| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This state was the site of an engagement known as Pyle’s Hacking Match. A horse was shot from under General Charles Cornwallis during a battle in this state which inspired the quote, “Another such victory will ruin the British army.” That pyrrhic victory for the British was fought in this state at Guilford Court House, near modern-day Greensboro. For ten points, name this state whose capital was named for Sir Walter Raleigh. | North Carolina |
| One work by this composer commemorates the result of the Battle of Vitoria, a defeat for Joseph Bonaparte. This composer of Wellington’s Victory changed the original dedication of a work containing a C-minor funeral march from one specific ruler to a generic “great man.” Napoleon was the original dedicatee of the “Eroica” Symphony by, for ten points, what composer of Für Elise? | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| During Asa Candler's time leading this company, it began bottling operations in Chattanooga. Despite positive taste tests, this company's 1985 "New" version of its flagship product was highly criticized. This company, which was founded by John Pemberton, launched its most popular drink during Prohibition in Georgia. For ten points, name this soft drink company, known for its rivalry with Pepsi. | The Coca-Cola Company (accept Coke) |
| A city built by a charitable foundation founded by this woman was temporarily renamed Ciudad General Belgrano following the "Liberating Revolution" that removed this woman’s husband from power. The title “Spiritual Leader of the Nation” was given to this suffragette and supporter of the descamisados. For ten points, name this woman whose life story was depicted in a namesake Andrew Lloyd Webber musical? | Eva Perón (accept Evita Perón; prompt on "Evita") |
| This television show was adapted from a 2013 one-woman play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Enola Holmes director Harry Bradbeer directed every episode of this series other than the pilot, in which the protagonist steals a sculpture of a woman’s torso after being denied a loan for her failing café. The winner of the 2019 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, for ten points, what is this television show starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge? | Fleabag |
| The Webb siblings wrote a history of these groups, including their "New Model" form. Many of these groups signed the Warwick Agreement, allying with the Labour party. In 1871, these groups were legalized under Lord Derby's ministry, but these groups were previously banned under the Combination Acts. Organizing the 1926 General Strike, for ten points, what are these groups which represent laborers? | Trade Unions in the United Kingdom (or Labor Unions) |
| Carpathian Ruthenia was part of this nation, which allied with Yugoslavia and Romania in the Little Entente. Thomas Masaryk helped create this country whose soldiers fought in a Legion along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Edvard Beneš [[BEH-nesh]] led this country when the Sudetenland was annexed after the Munich Agreement. For ten points, name this former Central European country whose western portion was turned into a protectorate by Nazi Germany during World War Two. | Czechoslovakia (or Československo; do not accept or prompt on "Czech Republic," "Slovak Republic," or "Slovakia") |
| This politician defended Elizabeth Jennings Graham in a case that helped pave the way for the desegregation of streetcars in his home state. The New York World wrote of this man's administration, “No duty was neglected in his administration, and no adventurous project alarmed the nation." This president signed into effect the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act after Charles Guiteau assassinated his predecessor. For ten points, name this successor to James Garfield. | Chester A (lan) Arthur |
| The “mania” for this man abated after he married Margaret Sinclair, and to patriate the Constitution, this man's minister, John Turner, created the Victoria Charter. This man enforced the War Measures Act after James Cross and Pierre Laporte were kidnapped by the FLQ. This leader defused the October Crisis and made his nation officially bilingual. For ten points, name this Canadian prime minister, the father of Justin. | Pierre Trudeau (prompt on Trudeau) |
| In 2004, Pierre Trudeau was voted the third greatest Canadian by CBC viewers, behind activist Terry Fox and Tommy Douglas, who was premier of this province from 1944 to 1961. This "Prairie Province" is the only one without natural borders. | Saskatchewan |
| This man’s defensive fortifications were overrun during the Tullahoma Campaign, which followed this man’s defeat at Stones River. This man was replaced by Joseph Johnston after a defeat that included fighting at Missionary Ridge. That defeat occurred after this man avenged himself on William Rosecrans at a battle along a namesake tributary of the Tennessee River. For ten points, name this Confederate general who won the Battle of Chickamauga. | Braxton Bragg |
| The loss at the Battle of Stones River crushed Confederate hopes of controlling Middle Tennessee. The West Fork of the Stones River runs through this Middle Tennessee city which gives an alternate name to that battle. | Murfreesboro (accept Second Battle of Murfreesboro) |
