NHBB Nationals Bowl 2018-2019 Bowl Playoff Packet 2 Bowl Playoff Packet 2 First Quarter

(1) Much of the paper for this publication was produced in a city named for it, now a part of the city of Balakhna. This publication was run by the Ukrainian party Spilka before it moved to Vienna. A popular saying said that there was no news in a contemporaneous publication, Izvestia, and no truth in this publication. Though not Novy Mir, Nikolai Bukharin served as editor of this publication, as did Leon Trotsky. For ten points, name this paper, the mouthpiece of the Soviet Communist Party. ANSWER: Pravda

(2) In this state, eight year old Sissy Marcus kissed two African American boys, causing the boys to be charged with rape until being pardoned by Governor Clement Hodges. Reverend Douglas E. Moore helped lead a sit-in at a Royal Ice Cream shop in this state, which then inspired a similar event in which students from this state’s Agricultural and Technical State University participated in. Ezell Blair Jr. helped sit-in at a Woolworth’s store in this state. For ten points, what state saw the Greensboro sit-ins? ANSWER: North Carolina

(3) The victor of this conflict had seized Shell assets on Bonny Island in order to fund itself with oil reserves.After Operation OAU during this conflict, one side lost control of Port Harcourt and subsequently suffered severe famine. Bernard Kirchner founded Doctors Without Borders after seeing the casualties in this conflict, which began when Odemegwu Ojukwu created a new state for the persecuted Igbos. For ten points, identify this 1967 civil war that befell a country with capital Lagos. ANSWER: The Biafran War (accept the Nigerian Civil War)

(4) Maternus failed to kill this man at the Festival of the Great Goddess. Following a plot by prefect Tigidius Perennis, the Phrygian Cleander replaced Saoterus as this man’s chamberlain. After a fire in Rome, this man renamed the Senate and all the Roman people with his name. This emperor was killed by his mistress Marcia and the wrestler Narcissus. Believing himself to be a reincarnation of Hercules, this emperor fought animals like ostriches as a gladiator. For ten points, name this tyrannical son of Marcus Aurelius. ANSWER: Commodus

(5) In 2018, scientists at Purdue created the nanodumbbell, which does this action over 60 billion times per second. Olinde Rodrigues developed a formula to map this action into SO(3), the group of matrices for this action. Failure to include a fourth gimbal induced gimbal lock during the Apollo 11 mission, where this action is restricted. Objects can do this along a set of axes which for airplanes include yaw and pitch. For ten points, name this kind of motion where an object spins around an axis. ANSWER: rotation (accept word forms, accept rolling or revolution, accept spin before mention)

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(6) In the 1910s, this country’s army suppressed rebels in Santa Caterina in the Contestado War. This country’s Black Needles Military Academy traces its history back to the first military school in the Americas, which was founded by Maria the Mad. Ernesto Geisel and Artur da Costa e Silva were among the leaders of a military dictatorship that ruled this country from 1964 to 1985, following a coup against Jo˜aoGoulart. For ten points, name this country whose military stifled democracy in states like Minas Gerais and S˜aoPaulo. ANSWER: Brazil

(7) Along with Robert Livingstone, this man met with Francois Barbe-Marbois to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase. Prosser’s Rebellion plotted to kidnap this man and hold him for ransom. After James Madison fired John Armstrong during the War of 1812, this man held both the Secretary of War and Secretary of State positions concurrently. This man, Frederick Muhlenberg, and Abraham Venable uncovered Alexander Hamilton’s affair with Maria Reynolds. William Plumer stopped a unanimous Electoral College vote to re-elect this man to a second term as President. For ten points, name this President during the “Era of Good Feelings”, the Virginian successor to James Madison. ANSWER: James Monroe

(8) Olga Lengyel meets Irma Grese at one of these locations, in which Olga refuses to not have her hair cut. The narrator of one work set in one of these locations befriends Alberto but is later sent to the Ka-Be infirmary after he contracts scarlet fever. On a train to one of these locations, Madame Schachter screams hysterically after seeing visions of flames. Eliezer’s father dies during the death march from, for ten points, what type of locations depicted in Primo Levi’s If This is a Man and Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night? ANSWER: concentration camps (or death camps, extermination camps, Konzentrationslager, accept Auschwitz-Birkenau)

