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Mad King Ludwig Memorial History Tournament
Chicago Open 2006 History Doubles, July 28, 2006
Questions by Chris Frankel
Tossups, Round 9
1. For their first terms, Walter Marion Chandler of New York and Roy Woodruff of Michigan were
elected to Congress under the banner of this party, and Miles Poindexter spent two years as its only
serving senator. Its leader declared that “We stand at Armageddon” in the “Confession of Faith”
speech given at its formative convention in Chicago, while funding for it was largely provided by Frank
Munsey and George Perkins, both of whom were criticized for their corporate ties. During the presidential
campaign, John Schrank shot and wounded its candidate, who ran with Hiram Johnson and championed a
“New Nationalism” that was overshadowed by the “New Freedom” platform of his victorious opponent.
FTP, identify this third party that finished second in the 1912 election under Theodore Roosevelt.
ANSWER: Progressive Party or Bull Moose Party (don’t accept any answers that imply any incarnations
of the Progressive Party that aren’t the Bull Moose Party, since all the clues refer to the 1912 version)
2. The conflict centering on this group was ended by a treaty at Meaux, which followed a series of
defeats they suffered under Constable Humbert of Beaujeau. Earlier, one of their strongholds at
Belcaire had been besieged by Amaury, the son of their opposition’s main leader, whose forces are
depicted in a famous painting showing them being expelled from the walled city of Carcassonne. The
campaign of violence against them was inspired by the assassination of Peter de Castelnau; and while Peter
II of Aragon joined Raymond VI of Tolouse in leading their defense, many nobles in the north rallied
against them because of Innocent III’s promise of claims to their lands. Though Phillip Augustus was too
busy with the Bouvines War to join the fight against them, his son Louis VIII did, enlisting the aid of
Simon de Montfort. FTP, identify this group of French Cathars, the target of an early 13th Century
crusade.
ANSWER: Albigenses or Albigensians (prompt on “Cathars” or “Cathari”)
3. In its final section, the author included tables of calculations made by Josiah Burchett and taken
from John Entick’s Naval History to demonstrate the viability of building a strong navy. Another
section quotes from Giacinto Dragonetti’s On Virtue and Rewards, asks whether William the
Conqueror’s heritage means Britain should be ruled by the French, and calls for a congress to be
assembled to draft a charter for a government where “the law is king.” “Of The Origin and Design of
Government in General” is the opening section of this work, which was later reprinted with an appendix
responding to the concerns of Quaker representatives. Benjamin Rush supplied the title for this tract,
which was primarily a scathing critique of the British monarchy. FTP, identify this Revolutionary War
pamphlet by Thomas Paine.
ANSWER: Common Sense
4. This event inspired an elegy that begins “My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,” written by
Chidiock Tichborne the eve before he was executed for his part in it. Its discovery was aided by
Thomas Phelippes’ skill at cryptography and the duplicity of Gilbert Gifford, who would arrange for
seditious letters to be transported through barrels, but not before letting them be intercepted by the royal
Secretary of State, Francis Walsingham. Occurring after the Throckmorton and Ridolfi Plots, in which the
same rival sovereign was involved, it forced the English ruler to acknowledge the threat of a Catholic coup
posed by her cousin and have her tried for treason. FTP, identify this plot for which Mary, Queen of Scots
was beheaded, an attempt by its namesake to overthrow Elizabeth I.
ANSWER: Babington Plot
5. Around age thirteen, this ruler founded a youth movement called the Monkey Brigade, and later in
life, spearheaded movements for the large scale increase of milk and grain production, called the
White and Green Revolutions, respectively. Ordered by the High Court to step down due to electoral
fraud, this leader declared a prolonged state of Emergency Rule, which may have caused the first electoral
defeat of this ruler’s party in favor of the Janata. Operation Bluestar, an attempt to combat a separatist
movement under Jarnail Bindranwale with a raid on the Golden Temple, indirectly led to the death of this
ruler, whose son Rajiv was killed by the Tamil Tigers. FTP, identify this prime minister of India, who was
assassinated by Sikhs and was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru.