| For the opening of this structure, one emperor gave two events called naumachia [[now-MAY-kee-ah]], which lasted until its hypogeum [[hai-puh-JEE-um]] was built to support other activities. This landmark's construction was started by the emperor Vespasian and completed by his son, Titus. Also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, for ten points, what is this structure in central Rome which hosted gladiator fights? | Colosseum (accept Flavian Amphitheatre before mentioned) |
| The Colosseum had several of these exits, which were large enough for crowds to fit through. Derived from the Latin for "to spew forth," these were not places where Romans practiced a binge and purge cycle, despite popular myth. | Vomitoriums (or Vomitoria) |
| The phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors” appears in this article, whose Section One, Clause Seven requires that a certain salary remain at $400,000 for an entire term. The Electoral College was established in this article, whose fourth section deals with impeachment. For ten points, name this article of the U.S. Constitution which outlines the powers of the Executive Branch. | Article Two (accept Second Article) |
| The president also has this power to set aside punishment for an individual's crime. U.S. v. Wilson declared that this power does not legally have to be accepted by the recipient. | Federal Pardon (or Presidential Pardon) |
| Journalist Walter Duranty misled Western audiences about this event by describing it as "an exaggeration or malignant propaganda." While living in Stavropol, Mikhail Gorbachev barely survived this event in which his father and sisters were killed. This man- made disaster likely occurred in part to weaken the Kulak class who resisted the process of collectivization by the Stalin government. For ten points, name this 1932 to 1933 famine in Ukraine. | Holodomor (accept The Great Famine; accept Famine in the Ukraine before mentioned) |
| The U.S. and most of Western Europe do not recognize the Holodomor as this kind of act, coined by Raphael Lemkin in the 1940s. This act involves intentional action to destroy a people group. | Genocide |
| This state's Uinta Mountains contain the Dinosaur National Monument, site of a 1950s activism campaign against the proposed Echo Park Dam. This state is the site of Promontory Summit, where two lines from Sacramento to Omaha were joined to create the first Transcontinental Railroad. The Mountain Meadows Massacre occurred in this state, which was settled by pioneers led by Brigham Young. For ten points, name this state whose population is over half Mormon. | Utah |
| From 1935 to 1970, eighteen of the nineteen new land speed records were set on these salt flats to the west of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. | Bonneville Salt Flats (accept Bonneville Speedway) |
| Followers of this man were opposed by a rival group known as the Palleschi [[pah- LEH-shee]]. This “man was ruined with his new order of things” according to Machiavelli, who referred to this man as being inadequately armed to enforce his beliefs. Charles VIII’s invasion was welcomed by this man, who ordered the burning of sinful objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities. For ten points, name this Dominican friar who preached extensively in Florence. | Girolamo Savonarola |
| Savonarola openly flouted the orders of this Pope, refusing to join his Holy League. This Pope, whose son Cesare [[CHEH-sah-reh]] was an inspiration for Machiavelli's The Prince, was a member of the Borgia [[BOR-zhah]] family. | Pope Alexander VI (prompt on "Rodrigo Borgia" or "Rodrigo de Borja") |
| This man was the namesake of a pottery club founded by Edith Guerrier and Edith Brown of the Saturday Evening Girls Club. This man commanded an artillery detachment during an expedition to capture a region of Maine after it had been taken over by the British. That disastrous 1779 Penobscot Expedition occurred several years after this man undertook a midnight ride to warn minutemen of the approaching British. For ten points, name this Bostonian silversmith. | Paul Revere |
| Paul Revere's midnight ride was immortalized in a poem by this American author of Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Union commander of the campaign who later lost an election to Lincoln. | George B (rinton) McClellan |
| Confederate capital the Union hoped to capture. | Richmond |
| Confederate general who died at Chancellorsville whose "foot cavalry" spooked Union forces into retreating. | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
| Series of battles from June 25th to July 1st, 1862. | Seven Days Battles (or Seven Days Campaign) |
| Cavalry commander whose encirclement of Union forces disrupted supply lines. | James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart |
| River traversed by the U.S.S. Galena to attack Fort Monroe. | James River |
| Source of wool, one of the first domesticated animals, known as Ovis aries. | Sheep |
| War between England and France, one of the causes of which was France's navy disrupting England's wool trade. | Hundred Years' War |
| Dwelling and workplace of orders such as the Cistercians, who exported wool abroad from England. | Monastery (accept Abbeys; or Monasteries) |
| Belgian region, the hub of European wool manufacturing due to its ability to import high quality British wool. | Flanders (accept Vlaanderen) |
| Revolt of unguilded wool workers and other artisans in 14th-century Florence. | Ciompi [[CHOM-pee]] Revolt |
| Seat on which the Lord Speaker of the U.K. has sat since the 14th century to symbolize the importance of the wool trade. | The Woolsack |
| Biblical great-great-grandfather of the legendary father of Armenia, Hayk, who settled in the Mt. Ararat region. | Noah |
