NATIONAL HISTORY BOWL 2010-2011 PRACTICE ROUND 1st Quarter – All questions are worth ten points each Note: For answers, teams must repond with at least the portion that is underlined. Additional information may be given provided it does not make the answer incorrect and does not provide two separate answers. For example, for question two, saying “Rome, Italy; Berlin, Germany” is fine. Standard creator-creation rules apply: i.e. it’s okay to say “Don Quixote by Cervantes” on a question asking for “Don Quixote” and it is also correct to say “Don Quixote by Cervantes” if the question is asking for “Cervantes.” Saying “Madame Bovary by Cervantes” however, makes this an incorrect answer whether the answer is “Don Quixote” or “Cervantes.” (Question Distribution: Of the 14 first round questions, at least 2 will be from the each of the following 5 eras: American History pre 1900, American History post 1900, World History to 1500, European History post 1500, and Non-Western History since 1500. There will also be at least 1 question on history of science and 1 on history of the arts & letters- these can be taken from any period in history and the same question can fulfill this requirement and one of the 2 x 5 requirements. Finally, note that a question may reference more than one period, if this is so, it counts for both. This is true for all rounds (1, 2, & 4) with distribution requirements. Questions Answers 1. Which man was the only Democratic president in the 19 th century Stephen Grover after the end of the Civil War and the only U.S. president to serve Cleveland two non-consecutive terms? 2. Which two European capital cities were said to be connected by an Rome and Berlin axis in the 1930’s, an axis which later expanded to include Tokyo ? 3. Which civilization worshipped the god Tlaloc, spoke the Nahuatl language, Aztecs and had their capital at Tenochtitlan until they were conquered by Hernán Cortes in 1521? 4. Which woman had a child with both a member of the first Roman Cleopatra VII triumvirate and a member of the second Roman triumvirate? If you need a hand, those men were Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. 5. Within 5 years, when did the Wright Brothers make their first flight? 1903 (1898-1908 ) 6. Which man, who is the namesake of the trophy awarded to the top James Naismith college basketball player in the country, invented basketball at a YMCA in Massachusetts in 1891? 7. In 1776, which member of the Scottish Enlightenment published the Adam Smith seminal work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations? 8. This man was one of the main attorneys who argued on behalf of the Thurgood Marshall plaintiff in Brown v.Board of Education before later joining the Supreme Court himself, becoming the first African-American justice. Who was he? 9. What civilization would you have been in if you were traveling the Royal Road Persian Empire from Sardis to Susa on behalf of King Xerxes and then stopped off at a temple to worship Ahura Mazda? 10. Whose “little red book” of quotations had one of the largest publication Mao Zedong runs of the 20 th century, particularly in the nation that he led from 1949 to his death in 1976 as the head of the communist party? 11. Which two mathematicians- a German who was also a philosopher and an Gottfried Leibniz & Englishman who was also a scientist- share credit for the invention of calculus? Isaac Newton 12. Which country’s ruling house is known as the Chakri Dynasty and includes Thailand such monarchs as Mongkut, Chulalongkorn, and the present-day King Bhumibol who has ruled since 1946 over the country formerly known as Siam from the city of Bangkok? 13. Which Germanic tribe, whose infamous name can be found in Vandals the lyrics of the Bob Dylan song “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” founded a powerful kingdom based in North Africa in the fifth century A.D.? 14. Name the painter whose important work includes portraits of Daniel-Henry Pablo Picasso Kahnweiler, his mistress Dora Maar, and the author Gertrude Stein, as well as the masterpieces Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Guernica , a painting depicting a scene from the Spanish Civil War 2nd Quarter – Tossups and bonuses worth ten points each Note: This round is the only round to feature ordering questions (e.g. # 3) and matching questions (e.g. #6). Up to two of each of these sorts of questions can be found among the eight tossups in this round in each game. For answering ordering and matching questions, saying “same order” or “reverse order” is acceptable, if this is in fact correct. Question Distribution: Four of the eight questions will