ANSWER: Indira Gandhi
6. This event was galvanized by false rumors of the death of Martin Smid, and several days into it,
the Public Against Violence was formed. Undercover agents of the StB contributed to the outbreak
of this event, which saw students presenting flowers to police during a demonstration commemorating
the anniversary of Jan Opletal’s murder by the Nazis. Featuring heavy participation from actors and artists,
it was spearheaded by members of the Charter 77 movement, who helped found the Civic Forum. Cardinal
Frantisek Tomasek’s support of it contributed to the decisions of Milos Jakes and Gustav Husak to resign
in, FTP, what bloodless coup that led to democratic elections and the presidency of Vaclav Havel in the
Czechoslovakia?
ANSWER: Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution
7. Some debate exists on whether ineptitude or treachery was behind Ibn al-Alkami’s dismissal of
warnings preceding this event and whether the mathematician Nasir al-Din al-Tusi provided advice
for or participated in it. According to contemporary accounts, the surrounding waters turned black
with the ink of desecrated books, and an invasion of Azerbaijan and an alliance with Baibars, a Mamluk
leader, were forged as part of an effort to avenge this event led by its instigator’s brother, Berke. Rolled up
in a carpet to prevent his royal blood from touching the ground, the caliph al-Mustasim was trampled to
death by horses during this event, which saw the massacre of hundreds of thousands of city inhabitants and
forced the Abbasids to relocate their capital to Cairo. FTP, Hulagu Khan led what 1258 rout of a city in
present-day Iraq?
ANSWER: sack of Baghdad (accept equivalents, as long it is mentioned that a sack or some sort of violent
attack occurred in Baghdad)
8. The work that introduced it borrows from Victor Hehn’s theory on the role of salt in determining
European political geography and from Achille Loria’s emphasis on the study of colonialism as the
key to European economic history. Though it points out the contrast between French traders and
English farmers, it argues that the Palatinate Germans and Scotch-Irish were able to form a
“composite nationality” and examines the principles driving the American System of Henry Clay. In
discussing how the democracy of Jefferson evolved into the democracy of Jackson and how the “Carolina
cowpens guided the Texas ranchers,” this argument concludes that the first age of American history had
come to a close with the 1890 Census. Introduced in a paper read to the American Historical Association,
this is, FTP, what thesis on the importance of American westward expansion, put forth by Frederick
Jackson Turner?
ANSWER: Frontier Thesis or (also accept the title of either major work discussing the thesis, i.e. The
Significance of the Frontier in American History or The Significance of Sections in American History.
An answer of “Frederick Jackson Turner’s Thesis” is also acceptable before his name is mentioned)
9. In this region, thousands of natives jumped to their death to avoid capture in the Battle of
Tepetchia, and in 1824, it became divided for nearly twenty years due to the secession of the
Soconusco District. The ruins of Palenque are located in this territory, which was the subject of a
failed conquest attempt by Luis Marin before it was subjugated by Diego de Mazariegos. An 1868 revolt
here by the Tzotzil nearly resulted in the fall of its former capital, San Cristobal, and foreshadowed the rise
of a movement that would participate in the San Andres Accords and would come under the leadership of
Subcomandante Marcos, a mysterious masked figure. FTP, identify this state in southern Mexico that
serves as the base for the Zapatista rebels.
ANSWER: Chiapas
10. This man hired Henry Kowalsky to spread favorable propaganda about him in the U.S. and
undermine efforts by George Washington Williams, William Sheppard, and others to write exposes
on his rule. The subject of a failed assassination attempt by Gennaro Rubino, he saw the rise of his
country’s Workers and Catholic parties lead to the establishment of universal suffrage in his nation, but
was preoccupied with his abroad interests, which attracted the attention of the muckraker Edmund Morel
and led to Britain’s dispatching of Roger Casement to investigate his abuses. He established the Force
Publique to enforce his management of the AIC, and sent Henry Stanley to explore and acquire colonies for
him. FTP, identify this 19th Century ruler, known more for his exploitation of the Congo than for being
king of Belgium.
ANSWER: Leopold II
11. In the first one, the author lamented the loss of such territories as Methone and Potidaea and
issued a statement of ways and means describing the finances of raising a legitimate army and navy.
A subsequent one decries the cession of Orchomenus and Coronea as a ruse, contains a potshot
against Aeschines near its end, rebukes the crushing of the Phocians in the Third Sacred War, and was
issued seven years later in Lyciscus two years after the Peace of Philocrates. Didymos wrote commentaries
on these works and their author, who is also known for his three Olynthiacs. This series also had its name
appropriated by a later set of fourteen critiques against a member of the Second Triumvirate. FTP, identify
these orations delivered by Demosthenes in opposition of a Macedonian king.
