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Short History Tossups and Bonuses
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A tectonic plate with this name is subducting underneath the South American plate at the Peru-Chile Trench. Give this name of a Peruvian culture known for its petroglyphs of animals, their namesake "lines." | Nazca |
| Man with this title used the pseudonym W.A. van Buren, was earlier the chairman of the Secretary-General of the United Nations' Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation. Willem-Alexander took what title in 2013 after abdication of his mother Queen Beatrix? | King of the Netherlands |
| In 1589, Henry IV founded what royal house that also includes King Felipe VI of Spain and French kings from centuries ago, such as Charles X and Louis XIV? | House of Bourbon |
| The Second Quartering Act was included in this set of laws, leading to the passage of the Third Amendment. Britain's response to the Boston Tea Party was what collection of five measures that, among other measures, closed Boston's port? | Intolerable Acts [or Coercive Acts; or Punitive Acts] |
| These people speak a language isolate that they call Euskara. The ETA was a terrorist organization made up of people of what ethnic group, which has sought political autonomy from Spain and France? | Basques |
| In this state, the first commercially successful oil well was drilled near Titusville. Lancaster and York both briefly served as national capitals in what state, where the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was held in Philadelphia? | Pennsylvania |
| These people adopted the Eye of Providence and are led by a Grand Master, who leads at Grand Lodges. Name these fraternal organizations that began with stoneworkers. | Freemasons |
| This group, which constructed Fort Clatsop, was assisted by Toussaint Charbonneau. Name this group sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. | Lewis and Clark expedition [or Corps of Discovery] |
| This republic was nearly toppled by the Beer Hall Putsch. Following the Versailles Treaty, a German National Assembly convened to write a new constitution for what republic? | Weimar Republic [or Weimar Germany] |
| Settlers in this country targeted the native Mapuche people. In what country did CIA agents encourage Augusto Pinochet to overthrow Salvador Allende's elected socialist government? | Chile |
| After this man became ill, he gave up control to William Travis. Davy Crockett died at the Alamo alongside what pioneer, who carried a long-bladed knife? | Jim Bowie |
| In 310, this man defeated Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. What leader, who had a vision of a cross reading "By this sign, you will conquer," was the first Christian Roman emperor? | Constantine I [or Constantine the Great; prompt on Constantine] |
| This man founded the De Beers company, which exploited diamond mines in Africa. Name this Englishman who also endowed scholarships at Oxford, which bear his name. | Cecil Rhodes |
| Wyatt's Revolt targeted this ruler, who exiled George Fox. What daughter of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII, who brutally persecuted Protestants, was the first queen to rule Britain? | Mary I [or Mary Tudor; or Bloody Mary] |
| Operation Anvil was carried out in this country, where the Kapenguria Six were put on trial. The Mau Mau uprising took place in which East African country governed from Nairobi? | Kenya |
| These texts, predominantly written on parchment and papyrus, were likely written by Qumran residents called the Essenes. Bedouin shepherds discovered what Biblical manuscripts near a namesake body of water? | Dead Sea Scrolls |
| Since 1548, this country's stratovolcano Mount Merapi has regularly erupted. In 1883, as many as 100,000 people died when Krakatoa exploded in what Southeast Asian country? | Indonesia |
| A leader of one side in this war shouted, "I die with my nation!" after the Battle of Cerro Corá. What is the most common name for the war during which dictator Francisco Solano Lopez died and Paraguay suffered overwhelming losses? | War of the Triple Alliance [accept Paraguayan War before read] |
| In this century, Britain set up the West Africa Squadron and outlawed the international slave trade. The division of Africa into colonial territories occurred in the last decades of what century? | 19th Century [or 1800s] |
| Bishop Henri Gregoire coined this word in 1793 to indicate the destruction of buildings in the wake of the French Revolution. What is this nine-letter term that comes from the Germanic tribe that sacked Rome in AD 410? | vandalism |
| Abraham Lincoln's opposition to this case's outcome led Stephen Douglas to state that he wanted "warfare on the Supreme Court." What Supreme Court decision ruled that people of African descent who were brought to America as slaves were not U.S. citizens? | Dred Scott v. Sandford |
| A kingdom of these people was defeated at the Battle of Rourke's Drift under the leadership of Cetshwayo. Name these people who were led by Shaka in South Africa. | Zulu people |
| This man's time with King Faisal was recounted in his book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. What colonel served as the British leader of the Arab Revolt during World War I that helped liberate Damascus from the Ottoman Empire? | T. E. Lawrence [or Lawrence of Arabia] |
| Winston Churchill was the British prime minister when World War II ended in Europe. Who was the Prime Minister when World War II broke out? | Neville Chamberlain |
