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q1818_1 | The characters in this novel are either "biguns" or "littluns." | Lord of the Flies | Literature |
q264_1 | In 2011 this country and a country it almost entirely surrounds agreed to an exchange of border enclaves. | Republic of {India} | Geography |
q717_4 | This man wrote a 1729 satirical essay suggesting that poor people in Ireland should sell their children as food. The protagonist in one of his novels goes to the flying island of Laputa. That character also goes to a land of (*) giants called Brobdingnag and a land of very small people called Lilliput. For 10 points, name this author of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels. | Jonathan {Swift} | Philosophy |
q1425_2 | In 1822, the House of Iturbide (“EE-tur-BEE-day”) assumed control of this nation for one year. This nation was ruled by an Austrian emperor installed by Napoleon III, Maximilian, although he was overthrown by Benito Juarez (“WAHR-ezz”). | Mexico | History |
q523_3 | The Garigal (GARE-ih-gall) and Lane Cove national parks are in this city, whose center is known as the Circular Quay. It is located on the south shore of Port Jackson, which is spanned by a namesake Harbour Bridge. Jorn Utzon (YORN OOT-sun) designed the white shells of this city's opera house. | Sydney | Geography |
q40_4 | The deepest point in this body of water is known as Calypso Deep. Biomes around it include the garrigue (“garr-REEG”) and the maquis (“mah-KEE”). Major cities on this sea include Ajaccio (“eye- YAWX-ee-oh”), Palermo, and Beirut, while its largest islands include Cyprus, Crete, Sardinia, and Sicily. The Strait of Gibraltar is the western boundary of, for 10 points, what sea between Europe and Africa? | Mediterranean Sea | Geography |
q1624_3 | After being ransomed from pirates, this man captured his kidnappers and crucified them. At the Battle of Alesia (ah-LEE-see-ah), this man defeated Vercingetorix (ver-sin-GEH-tor-icks) and conquered Gaul. After Pompey ordered him to disband his army, he crossed the Rubicon. | Gaius Julius {Caesar} | History |
q1473_4 | The Long Walls connected this city to its port, Piraeus (“peer-AY-us”). The Delian (“DEAL-ee-un”) League was headed by this city, where plague broke out in 429 BC, killing its leader, Pericles (“PEAR- ick-lees”). Its forces won the Battle of Marathon, but were defeated by Sparta in the Peloponnesian (“PELL-uh-poe-NEES-yun”) War. For 10 points, name this democratic city-state of ancient Greece, the home of Socrates (“SOCK-ruh-tees”) and Plato. | {Athens} | History |
q1382_2 | This polity's army was defeated and its king, Cleombrotus (CLEE-ahm-BRO-tus), was killed at the battle of Leuctra by forces led by Epaminondas (eh-PAM-in-ON-das). Critias (CRITT-ee-us) was installed as one of the Thirty Tyrants by this city-state to rule a naval power that led the Delian League. | {Sparta} [accept {Lacedaemon}] | History |
q1579_1 | This book claims that the only two lamplighters who lead idle lives are at the North and South Poles, and it describes a King, a Geographer, and a Businessman. | The {Little Prince} [or {Le Petit Prince}] | Literature |
q760_1 | Adrian Smith designed the world's largest structure of this type, which is currently located in the United Arab Emirates. | skyscraper [prompt on building; prompt on tower] | Science |
q295_4 | The first president of this nation, Douglas Hyde, was elected thanks to the founder of the Fianna Fail party, the Taoiseach ["tee-shock"] Eamon de Valera. Earlier, this country's members of Sinn Fein started the Easter Rising, and William Gladstone supported its "Home Rule." Michael Collins led this country's (*) IRA. For 10 points, name this country which shares its island with part of the United Kingdom and whose capital is Dublin. | Republic of Ireland | History |
q273_1 | A PowerPoint presentation released by this organization details how Bank of America plans to attack it. | WikiLeaks | Trash |
q2314_4 | One ruler of this historical country went on a "Grand Embassy" to the west to learn shipbuilding and military training. That same ruler instituted a beard tax on boyars. Another of its rulers created a parliament called the Duma and issued the October Manifesto. Peter the Great and Nicholas II were rulers of, for 10 points, what empire where a 1917 revolution toppled the government in Moscow? | {Russian Empire} [do not accept or prompt on "Soviet Union" or "U.S.S.R."] | History |