ANSWER: Demosthenes’ Philippics
12. The nations that fought them later squared off at Camperdown, but the last major one of these
conflicts was limited to a skirmish off Dogger Bank and resulted in the cession of Negapatnam. The
second of them opened with the Battle of Lowestoft, featured the prolonged Four Days Battle, and
ended when one nation’s navy was obliterated by Michiel de Ruyter while docked at the River Medway.
The Battle of Texel that decided the third one saw a fatal duel between rival commanders Edward Spragge
and Corneilus Tromp. That third war was ended by the Treaty of Westminster and was prefaced by one
nation’s forging an alliance with France when the Secret Treaty of Dover was signed by Charles II. FTP,
identify this series of four naval wars whose namesake combatants were Britain and the Netherlands.
ANSWER: Anglo-Dutch Wars or Engelse Oorlogen (prompt on “Dutch Wars,” but I guess you can accept
anything that mentions that the English and Dutch fought them up until Britain is mentioned)
13. Later members of this group were split over support Ambrose Thompson’s failed proposal to
establish a coal mining operation at Chiriqui. It sent Samuel Mills and Ebenezer Burgess on a
preliminary expedition, the success of which earned it a $100,000 grant from Congress, where
Representative Charles Fenton Mercer was a vocal supporter. It sent Eli Ayres and Robert Stockton to
carry out land purchases, and agents who led its early endeavors included Lott Carey, Jehudi Ashmun, and
Samuel Bacon. Founded by the Presbyterian preacher Robert Finley, this organization made its first
president a nephew of George Washington named Bushrod, and used the Elizabeth to transport its first
contingent across the Atlantic. FTP, identify this 19th Century organization that promoted relocating free
blacks in such areas as Liberia.
ANSWER: American Colonization Society
14. The 51st article of the main one contained a provision prohibiting the use of a term meaning
“barbarian” in official documents. In addition, it allowed for the unrestricted recreational travel of
passport holders and Christian missionaries, and was made more severe in a conference two years
later that raised the total indemnity fee to sixteen million taels of silver and forced the cession of
Kowloon. Signed in the same year as the Treaty of Aigun with Russia, it forced the opening of its
namesake port and ten others, including Hankou and Danshui. Lord James Elgin and Prince Kung signed
the primary one of these treaties, which concluded the war that had began as a reaction to the arrest of
sailors on the Arrow. FTP, identify this set of 1858 treaties that ended the Second Opium War.
ANSWER: Treaties of Tientsin
15. Particularly tragic scenes from it include the killing of the Ribbing children as they pleaded for
mercy and the drowning of all the monks in Nydala Abbey. Hemming Gadh also died as a result of
this event, which inspired a future ruler’s trek to Dalarna to organize a rebellion against the king
who initiated it. Occurring several months after the Battle of Bogesund, this event was presided over
by Erik Trolle and also saw the corpse of Sten Sture dug up and burned. The beheading of the bishops of
Strangnas and Skara marked its beginning, and as names were drawn from a list of proscriptions, 94 were
killed at the order of Christian II. FTP, identify this sanguinely-named 1520 massacre that occurred in the
capital of Sweden.
ANSWER: Stockholm Bloodbath
16. During a confrontation at Rathmore, Alexander Will became the first of them to die in the line of
duty. After the office of Inspector General Joseph Byrne authorized the creation of this group, a
series of recruitment ads for it solicited war veterans to “face a rough and dangerous task.” The first
man they formally executed was Kevin Barry, whom they captured on the same day as their sack of
Balbriggan. Frank Crozier headed their counterparts, the Auxiliary division, which was actually
responsible for their attributed massacre at Croke Park. Feared for their violent reprisal attacks, such as the
aforementioned “Bloody Sunday,” this is FTP, what British police force that clashed with Irish
revolutionaries and was nicknamed after the two main colors of its uniforms?
ANSWER: Black and Tans
17. The last notable member of this family, Andrew, sold his title to Charles the Affable, though both
he and his predecessor Thomas, held that title in name only and merely ruled over the province of
Morea. Before the ouster of this family, the biggest threat to its reign came when a civil war started
by the Hesychasts allowed John Cantacuzenus to seize power. Its founder came to power by murdering
George Mouzalon to become regent, then overthrowing John IV to topple the Laskaris Dynasty. Four more
rulers named John came from this dynasty, which also featured three rulers named Andronicus and was the
longest ruling dynasty of its empire. FTP, identify this house founded by Michael VIII, which was also the
last ruling family of the Byzantine Empire.
