2012 NHBB Set B Round

2012 NHBB Set B Bee Round 2 BEE ROUND 2 1. This man was dismissed from his post in the Massachusetts militia after the disastrous Penobscot Expedition. While the doctor Samuel Prescott managed to reach Concord, this man was detained soon after leaving Lexington. He instructed the sexton Robert Newman to leave a signal of either one or two lanterns in the Old North Church. For the point, name this silversmith who warned minutemen about British troop movements during his "midnight ride." ANSWER: Paul Revere 015-12-65-12101 2. D.C. Stephenson led a renegade branch of this group during the 1920s in Indiana. A novel by Thomas Dixon was the basis for his friend D.W. Griffith's film Birth of a Nation, which glorified the actions of this group. After this group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, Nathan Bedford Forrest became this organization's first Grand Wizard. For the point, name this racist organization most common in the South whose members burned crosses and wore white hoods. ANSWER: Ku Klux Klan [or KKK] 131-12-65-12102 3. This team, which defeated the Capitals in the “Easter Epic” game, was created as a counter to WHA expansion, at the same time as the Atlanta Flames. Behind newly acquired center Butch Goring, who joined Bryan Trottier and Mike Bossy, they won four straight Stanley Cups from 1980 to 1983. For the point, name this hockey team which plays at Nassau Memorial Coliseum and has a local rivalry with the Rangers. ANSWER: New York Islanders [prompt on New York] 019-12-65-12103 4. Operation Anton invaded this government, in which Rene Bosquet led police forces. This regime used the motto "Work, Family, Fatherland." Andre Tulard kept track of the Jewish population during this government, in which Pierre Laval acted as prime minister. This government, led by Philippe Petain, was actively opposed by the forces of Charles de Gaulle. For the point, name this Nazi puppet regime in France in World War II. ANSWER: Vichy France [or French State; or Etat Francais; prompt on "France"] 192-12-65-12104 5. This man claimed that comets were illusions in his attack on Orazio Grassi’s treatise on comets in The Assayer. This man wrote one book in which a debate is held between Salviati and Simplicio, a follower of Ptolemy, to persuade Sagredo. For writing that book about the Two Chief World Systems, this man was placed under house arrest by his friend Pope Urban VIII. This man apocryphally dropped balls off the Leaning Tower of Pisa to show that objects fall at the same rate. For the point, name this Italian who names the four largest moons of Jupiter. ANSWER: Galileo Galilei 149-12-65-12105 2012 NHBB Set B Bee Round 2 Page 1 of 7 6. One painting by this man is the inspiration for a photo of an African-American maid working in Washington D.C. taken by Gordon Parks. Three women stand in front of a framed Washington Crossing the Delaware in this man’s Daughters of Revolution. This man’s most famous work is set in Iowa and features a woman standing next to a man with a pitchfork. For the point, name this regionalist painter of American Gothic. ANSWER: Grant DeVolson Wood 131-12-65-12106 7. During this man's reign, the Court of Augmentations was established to administer newly acquired lands. This man oversaw the desecration of the shrine and the burning of the bones of Thomas Beckett. Advisors to this man included Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer. Pope Leo X declared this man "Defender of the Faith" prior to this man breaking from the Catholic Church to form the Church of England. For the point, name this king of England who was married to Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Parr, and four other women. ANSWER: Henry VIII of England 030-12-65-12107 8. Charles Drew developed an early method of storing this biological substance, and William Harvey outlined the path of its transport throughout the human body. Karl Landsteiner developed the current classification system for this substance, one type of whose cells can contain the Rh factor. That system takes into account the presence of absence of two kinds of antigens and is called the ABO system. For the point, name this substance transported by veins and arteries. ANSWER: blood [accept blood banks before the first instance of “substance”] 131-12-65-12108 9. The first battle in this conflict resulted in the deaths of Henry Percy and the Duke of Somerset; that victory for the Earl of Warwick was the First Battle of St. Albans. Edward IV was victorious over Margaret of Anjou at this conflict's Battle of Tewkesbury. This conflict lasted roughly from 1455 to 1485, and a battle in this war at Bosworth Field