q245_1 | This river divides Minneapolis and St. Paul. | {Mississippi} River | Geography |
q781_2 | This king was in power during the Affair of the Diamond Necklace. His advisor Maurepas appointed Turgot as finance minister, and he was later served by the author of the compte rendu, Jacques Necker. | Louis XVI [\"the 16th\"] of France | History |
q1467_5 | This play's opening brawl is started by Gregory and Samson. Later in this play, Friar John fails to deliver a letter written by Friar Lawrence. Mercutio is killed by Tybalt in Act III of this play. This play features the feud between the Montagues (“MON-tay-gyooz”) and the Capulets. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare tragedy, depicting a doomed romance between the two title “star-crossed lovers.” | {Romeo} and {Juliet} | Literature |
q1846_3 | This term denotes any algebraic expression written as the quotient of two polynomials. If the discriminant of a quadratic equation is a perfect square, then both roots of that equation are of this type. All numbers denoted by this term are algebraic. | rational | Science |
q2005_3 | This country's northwest is home to the Islamic Uighur (WEE-gur) people. The leader of another religion from this country described the "Five Great Relationships" and listed virtues like "reciprocity" and "culture" in one of the "Four Books." Adherents of a third religion from this country follow the practice of "no action," or wu wei. | {China} [or {People's Republic} of {China;} do not accept or prompt on "Republic of China"] | Religion |
q2236_4 | One king of this name had his ministers Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More executed. The seventh king of this name founded the Tudor dynasty after he won the Battle of Bosworth Field. His son of this name left the Catholic Church so that he could divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. For 10 points, give this name of several English kings, the eighth of whom had six wives. | {Henry} [accept {Henry} VIIor {Henry} VIII] | History |
q1819_1 | In this story, a boy boards a train "wrapped in an apron of steam," and, nearing his destination, sees the lights of the city as "lights of an ocean liner sailing on a frozen sea." | The Polar Express | Literature |
q3209_1 | A financial arm of this organization was founded at the Bretton Woods conference, and a conference that oversaw its creation was held in San Francisco. | {United Nations} [or {UN}] | History |
q3341_2 | This constellation contains the Trapezium Cluster and is the site of a late-October meteor shower. One of its stars, formerly known as the Amazon Star, is Bellatrix, and its brightest stars are Betelgeuse and Rigel. | Orion [prompt on Hunter before it is read] | Science |
q2141_3 | This man's family was kicked out of the Borjigin clan after his father Yesugei was poisoned. After this leader came to power, he created the Yassa legal code, and this man and his son are credited for building up Karakorum and defeating the Khwarezmian Empire. Because one of his sons, Jochi, was poisoned, his successor was another son, Ogedei. | {Genghis Khan} [accept {Temujin;} prompt on Khan] | Trash |
q2254_1 | The independence of this commonwealth has been sought by Rubén Berríos, while an opposite approach has been pushed by its New Progressive Party under Pedro Pierluisi. | Puerto Rico | Trash |
q1707_3 | Modifications of this process can use PEP carboxylase ("PEP" car-BOX-ill-ase) to fix a reactant normally fixed by RuBisCO (roo-BISS-ko) in this process's dark reactions. The light reactions of this process occur along the thylakoid ("THIGH"-luh-koyd) membrane. It takes place within the chloroplasts (KLOR-oh-plasts), which contain light-absorbing chlorophylls (KLOR-oh-fills). | photosynthesis | Science |
q2549_1 | The Aufbau (“OUF-bou”) principle explains how these particles are placed in their “shells.” | {electrons} | Science |
q2557_2 | This man fought against Ariovistus (“air-ee-oh-VIS-tuss”), a German leader, and Vercingetorix (“ver- KING-uh-TOR-ix”), a chieftain of the Arverni (“ar-VEHR-nee”) whose defeat is described in this man's book, Commentaries on the Gallic Wars. He led his troops across the Rubicon to start a civil war with Pompey, one of his partners in the First Triumvirate. | Julius {Caesar} | History |
