2014 National History Bee National Championships Round
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2014 National History Bee National Championships Bee Round 1 BEE ROUND 1 1. This band behind the 1999 album Looking Forward sang "I feel like I owe it to someone" and coined the phrase "let my freak flag fly" in the pro-hippie anthem "Almost Cut My Hair." Three members of this group sang about "purple berries" after a nuclear apocalypse in "Wooden Ships." A song on their album Deja Vu, which claims "we are stardust, we are golden," is called "Woodstock." With a Canadian, they sang "Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming" in response to a 1970 shooting. For the point, name this rock group who protested the Kent State shootings in the song "Ohio." ANSWER: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young [or Crosby, Stills, and Nash] 104-13-94-19101 2. JEDI and Chewco were two holding companies formed by this corporation. Sherron Watkins tried to alert this company's CEO of irregularities. This corporation was the subject of the documentary The Smartest Guys in the Room, and Andrew Fastow was its Chief Financial Officer. This company's founder Kenneth Lay died while on trial, and the scandal surrounding this company resulted in the collapse of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen. For the point, name this Houston energy trading company that was brought down by a massive accounting scandal in 2001. ANSWER: Enron Corporation 030-13-94-19102 3. Journalist Walter Duranty notoriously denied that this event occurred. An eyewitness account of this event appears in Arthur Koestler's part of The God That Failed. Robert Conquest's book Harvest of Sorrow brought worldwide attention to this event, in which the inept twenty-five thousanders replaced the kulaks at the kolkhozes. On its seventy-fifth anniversary, Viktor Yuschenko attempted to garner worldwide recognition of this event. For the point, identify this 1930s event, also known as the Holodomor, a man-made catastrophe that killed millions in the bread-basket of the USSR. ANSWER: Ukrainian famine [or equivalents; or Ukrainian genocide; or the Holodomor until it is read] 020-13-94-19103 4. This man succeeded Dave Beck, and the McClellan Committee's investigations into his activities were the subject of the book The Enemy Within by this man's critic Robert Kennedy. The 1964 master-freight agreement brought most North American truckers under his organization's purview. The Machus Red Fox restaurant was the last place this man was seen alive, and a search for his remains in Oakland Township, Michigan in 2013 did not shed light on the mystery surrounding this man. For the point, name this leader of the Teamsters who disappeared in 1975. ANSWER: James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa 030-13-94-19104 2014 National History Bee National Championships Bee Round 1 Page 1 of 8 5. The newly opened London Shard and Gaius Cestius's tomb are examples of these structures. The winning general at a battle fought within sight of some of these structures encouraged his men by saying "forty centuries look down upon you." That battle was fought in a country where a stepped structure of this kind at Saqqara was built by Imhotep. For the point, name this type of building that was used as the main entrance to the Louvre by I.M. Pei and as a tomb by Khufu at Giza. ANSWER: pyramids 153-13-94-19105 6. Relations between these two countries soured when one of them bombed the other's embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo war. An incident between these two countries was set off by one offering asylum to a figure who gave a speech to his alma mater about democratization. Max Frankel won a Pulitzer for reporting on a summit between these two countries. These two countries engaged in "ping-pong diplomacy" after the leader of one of them visited the other. For the point, name these two countries whose leaders, Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong, met in 1972. ANSWER: The United States and The People’s Republic of China [order not important, but do not accept or prompt if only one answer is given] 048-13-94-19106 7. Annemarie Selinko wrote a mock autobiography of a woman who nearly became one of these people before changing her name to Desiderata. One of these people was injured by an "infernal machine" that exploded in the rue Saint-Nicaise. One of these people eloped with Count Adam Albert von Neippberg to Parma, and another was said to be loved but not respected. These women included Marie Louise of Austria, and a Martinique-born woman who kept the surname "de Beauharnais." For the point, name these women, such as Josephine, who put up with an egocentric French Emperor. ANSWER: Napoleon's wives [or obvious equivalents] 020-13-94-19107 8. This belief system was