Preliminary Round 10

Preliminary Round 10

NHBB Nationals Bowl 2018-2019 Bowl Round 10 Bowl Round 10 First Quarter (1) This case was originally filed against H.G. Cochrane who retired soon after. The winner of this case was forced to sit for a second trial during which he was represented by Fred Turner. This case overturned the \special circumstances" requirement written in Betts v. Brady. In this case, Abe Fortas argued on the behalf of a defendant who had broken into a Florida pool hall. The public defender system was expanded as a result of, for ten points, what case that expanded the accused's right to an attorney to states. ANSWER: Gideon v. Wainwright (accept either underlined name) (2) Five of these structures were based on the island of Kneiphof [neep-hof], where Immanuel Kant is buried, but two of the five were destroyed during World War II bombing raids. These structures, which spanned the Pregel River, were the subject of a popular thought problem that was solved in 1736 by a clever, early use of graph theory. For ten points, name this set of walkways in a Prussian city, now the Russian city of Kaliningrad, that were famously studied by Leonhard Euler [oiler]. ANSWER: Seven Bridges of K¨onigsberg (prompt on partial answers; do not accept answers referring to Kaliningrad) (3) This battle's loser boasted that \an arm when cut off cannot grow again, but a shorn beard will." Marco Bragadin was flayed alive after buying time for this battle's winning side to assemble a fleet. This battle was prompted by the siege of Famagusta and the loss of one participant's colony of Cyprus. Miguel Cervantes lost an arm fighting under Don Juan of Austria in this battle, the last great engagement between galleys. For ten points, identify this naval victory for the Holy League over the Ottomans in 1571. ANSWER: Battle of Lepanto (4) Peter Malkin's memoirs about this event inspired a 2018 film starring Ben Kingsley as this event's subject and also featuring Michael Aronov as Zvi Aharoni. During this event, a team led by Rafi Eitan raided a home on Garibaldi Street. This event, the subject of the film Operation Finale, resulted in agents of Mossad drugging a man for his flight out of Argentina in May 1960. For ten points, name this event that allowed a Nazi to be put on trial in Israel. ANSWER: Mossad/Israel's capture (or synonyms) of Adolf Eichmann (accept equivalents; prompt on partial answers; do not accept Eichmann's trial) (5) James Martin Eder revolutionized this industry at the \La Manuelita" hacienda with steam power. The Mascate War was fought between Portuguese merchants and landowners of this industry in Pernambuco. John Drax used slave labor to develop this industry in Barbados, which later utilized Benjamin Delessert's method of extracting this industry's commodity from beet roots. For ten points, name this industry central to the Caribbean colonies, products from which were used to make rum and molasses. ANSWER: sugarcane industry (prompt on \molasses" industry until mention) Page 1 NHBB Nationals Bowl 2018-2019 Bowl Round 10 (6) Followers of this man broke into the house of Rebecca Vaughan and killed while she prayed. After being found hiding among the Nottoway by Benjamin Phipps, this man asked \Was Christ not crucified?” The blueish-green appearance of the Sun, possibly caused by an eruption of Mount St. Helens, was interpreted by this man as a message from God to begin one event. Thomas Gray recorded the \confessions" of this man who may have ordered his followers to \kill all the white people." For ten points, name this slave who led an 1831 rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. ANSWER: Nat Turner (7) During this conflict, one side's declaration that they were preparing the Samson Option prompted the United States to provide aid in Operation Nickel Grass. This conflict commenced with a surprise attack in Operation Badr on the Bar Lev Line. Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy helped bring an end to this conflict, the failure to prevent which led Golda Meir to resign. For ten points, name this conflict in which Arab forces surprised Israel on the Day of Atonement. ANSWER: Yom Kippur War (8) This man's first term as prime minister ended after Daniel O'Connell allied with Lord Melbourne to block any law this man proposed. This man sparked the Bedchamber Crisis and penned the Tamworth Manifesto, one of the cornerstones of the Conservative Party. This man resigned after siding with the opposition to repeal the Corn Laws in the wake of the Irish Potato Famine. For ten points, identify this British prime minister who founded the London Metropolitan Police Force. ANSWER: Robert Peel (9) Steve Bales accepted an award for his role in this mission for saying \Go" when he could have said \Stop" or \Wait." A planned