q1784_1 | In one of this man's stories, Bill and Sam kidnap the title bratty son of Ebenezer Dorset. | O. Henry [or William Sydney Porter] | Literature |
q1052_2 | The heat of fusion is the amount of heat that must be added to a substance for this process to occur without a change in temperature. Salt is placed on roads to favor this process over its opposite. | melting | Science |
q1598_3 | One structure in this organ, the Bowman's capsule, is divided into several layers including the visceral and parietal layers. The adrenal glands are located just above this organ, whose loop of Henle [HEN-lee] helps concentrate (*) urine. Dialysis is used as an alternative when this organ fails. | kidneys | Science |
q951_2 | This office is symbolized by gold and silver keys. The time during which this office is vacant is termed sede vacante (SEE-day vah-KAHN-tay). | The {Pope} [or {Bishop of Rome;} or {Vicar of Jesus Christ;} or {Successor of the Prince of the Apostles;} or {Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church;} or {Primate of Italy;} or {Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province;} or {Sovereign of the State of Vatican City;} or {Servant of the Servants of God;} or {Pontifex Maximus;} or {Patriarch of the West;} prompt on His Holiness] | Religion |
q12393_3 | The “straw” form of this practice is unscientific and the “push” form of this is really just a campaign tactic designed to attack an opponent in disguise. Most important to politicians in the midst of a campaign are the “exit” form and “tracking” forms. They require some form of a random sample and carefully worded questions in order to be accurate. | {polls} [or {polling}] | Social Science |
q3260_5 | This shape names a law for adding vectors. In a namesake illusion, diagonals of two of these figures appear to be different lengths, though they are not. Though not necessarily the same length, the diagonals of this quadrilateral bisect each other. If all four sides of this type of figure are of equal length, the figure is a rhombus. For 10 points, name this shape drawn from two intersecting sets of parallel lines. | {parallelogram} [do not accept or prompt on more specific answers such as "rhombus," "square," or "rectangle;" do not accept or prompt on less specific answers such as "quadrilateral"] | Science |
q523_1 | The Garigal (GARE-ih-gall) and Lane Cove national parks are in this city, whose center is known as the Circular Quay. | Sydney | Geography |
q3228_1 | William Crawford finished third in the general election in this year, in which one loser accused the Speaker of the House of negotiating a "corrupt bargain." | Election of {1824} | History |
q700_4 | The Apostle Islands are in the northern part of this state, whose first European visitor was French trader Jean Nicolet in 1634. Lake Winnebago is located in this state near the cities of Fond du Lac and Oshkosh. This state's Door Peninsula separates (*) Green Bay from Lake Michigan. For 10 points, Madison and Milwaukee are found in what state nicknamed "American's Dairyland"? | Wisconsin | Geography |
q3462_1 | This country was headed by Kurt Waldheim after he was UN Secretary-General. | Austria | History |
q2113_1 | One creation story from this religion claims that all beings were sprung from one-fourth of Purusa(POO-roo-SAH), while the Puranas ("PURR"-on-AHS) describe how the world is created, sustained, and destroyed by three gods in the form of a lotus flower. | {Hinduism} [accept {sanatara dharma}] | Religion |
q494_3 | This man's associates included Red Hawley, Bud Kangley, and Shot Gunderson. His wife is variously given as either Carrie McIntie or Lucette Kensack. One of this man's pets, Benny, died after swallowing a stove that had been used to make oversized pancakes. | Paul Bunyan | Mythology |
q1492_2 | One leader of this country forcibly annexed the Sudetenland (“soo-DAY-ten-land”). During a movement to reunite this country, the leader of one half operated under the policy of ostpolitik (“OST-pol- it-ick”). | Federal Republic of {Germany} [or {Bundesrepublik Deutschland}] | History |
q3048_1 | Frederick Muhlenberg was the first person to hold this office. | {Speaker of the House} of Representatives | History |