(9) In one essay about this concept, the author argues that the perception of this concept changed from being based on familiar work to becoming the structure for them. That essay by E. P. Thompson claims that shifting work-discipline centered around this concept helped create industrial capitalism. The sun and other celestial phenomena were often used to keep track of this concept prior to its mechanical regularization. Radiation from a cesium-133 atom now defines, for ten points, what concept that’s measured on clocks? ANSWER: time

(10) While serving as Swiss Director of the OSS, one man with this last name secretly negotiated with Karl Wolff as part of Operation Sunrise. Another member with this surname pushed for the formation of SEATO and criticized Truman’s policy of containment in his book War and Peace. A politician with this surname established Operation 40, which trained Cuban exiles in counterintelligence operations; that man was later dismissed as CIA director after the disastrous Bay of Pigs Invasion. For ten points, give this shared last name of Allen Welsh and John Foster. ANSWER: Dulles (accept John Foster Dulles or Allen Welsh Dulles)

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Second Quarter

(1) This city was divided into four camps, which included calpolli or “big houses.” Nobility trained in this city’s Calmecac, while commoners went to the “house of youth” according to Bernardino de Sahag´un. Classes in this city included the pochteca merchants. This city was legendarily founded where an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus. This city, where Ahutxotl expanded the Templo Mayor, was located on Lake Texcoco. Hern´anCort´es captured, for ten points, what Aztec city where Mexico City now lies? ANSWER: Mexica-Tenochtitlan BONUS: Beginning on Lake Chaclo and Lake Xochimilco, the Mesoamericans built these artificial “floating gardens” on Lake Texcoco, where crops could be grown. ANSWER: chinampas

(2) One slogan associated with this scandal was “one weekend here and you’ll never want to live anywhere else”. L. Jean Lewis brought this scandal to light, which prompted Theodore Olson to accuse Webster Hubbell of fraud. One investigator of this scandal almost left for Pepperdine University, but new information regarding Monica Lewinsky kept him involved. For ten points, name this scandal involving the Clintons’ joint investment with the McDougals in an Arkansas property. ANSWER: Whitewater Scandal BONUS: The Whitewater scandal was investigated by this independent counsel. In 2016, this man resigned as President of Baylor University in the wake of sexual assault scandals. ANSWER: Kenneth Star

(3) In an 1894 senate election, this man challenged the influence of railroads in Nebraska by running against John Thurston. This man rejected the notion of “gun-powder gospel” by arguing that attempting to spread Christianity through war defeats the purpose. In one election, this man selected John W. Kern in order to get Midwestern votes. This man’s natural oration skills were countered by Mark Hanna in one election who organized a front porch campaign for the winning candidate. For ten points, name this politician who lost the election of 1900 to William McKinley ANSWER: William Jennings Bryan BONUS: William Jennings Bryan ran with John W. Kern in this election year. In this election year, Philander C. Knox failed to secure the Republican nomination. ANSWER: Election of 1908

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(4) While working for the Colonna family, this composer set Psalm 110 to music in his Dixit Dominus. After William Augustus’ victory at the Battle of Culloden, this composer wrote a work about the persecution of Jews during under Seleucid rule. A set of four works by this composer include Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened and My Heart is Inditing. In one of this composer’s choral works, the title character “and Nathan the Prophet anointed Solomon king”. For ten points, what composer wrote Judas Maccabeus and Zadok the Priest? ANSWER: George Frideric Handel BONUS: Action and work required. A likely false belief holds that George II started this specific tradition that the audience performs while watching one of Handel’s works. ANSWER: standing during the Hallelujah chorus (accept synonyms for “standing” such as rising, prompt on partial answer, prompt on mentions of the “Messiah” without the Hallelujah chorus)

(5) The title character of this film is seen standing at Captain Miller’s grave at its opening and closing. Tanks attack a bridge at Ramelle in this film, preventing members of the 101st Airborne from blowing it. This film’s graphic depiction of one assault in its first 27 minutes led to the creation of a hotline for veterans with PTSD. For ten points, name this Steven Spielberg film starring Matt Damon as the title missing soldier, whose brothers were all killed in the assault on Omaha Beach. ANSWER: Saving Private Ryan BONUS: Matt Damon also played Francois Pienaar, the captain of the South African Springboks, in this film about Nelson Mandela and the 1995 Rugby World Cup. ANSWER: Invictus