ANSWER: Paleologus or Paleologi or Paleologan
18. One anecdote about this man tells how the pieces of his body were gathered up and buried by
Dedee Bazile after he was ambushed and killed at the Red Bridge. After heading the Conference of
Arcahaie, he ordered Catherine Flon to create the flag he adopted by sewing together red and blue
strips from a previously desecrated flag. Also the builder of an eponymous capital city at Marchand, he
had his greatest military success at Vertieres, where he helped defeat Rochambeau. His harsh rule and
massacres of white settlers prompted the rebellion that led to his death and split his nation into a southern
republic led by Alexandre Petion and a northern kingdom under Henri Christophe. FTP, identify this
former slave who had himself crowned emperor of Haiti as Jacques I.
ANSWER: Jean-Jacques Dessalines (prompt on an early buzz of “Jacques I”)
19. In one of its last major assemblies, this organization’s presidential and vice presidential offices
were abolished and replaced by a group of three secretaries: Robert Pardun, Mike Spiegel, and Carl
Davidson; that convention also passed its famous “women’s resolution.” Its ninth and final national
convention resulted in a rift between the PL-WSA and the RYM under Bernadine Dohrn, causing its
collapse. Endeavors by this group included a campaigning drive called the Political Education Project and
an urban renewal program called the Economic Research and Action Project. Todd Gitlin and Robert
Haber were two presidents of this organization, which published the New Left Notes. FTP, identify this
group that released Tom Hayden’s Port Huron Statement and promoted activism at college campuses.
ANSWER: Students for a Democratic Society
20. This event was brought to international attention by an April 28th eyewitness article in the
London Times written by George Steer. The Astra weapons factory was one of the major landmarks
to survive it, as were the local Assembly House, a 600 year old oak tree, and the stated target, a short
road over the Mundaca River called the Renteria Bridge. Junker Ju 52’s were responsible for the main
attack, while He 51’s and Bf 109’s gunned down fleeing citizens during the course of this event, believed
to have been ordered by Emilio Mola and carried out under the direction of Hugo Sperrle and Wolfram von
Richtofen, the leaders of the Condor Legion. FTP, identify this 1937 German assault on a Basque town,
immortalized by a Picasso painting.
ANSWER: bombing of Guernica
Mad King Ludwig Memorial History Tournament
Chicago Open 2006 History Doubles, July 28, 2006
Questions by Chris Frankel
Bonuses, Round 9
1. This group published the Red Flag. FTPE:
[10] Identify this leftist agitation movement and German Communist Party forerunner co-founded by Karl
Liebknecht.
ANSWER: Spartacists or Spartacus League
[10] In a 1916 manifesto, Rosa Luxembourg argued that society faced the ultimate choice of ending in a
state of either socialism or barbarism. Name either the paper or the Roman-sounding pseudonym under
which Luxembourg wrote it.
ANSWER: The Crisis in German Social Democracy or Die Krise der Sozialdemokratie by Junius (also
accept “The Junius Pamphlet”)
[10] The Berlin revolt of the Spartacists was put down harshly by the army and the Freikorps at the order of
this first chancellor of the Weimar Republic.
ANSWER: Friedrich Ebert
2. The only thing that can satisfy Charles Meigs’ lust for Thai hookers is a bonus on the kingdom of Siam.
FTPE:
[10] Ramathibodi I founded a kingdom that took its name from this city. That kingdom annexed Sukothai
to form Siam, at least until invaders from Burma sacked it in 1767.
ANSWER: Ayutthaya
[10] After Ayutthaya fell, this man drove out the Burmese and set up a new state based at Thonburi, which
lasted for fifteen years until he went insane, began thinking he was Buddha, and was deposed and executed.
ANSWER: Taksin the Great or Phya Tak
[10] An eponymous general overthrew Taksin the Great and took the name Rama I, starting this royal
dynasty, which still exists today under Rama IX.
ANSWER: Chakri
3. Name some 17th Century scholars that were forerunners of the Enlightenment, FTPE.
[10] In addition to advocating pantheism, this Dutch Jew attempted to apply mathematical principles in
deriving a system of metaphysics in his Ethics.