be on American history; the other four can come from any era and geographic region. The team that answers the tossup has the first shot at the bonus; if they miss then the other team will have a chance to answer it. As you can tell, there is one bonus per tossup, and it is related to it. 1. Born in 1931 at Klerksdorp in the Transvaal, he was ordained in 1960 Desmond Tutu but first rose to prominence in the 1970’s before later winning the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. For ten points name this former head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Anglican archbishop in South Africa. Bonus : Tutu has been a critic of which ruler of Zimbabwe since 1980, Robert Mugabe once calling him “a cartoon figure of an archetypical African dictator.”? 2. Although he lived a long life, he was obese and once famously got stuck William Howard Taft in the bathtub. His “dollar diplomacy” proved to be a largely ineffective foreign policy, and he was not a happy camper in the White House. Being Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was more up his alley. For ten points, name the only sitting president ever to come in third in the electoral college in a presidential election, in the election of 1912. Bonus : Name the two men, both of whom were also at one point president, Teddy Roosevelt and who finished ahead of Taft in the electoral college that year. Woodrow Wilson (prompt on Roosevelt) 3. For ten points, arrange these Revolutionary War battles in chronological 1. Lexington & Concord order: Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord, Yorktown, Trenton. 2. Bunker Hill 3. Trenton 4. Yorktown Bonus : In which state did the battles of Camden and Cowpens take place? South Carolina 4. The first time this tournament was held for men was in 1881. U.S. Open (tennis) It is currently played at a complex that is named for a well-known (if they say just feminist who was also a four-time women’s champion, the last coming U.S. Open, ask in 1974. The most famous stadium within the complex where it is played, which sport this is for) though, is named for a pioneering African-American who tragically died of AIDS. For ten points, name this tournament, played near the site of the 1964 World’s Fair and the only grand slam in its sport played in North America. Bonus : Which American men’s tennis player of Armenian and Assyrian Andre Agassi descent won all four grand slams as well as an Olympic gold medal? 5. Admirers of this city are known as Laconophiles. If you yourself are one, Sparta then you surely would recognize the significance of the year 404 B.C. Most of the people that lived there were known as helots, but even the citizens didn’t exactly have an easy time of it. For ten points, name this home of Menelaus, rival of Athens, and source of the nickname for Michigan State. Bonus: Leonidas I of Sparta died fighting Persians at which battle whose Thermopylae name means “The Gates of Heat?” 6. For ten points, match these UN Secretaries General with their Waldheim - Austria home countries: Secretaries General are Kurt Waldheim, Trygve Lie, Lie - Norway U Thant, and Javier Perez de Cuellar. Countries are Burma, Austria, Thant - Burma Peru, and Norway. Perez de Cuellar - Peru Bonus: Boutros-Boutros Ghali, a Coptic Christian, was a UN Secretary Egypt General from what country? 7. This country made effective use of ski troops in the Winter War with Finland the Soviet Union. Neither a member of NATO nor the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, it prospered economically despite its precarious location close to Leningrad. For ten points, name this home of Nobel laureate Martti Ahtisaari and home of the 1975 Helsinki Accords. Bonus : People of Finnish ancestry form a plurality of the population in Michigan some of the counties in the Upper Peninsula of which state? 8. After coming out as a socialist and supportive of the Russian Revolution, Helen Keller many newspapers which had previously been quite laudatory of her changed their tone. She was also an active suffragette and donor to the NAACP- especially surprising as she was from Alabama. For ten points name this Radcliffe graduate and famous pupil of Annie Sullivan who was both blind and deaf. Bonus : Helen Keller helped to found which organization whose profile A.C.L.U. was heightened by Clarence Darrow at a trial in Tennessee and which defends first amendment rights? 3rd Quarter: 60-second Rounds, Questions worth ten points a piece with a 20 point bonus for sweeping the category The clock starts with the first word read by the moderator. Missed questions will be offered to the opposing team on an untimed basis.