praised as moving beyond the "rag of superstition" by Flinders Petrie. This system led to James Henry Breasted proclaiming its founder to be "the first individual in history." This belief system was described as leading to neglect in state affairs in the Amarna Letters, and it is linked to Judaism in Freud's Moses and Monotheism. It was abandoned by Tutankhamen. For the point, name this religious belief pushed by Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, which represented a shift to monotheism and is symbolized by Amenhotep's adopted name. ANSWER: Atenism [or the Amarna heresy until "Amarna" is read; or worship of Aten; prompt on worship of the sun, etc.; prompt on monotheism, etc.] 052-13-94-19108 9. Enemies of this man kidnapped William O. Jenkins to show how ineffectual his government was. Under his presidency, his country adopted a constitution whose article 27 made the state the original owner of all land and resources, allowing redistribution in the form of ejidos (eh-HEE-dohs). This Constitutionalist leader was asked to resign by the Convention of Aguascalientes, which he refused unless Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa were exiled. For the point, name this Mexican president from 1914 until the end of the Mexican Revolution. ANSWER: Venustiano Carranza de la Garza 121-13-94-19109 2014 National History Bee National Championships Bee Round 1 Page 2 of 8 10. TIME magazine drew criticism for a front-cover picture of this man captioned "An American Tragedy." Kato Kaelin testified against this man, as did Mark Fuhrman, who was subsequently convicted for perjury. This man claimed that he was "Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty." Christopher Darden requested that this man try on a bloody glove, which prompted Johnnie Cochran to say, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." For the point, name this man who was acquitted in 1997 for the murder of Ronald Goldman and his ex-wife Nicole. ANSWER: Orenthal James "O.J." Simpson 190-13-94-19110 11. This set of laws resulted in Thomas Hutchinson being replaced as governor. A law in this group was criticized as the "Murder Act" for allowing soldiers charged with overreaching their power to have their trials moved. An act that permitted free practice of Catholicism and expanded the range of Quebec was passed alongside this set of laws, which assigned a royally appointed governor to Massachusetts and closed Boston Harbor. For the point, name this set of acts passed by Britain that imposed sanctions on the American Colonies following the Boston Tea Party. ANSWER: Intolerable Acts [or Coercive Acts] 140-13-94-19111 12. In September 2013, Thomas Frieden announced that these organisms would be classified as "urgent," "serious," or "concerning." CRE is classified as an "urgent" one. A class of these organisms has developed the mecA gene in a common example of microevolution. Another class of these organisms has evolved beta-lactamases. Many hospital infections are caused by MRSA, one of these bacteria of species Staphylococcus aureus. For the point, give the term used to refer to bacteria that are immune to drugs like ampicillin or penicillin. ANSWER: superbugs [or antibiotic-resistant bacteria; prompt on MRSA until it is read; prompt on Staphylococcus aureus until it is read] 190-13-94-19112 13. One side in this battle attempted to conceal their numbers behind the Wolf Mountains. One side of this battle fell back from Medicine Trail Coulee to Calhoun Hill on Battle Ridge. Captain Frederick Benteen led troops down the side of a river in this battle, in which the strategic edge was lost following Major Marcus Reno's retreat. Gall is credited with luring one side in this battle into an indefensible position. For the point, name this 1876 battle in which a force of Northern Plains Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse wiped out the 7th Cavalry of George Armstrong Custer. ANSWER: Little Bighorn [or Custer's Last Stand until "Custer" is read] 030-13-94-19113 14. The Green Guide was written after several people died in this kind of building in Ibrox. The Black and Tans massacred a group of people at one of these buildings named Croke in 1920. The Taylor inquiry investigated the destruction of one of these buildings in Hillsborough. An uncompleted "German" example of one of these buildings was inspired by one of these known as the Kallimarmaro in Athens, and was designed by Albert Speer to hold the Nuremberg Rallies. For the point, name these buildings which include one named for the suburb of Wembley in London. ANSWER: stadium [or soccer stadium, soccer pitch, etc. until "Kallimarmaro" is read] 048-13-94-19114 2014 National History Bee National Championships Bee Round 1 Page 3 of 8 15. One of these events was made possible after a civil war started by the Confederation of Bar.