IHBB Canadian Championships 2018 Bee Final
Bee Finals Regulation Questions
(1) A state named for this modern-day country existed for twenty-four hours under president Avgustyn Voloshyn. Symon Petliura led another state in this modern-day country, which was the site of an anti-Semitic nationalist movement led by Stepan Bandera during World War II. Leonid Kuchma was overthrown as this country’s President in the 2004 Orange Revolution. For the points, name this country that lost control over the Crimean Peninsula after a 2014 Russian annexation.
ANSWER: Ukraine
(2) Mitchell Hepburn’s reign was ended after he supported this politician in an election. This politician came out of retirement and succeeded Robert Manion as party leader in order for him to advocate for conscription. This politician successfully opposed the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance at an imperial conference. As leader of the opposition, this politician called on the government to support Britian in the Chanak Crisis. For the point, name this politician who served as Canadian prime minister for two brief stints in the 1920s.
ANSWER: Arthur Meighen
(3) A three-part collection by this author depicts conditions in a besieged city in December, May, and August. The second part of an epilogue to a novel by this author attacks the Great Man theory of history, arguing that the importance of heroic figures like Napoleon is overrated. This author of Sevastopol Sketches wrote a novel about Pierre Bezuhkov set during the French invasion of Russia. For the points, name this author of War and Peace.
ANSWER: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
(4) Emmanuel de Rouge coined the term for these people, who are depicted on the Medinet Habu temple. Fighting these people at the Battle of Djahy and the Battle of the Delta caused the depletion of Ramesses III’s treasury. The invasions of these people may have been caused by a famine in Anatolia, though they may also have been Philistines or Minoans fleeing a volcanic eruption. The Bronze Age Collapse was caused by, for the points, what invaders of the New Kingdom of Egypt that came from the Mediterranean?
ANSWER: Sea Peoples
(5) Secular and religious forces in this country clashed at the 1208 Battle of Vidines. Thorvald Konradsson brought missionaries to this country in the late 10th century. In 930 AD, the Law Rock marked the site in this country where the oldest parliament in the world was created; that body, the Althing, was twice led by Snorri Sturluson. In 1918, Denmark agreed to recognize a 25-year personal union with this country. For the points, name this country where volcanic eruptions have affected air travel in Reykjavik
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ANSWER: Iceland
(6) J. Proctor Knott gave a satirical speech praising the “Untold Delights” of a city in this state. Part of the northern border of this state follows the Pigeon River and was established by the westernmost boundary proscriptions of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. Hubert Humphrey served as mayor of the largest city in this state. This state contains the Northwest Angle, a small area of land completely enclosed by this state’s Canadian border and the Lake of the Woods. For the point, name this state between the Dakotas and Wisconsin that borders Manitoba to the North. ANSWER: Minnesota (7) This man built a gigantic bridge over the Bay of Baiae to prove to a soothsayer he could ride a horse over the bay. This man’s predecssor was smothered by the Praetorian Prefect Macro. This emperor ordered an invasion of Britain that ended with his men collecting sea shells instead. Suetonius claimed that this man planned to make his horse Incitatus consul. The nickname “Little Soldier’s Boot” was given to, for the points, what insane Roman emperor?
ANSWER: Caligula (accept Gaius Caesar; accept Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; do not prompt on Caesar alone)
(8) In 1968, a consolidation process in this state’s Duval County created what was briefly the largest city by land area in the US. The 2010 census recorded just 10 permanent residents in this state’s city of Lake Buena Vista, a small company town adjacent to Kissimmee. Pedro Mendez de Aviles founded the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the US in 1565 in what is now this state. This state’s city of Titusville has suffered economically since the end of the Space Shuttle program. St. Augustine is in, for the points, what southern US state whose largest by area is Jacksonville?
ANSWER: Florida
(9) This empire attempted to defuse ethnic tension in its west via the “Basic State Act,” equally recognized all languages. Unity within this empire was symbolized with the abbreviation k.u.k., indicating its “imperial and royal” nature. This empire was formed after Gyula Andrassy and Ferenc Deak negotiated a Compromise of 1867, and it was drawn into a war after assassins from the Black Hand killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. For the points, name this dual monarchy based in Vienna and Budapest that dissolved near the end of World War I.
