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NHBB A-Set Bee 2017-2018 Bee Final Round Bee Final Round Regulation Questions (1) This pope illustrated the sun and moon allegory in which kings derive their power from the papacy. At the Fourth Lateran Council, this pope called a crusade that was defeated by the Ayyubid Sultan Al-Khalid; this man had earlier called a crusade that ended in the 1204 Sack of Constantinople. This pope feuded over Stephen Langdon's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury with John I. The Albigensian Crusade persecuting the Cathars and the Fourth Crusade were both called by, for the point, what early 13th century pope who annulled the Magna Carta? ANSWER: Pope Innocent III (prompt on Innocent) (2) This policy is called the \most radical experiment" in a book by Mei Fong, who claimed it was created by rocket scientists. Violators of their policy could lose their \iron rice bowl," as they were blocked from holding government jobs. This policy, which was made less restrictive in 2016, has resulted in an increase in sex-selective abortion and a massive gender imbalance, due in part to a cultural bias in favor of having sons. For the point, name this policy meant to control the population of China. ANSWER: Chinese one-child policy (accept Family Planning Policy; accept Dushengzi nu zhengce; prompt on descriptions of population control before the end) (3) Referring to this location's one-time commander, William Delaplace, a commander allegedly said \Come out you old rat!" while seizing this location. Arthur St. Clair and Philip Schuyler [sky-ler] were accused of negligence for failing to defend this location. Louis-Joseph Montcalm defeated a frontal assault on this place during the Battle of Carillon. In 1775, this place was stormed by the Green Mountain Boys, led by Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen. For the point, name this historic fort overlooking Lake Champlain. ANSWER: Fort Ticonderoga (accept Fort Carillon before Carillon is mentioned) (4) This scientist names the total chemical potential of electrons, an essential quantity in solid-state physics. Estimations relying on order of magnitude calculations and dimensional analysis, such as \How many piano tuners work in Chicago?", are named for this man. A class of particles with half-integer spin is named for this scientist, who discovered the statistics for them independently of Dirac. In 1942, this man co-designed the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. For the point, name this Italian physicist, the namesake of a national lab in Illinois. ANSWER: Enrico Fermi (5) This project was conceived by Adrian Daninos as an alternative to Harold Hurst's plan to hoard water. This project lost funding from Great Britain after the host country accepted an arms deal with Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. Over 50,000 people had to be moved to the town of New Wadi Halfa as a result of this project, which also forced the relocation of the Abu Simbel temple of Ramses II. Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered the building of, for the point, what large dam on the Nile River? ANSWER: Aswan High Dam (prompt on Aswan (Dam)) Page 1 NHBB A-Set Bee 2017-2018 Bee Final Round (6) A cartoon focusing on this policy titled \Putting his foot down" shows Uncle Sam declaring \you can't divide Me." Japan agreed to uphold this policy in the Lansing-Ishii Treaty, a weak agreement that was swiftly superseded by the Nine-Power Treaty. This policy was largely implemented by Secretary of State John Hay, who sought to preserve \territorial and administrative integrity." For the point, name this American foreign policy meant to prevent \spheres of influence” over treaty ports and maintain a balance of international trade with China. ANSWER: Open Door Policy (prompt on descriptive answers relating to (trade) relations between China and the United States) (7) After this battle, one man told the winner \the gods have not bestowed all things upon the same person," since the winner could not take advantage of this victory. This battle was fought near the Aufius River, which was used by the victors to trap the left flank of the losing side. Maharbal commanded the Numidian cavalry at this battle, while Gaius Terentius Varro co-led the Roman side. The victor of this battle had earlier won at Trebia and Lake Trasimene after crossing the Alps. For the point, name this 216 BC battle, a devastating loss for Rome that proved to be Hannibal's last major victory in Italy during the Second Punic War. ANSWER: Battle of Cannae (8) This musician's partnership with Teddy Wilson produced hits like \Easy Living" and \If You Were Mine," and while with Brunswick Records, she released the popular song \What a Little Moonlight Can Do." During a performance at the Cafe Society, she