q1785_2 | This particle was discovered by J.J. Thomson, and its exact charge was discovered in the Millikan oil drop experiment. According to the Pauli Exclusion Principle, two of these particles cannot exist in the same quantum state. | electron [prompt on fermion] | Science |
q2105_1 | This character's birthday is May 8. | {Katniss Everdeen} [accept either underlined name] | Literature |
q1895_2 | This man wrote that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” in his Letter from Birmingham Jail. This organizer of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference hoped that his children would be judged by “the content of their character” in his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial. | Martin Luther {King} Jr. [accept {MLK}] | History |
q2929_2 | In this painting, the colonial print and flowers on the woman's dress symbolize domestic care and the traditional role of women in society. The two figures in this work were modeled after the artist's dentist and sister. | American Gothic | Fine Arts |
q692_1 | Creations of this type include Roland Barthes's (BART'S) "Death of the Author." | {essays} [prompt on {papers;} prompt on {prose;} prompt on {non}-{fiction;} do not accept or prompt on "article"; do not accept or prompt on "report"] | Literature |
q4061_1 | A revolution in this country was led by the Katipunan and was sparked by the execution of Jose Rizal. | Republic of the {Philippines} | History |
q174_2 | This empire held together by the use of quipus (“KWEE-poos”) was expanded by Pachacuti (“PAH- chah-COO-tee”) but weakened by civil war between Huascar (“HWASS-car”) and Atahualpa (“AT-uh- WALL-puh”). Cities built in it included the capital, Cuzco (“KOOZ-ko”), and the city discovered by Hiram Bingham, Machu Picchu. | {Inca} empire [{or Inka} empire; {or Incan} civilization] | History |
q2088_1 | This man's son was baptized by Olaf Tryggvason (TRIG-vah-"sun"). | Erik the Red [or Erik Thorvaldsson; prompt on Erik] | History |
q505_4 | The late Senator Robert Byrd once held the rank of Exalted Cyclops in this organization, whose first major leader was Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Civil Rights Act of 1871 was also named for this group. D.W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation glorifies this group, which was sued for (*) lynching Michael Donald. For 10 points, name this white supremacist group that burns crosses and wears white clothing. | Ku Klux Klan | History |
q134_2 | Venus' hairstone consists of this mineral with rutile (“ROO-tile”) interspersed within. Citrine (“SIT- reen”) is formed through heating the "smoky" form of this mineral, whose rarer forms consist of a "rose" form as well as amethyst. | {quartz} | Science |
q2222_1 | An early invention used to make art works in this medium was the daguerreotype [duh-gayr-"row"-"type"]. | photographs [accept word forms; prompt on \"pictures\"] | Fine Arts |
q1425_4 | In 1822, the House of Iturbide (“EE-tur-BEE-day”) assumed control of this nation for one year. This nation was ruled by an Austrian emperor installed by Napoleon III, Maximilian, although he was overthrown by Benito Juarez (“WAHR-ezz”). The Gadsden Purchase bought land from this country, whose victory at Puebla (“PWAY-bluh”) is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo. For 10 points, identify this nation that once owned California and Texas. | Mexico | History |
q1447_3 | One of this deity's possessions is a ring that creates eight copies of itself every nine nights. This deity learned nine songs and eighteen runes after hanging from the world tree for nine days. Huginn (“HOO- ginn”) and Muninn (“MOO-ninn”) bring information from the various lands of this deity's pantheon to his throne. | Odin | Mythology |
q2643_2 | This man was traded by the Reds for Edinson Volquez after his rookie season. In July 2011, Shannon Stone fell to his death while reaching for a ball that this player threw into the stands of Rangers Ballpark. | Josh Hamilton | Trash |
q1113_1 | This character feels nauseous at the sight of blue oatmeal and befriends Yard Ape. | {Ramona Quimby} [or Ramona Quimby; prompt on Quimby] | Literature |
q112_2 | In this novel, Charlotte Lucas marries William Collins. At the end of this novel, Lydia ends up marrying the villainous Mr. Wickham and Jane ends up marrying the very rich Mr. Bingley. | {Pride} and {Prejudice} | Literature |