ANSWER: Austria-Hungary (or the Austro-Hungarian Empire; prompt on Dual Monarchy before mentioned)
(10) This man was called “no better than a drunkard” by Laurence Keitt, who prevented his friend from challenging this man to a duel. In his eulogy for this man, Lucius Lamar stated “My countrymen! Know one another, and you will love one another.” In May 1856, this man delivered a 112-page speech that accused Andrew Butler of having an ugly mistress - the “harlot,” slavery. For the point, name this Massachusetts politician whose “Crime Against Kansas” speech earned him a vicious caning on the Senate floor by Preston Brooks.
ANSWER: Charles Sumner
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(11) In 2012 Russ George controversially dumped 100 tons of iron sulfate 230 miles west of this location. This location, which lies west of the Hecate Strait includes the historic village of Ninstint,, which is notable for its collection of totem poles. This location primarily consists of Moresby Island and Graham Island. For the point, name this archipelago in northwestern British Columbia inhabited by its namesake First Nations tribe, formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands.
ANSWER: Haida Gwaii (accept Queen Charlotte Islands before it is read)
(12) An Islamist movement in this country was founded by the former math teacher Akrom Yoldoshev, and is thus popularly known as Akromia. Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of this country’s former president, has been missing since her father’s death; that president perpetrated the Andijan Massacre. Along with its northern neighbor, this country’s irrigation for cotton farming is largely at fault for the shrinking of the Aral Sea. Islam Karimov once led, for the point, what Central Asian country with capital at Tashkent?
ANSWER: Uzbekistan
(13) In one work, this man advocated the payment of a one-time stipend to landless individuals after they reach the age of 21. James Chalmers wrote Plain Truth as a response to this man’s most famous work. This man was tried in absentia for publishing a work that refuted Edmund Burke by arguing that the French Revolution was justified since it targeted the misdeeds of the institution of monarchy rather than the king himself. For the point, name this author of Rights of Man who proposed an American Magna Carta in his 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense.
ANSWER: Thomas Paine
(14) Barbara Hepworth’s Single Form commemorates this man, whose spiritual struggles were laid out in haiku in the book Markings, derived from this man’s journal after his death. Union Miniere may have ordered the death of this man while he was traveling to meet with Moise Tshombe in the midst of the Katanga Crisis. This man supervised the creation of a meditation room at UN headquarters after the resignation of Trygve Lie allowed him to assume his highest post. A plane crash killed, for the point, what Swedish UN Secretary-General known for his work in the Congo Crisis?
ANSWER: Dag Hammarskjold
(15) This event was supported by the Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace, which was supposedly a gift from a deity. Lu Zhi was falsely accused of treason during this event, which caused him to be replaced by the Dong Zhuo. The leader of this event declared that the “Azure Sky” was already dead and there would soon be prosperity under heaven. He Jin was appointed General-in-Chief to put down this revolt, which was led by Zhang Jue. For the point, name this rebellion against the Han dynasty, named for the colorful headgear worn by its supporters.
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ANSWER: Yellow Turban Rebellion (accept Yellow Scarves Rebellion; accept Huangjin qiyi)
(16) Joseph Weber designed a namesake bar to detect these phenomena, whose existence was was supported by Richard Feynman’s “sticky bead” argument. Hulse and Taylor were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for studying a binary pulsar and providing indirect evidence for the existence of these phenomena. The largest expenditure ever by the NSF is for a project designed to detect these phenomena, which were observed in Washington and Louisiana by LIGO. For the point, name these waves that were discovered in 2015 and predicted by general relativity.
ANSWER: gravitational waves (accept gravity waves; accept gravitational radiation; “wave” not needed after it is said in the question)
(17) Debate over this action was triggered by a plan to give Lorenzo Thomas a job. Prominent advocates for this action included John Bingham and an ailing Thaddeus Stevens. Edmund Ross earned a chapter of John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage for casting the deciding vote against this action, which was a response to a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The attempted firing of Edwin Stanton triggered, for the points, what Congressional event that sought to remove Abraham Lincoln’s successor from office?
ANSWER: impeaching Andrew Johnson (prompt on partial answers, such as “impeachment” and answers related to “removing Andrew Johnson (from the Presidency)”)
(18) This man’s force retreated across the Danube into Bessarabia to bait Ahmet Pasha into a trap at Slobozia, forcing the Ottoman Empire to sign the Treaty of Bucharest. This man replaced Barclay de Tolly in his most famous campaign, though the tsar had earlier overruled this man’s apprehension in attacking a seemingly weak right flank at Austerlitz. This man conducted a successful scorched earth campaign during the French invasion of his homeland. For the point, name this Russian commander of troops at Borodino.