ANSWER: Baruch Spinoza or Benedict Spinoza
[10] Observations upon Experimental Philosophy was a commentary on scientific development authored
by this prolific female scholar and duchess of Newcastle, who merged her interests in science and literature
to produce such works as The Blazing World.
ANSWER: Margaret Lucas Cavendish
[10] This French skeptic briefly flirted with Catholicism before returning to Protestantism. His writings
include A Philosophical Commentary on the Words of the Gospel, and, more famously, the Historical and
Critical Dictionary.
ANSWER: Pierre Bayle
4. Even religion was trendy during the Roaring 20’s. FTPE:
[10] 1926 saw the debut of this Michigan-based Catholic preacher’s popular radio show. He later went
nuts and began advocating fascism on his broadcasts, and like a certain longwinded female quiz bowl
player from the University of Ottawa, he was a vocal, Canadian-born anti-Semite.
ANSWER: Charles Coughlin
[10] One of the bestsellers of the decade was this 1925 book, in which advertising executive Bruce Barton
likened Jesus to a successful, modern-day American businessman.
ANSWER: The Man Nobody Knows
[10] Another leading revivalist of the 1920’s was this Pentecostal evangelist, who operated the Angelus
Temple, founded the Church of the Foursquare Gospel, and mysteriously disappeared for a month in 1926.
ANSWER: Aimee Semple McPherson or Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy
5. Answer the following about a common theme, FTPE.
[10] This tempestuous term describes a period during the 17th Century reign of Jan II Casimir that saw a
prolonged invasion by Sweden accented by Ukrainian uprisings and a military threat from Alexis I of
Russia.
ANSWER: The Deluge or Potop
[10] Though she had abdicated five years prior, this former Dutch monarch joined her daughter, Queen
Juliana, in personally visiting victims of the 1953 Netherlands deluge. As the only surviving heir of
William III, she eventually became the first titled queen of the Netherlands.
ANSWER: Wilhelmina
[10] Philip II, the Duke of Orleans, ruled as regent before the ascension of this king, who is traditionally
associated with the saying, “After me, the deluge.”
ANSWER: Louis XV
6. Answer the following about two historically opposed groups from Latin America, FTPE.
[10] Founded in opposition to Manuel Oribe, this liberal reformist party catered to the interests of urban
Montevideo and was got its name from the blue, and later red, armbands worn by its members.
ANSWER: Colorado Party
[10] One of the leaders of the Thirty-Three Immortals, this three-time president of Uruguay was its nation’s
first one, in addition to being the founder of the Colorado Party.
ANSWER: Jose Fructoso Rivera
[10] Oribe’s Blancos gained outside support from this caudillo, who forced Bartolome Mitre into exile,
employed a death squad called La Mazorca, and ruled as dictator of Argentina for nearly twenty years.
ANSWER: Juan Manuel de Rosas
7. Name some people who made headlines during the life of Queen Anne. FTPE:
[10] The Act of Settlement made this daughter of Frederick the Winter King the source of succession in
case William III and Anne had no heirs. They didn’t, so her son became George I.
ANSWER: Sophia of Hanover
[10] This crazy preacher ripped on the Whig regime in a series of sermons at St. Paul and Derby, leading
his 1710 impeachment from the church. The Tories used him as a martyr, and gained power in Parliament
as a result.
ANSWER: Henry Sacheverell
[10] Anne’s chief confidant, the former Sarah Jennings, was married to this commander of the British army
during the War of Spanish Succession.
ANSWER: John Churchill, duke of Marlborough (accept either)
8. John Randolph’s claim to fame was founding this political faction. FTPE:
[10] Identify this breakaway Republican group, formed in 1806 to protest Thomas Jefferson’s straying from
the principles of states’ rights. They supported James Monroe over James Madison in the election of 1808,
and their name reflects their status as an outside third party.
ANSWER: Tertium Quids (prompt on “Quids”)
[10] One of the Tertium Quids was the North Carolina congressman who gave his name to this law. It
supplanted the Non-Intercourse Act by allowing trade with Britain or France, so long as the nations did not
harass American ships.
ANSWER: Macon’s Bill No. 2
[10] The Tertium Quids were outraged by Jefferson’s intervention in this southern real estate scheme,
which became the center of the case Fletcher v. Peck.
ANSWER: Yazoo Land Fraud
9. Answer the following about an event known as the barbarica conspiratio, FTPE.
[10] The above term in part refers to a theory that defecting Roman troops guarding this defensive structure
allowed a force of Picts, Attacotti, and Scots to break through it and mount a 367 AD invasion of Britain.