led to the death of Richard III. For the point, name this conflict between the houses of York and Lancaster named for the flowers representative of those houses. ANSWER: War of the Roses [or Wars of the Roses] 189-12-65-12109 10. This king gained recognition from France by signing the Treaty of Le Goulet. Following the death of Hubert Walter, he refused to recognize Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton, for which he was excommunicated by Innocent III. The future Louis VIII invaded his lands in the aftermath of a meeting at Runnymede, where this ruler accepted the Articles of the Barons. For the point, name this English king who, in 1215, was forced to sign the Magna Carta. ANSWER: John Lackland 014-12-65-12110 11. This man came to power by forcing Ahmed al-Bakr to resign from the presidency. This man presided over the genocidal al-Anfar campaign, which targeted Yazidis and Assyrians as well as Kurds. An assassination attempt on Tariq Aziz was the pretext for a war this man started with his nation's eastern neighbor, Iran. This man initiated an invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and was executed for crimes against humanity in 2006. For the point, name this former dictator of Iraq. ANSWER: Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti 131-12-65-12111 2012 NHBB Set B Bee Round 2 Page 2 of 7 12. The opening credits to one of this director’s films appear in front of a man’s hand that is painting a girl’s toenails. In that movie by this man, a bullet shot through the cheek of a portrait kills Clare Quilty. In another of this man’s films, Pile is forced to stand and eat a jelly donut as the rest of his platoon does push-ups. One of this man’s films starts at "The Dawn of Man" and depicts an ape pick up a bone as Strauss' Also (SHPRAHK) Sprach Zarathustra plays. For the point, name this director of Lolita, Full Metal Jacket and 2001: A Space Odyssey. ANSWER: Stanley Kubrick 149-12-65-12112 13. This man ordered the execution of Hugo Spadafora and succeeded Omar Torrijos as his country's leader. This man was extradited from France to serve prison time in his home country in 2011. This target of Operation Just Cause was bombarded with Billy Idol and Guns N' Roses by U.S. troops while hiding in the Vatican embassy in his country's capital. Convicted of drug trafficking and money laundering in the U.S., for 10 points, name this former dictator of Panama. ANSWER: Manuel Noriega 131-12-65-12113 14. This man executed Manuel Piar for advocating for increased rights for mestizos. After losing at Aragua, this man fled to Jamaica, and Manuela Saenz thwarted an 1828 assassination attempt on this man. This leader's victory at Boyacá secured New Granada's independence, and he became the namesake and president of another nation that split from Peru. For the point, name this South American leader of the early nineteenth century commonly called the Liberator. ANSWER: Simon Bolivar 131-12-65-12114 15. In this country, issues such as the adoption of a constitution can be decided by a mass assembly called a Loya Jirga. This country’s border with its southeastern neighbor is called the Durand Line. This country has the largest population of Hazara and the second largest population of its dominant ethnic group, the Pashtun. In 2002 and 2005, this country contained the epicenter of several earthquakes in the Hindu Kush. For the point, name this country northwest of Pakistan and east of Iran. ANSWER: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 014-12-65-12115 16. The 1879 case of Reynolds v. U.S. upheld a ban on this activity from the Morrill Act of 1862. An 1890 manifesto by Wilford Woodruff first restricted this practice, after the House’s refusal to seat George Cannon made it clear that areas tolerating this activity would receive no political consideration. A lengthy block to Utah achieving statehood was, for 10 points, what now-renounced practice of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, in which a man could have many simultaneous marriages? ANSWER: Mormon polygamy [or plural marriage; or men having multiple wives, etc.] 019-12-65-12116 17. This king may also have been Nibhurrereya of the Amarna letters, which claim that his wife tried to marry a Hittite prince after his death. This ruler was advised by the general Horemheb and the Grand Vizier Ay, both of whom later served as king after this man's death. This ruler moved his capital to Memphis from Amarna as part of a return to polytheism. Lord Carnarvon sponsored a 1922 expedition undertaken by George Herbert and Howard Carter that discovered this pharaoh's tomb.

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