ANSWER: Mikhail Kutuzov
(19) Rather than inform her that he was arrested, this man told his mother that he got a job as assistant to the warden of the Montreal penitentiary. Before causing the failure of Hanover Trust, this man was able to buy a Lexington mansion and a locomobile off the profits of his most famous venture; that venture, replicated by men like Tom Petters and Bernie Madoff, involved a strategy described as “robbing Peter to pay Paul.” For the point, name this Italian businessman whose plan to pay off prior investors with the funds of new investors has become known as his namesake scheme.
ANSWER: Charles Ponzi (or Carlo Ponzi)
(20) In this country, Jerry Daniels helped airlift thousands of civilians out of Long Tieng using only four aircraft. A myth about this country holds that a king using large urns to brew alcohol led to the creation of the “Plain of Jars,” a site that was bombed by American aircraft during the Secret War. As in neighboring Vietnam, many Hmong refugees from this country fled to the United States following a communist takeover by the Pathet group. For the point, name this landlocked Southeast Asian country where the French once ruled from Vientiane.
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ANSWER: Laos (or the Lao People’s Democratic Republic; accept Muang Lao)
(21) A politician with this surname campaigned with a Frankenstein doll that declared “You have nothing to fear with” that man. A woman with this surname won the Senate seat made available by the retirement of Jesse Helms; that woman with this married surname served as Secretary of Transportation under Ronald Reagan and Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush. For the points, give this surname shared by North Carolina senator Elizabeth and a Kansas senator who lost the 1996 presidential election to Bill Clinton, Bob.
ANSWER: Dole (accept Elizabeth Dole; accept Bob Dole)
(22) This kingdom’s invasion of Moesia prompted Domitian to launch an intervening force, but this kingdom defeated the Romans at Tapae. A pontoon bridge was constructed by Apollodorus of Damascus across the Danube during a campaign against this region, which resulted in the defeat of Decebalus and the capture of Sarmizegetusa. The conquest of this region is depicted in spiral reliefs adorning a column of the victorious emperor, Trajan. For the point, name this ancient region that corresponds with modern Romania.
ANSWER: Dacia
(23) A February 6, 1958 disaster in this city was caused by James Thain’s urgency to get a team back to England following a game against Red Star Belgrade; that disaster killed Duncan Edwards and other members of Manchester United. A 2005 Steven Spielberg film titled for this city depicts multiple failed assassination attempts against Ali Hassan Salameh by Mossad during Operation Wrath of God. For the point, name this city where 11 Israeli athletes were killed during the 1972 Olympics in Bavaria.
ANSWER: Munich (accept Munchen)
(24) The trial following this event was the first time an American judge used the phrase “reasonable doubt,” and possibly any judge worldwide. Mathew Kilroy and Edward Montgomery pled benefit of clergy and were branded on the thumb rather than be hanged for their role in this event. Robert Treat Paine led the prosecution team in this trial, while the defense was led by attorney John Adams. Six British soldiers were acquitted for their role in, for the point, what 1770 incident in which Crispus Attucks and four other colonists were shot and killed in Massachusetts?
ANSWER: Boston Massacre
(25) One member of this family held the extremely lavish Banquet of the Chestnuts, in which fifty prostitutes were allegedly in attendance. The Pope who called the re-trial vindicating Joan of Arc was a member of this family. The basis of the Treaty of Tordesillas arose from the Inter Caetera papal bull, issued by another member of this family, Pope Alexander VI. Another member of this family was advised, “Better to be feared than loved” by Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince. For the point, name this powerful Italian family whose members included Lucrezia and Cesare [chez-ah-ray].
ANSWER: Borgia family
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(26) This scientist’s namesake constant is equal to the time derivative of the scale factor over the scale factor, and the reciprocal of that constant is equal to the age of the Universe. This man’s namesake law, which was discovered while working at the Mount Wilson Observatory, states that the recessional velocity of a galaxy is proportional to its distance from us; that implies the occurrence of the Big Bang. The “Pillars of Creation” photograph was taken by a device named for, for the points, what American astronomer who names a space telescope launched in 1990?