q68_4 | A sports team from this city defeated the Calgary Stampeders in the 2012 Grey Cup. This city is the current home of major leaguers Adam Lind, Brett Lawrie, and Jose Bautista. Another sports team for this city features Landry Fields and (*) Andrea Bargnani, but is probably better known for being the former team of Chris Bosh. For 10 points, name this Canadian city, home of the Raptors, Maple Leafs, and Blue Jays. | Toronto | Trash |
q1981_2 | This modern state's panhandle was crossed by the Cimarron Cutoff, a branch of the Santa Fe Trail. A city in this state is called "Broken Arrow" because it was settled by Creek people, while part of this state was known as the "Indian Territory." | Oklahoma | History |
q3814_2 | This man found that nothing would grow in nutrient broth unless it was exposed to the air, thereby rejecting the theory of spontaneous generation and providing evidence for germ theory. He generalized Edward Jenner's work with smallpox immunity to develop vaccines for anthrax and rabies. | Louis {Pasteur} [accept {pasteurization} or word forms after "process"] | Science |
q2661_3 | This empire arose when the Seljuk sultanate collapsed. It captured the capital of Hungary in 1526 during the Battle of Mohacs (mow-HOTCH). This nation's expansion to Greece and the Balkan Peninsula was followed by the capture of Constantinople in 1453. | Ottoman Empire [or Osmanic Empire; or Osmanion Empire] | History |
q260_1 | A museum branch located in this city's Fort Tryon Park containing medieval art is known as The Cloisters. | New York City | Geography |
q926_2 | Examples of these in plants include gibberellins and cytokinins in addition to chemicals that cause tropisms by enlarging cells, auxins. Many human examples are classified as peptides, including gastrin, which aids digestion. | hormones | Science |
q366_4 | Maria Callas, nicknamed "The Divine," had this vocal range. One aria sung in this voice promises revenge against Tamino and Pamina and is named for its singer, the Queen of the Night. That aria contains several series of high C's, and the lowest notes this voice calls for is the A below the staff. One subtype of this voice is called the coloratura. | soprano | Fine Arts |
q1947_3 | In this novel, one character has a vision of the destruction of Sandleford which ultimately turns out to be true. That character, Fiver, ultimately starts a search for a new home along with Hazel, BigWig, and Silver. After the title warren is found, a rival faction attacks the protagonists, who are a group of (*) rabbits. | Watership Down | Literature |
q213_2 | Richard Mentor Johnson's political career was helped by the belief that he personally killed this man at the Battle of the Thames (TEMS). This man helped co-found a settlement in the Indiana Territory where his brother was defeated by William Henry Harrison; that defeat occurred during the Battle of Tippecanoe. | Tecumseh [accept Tecumtha; accept Tekamthi] | History |
q354_2 | One famous work for this instrument is Caprice No. 24 by Paganini (pag-uh-NEE-nee). In Berlioz's (BER-lee-ohz) Symphonie Fantastique (fan-tas-TEEK), a head bouncing from a guillotine is depicted by this instrument playing pizzicato (PITZ-ee-KAH-toe). | violin | Fine Arts |
q1671_2 | The last "ancient" time period of this nation is named after the burial mounds, or kofun, of that time period. The Gempei War ended the Heian period of this country. | Japan [or Nippon] | History |
q833_1 | This man designed railway stations in Santiago, Chile and Budapest, Hungary. | (Alexandre) Gustave {Eiffel} | Fine Arts |
q2229_1 | These figures sent the dragon Campe to guard their more monstrous brothers in Tartarus. | Titans | Mythology |
q1708_1 | At the end of this novel, one character briefly reunites with her mother Gudule (“guh-DOOL”). | The {Hunchback of Notre Dame} | Literature |
q1891_4 | Opposite corners of this constellation are at the start Saiph and Bellatrix. Though called its beta, its brightest star is usually Rigel [RY-jul]. This constellation is visible only in the winter, and its alpha star, part of the Winter Triangle and at the center of the Winter Hexagon, is (*) Betelgeuse ["beetle juice"]. A line across its center formed by Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka is known as its "belt". | {Orion} [prompt on the \"Hunter\"] | Science |
