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History Bee – Finals 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 Page 1 IHBB Canadian Championships 2018 Bee Final 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 Page 2 IHBB Canadian Championships 2018 Bee Final (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. Page 3 IHBB Canadian Championships 2018 Bee Final 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.
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