ANSWER: Hadrian’s Wall
[10] Seeking to continue where Tacitus left off, this historian covered the period from Nerva’s reign as
emperor to Valens’ death at Adrianople in his Res Gestae. He gave the barbarica conspiratio its name.
ANSWER: Ammianus Marcellinus
[10] This emperor, who gave the Eastern Empire to Valens and who was himself succeeded by Gratian,
sent Flavius Theodosius to defend Britannia, as he was preoccupied fighting the Alemmani at Solicinium.
ANSWER: Valentinian I or Flavius Valentinianus
10. Assorted World War I commanders, FTPE.
[10] After replacing Emile Diant, this French commander was able to defend Verdun by maintaining a
constant supply and troop flow on the Sacred Way. He would go on to become a leader of Vichy France.
ANSWER: Henri-Philippe Petain
[10] From June to September 1916, this Russian general began his eponymous offensive against Austrian
forces in the Ukraine. It was initially a success, though German reinforcements and a lack of support from
the other Russian commanders doomed it.
ANSWER: Aleksey Alekseyevich Brusilov
[10] This chief of staff of the Italian Army lost his position to Armando Diaz after getting his ass handed to
him at Caporetto.
ANSWER: Luigi Cadorna
11. Answer the following about the use of the Nengo calendar in modern Japan, FTPE.
[10] Meaning “Enlightenment and Harmony,” this name describes the period that followed the Taishou
Period and consisted of the duration of the reign of Hirohito.
ANSWER: Showa Period
[10] The Showa Period ended and the Heisei period began when this son of Hirohito succeeded his father
as emperor in 1989.
ANSWER: Akihito
[10] Emperor Kotoku introduced the Nengo system with the 646 AD passage of this four article series of
political measures, which also banned private ownership of land and introduced census and tax systems.
ANSWER: Taika Reforms
12. Guess the theme of this bonus on assorted American historical figures! FTPE:
[10] Franklin Roosevelt was on a losing presidential ticket as the running mate of this former journalist,
who published the Dayton Daily News and served two terms as Governor of Ohio.
ANSWER: James Middleton Cox
[10] During the Civil War, she was appointed superintendent of female nurses to the Union army, but made
her name in the antebellum era as a crusader for the reform of prisons and mental health institutions.
ANSWER: Dorothea Lynde Dix
[10] This Kentucky congressman has the honor of being the only vice president elected by the Senate,
winning a runoff over Francis Granger to become the ninth vice president.
ANSWER: Richard Mentor Johnson
13. Ancient Greek texts contained a lot of conversations. FTPE:
[10] Book V of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War contains this oft-studied exchange in which
the Athenian leaders use their military might to justify their eventual invasion of a small island, whose
leaders express resistance to their arguments.
ANSWER: Melian Dialogue (accept equivalents as well as any close answer that mentions “Melos”)
[10] Hiero, a ruling tyrant from this city state, appears in an eponymous dialogue with Simonides that was
written by Xenophon.
ANSWER: Syracuse
[10] Plato’s Symposium prominently features this Athenian general, who helped command the Sicilian
Expedition and defected to Sparta before changing his mind and coming back to Athens.
ANSWER: Alcibiades
14. Here’s a bonus on Russian names that, thankfully, did not get turned into a cheesy common links
tossup. FTPE:
[10] Three Rurik rulers of Moscow held this name. The first faced an invasion by Tamurlane that stopped
short of Moscow, the second was known as “The Blind,” and the third was the father of Ivan the Terrible.
ANSWER: Vasily or Basil
[10] The artist Vasily Surikov painted an epic scene showing Yermak’s famous conquest of this frozen
Arctic region. Alexis I started the practice of exiling political prisoners there, and a major railway across it
was built around the turn of the 20th Century.
ANSWER: Siberia
[10] During the Time of Troubles, this boyar conspired to have the first False Dmitri deposed and
murdered, taking his place as czar. He formed an alliance with Sweden, but was himself deposed by
invading Polish forces under Sigismund III.
ANSWER: Vasily Shuisky or Basil Shuisky (prompt on “Vasily IV,” which would otherwise be
acceptable if the bonus weren’t obviously on people named Vasily)
15. Answer the following about an era of political change in the Ottoman Empire, FTPE.
[10] By issuing the Hatti-i Sharif at the Palace of Gulhane, Abd al-Majid ushered in this mid-19th Century
period, which saw the spread of reforms promising equal rights, access to education, and fair taxation to
non-Muslim subjects of the empire.