(6) A central figure in this case had decided to pay Robert Livingston for a ten year period after Livingston v. Van Ingen. In this case, the word “among” was interpreted as “intermingled with” in regards to regulation. Cornelius Vanderbilt worked as a captain for the appellant in this case who was sued over a route from Elizabethtown to New York City. William Wirt was supported by Daniel Webster in this case, with the latter arguing that Congress had exclusive power over instate commerce. For ten points, name this 1824 case in which steamboat navigation was regulated by the government? ANSWER: Gibbons v. Ogden (accept either underlined name) BONUS: Gibbons v. Ogden stemmed from exclusive navigational rights given to this man, who created The North River Steamboat. ANSWER: Robert Fulton

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(7) Viktors Arajs helped perpetrate the Holocaust in this nation. One attempt to take over this country saw the handover of the Iron Brigade to the West Russian Volunteer Army, led by Pavel Bermont-Avalov. In 1888, during which this country went through its First Awakening. This country was led by Karlis Ulmanis and its capital was a base for the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. Courland is a region in, for ten points, what Baltic nation which has its capital at Riga. ANSWER: Latvia BONUS: With the other Baltic states, Latvia participated in this series of demonstrations for independence, the name of which was coined by Heinz Valk. ANSWER: Singing Revolution

(8) This man established the General Eyre, a system of traveling justices that aimed to deliver fair trials in the countryside. This man argued that he could prosecute clerics in the Constitutions of Clarendon. The Treaty of Wallingford ensured this man’s rise to the throne after he pledged loyalty to Stephen of Blois to end the Anarchy. This man successfully put down the Great Revolt led by his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, but he was eventually defeated by his son Richard I. For ten points, identify this first Angevin and Plantagenet king. ANSWER: Henry II BONUS: The County of Anjou, where the Plantagenet dynasty originated, was lost to the French by this fifth son of Henry II, who failed to regain his northern French territories after he lost the Battle of Bouvines. ANSWER: John Lackland (accept either)

(9) This location included the underground Orange One facility that could be used during emergencies. The Birch and Dogwood parts of this location were used to house the 2012 G8 Summit. A Paul Vathis photograph of this location showed John F. Kennedy and Eisenhower walking side by side and is called Serious Steps. This location is most known for a meeting between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. For ten points, identify this presidential retreat in Maryland where a series of Accords between Egypt and Israel were brokered. ANSWER: Camp David BONUS: Camp David was constructed under this Harry Hopkins-led agency. This agency was merged with the Bureau of Public Roads and Public Works Administration under the Reorganization Act. ANSWER: Works Progress Administration

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(10) This general was ordered to depose Pope Silverius and replace him with Vigilius. This leader won his final battle by defeating the Kutrigurs under Zabergan at the Battle of Melantias. Legendarily, this man was forced to become a blind beggar at the Pincian Gate, though before he was blinded, his accomplishments included defending Rome during the Gothic War. Granted a triumph in Constantinople after he beat the Vandal Gelimer at Tricamarum and Ad Decimum, for ten points, name this Byzantine general for Justinian I. ANSWER: Flavius Belisarius BONUS: Belisarius was attacked in this work, which claims his wife Antonina cheated on him with their adopted son. This work by Procopius also gives scathing images of Justinian and his wife Theodora. ANSWER: The Secret History (accept the Anecdota)

Third Quarter

The categories are . . .

1. 20th Century American Diplomatic History

2. The Hunt for the Bismarck

3. The Cuban Revolution

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20th Century American Diplomatic History In American diplomatic history, name the... (1) World organization that Woodrow Wilson wanted the United States to join. ANSWER: League of Nations (2) Theory that a single communist country would cause other nations to fall to communism. ANSWER: Domino Theory (3) Locations that were bombed by Al-Qaeda in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. ANSWER: US Embassy (prompt on embassy) (4) Serbian city where the Americans accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy. ANSWER: Belgrade (5) Secretary of State who issued a White Paper on the fall of China to communism. ANSWER: Dean Acheson (6) Ship of Jewish refugees captained by Gustav Schroder that was turned away from the U.S. 1939. ANSWER: SS St. Louis (7) Operation to rescue American diplomats in Tehran while disguised as a film crew for Argo. ANSWER: Canadian Caper (8) Diplomat who with Carl Bildt negotiated the Dayton Peace Accords. ANSWER: Richard Holbrooke