q1247_1 | In this novel, a town is fooled by two men who pull off the Royal Nonesuch, and those men go on to steal the property of the late Peter Wilkes. | The Adventures of {Huckleberry Finn} | Literature |
q1069_1 | This person declared we are "one people" during a run against Alan Keyes. | Barack Hussein {Obama} II | History |
q1416_1 | This term describes a type of friction whose coefficient is usually larger than that of kinetic friction. | static | Science |
q59_1 | This character watches a lion and a unicorn fight over a crown, and although her cat Dinah will not talk to her, the Tiger Lily and the other flowers will. | {Alice} [accept The {White King} until "her"] | Literature |
q1738_3 | During the eighteenth century, this nation was partitioned three times by its neighbors. Its first elected president was a former shipyard electrician and leader of the Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa (“vaw- WESS-uh”), and it was the home country of Pope John Paul II. For 10 points, Germany's September 1939 invasion of what nation prompted Britain and France to enter World War II after the bombing of Warsaw? | Republic of {Poland} [or Rzeczpospolita {Polska}] | History |
q2151_2 | He compared himself to Robert Downey Jr. on a Colbert (“cole-BEAR”) Report appearance in which he defended himself from rumors of a lifestyle change. While Kermit the Frog lectured about the W, this character turned it into an N, a V, and then an I. | {Cookie Monster} | Trash |
q3154_2 | The would-be assassin of this person clashed with his attorney, Judy Clarke, when told his target survived. She received a standing ovation from Congress when she appeared to cast a vote in August 2011. | Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords | Trash |
q450_2 | Paul Whiteman's band premiered this work at "An Experiment in Modern Music," after which its composer wrote out the solo piano part he'd improvised. This piece features syncopation inspired by a train ride from New York to Boston, and its opening theme is introduced with a (*) clarinet glissando. | \"Rhapsody in Blue\" | Fine Arts |
q1041_2 | This man chaired the 40 Committee that authorized the CIA backed coup of Salvador Allende (Ah-YEN-day) in Chile. He negotiated with Zhou Enlai during Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China. | (Heinz Alfred) \"Henry\" Kissinger | History |
q672_1 | In the Admirable Campaign, this man issued the Cartagena (CAR-tah-HAY-nuh) Manifesto and the Decree of War to the Death. | Simón Bolívar | History |
q2030_3 | All solutions of Diophantine (DYE-oh-FAN-teen) equations are in this set. This set is closed under addition, subtraction, and multiplication, but not division, and is denoted by a boldface Z. The absolute value of any number in this set except 0 is a natural number. | integers | Science |
q487_3 | One of this writer's stories follows Annemarie Johansen as she helps her friend Ellen escape from Nazi-occupied Denmark. A sequel to this author's most well-known book follows the weaver Kira, and that book ends with Jonah and Gabe fleeing the dystopian society they live in. For 10 points, identify this Newbery award winning author who wrote Number the Stars, Gathering Blue, and The Giver. | Lois {Lowry} [or Lois Ann {Hammersberg}] | Literature |
q146_4 | The Neptunbrunnen is a fountain in this city, and its Museum Island is a World Heritage Site. The Charlottenburg Palace can be found in it, and Karl-Marx-Allee is a major boulevard. The Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate are landmarks in this city that was divided by a wall until 1989. For 10 points, name this capital of Germany. | Berlin, Germany | Geography |
q81_3 | Resignations of the President or Vice-President must be delivered to this person. Madeleine Albright was the first woman to hold this position, and one candidate for this position in the second Obama administration withdrew her candidacy due to controversy over the (*) Benghazi attacks. Susan Rice was a potential nominee for, for 10 points, what cabinet post dealing with diplomacy and foreign affairs held by John Kerry? | Secretary of State | Trash |
q2049_1 | One novel by this writer is about a man who enters an extinct volcano in Iceland and emerges in Italy. | Jules {Verne} | Literature |