ANSWER: Tanzimat
[10] Mahmud II, whose sultanate preceded the Tanzimat period, made his name by ordering the destruction
of this elite corps of soldiers that originated as a fighting force of conscripted non-Muslim slaves.
ANSWER: Janissaries
[10] An attempt to establish a constitutional government ended the Tanzimat period and saw Abdul Aziz
removed in favor of the fifth sultan to bear this name. He soon went mad and ruled for only two months in
1876 before being replaced by Abdul Hamid II.
ANSWER: Murad
16. Answer the following about a reoccurring theme from English economic history. FTPE:
[10] Identify this general term describing the conversion of common fields and grazing lands into privately
owned and operated property, whether or not it involved fencing off the land.
ANSWER: Enclosure Movement
[10] In this rebellion, the namesake Wymondham landowner led a march of poor farmers opposed to the
enclosure movement, resulting in the capture of Norwich. John Dudley and his troops were sent to crush
this revolt, killing roughly 3500 peasants in the process.
ANSWER: Robert Kett’s Rebellion
[10] Opposition to private land ownership was the main platform of this post-Civil War faction of protocommunist radicals led by Gerrard Winstanley. A pamphlet that described “[Their] Standard Advanced”
served as their manifesto.
ANSWER: Diggers or True Levellers
17. John Locke wrote the never-ratified Fundamental Constitutions for it. FTPE:
[10] Identify this colony, whose territory was royally granted to a group of eight proprietors.
Administrative troubles led to its being split under the control of two governments in 1712, though its
formal division did not occur until 1729.
ANSWER: Carolina (do not accept either North or South Carolina)
[10] A key factor in the split between the Carolinas was this 1711 rebellion, whose namesake was a
governor who led his Quaker supporters against the newly appointed, pro-Anglican Governor Hyde.
ANSWER: Cary’s Rebellion
[10] Another North Carolina governor, Charles Eden, was likely in league with this pirate, whom he issued
a royal pardon. A campaign against him ordered by Alexander Spotswood resulted in his death at the
hands of Robert Maynard.
ANSWER: Edward Teach or Blackbeard
18. This guy was born Pietro del Murrone, FTPE.
[10] Elected after the two year power vacuum following the death of Nicholas IV, this since-canonized
pope lent his name to a subset of Benedictine ascetics. He grew weary of being manipulated for the
political ends of Charles II of Naples and ultimately abdicated the papacy.
ANSWER: Celestine V
[10] The successor of Celestine V was Boniface VIII, who struggled for power against Philip IV of France
and issued this decree asserting papal supremacy over the two swords of spiritual and temporal authority.
ANSWER: Bull Unam Sanctam or The One Holy
[10] Several years before Celestine V was elected, these former Hohenstaufen partisans and opponents of
papal authority were defeated at Campaldino, after which their enemies divided into Black and White
camps.
ANSWER: Ghibellines
19. It was brought on by the collapse of Jay Cooke and Company. FTPE:
[10] Identify this post-Civil War panic rooted in Cooke’s reckless investment in the Northern Pacific
Railway.
ANSWER: Panic of 1873
[10] One reaction to the Panic of 1873 was the formation of this party that advocated inflationary policy
and the issuing of paper currency, which ran Peter Cooper as a presidential candidate in 1876.
ANSWER: Greenback Labor Party
[10] Earlier in 1873, the 42nd Congress angered the public with this scandal, stealthily passing a measure
that increased its members’ wages by 50%.
ANSWER: Salary Grab
20. Answer the following about 1848 in France, FTPE.
[10] Obviously some sort of revolution broke out, resulting in the establishment of this government under
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who would dissolve it in a coup three years later.
ANSWER: Second Republic
[10] A major target of the February Revolution was this conservative premier of Louis-Philippe, who spent
his days writing histories of Western Europe and the English Civil War after he was removed from power.
ANSWER: Francois Guizot
[10] Making his name fighting in Algeria, this general arrived in Paris and used martial law to put down the
bloody June Days uprising. He opposed Louis Napoleon Bonaparte during the subsequent presidential
election and was handily defeated.
ANSWER: Louis Eugene Cavaignac