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The Hunt for the Bismarck Name the... (1) Nation whose Kriegsmarine operated the Bismarck. ANSWER: (Nazi) Germany (accept Third Reich) (2) Technology that led British aircraft locate the Bismarck at night via radio waves. ANSWER: radar (accept Radio Detection and Ranging) (3) British battlecruiser sunk by the Bismarck during the Battle of Denmark Strait. ANSWER: HMS Hood (4) King George V-class battleship that also fought at Denmark Strait and was sunk by Japanese airstrikes in 1941. ANSWER: HMS Prince of Wales (5) Heavy cruiser that helped the Bismarck at Denmark Strait, named after a prince of Savoy. ANSWER: Prinz Eugen (accept Prince Eugene of Savoy) (6) British aircraft carrier that launched the Swordfish airstrike that crippled the Bismarck’s steering. ANSWER: HMS Ark Royal (7) Admiral who commanded the Bismarck and died in its sinking. He earlier led Operation Berlin. ANSWER: Gunther Lutjens (8) Legendary cat rescued from the Bismarck by HMS Cossack. It would go on to survive two more ship sinkings. ANSWER: Unsinkable Sam or Oskar

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The Cuban Revolution Name the... (1) Leftist political system which Fidel Castro changed Cuba to during the revolution. ANSWER: Communism (2) Cuban capital captured by the rebels at the end of the revolution. ANSWER: Havana (3) Argentine Marxist who co-led the revolution. ANSWER: Ernesto Che Guevara (accept either underlined portion) (4) Military installation attacked in 1953 as a starting point of the revolution. ANSWER: Moncada Barracks (5) Four-word phrase titling a speech defending that attack. ANSWER: “history will absolve me” (“La historia me absolver´a”) (6) Overloaded yacht the rebel leaders used to land on the island. ANSWER: Granma (7) Decisive final victory, prompting Fulgencio Batista to flee the country. ANSWER: Battle of Santa Clara (8) American mercenary who led a band of rebels in the Escambray Mountains. ANSWER: William Alexander Morgan

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Fourth Quarter

(1) 14 participants in this movement lost eyes to highly criticized “flash-ball” projectiles. The CGT declined to officially support this movement until February (+) 2019. The main target of this movement launched a “grand debate” series of town halls in response to this event, which forced him to postpone a planned tax hike on (*) gasoline. The 16th arrondissement was a target of this movement, which also vandalized a museum and monument in the Charles de Gaulle roundabout. Shopfronts in the Champs-Elys´eeswere´ attacked by, for ten points, what months-long French protest against Emmanuel Macron? ANSWER: The Yellow Vests movement (or the gilets jaunes)

(2) After the 1783 Volcanic eruption of Laki, this man realized that the harsh winter of 1784 was influenced by the eruption. The Pro and Con list, or decisional balance sheet, was first created by this man in a letter to (+) Joseph Priestly. In one work, this man project exponential population growth in Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc, which was cited by (*) Malthus. Timothy Folger helped inspire this man to discover the Gulf Stream Current. Creating a namesake stove and bifocals, this man notoriously flew a kite during a storm. For ten points, name this American founding father, a famous polymath. ANSWER: Benjamin Franklin

(3) This general received a triumph after negotiating a deal with Marcellus and defeating Bogud of Mauretania. Gaius Maecenes discovered a plot that implicated this man’s son in an (+) assassination attempt, and earlier, this man was exiled while trying to stop the Sicilian Revolt. Biographer Richard Weigel argues that because this man gave up his army to be a (*) pontifex maximus, he lost further opportunity for power in a group created after the death of Julius Caesar. For ten points, name this man who was sidelined in the Second Triumvirate by Marc Antony and Augustus. ANSWER: Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

(4) In an essay partially titled for one of these places, Sir William Temple used the Japanese word “sharawadgi” to describe favorable irregularities in their designs. Claude Lorrain’s painting Aeneas at Delos was influenced by one of these places at (+) Stourhead. These places were designed in France with a “formal” geometric style in contrast with Capability Brown’s “informal” (*) English style. A Chinese-style pagoda was built for Princess Augusta, the commissioner of one of these places in England, whose Palm House inspired the Crystal Palace. For ten points, the Kew Palace houses what type of place where plants grow? ANSWER: gardens