| In 1939, what two countries promised Poland that they would come to its aid if Germany invaded? | England and France [prompt on Great Britain or United Kingdom] |
| What concentration camp, named for a city and a village, was where Anne Frank was sent? | Bergen-Belsen [prompt on partial answers] |
| The St. Lo was the first American ship to be sunk by a kamikaze attack, which happened at which battle? | Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| This man won the Battle of Tippecanoe while serving as governor of the Indiana Territory, though he only served as president for one month. | William Henry Harrison |
| This man's 1864 presidential campaign failed, but this Union general, who won at Antietam, was successful in becoming governor of New Jersey. | George Brinton McClellan |
| This man served first as Indiana Governor, then as Civil War Major General, then as territorial governor of New Mexico — all before he wrote Ben-Hur. | Lew Wallace |
| For his gallantry at Gettysburg, he was awarded the Medal of Honor before becoming Maine's governor after the war. | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain |
| The tycoons of this resource built, almost overnight, the Brazilian village of Manaus into a city. Fordlandia was created to harvest what resource extracted from Amazonian trees? | rubber |
| Through mergers, this businessman formed the first billion-dollar company, U.S. Steel. Name the Wall Street banker who teamed with the Rothschild family during the Panic of 1893 to supply the U.S. Treasury with gold. | J.P. Morgan |
| The period from 1969 until 1998 in this country, concluding with the Good Friday Agreement, was called “The Troubles.” Name this constituent country that encompasses six of the nine counties of the historic province of Ulster. Cities include Belfast. | Northern Ireland |
| Shakespeare depicted this king being poisoned by a monk, but historians believe he died of dysentery. Barons offered the throne of England to Prince Louis of France in rebellion against what king, who signed the Magna Carta? | King John |
| This ruler annulled her marriage to Louis VII of France. England's Henry II obtained extensive lands in southern France by marrying what powerful French queen from Aquitaine? | Eleanor of Aquitaine |
| This squadron docked in 1908 in Yokohama to meet Emperor Taisho. In 1907, President Roosevelt ordered 16 battleships on a voyage around the world as part of a "fleet" known by what name? | Great White Fleet |
| General John Pemberton retreated to this city's fortified location after Ulysses S. Grant captured Jackson. What is this city along the Mississippi River that fell on July 4, 1863, the day after Gettysburg? | Vicksburg |
| An early member of this movement criticized how Rousseau depicted Sophia's education in his book Emile and wrote a 1792 "Vindication." Mary Wollstonecraft was an early member of what movement advocating for the equality of the sexes. | feminism |
| In 1974, archaeologists discovered 8,000 life-size statues of warriors made of what material, which were buried with the first emperor of China? The name for this material means "baked earth." | terra cotta |
| A "revolution" named for this period was called "the worst mistake in the history of the human race" by Jared Diamond. Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument that was built during what period, which is also known as the New Stone Age? | Neolithic period |
| The Morton Thiokol Chemical Corporation was blamed for faulty O-rings that caused this event. Name this explosion event that killed Christa McAuliffe and six other astronauts in 1986. | Challenger disaster [prompt on space shuttle disaster] |
| In this state, a 1993 Treasury Department report concluded that field commanders of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms mishandled the raid on the Branch Davidian cult. Name this state, the site of the Waco siege. | Texas |
| This leader spoke out against Ne Win amid the 8888 Uprising and was put under house arrest until 2010. A 2021 coup overthrew what 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner and former leader of Myanmar? | Aung San Suu Kyi [just need Suu Kyi} |
| Under British rule, this region was renamed from this province of East Bengal. In November 1970, this region was struck by a storm that killed around 500,000 and struck nearby India. What was the historical name of the region that became Bangladesh? | East Pakistan [accept Bangladesh before read] |
| A US attempt to make Brazil a permanent member of this group was blocked by the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. One of the six principal organs of the UN, name this group that establishes sanctions against countries such as North Korea. | United Nations Security Council |
| This president used the slogan "Not just peanuts." | Jimmy Carter |
| This president used the slogan "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage" amid the Great Depression. | Herbert Hoover |
| This president stated, "Four more years of the full dinner pail" which he campaigned on in 1900. | William McKinley |
| This president used the odd slogan of "Don't change horses midstream" campaigning for his second term. | Abraham Lincoln |
| In this year, the Soviet Luna 2 spacecraft crashed into the Moon. Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in what year, which was when Alaska was admitted as 49th state a year prior to the election of JFK? | 1959 |