| Faith followed by the majority of Ancient Armenians due to formerly being a satrap of Achaemenid [[ah-KEE-meh-nid]] Persia. | Zoroastrianism (Accept Mazdayasna) |
| Member of the first Triumvirate, with Caesar and Crassus, who subjugated Greater Armenia in the 1st century BC. | Pompey the Great |
| Longest-ruling Persian empire that exchanged control of Armenia with the Roman Empire for hundreds of years. | Sasanian Empire (accept Sassanid Persians; accept Sasanians; accept Sassanids; accept Empire of Iranians; accept Neo-Persian Empire) |
| Hellenistic West Asian state, established when Macedonia was divided, under which Armenia was a vassal until 190 BC. | Seleucid Empire (or Seleucids) |
| "Great" king who expanded Armenian power to its greatest extent. | Tigranes the Great (accept Tigranes II) |
| This man, born in Lower Silesia, began his military career as a cavalry reconnaissance officer. The identity of this man's killer has been debated for decades, with suspects including Cedric Popkin's (+) anti-aircraft gun and flying ace Arthur Roy Brown. This soldier commanded Jasta 11 [[YAH-stuh ELF]] as part of the larger (*) "Flying Circus" unit. For ten points, name this ace German fighter pilot credited with 80 air combat victories in World War One. | The Red Baron (or Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen; or Baron von Richthofen) |
| At a 1920 convention held in this state, Carrie Chapman Catt founded the League of Women Voters. One 1906 novel set in this state attempted to expose the harsh living conditions for its largest city's immigrant (+) population. In this state in 2017, a bill prohibiting arrests based on immigration status was signed by Governor Bruce (*) Rauner. For ten points, name this state, the setting of the novel which prompted the Meat Inspection Act, The Jungle. | Illinois |
| Mid-nineteenth century modernization efforts in this non-U.S. state were overseen by Lachlan Macquarie [[LAH-kluhn muh-KWAH-ree]]. Land in this state belonging to the “O’Brien Estate” was turned into (+) Bondi Beach. A series of gold rushes in the mid-nineteenth century set the stage for a rivalry between this state’s major city and (*) Melbourne. For ten points, what Australian state's capital was named for Thomas Townshend, First Viscount Sydney? | New South Wales |
| Charles III gave the entire government supply of this resource to Pierre- François Chabaneau [[shah-bah-NOH]] for research, resulting in the creation of its malleable form. Antonio de Ulloa [[oo-YOH-ah]] is said to have been the first European to discover this (+) metal, which was often discarded due to the belief that it made gold impure. Derived from a term meaning “little (*) silver,” for ten points, what precious metal has atomic number 78 and chemical symbol Pt [[PEE-TEE]]? | Platinum (accept Pt before mentioned; prompt on “platino”) |
| Sidney Powell claimed to have evidence proving this company’s products were defective. Mike Lindell of My Pillow was the subject of a defamation lawsuit from this company, whose central products have cumulative and (+) ranked-choice options. Potential tampering with this company's products in Wisconsin and Georgia partly led to a hand (*) recount during the 2020 presidential election. For ten points, name this company which makes electronic voting equipment. | Dominion Voting Systems Corporation |
| John of Gaunt's Savoy Palace was destroyed during this event, which was ended after Henry Despenser won the Battle of North Walsham. Future king Henry IV (+) was almost executed after being captured during this event. A meeting at Smithfield during this event resulted in William Walworth (*) knifing one man to death. For ten points, what rebellion, led by Jack Straw and Wat Tyler, nearly ended the reign of Richard II of England? | Peasants’ Revolt (accept Wat Tyler’s Revolt before mentioned; accept Great Rising; accept "Rebellion" or "Uprising" in place of "Revolt") |
| This era accelerated industrialization in its country under the national slogan "Enrich the country, strengthen the military." This period included the passage of the proto-constitutional Charter Oath. Dissatisfaction with reforms during this period, which followed the Bakumatsu (+) period, led to the Satsuma Rebellion, in which disaffected (*) samurai revolted. For ten points, name this era of modernization which began after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. | Meiji Restoration (accept Meiji Period; accept Meiji Renewal) |
| Confusion at this battle arose from using the less forceful phrase "to seize" rather than "to carry." The Right Grand Division at this battle was led by Edwin Vose Sumner. A plan to cross the (+) Rappahannock River to reach Richmond at this battle failed and forced a confrontation at Marye's Heights after (*) pontoon bridges were assembled. For ten points, name this 1862 battle in Virginia, a victory for Robert E. Lee. | Battle of Fredericksburg |
| This city's first mass was commemorated by El Templete [[tem-PLEH-teh]], whose pillars are crowned by pineapples. In 1762, British troops under George Keppel captured this city and its (+) Morro Castle. Under Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, the Mafia introduced casinos and gambling to this city for the Batista (*) regime. The Castro government nationalized businesses in, for ten points, what capital of Cuba? | Havana (accept La Habana) |
| This woman served as queen of England for less than three years in the 1530s, previously having served as maid of honor to Catherine of Aragon whose former husband this woman married in 1533. | Anne Boleyn |