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(5) Nazi concentration camp survivor Marian Pyszko was beaten to death with a concrete block in this city’s Livernois-Fenkell riot. A police unit known as (+) STRESS operated in this city until it was shut down by an African American mayor who had replied with sarcastic responses at a HUAC committee. Cyrus Vance wrote a report criticizing the actions of National Guardsmen in a riot in this city where (*) John Conyers spoke with a bullhorn to try to stop rioting. The raiding of the Algiers Motel in this city was part of its 12th Street riot under Mayor Jerome Cavanagh. Also led by Coleman Young, for ten points, name this Michigan automobile manufacturing hub. ANSWER: Detroit

(6) The Gosforth Cross depicts this figure in battle with Vitharr during the Second Coming of Christ. This character is trapped on the island of (+) Lyngvi, during which his saliva formed the River Van. This child of Angrboda is killed at Vigrithr as part of an event during which his offspring Skoll and Hati swallow the (*) sun and moon. In that battle, this character fights alongside his father, Loki, and his brother, the Midgard Serpent. This character bites off Tyr’s hand while being bound by Gleipnir. For ten points, what giant wolf kills Odin during Ragnarok? ANSWER: Fenrir (or Fenrisulfr; accept Hrodvitnir or Vanagandr)

(7) This person was forcefully dragged off a train, as depicted in the work The Living Way. With Belle Squire, this woman founded the Alpha Suffrage Club, which helped elect (+) Oscar DePriest. This woman’s husband Frederick Lee Barnett founded the Chicago Conservator and her work, The Red Record explores how Southern (*) Whites often killed more blacks than any whites were injured. A lynching at the People’s Grocery in Memphis led this activist to urge blacks to leave Memphis, and sparked her investigation into extrajudicial killings. Helping to found the NAACP, for ten points, name this civil rights leader who wrote of the “Southern Horrors”. ANSWER: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

(8) Tawia Adamafia established study groups for civil servants on this man’s leftist ideology. This man was made honorary co-president of Guinea by Ahmed Sekou Toure while in exile in Conakry. This man returned from (+) Britain after being appointed leader of the UGCC. While on a state visit to meet Ho Chi Minh, this man was overthrown by the National Liberation Council led by Joseph Arthur Ankrah. This advocate of (*) Pan-Africanism helped create the Organisation of African Unity and led the Convention People’s Party. For ten points, name this first prime minister and president of Ghana. ANSWER: Kwame Nkrumah

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(9) This event took place immediately after one side was victorious in Operation Krivaja 95. Escapees of this event were possibly attacked by chemical gas around Kamenica Hill and took shelter on Mount Urdc before finally reaching safety at (+) Tuzla. Victims of this event tried to take refuge at a UNPROFOR base in Potocari but were handed to the VRS by an overwhelmed (*) Dutchbat. The Scorpions group was accused of participating in this event, which led to the indictments of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic. For ten points, identify this 1995 massacre of over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims that was carried out by ethnic Serbs. ANSWER: Srebrenica massacre

(10) This resource was called “cursed” after over 250 people were poisoned in Pont-Saint- Esprit in 1951. Steve Kaplan wrote about popular conspiracies where aristocrats were accused of deliberately (+) hoarding and destroying this resource. This resource was seized from merchants and redistributed at “fair” prices in an series of riots sparked by the opening of this resource to free trade by Jacques (*) Turgot. The Women’s March on Versailles was in part sparked by rising prices for this resource. For ten points, name this resource at the center of the Famine Plots, which is made by bakers. ANSWER: bread (accept grain or flour)

Extra Question

Only read if you need a backup or tiebreaker! (1) In one lecture, this woman said “helping your fellow men were one’s only exuse for being in the world.” This woman may have suffered from cryptomensia which caused her to inadvertently plagiarize Margaret Canby for her (+) The Frost King. In My Relgiion, this woman supported the teaching of Emanuel Swedenborg. This woman (*) explored her socialist ideas in Out of Darkness. A major breakthrough for this woman involved her teaching running water over her hand. For ten points, name this deaf and blind woman who was taught by Anne Sullivan. ANSWER: Helen Keller BONUS: Name this 1978 border conflict between Chile and Argentina, named for the channel that separates the main island of Tierra del Fuego from its smaller ones. ANSWER: Beagle conflict

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