ANSWER: Edwin Hubble (accept Hubble constant, Hubble’s Law, and/or Hubble Space Telescope)
(27) A porcelain statue of mute swans was gifted during this event, which included the issuing of a Joint Communique that promised normalization of relations. Photographs taken during an early part of this event were edited to crop out Winston Lord to avoid embarrassing Willam Rogers, the Secretary of State. This event, described as “the week that changed the world,” was organized after a secret trip during an envoy to Pakistan by Henry Kissinger. Zhou Enlai helped plan, for the point, what 1972 event in which a sitting US president met with Mao Zedong?
ANSWER: Richard Nixon’s visit to China (accept descriptive answers that mention both underlined parts; prompt on partial answers; prompt on descriptions of the first US Presidential visit to China)
(28) William Lovett used this movement to attack “Taxes on Knowledge,” and John Frost led members of it in the Newport Rising. The National Land Company was proposed by a leader of this movement, Feargus O’Connor. The main document of this English movement called for equal representation of electoral districts and the secret ballot. This movement began after the 1832 Great Reform Act failed to grant non- land owners the vote. For the point, name this mid-1800s movement in England for increased voting rights, including universal male suffrage.
ANSWER: Chartism (accept word forms, like Chartists)
(29) This politician was mocked using the phrase “Zap you’re frozen!” As a premier, this politician’s government worked with Swedish company Stora Kopparbergs to build a pulp mill in Port Hawkesbury as part of the Industrial Estates Limited Corporation’s work to bring more companies into this politician’s province. A failed federal election campaign may have come to this politican after a photograph was taken of him fumbling a football. For the point, name this Canadian Progressive Conservative leader between John Diefenbaker and Joe Clark who lost three federal elections to Pierre Trudeau.
ANSWER: Robert Stanfield
(30) This type of artwork influenced an artist who worked with Al Diaz in the group SAMO. The artist of Horn Players, Jean Michel-Basquiat, worked in this medium with an artist who painted Elizabeth II with David Bowie-like makeup. Examples of these artworks found in Pompeii include word squares and the words “I made bread.” A secretive artist created a girl letting go of a balloon, a work in this medium made with stencils and spray paint. For the point, name this type of art on public surfaces, created by artists like Banksy.
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ANSWER: graffiti (prompt on public art)
(31) Prior to this battle, Wenceslaus IV attempted to calm tensions by arbitrating a dispute over Dobrin Land and Samogitia. Though the Treaty of Thorn was signed after this battle, hostilities broke out three years later in the Hunger War. During this battle, Ulrich von Jungingen was slain while fighting a coalition led by Jogaila and Vytautas, who had attacked Prussia. For the point, name this 1410 defeat of the Teutonic Knights that confirmed the rule of Poland-Lithuania over Eastern Europe.
ANSWER: Battle of Grunwald
(32) Charles Ruthenberg organized a parade in Cleveland to protest the jailing of this man. This man, one of the many co-founders of the Industrial Workers of the World, was defended by Clarence Darrow for his actions in the Pullman Strike. This man declared “when I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks” in a speech in Canton, Ohio protesting the World War I draft. For the points, name this five-time Socialist presidential candidate who ran his last campaign in 1920 from a prison cell.
ANSWER: Eugene V. Debs
(33) The National Protection War targeted this man due to his plan to reinstate the monarchy. In 1895, this man was given control of the Pacification Army and transformed it into the modernized New Armies. This man named himself the Hongxian Emperor, but his 1916 death ended his empire and ushered in the Warlord Era. This man negotiated an end to the Xinhai Revolution and the abdication of Puyi as the last Qing prime minister. For the point, name this Chinese general who, upon the resignation of interim president Sun Yat-Sen, became the first official leader of the Republic of China.
ANSWER: Yuan Shikai (accept Hongxian Emperor before it is read)
(34) Francois Mansart renovated a building in this city that was given by Louis XIII to his brother as a wedding present. After the death of her husband, Marie de Medici was exiled to this city. A monarch born in this city signed the Treaty of Winchester to end a succession crisis caused by the drowning of the son of Henry I; that conflict between a man from this city and Matilda was called the Anarchy. For the point, name this French city near Orleans that was the birthplace of an English king named Stephen.