q1368_3 | Big Bob Oakley was the first person on this show to say "I'd have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those kids," and one show in this series introduced a character named Scrappy. In 2002, a film of the same name starred Freddie Prinze, Jr. as Freddy and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne. For 10 points, name this cartoon franchise, named for a cowardly Great Dane. | Scooby-Doo [accept Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!] | Trash |
q1628_3 | The two-tiered tracking system during the Civil Rights era was one attempt to avoid this practice. Appropriations bills are not subject to it, and Strom Thurmond once did this for 24 hours and 37 minutes. The cloture rule requires a three-fifths majority to stop it. | {filibuster} [accept word forms] | Social Science |
q3785_1 | The dot product of two vectors over the product of their lengths gives this function of the angle between them. | cosine [accept cosine of x, with x being any letter] | Science |
q672_4 | In the Admirable Campaign, this man issued the Cartagena (CAR-tah-HAY-nuh) Manifesto and the Decree of War to the Death. This victor at the Battle of Boyaca (boy-YAH-cah) defeated the Spanish in the Battle of Carabobo, helping Venezuela achieve its independence. He met with José de San Martín at Guayaquil (GUY-ah-keel) and was the first president of Gran Colombia. For 10 points, name this South American leader known as "the Liberator." | Simón Bolívar | History |
q337_2 | This country had its Jews move to the Pale of Settlement. Prince Bagration died during an invasion of this country at the Battle of Borodino. | Russian Empire | History |
q1676_1 | One type of this weapon would have been defended against by President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. | {missiles} [prompt on {\"nuclear bomb\"} until \"surface-to-air\" is mentioned; do not accept or prompt on rocket(s)] | History |
q1862_3 | One writer in this language wrote the collection “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.” Another user of this language published the short story collections The Aleph and Ficciones. Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude were also written in this language. | {Spanish} [or {Español}] | Literature |
q624_4 | This instrument was played by Cannonball Adderley on Kind of Blue, as well as by a musician whose own albums include Giant Steps and A Love Supreme. Another player of this instrument released Ornithology and Yardbird Suite. It was played by John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. For 10 points, name this instrument whose alto and tenor varieties have a U-bend and tilted bell and are common in jazz ensembles. | {saxophone} [accept alto saxophone] | Fine Arts |
q1758_4 | This person won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading negotiations for the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War. This leader coined the term "bully pulpit" and introduced the Square Deal. During the Spanish-American War, he led a charge up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders, and he would later run for President on the Bull Moose ticket. For 10 points, name this President who succeeded William McKinley. | {Theodore} "Teddy" {Roosevelt} [prompt on Roosevelt; prompt on T.R.] | History |
q523_4 | The Garigal (GARE-ih-gall) and Lane Cove national parks are in this city, whose center is known as the Circular Quay. It is located on the south shore of Port Jackson, which is spanned by a namesake Harbour Bridge. Jorn Utzon (YORN OOT-sun) designed the white shells of this city's opera house. Suburbs of this city can be found on the coast of Botany Bay. | Sydney | Geography |
q1025_4 | A self-help book by Spencer Johnson asks “Who Moved?” this object. The main character of the title “Fairly Stupid Tale” in a collection by Jon Scieszka (“SHEESH-kuh”) is a man made of a “stinky” kind of this food. In “The Farmer and the Dell,” it stands alone. The moon is not actually made of a green version of it. | {cheese} [accept {Who Moved My Cheese?} before “this object”] | Trash |
q232_1 | This musician sang duets like "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" with Ella Fitzgerald and recorded albums with his "Hot Five" and "Hot Seven" bands. | Louis Armstrong | Fine Arts |
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