| Founded as Middle Plantation in 1632, this was the capital of the Virginia Colony until 1780. William and Mary is in what historic city, part of the Historic Triangle with Jamestown and Yorktown? | Williamsburg |
| This state was the birthplace of John C. Breckenridge, who ran for president in 1860. Name this home state of the creator of the American Plan and three-time candidate for president, Henry Clay. | Kentucky |
| This president's forces were victorious over the French at the Battle of Puebla. Name this son of Zapotec peasants, who served as the first Indigenous president of Mexico. | Benito Juarez |
| Amid the Auspicious Incident, these units were dismantled by Mahmud II in 1826. Christian Ottoman slaves were forced to convert to Islam and serve in what elite infantry units? | Janissaries [or Janissary corps] |
| This word applied to both the German Bundestag and the Japanese Parliament. Names the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire. What is this word for an assembly that has been attached to Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Worms [vorms]? | Diet |
| This woman met her brother Cameahwait, who she believed was long lost. Traveling over 3,000 miles while caring for an infant child, what Shoshone was the wife of a French trapper and was a guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition? | Sacagawea |
| Codenamed Argonaut and held at the Livadia Palace in Crimea, what was this conference held two months before the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the second of three conferences attended by the Big Three? | Yalta Conference |
| This nation, which hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics, was once led by Kurt Waldheim. The 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz resulted in the Ottoman Empire ceding most of Hungary to what nation? | Austria |
| This president signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act and tried to overturn his predecessor's "voodoo economics." Name this president who promised "no new taxes" and lost the 1992 election to Bill Clinton. | George H. W. Bush [or George Herbert Walker Bush; accept answers like the elder George Bush; prompt on George Bush] |
| Marquis de Lafayette became head of the National Guard as a result of this event. Took place two days after Jacques Necker was sacked as finance minister. What incident during which a group of Parisians attacked a prison, started the French Revolution? | storming of the Bastille [prompt on French Revolution] |
| The Pazzi conspiracy targeted a ruler from this family. Name this family, whose members included Cosimo and Lorenzo the Magnificent and ruled Florence. | Medici family |
| In 2003, Lindsey Graham replaced this Senator, who was the Dixiecrat candidate in the presidential election of 1948. Name this politician from South Carolina who gave a filibuster lasting over 24 hours against the Civil Rights Act. | Strom Thurmond |
| This man was supposedly told to "make the desert blossom like a rose" in founding a settlement at Deseret. Millard Fillmore appointed what religious leader as the first governor of the Utah territories? | Brigham Young |
| This name was given to an event in which the Expedition of a Thousand fought for a new state, which was led by Victor Emmanuel II. What name is given to the struggle for Italian independence and unification in the 19th century? | Risorgimento [prompt on unification of Italy] |
| Hatuey was a cacique of these people, who were the first native people to meet Christopher Columbus. Hurricane, tobacco, and barbecue are words that came from the language of what original inhabitants of Jamaica? | Taino [or Arawaks] |
| Prior to this battle, B.W. Mitchell discovered Special Order 191, which was disguised as a cigar wrapper. The Bloody Lane was a site of fighting at what battle, the bloodiest in American history? | Battle of Antietam |
| The de Lôme letter partly inspired this war, in which "Butcher" Weyler implemented reconcentration camps. George Dewey destroyed the enemy fleet in Manila harbor during which war that gave the U.S. control of Cuba? | Spanish-American War |
| Politician piloted the A-4E Skyhawk light bomber in Vietnam. Sponsored campaign reform act with Dem. Senator Russ Feingold. Took over Barry Goldwater's seat in the Senate in 1987. Senior Senator from Arizona lost the presidency to Barack Obama in 2008 | John McCain |
| During this battle, Japan lost four carriers and a major portion of its naval air arms, leading Hawaii and the United States to be spared any further threat from Japanese attack. June 1942 battle, considered the turning point of the Pacific Theater | Battle of Midway |
| Battle was fought on one side by Maxentius, who drowned in the Tiber River, and on the other side by a man who had instructed his soldiers to paint the symbol Chi Rho on their shields. 312 battle that marked the beginning of the empire of Constantine I? | Battle of the Milvian Bridge |
| This war ended with the death of President Francisco Solano Lopez at the Battle of Cerro Cora. The bloodiest war in Latin American history, what is this conflict in which Paraguay fought against Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay? | War of the Triple Alliance [accept Paraguayan War before read] |
| Robert Peel was the first prime minister from this party, which formed around William Pitt the Younger as an offshoot of the Whig Party. What is this party of Benjamin Disraeli and Margaret Thatcher? | Conservative Party [or Tories] |
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