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2019 National History Bowl Varsity & Junior Varsity National 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) Page 1 NHBB Nationals Bowl 2018-2019 Bowl Playoff Packet 2 (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) Page 2 NHBB Nationals Bowl 2018-2019 Bowl Playoff Packet 2 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 Page 3 NHBB Nationals Bowl 2018-2019 Bowl Playoff Packet 2 (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.
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