speech in case this mission failed opens with \Fate has ordained" that men who went to \explore in peace" will now \rest in peace." After completing a landing procedure in this mission, its participants radioed Houston to say \The Eagle has landed." For ten points, name this mission in which Neil Armstrong said \That's one small step for man" after landing on the moon. ANSWER: Apollo 11 (10) A work by this composer was adapted from the last two tableau of his posthumously published Press Celebrations Music. The Biafran national anthem was adapted from a melody by this composer, as was the hymn Be Still, My Soul. This composer of seven symphonies left his final one, in C major, unfinished. One of this composer's works was censored during his country's independence movement from Russia at the start of the 20th century. For ten points, name this composer of Finlandia. ANSWER: Jean Sibelius Page 2 NHBB Nationals Bowl 2018-2019 Bowl Round 10 Second Quarter (1) One side in this trial was represented by Samuel Phillips who was opposed by Milton Joseph Cunningham, a man arrested during Reconstruction for restoring white supremacy. Henry Billings Brown reasoned that the matters of \health, safety, and morals" belong to the state government in this majority decision for this case. The lone dissent in this case argued that \our constitution is color-blind." A violation of Louisiana's Separate Car Act prompted, for ten points, what case which created the doctrine of \separate but equal?" ANSWER: Plessy v. Ferguson BONUS: The lone dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson came from this Justice who, due to his penchant for performing such actions, was nicknamed \The Great Dissenter." ANSWER: John Marshall Harlan (2) One work builds on Joan Riviere's comment that a variant of this word is a \masquerade," claiming that this word is open to “resignification” because this word's definition is performative and the category this word implies is invalid. In another work, one author argues that this word is defined as a dialectic \Other" and quipped, \one is not born, but becomes" this word. For ten points, name this word at the center of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. ANSWER: \woman" BONUS: Gender Trouble also engages what thinker's History of Sexuality, which examines historical discourse to argue that sex is a social construct and subject to societal forms of power? ANSWER: Michel Foucault (3) Prior warning of this event was given by a chauffeur nicknamed Jean-Pierre. The Batwa people are often called the \forgotten victims" of this event, which was spurred by propaganda from the RTLM radio station. Romeo Dallaire's UNAMIR failed to prevent this event, which began after the death of President Habyarimana. This event was mainly perpetuated by the Interahamwe militia and came to an end when RPF forces captured Kigali. For ten points, name this 1994 genocide of Tutsis by Hutus. ANSWER: Rwandan Genocide BONUS: This current President of Rwanda commanded the RPF forces which ended the genocide. ANSWER: Paul Kagame Page 3 NHBB Nationals Bowl 2018-2019 Bowl Round 10 (4) The windows of the Althing were smashed during protests against this organization, which needed Iceland to fill the GIUK gap. The Lemnitzer-Ailleret agreements outlined how the French army could reenter this organization even after de Gaulle withdrew from it in 1966. This organization intervened in the Bosnian War by enforcing Operation Deny Flight. For ten points, name this mutual defense organization formed after World War II with the primary goal of countering the USSR. ANSWER: NATO (or North Atlantic Treaty Organization or North Atlantic Alliance) BONUS: NATO's Article 5 commits signatories to this doctrine, which states that an attack on one member state is treated as an attack on every member state. ANSWER: collective security (or collective defense) (5) A communist party leader from this modern country, Edvard Kadelj, was accidentally shot by Jovan Veselinov, who was aiming at a wild boar. This country's DEMOS party helped form its first government, after which it declared independence, leading to the Brioni Agreement after winning the Ten Day War and beginning a general breakup of a Balkan conglomerate state. The historical region of Carniola is the site of, for ten points, what former Yugoslav republic's capital of Ljubljana? ANSWER: Slovenia BONUS: Slovenia's small Adriatic littoral borders what northeastern Italian port city that was ceded to Italy via the 1975 Treaty of Osimo? ANSWER: Trieste (6) This author's disgust at Ivan Ivanov's murder by Sergei Nechaev spurred him to attack nihilism in a work centered on the morally dubious Nikolai Stavrogin in which Shatov is murdered by Pyotr Stepanovich.

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