ANSWER: Blois [blwah]
(35) During the primaries in this election year, Paul Tsongas proclaimed “I’m not trying to play Santa Claus” to explain his lack of a tax cut plan. A Vice Presidential candidate in this year couldn’t spell “potato” at a children’s spelling bee. Pat Buchanan’s culture war speech was given at this year’s Republican convention. In this election year, the Presidential incumbent lost despite the successful Gulf War. Al Gore was elected Vice President in, for the point, what year in which Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush?
ANSWER: Presidential Election of 1992 (prompt on 92)
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(36) During Operation Crow, this man led guerilla fighters near Yogyakarta in the third of three defense areas called Wehrkreises. This man was given unlimited military authority to deal with the 1965 Tragedy, in which hundreds of thousands of communists and leftists were killed, via the Supersemar, a document that ultimately led to this man’s rise to power. Economists called the Berkeley Mafia served this man, whose government was described as the New Order, which replaced Pancasila and Guided Democracy. For the point, name this president who replaced Sukarno to rule Indonesia.
ANSWER: Suharto
(37) Tensions leading up to this event were heightened due to similar events at the Tele-Star, the Checkerboard, the Snake Pit, and the Sewer. In the aftermath of this event, Maria Ritter stated her second biggest fear was being shown in the newspaper wearing her mother’s dress. This event was described as the “Hairpin Drop Heard Around the World” by the Mattachine Society. This event took place at an establishment owned by the Genovese crime family that operated without a liquor license. For the points, name this 1969 riot in Greenwich [gren-itch] Village, New York that began with a police raid on the namesake gay bar.
ANSWER: Stonewall Inn riots (accept equivalents for riot)
(38) A difficult task in this project was initially given to Walter Felton but repeated failures passed the task on to Philemon Wright. John Burrows and John MacTaggart did the initial surveying tasks required to start this project. This hardest part of this project was dealing with the Three Rock Rapids, while the largest North American dam at the time was constructed at Jones Falls. This project was spearheaded by Colonel John By. For the point, name this construction project that created an artificial waterway between Kingston and Ottawa.
ANSWER: construction/building of the Rideau Canal
(39) A book of sayings attributed to this man has a name that translates as Peak of Eloquence. This man was pronounced a Mawla, or guardian, in a speech delivered near the pond of Khumm. This man, who wielded a legendary double-bladed sword named Zulfiqar, was assassinated by a Kharijite while praying in a mosque in Kufa. After the death of Uthman in 656, this man became the fourth caliph. For the point, name this cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad who is held to be the first Imam in Shia Islam.
ANSWER: Ali ibn Abi Talib
(40) The “March for the Presentation of Colors” is usually omitted from a piece by this man originally written to celebrate an imaginary Napoleon victory. This composer called for three choirs in his Opus 22 Te Deum, and he celebrated the tenth anniversary of the July Revolution with his Grand Funeral and Triumphal Symphony for wind band. “Reveries-Passions” is the first movement of a piece by this composer that uses an idee fixe [ee-day FEEKS] and depicts a “March to the Scaffold.” For the point, name this French composer who dramatized his obsession with actress Harriet Smithson in the Symphonie fantastique.
ANSWER: Hector Berlioz
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(41) This man was nearly assassinated by the Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino in 1902. This ruler attempted to abolish the military policy of Remplacement after his country’s neutrality was tenuously preserved in the Franco-Prussian War. This ruler earned the nickname the “Builder King” for his public works projects, including the Antwerpen-Centraal Railway Station. He commissioned Henry Stanley to lay claims to colonial territory in Africa; that territory later became the Congo Free State. For the points, name this Belgian monarch.
ANSWER: King Leopold II (42) A privately owned dock on Lake Saint-Louis became an important point of resource transportation during this event. Sam Elkas and John Ciaccia were both demoted during the aftermath of this event, the latter having bribed the local government 2 million dollars to offset the losses in profit that would have been achieved with the expansion of a golf course. This event saw the disruption of traffic from the blockade of the Honoree Mercier Bridge in the Chateauguay region of Quebec. For the points, name this 1990 land dispute between the Mohawk and a town just west of Montreal.
ANSWER: Oka Crisis/Incident/Affair etc.
(43) Because this empire’s forces lacked guns, they released 1,000 cattle against an invading enemy; the cattle, scared by the invaders’ cannonfire, stampeded back and disrupted this empire’s army. That invasion of this empire by the Saadi dynasty ended when the Spanish eunuch general Judar Pasha won the Battle of Tondibi. Rulers of this empire included Askia the Great, who captured the salt mines of Taghaza, and Sonni Ali, who captured Timbuktu. Gao was the capital of, for the point, what successor empire to Mali in West Africa that thrived in the 15th and 16th centuries?
