the establishment of a second papacy at Avignon. For the point, name this French king whose epithet refers to his handsomeness. | Philip IV (accept Philip the Fair; prompt on just Philip) |
| This event was the target of numerous injunctions issued by Richard Olney, although ended only when Nelson Miles dispatched troops. Against the wishes of Illinois governor John Altgeld, Grover Cleveland decided to end this event since it disrupted nationwide transmission of mail. Eugene Debs was arrested for his role in, for the point, what 1894 strike in Chicago organized by the American Railway Union? | Pullman Strike |
| This man started a revolt in the Indiana territory after the signing of the Treaty of Fort Wayne. Isaac Brock was aided by this man’s confederacy in forcing William Hull to surrender Detroit. The New Madrid Earthquake convinced the Muscogee to support this man, the brother of Tenskwatawa. For the point, name this Shawnee chief who aided the British in the War of 1812 and was killed at the Battle of the Thames. | Tecumseh |
| This city was the site of a photograph taken by Pablo Bartholomew showing a young girl covered in rubble. This city, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, saw a 1984 incident that nearly tripled its stillbirth rate. Warren Anderson was harshly criticized after hundreds of thousands of people were exposed to methyl isocyanate in this city. For the point, name this Indian city that was the site of a large gas leak. | Bhopal |
| This man was nearly killed when a mail bomb sent on the orders of Menachem Begin exploded in a Munich police station. This man accepted the Schuman Declaration, leading his country to pool coal and steel resources with France. This man’s finance minister Ludwig Erhard oversaw the Wirtschaftwunder, or “economic miracle,” of the 1950s. For the point, name this elderly first chancellor of West Germany. | Konrad Adenauer |
| This painting’s most prominent figure is flanked by a friar hunched over with his hands clenched and a man covering his face with his hands. A man standing in a white shirt and yellow pants is illuminated in this painting’s center by a square of light; that figure lifts his arms in imitation of Christ. For the point, name this painting depicting the execution of Spaniards by French troops by Francisco Goya. | The Third of May, 1808 |
| This city was abandoned when citizens migrated to form the Monomotapa Empire. Sites in this city include the Great Enclosure and Hill Complex. The walls of this city were constructed without mortar by the Shona people, who also built 8 iconic soapstone bird sculptures here. For the point, name this African ruin that now lends its name to a country with a capital at Harare. | Great Zimbabwe (do not accept or prompt on Zimbabwe alone) |
| This location eventually upgraded itself to include a summer camp at Bowen Country Club. Alice Hamilton briefly worked on typhoid research at this location, which was located on Halsted Street. Toynbee Hall in London helped inspire this location. It was founded in 1889 and offered cultural programs to its female inhabitants. For the point, name this settlement house founded in Chicago by Jane Addams. | Hull House |
| This group’s leader, John Sinclair, was forced to resign after Lionel Crabb went missing while diving in Portsmouth harbor. This group’s power grew under the leadership of Stewart Menzies, who ran the Bletchley Park base of codebreaking in World War II. Unlike their counterparts in section 5, this group focuses on foreign operations. For the point, name this intelligence service of the United Kingdom. | MI6 (accept Military Intelligence, section 6) |
| This man’s last days were documented by Consider Tiffany who recounted the former’s interaction with Robert Rogers. William Howe questioned this man while he was being held at Beekman House. This man secretly entered New York and was hanged as an illegal combatant. For the point, name this American spy who declared “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country” after being captured by the British. | Nathan Hale |
| This work’s central figure fights charges of asebeia, or “impiety,” by claiming he believes in demigods. In one analogy in this dialogue, its speaker compares his accusers to a foolish horse and himself to a gadfly. Meletus is the only speaker among the prosecutors in this dialogue. For the point, name this dialogue in which Socrates defends himself against corruption charges. | The Apology (accept Apology of Socrates; accept Apologia Sokratous) |
| This location was the site of a war between the “Raiders” and the “Regulators” over control of limited supplies. Dorence Atwater kept a secret list of those who died at this location that was later rejected by the US government. The commander of this camp, Henry Wirz, was executed for war crimes in part due to the death of thousands of POWs. For the point, name this infamous Confederate prison camp in Georgia. | Andersonville camp (accept Camp Sumter) |