manipulated darkness to add to the emotional impact of a song originally written by Abel Meeropol; that song declares \Blood on the leaves and blood at the root / Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze." For the point, name this American jazz musician, nicknamed \Lady Day," who popularized the anti-lynching protest song \Strange Fruit." ANSWER: Billie Holiday (or Eleanora Fagan) (9) One duke with this name waged the Mad War against his daughter Anne to preserve his kingdom, Brittany. A king with this name attracted controversy for his alliance with Suleiman the Magnificent and was defeated and captured at the Battle of Pavia. The king who met with Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold had this name, as did the husband of Maria Theresa. An empire was dissolved after a leader with this name was soundly beaten at the Battle of Austerlitz. For the point, give this regnal name shared by the first Valois-Angoul^eme [val-wah ahn-goo-lem] king of France and the last Holy Roman Emperor. ANSWER: Francis (accept Francis II of Brittany; accept Francis I of France after \Suleiman" is read; accept Francis II after \Austerlitz" is read; accept Fran¸cois or Franz) (10) Farmer v. Brennan addressed the relevance of this constitutional amendment to sexual assault. The case of Stack v. Boyle concerned the application of this amendment to a group of suspected communists who were arrested under the Smith Act. The Gregg and Furman cases determined the standards of this amendment for Georgia laws concering people on Death Row. For the point, name this amendment that prohibits excessive bail, as well as \cruel and unusual punishment." ANSWER: 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Page 2 NHBB A-Set Bee 2017-2018 Bee Final Round (11) Oyama Isao was killed while trying to reach this city's Hongqiao [hong-chee-ow] Airport, which led to calls to dismantle the Peace Preservation Corps. This city was the site of the April 12 incident, in which the Kuomintang massacred thousands of Communist workers. An international settlement in this city, created by merging American and British enclaves, was essentially dissolved the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the 1920s, four of China's largest banks were based in this city's Bund. For the point, name this metropolis on the Yangtze River, the largest city in China. ANSWER: Shanghai (12) A participant in one of these events claimed that the number of people killed in \Democrat wars" in the 20th century could populate the city of Detroit. The line \I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" was delivered by Lloyd Bentsen in one of these events in 1988. Paul Ryan's foreign policy was called \a bunch of malarkey" by Joe Biden in the 2012 iteration of, for the point, what political event that pitted Tim Kaine against Mike Pence on TV in 2016? ANSWER: Vice Presidential debates (prompt on debates; prompt on (political) campaign; do not accept or prompt on the phrase \Presidential debate," but you can prompt on a generic description of a \debate during a presidential campaign" if it's somehow clear the player isn't directly claiming the debaters are running for President themselves) (13) This Prime Minister investigated members of his party who were paid money on behalf of Mohamed al-Fayed to ask questions in Parliament for Harrods in the \Cash for Questions" scandal. In the \War of Jennifer's Ear," Neil Kinnock attacked this leader with the slogan \If you want to vote Conservative, don't fall ill" when criticizing long lines for healthcare. This leader's Downing Street Declaration in 1993 paved the way for the Good Friday Agreement signed by his successor. For the point, name this Conservative politician who succeeded Margaret Thatcher and preceded Tony Blair as Prime Minister. ANSWER: John Major (14) Three princesses of this city went insane and committed suicide after seeing an infant in a box being guarded by serpents. A king of this city was born when a goddess threw Hephaestus's sperm off her thigh onto the ground. Cecrops and Erichthonius were mythological kings of this city. Poseidon offered a magnificent horse as a gift to the residents of this city, who instead voted to accept an olive tree from a goddess of wisdom. For the point, name this Greek city where temples were built on the Acropolis. ANSWER: Athens (15) In 1992, state legislators tried to close the University of Oklahoma Law School because out-of-state donors funded a professorship in this woman's name. Joe Biden declined to call Angela Wright or any of three other witnesses to corroborate this woman's story. The phrase \high-tech lynching for uppity blacks" was used to describe the proceedings in which this woman was brought before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she detailed two years of sexual harassment by her boss.