ANSWER: Songhai Empire
(44) For this event, Ferdinand Dutert designed a massive structure with cast iron vaulted arches near the Champ de Mars; that Galerie des machines was torn down in 1910. Displays at this event included a Javanese ensemble performing gamelan music and a “human village” of African peoples. Buffalo Bill convinced Annie Oakley to join his Wild West Show during this event. The Eiffel Tower was built to serve as an entrance for, for the point, what 19th-century international exhibition held in Paris that featured, among other exhibits, a reconstructed Bastille to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of its storming?
ANSWER: Paris World’s Fair 1889 (accept Exposition Universelle of 1889; prompt on partial answers)
(45) Inscriptions from this city include the Wagner murals, a series of fragments illegally removed by foreign visitors, and records of the king “Spear-thrower Owl,” who reigned for sixty years. The later Aztec god Quetzalcoatl may have evolved from a feathered serpent honored at this city’s Ciudadela. The Avenue of the Dead is in, for the point, what eminent Mesoamerican city in the Valley of Mexico, the home of the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon?
ANSWER: Teotihuacan ([tay-oh-tee-wah-kahn], but be lenient)
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(46) Description acceptable. Gibson and Walk’s “visual cliff” experiment tested perception abilities among this group of people. Albert Bandura’s social learning theory was developed at Stanford during the 1960s using this group of people as subjects. Piaget’s four stages are used to categorize cognitive development in this group. Freud’s oral, anal, phallic, and latent stages applied to this group, who supposedly experienced Oedipal urges. For the point, name this stage of human development.
ANSWER: children (accept word forms and equivalents like kids; accept babies, toddlers, and other equivalents; accept boys and/or girls)
(47) This ruler’s controversial seizing of nationalized property prior to leaving office became known as “la pinata.” This man’s rule was challenged by loyalists of his former ally Eden Pastora and by the Miskito ethnic group, which formed the Misura rebel group. Over five months in 1980, this man’s government reduced his country’s illiteracy from 50% to 13%. This man won a Presidential election in 1984, but lost in 1990 to Violeta de Chamorro, who had been his colleague on a five-member panel set up in 1979 after the overthrow of the Somoza regime. For the point, name this leader of the Sandinista political movement and two-time President of Nicaragua.
ANSWER: Daniel Ortega
(48) Music critic Olin Downes was criticized for praising this work’s premiere in NBC studio 8H. This piece’s composer adapted it for his 1967 Agnus Dei, and it opens with three bars in 4/2 time followed by a bar of 5/2. A minute of silence was observed before this piece was played at the Last Night of the Proms four days after 9/11, and this B-flat minor piece was played on-air during the announcements of FDR and JFK’s deaths. For the point, name this slow, somber composition by Samuel Barber.
ANSWER: Adagio for Strings
(49) This event was sparked by the collapse of the National Cordage Company, which tried to corner the national hemp market. The failure of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad also triggered this event, which was made worse by the combination of the McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. J.P. Morgan authorized direct sales of gold to the US Treasury to help solve this event. Coxey’s Army marched during, for the point, what economic panic that occurred during Grover Cleveland’s second presidency, the worst of the 19th century?
ANSWER: Panic of 1893
(50) This politician controversially extradited Nelson Hackett for theft after Hackett had escaped slavery. This politician commissioned a “Report on the affairs of the Indians in Canada” while he was serving as the first governor general of the 1841 United Province of Canada. This politician signed an agreement with an American that would limit the number of ships in Lake Ontario and Lake Champlain. For the points, name this politician who names a post-1812 treaty with Richard Rush.
ANSWER: Charles Bagot
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(51) Josephus mentions a person named Amessis who was better known as this ruler. Our understanding of ancient quarrying techniques were revealed by the remains of the unfinished Obelisk II, commissioned by this ruler. This ruler’s invasion of Punt brought back 31 myrrh trees and is celebrated at Deir-el-Bahri. This woman’s stepson, Thutmose III, tried to remove references to her on monuments after her 1458 BC death. For the point, name this ruler, the longest-serving female pharaoh of Egypt.