| This period forced educated youths to go “up to the mountains” and “down to the villages” in the Countryside Movement. During this period, the Four Olds were abolished. Large “Big Character Posters” and copies of The Little Red Book were carried by squadrons of young Red Guards during this period. Western thought was purged in, for the point, what period of social revolution in Mao Zedong’s reign? | Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution |
| This country’s Pearls Airport and True Blue Campus at St. Georges University were targeted in one invasion. Eric Gairy was overthrown by the New Jewel Movement of Maurice Bishop in this country, but Bishop was himself soon executed by rebel troops, prompting a foreign intervention in Operation Urgent Fury. For the point, what Caribbean island country was invaded by the United States in 1983? | Grenada |
| This body of water was the southern terminus of the A-A line, which began at Arkhangelsk. Operation Blue was an attempt to capture oil wells on this body of water. Before it was sent to Stalingrad, Army Group South aimed to reach this body of water by moving through the Caucasus mountains. The Nazi targets of Astrakhan and Baku were situated by, for the point, what largest landlocked body of water? | Caspian Sea |
| This man was killed by an explosion of ammunition stores as he led a successful attack on Toronto in the War of 1812. On an earlier expedition, this man was brought to Chihuahua for interrogation after he had been captured at Santa Fe by the Spanish. This man attempted to ascend a mountain known as El Capitan while exploring south Colorado. For the point, name this explorer for whom a Colorado peak is named. | Zebulon Pike |
| This modern-day country was the site of forced villager relocations in the Briggs Plan. Prior to use in Vietnam, Agent Orange was deployed for the first time in this country. The Baling Talks helped end Chin Peng’s communist revolt in this country, leading Tunku Abdul Rahman to offer amnesty to rebels. For the point, name this modern-day country that was the site of a colonial Emergency from 1948 to 1960. | Malaysia (accept Federation of Malaya) |
| This figure attempted to pair the elderly with young children in need of support while backing the Foster Grandparents program. This figure was mocked for her simple solution to child substance abuse in the “Just Say No” campaign. She was further maligned for consulting an astrologer after John Hinckley nearly killed her husband. For the point, name this First Lady in office from 1981 to 1989. | Nancy Reagan (prompt on Reagan) |
| This project’s early stages were completed under a football field at the University of Chicago. A device known as “the gadget” was used at the White Sands Proving Ground during this project, which began after a letter was sent by Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt. The Trinity test was a part of, for the point, what project that created the first atomic bombs? | Manhattan Project (prompt on descriptions of the United States nuclear program) |
| This man quelled a rebellion in Sogdiana after triumphing at Jaxartes over Spitamenes. This man dealt with King Porus’ elephants at the Battle of the Hydaspes, after which his troops refused to push further into India. Earlier, this man had won the Battle of Gaugamela to end the Persian empire. Philip II was the father of, for the point, what Macedonian ruler who conquered much of the ancient world? | Alexander the Great (accept Alexander III; prompt on just Alexander) |
| This location was the setting of Diane Arbus’ photo of a child with a toy hand grenade. Donald Trump called for bringing back the death penalty after five men were accused of attacking a jogger in this location. This location was expanded in the Greensward Plan which was implemented by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted. For the point, name this large green space in New York City. | Central Park Extra Tossups |
| This law’s preconditions were subject to a test created in Thornburg v. Gingles. The Supreme Court struck down section 4(b) of this law in Shelby County v. Holder, after earlier affirming the legality of racial gerrymandering to create majority-minority districts. For the point, name this 1965 law that prohibited racial discrimination in the title activity, part of the Civil Rights movement. | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| This modern-day country’s traders carried out the Amboyna massacre to protect its trade routes. The Liefde was sent by this nation to Japan where it secured exclusive trade rights. This country began a fierce rivalry with England over the spice trade, which was sparked in part by this country’s acquisition of Borneo and Aceh. For the point, Indonesia was a colonial holding of what modern-day country? | the Netherlands (accept the Dutch Republic and United Provinces; accept Holland) |