ANSWER: Hatshepshut
(52) In this city, Alexander Dockery cancelled a bullfight, leading to the murder of Carleton Bass. A pair of wild dogs chased Len Tau for over a mile during a competition held in this city, which also hosted an event in which a Christiaan de Wet impersonator jumped into a pool twice a day as part of a massive reenactment of the Second Boer War. Legend holds that the waffle cone was invented in, for the point, what city that hosted the 1904 iteration of both the World’s Fair and the Olympics, the largest city in Missouri?
ANSWER: St. Louis
(53) The Soviet Union’s Arcos business in this country was raided in 1927 and found to contain secret cryptography rooms. In a 1933 show trial, six employees of an engineering firm from this country were arrested in Moscow and deported from the USSR. The Zinoviev Letter supposedly showed Soviet attempts to meddle in an election in this country. Soviet spies active in this country included Guy Burgess and Kim Philby. For the point, name this country where a Soviet spy ring was nicknamed the Cambridge Five.
ANSWER: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (accept Great Britain; accept England)
(54) One of these people almost lost his job in 1805, partially because he had blindly accused a Wilmington printer of sedition. While serving in this job, Samuel Chase was impeached but acquitted by the Senate. In one of the last acts of his presidency - at metaphorical “midnight” - John Adams appointed a large group of these people. The court case Marbury v. Madison concerned the appointment of, for the point, what government officials whose jobs are the concern of Article 3 of the Constitution and may serve on inferior and Supreme Courts?
ANSWER: judges (accept justices; do not accept or prompt on lawyers)
(55) Operation Cage hunted for suspects of a crime in this city; one perpetrator was eventually located in Subirats. This city was the site of a terrorist attack coordinated with one in Cambrils the same day; the prior day, stockpiled explosives destroyed a house in Alcanar, killing an imam who was believed to have plotted the attack in this city. For the point, name this city where over 100 people were injured in 2017 when a van crashed into pedestrians walking on the historic La Rambla in Catalonia.
ANSWER: Barcelona
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(56) This rebellion’s leader issued a manifesto criticizing the Green Springs monopoly on the beaver trade. This rebellion’s planners achieved success in an attack on the Susquehannock, but John Ingram was forced to take command after this rebellion’s leader died of dysentery. This rebellion was sparked by settlers who felt that the colonial government did not do enough to prevent attacks by natives. Jamestown was burned down as a result of, for the points, what 1676 rebellion in Virginia?
ANSWER: Bacon’s Rebellion
(57) The Battle of Reading was fought as part of this broader event, which was triggered by one ruler’s refusal to endorse the Test Act. This event was followed with the creation of the Declaration of Right by the Convention Parliament, and fallout from it led to attempted rebellions by the Jacobites. Parliament, which was concerned about a Roman Catholic succeeding King James II, invited a Dutch ruler to carry out, for the points, what 1688 revolution that installed William and Mary as the rulers of England?
ANSWER: Glorious Revolution (accept Revolution of 1688 before “1688” is read)
(58) The rooster was sacred to this empire’s founder because he used an arrow with the point of a cock’s spur to slay his archrival at the Battle of Kirina. This empire was founded by Sundiata and its lands were later ruled by the Songhai Empire. A man whose extravagant hajj devalued gold throughout North Africa ruled this empire in the 14th century. For the point, name this empire, once led by Mansa Musa, which shares its name with a modern west African country.
ANSWER: Mali Empire (59) A palace in this city is filled with paintings commemorating victory over the Ottomans at the Battle of Cesme [chez-mah]. The largest stone ever moved by man, the Thunderstone, was transported to this city, where it now serves as a pedestal for a bronze equestrian statue of this city’s modernizing founder. Swamps on the Neva River were cleared out to construct this “window to the west.” For the point, name this city that was built to replace Moscow as the capital of Russia. ANSWER: St. Petersburg (accept Petrograd or Leningrad)
(60) This Canadian prime minister was the first to appoint an aboriginal senator as well as the first to appoint a female cabinet minister. During an election, when the Canadian dollar had devalued to 92.5 US cents, opponents made fake bills highlighting that exchange rate and mocking this prime minister and his finance minister Donald Fleming. This prime minister’s reign was ended with the Bomarc Missile Crisis. For the points, name this Canadian Prime Minister who passed the 1960 Bill of Rights and cancelled the Avro Arrow program.
ANSWER: John Diefenbaker
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