Listory: “Finally a tournament without all that other crap” - Mike Cheyne
Written by Jason Cheng, Vasa Clarke, Kurtis Droge, and Jason Golfinos; edited by Kurtis Droge
Packet 3
1. A cartoon in Puck magazine showed a man with this surname as Sisyphus rolling a boulder with the word “Majority” on it up a hill. The town of New Utrecht was founded by a plantation owner with this surname. The first Secretary of Commerce and Labor held this surname. A surveyor with this surname drew the Castello Plan, which is often held to be the first map of New York City. The dying words of William (*) McKinley were addressed to a man with this surname, who argued for increased government control over the money supply while serving as Secretary of the Treasury during the Panic of 1907. This is the middle name of architect Philip Johnson. For 10 points, give this surname of the Dutch colonist Jacques and his descendant George, who managed the White House as the effective personal secretary of Theodore Roosevelt.
ANSWER: Cortelyou
For 10 points each, name these things about the Panic of 1907:
[10] The panic began when Augustus Heinze’s brother Otto attempted to squeeze short sellers of stock by buying all the shares in Augustus’s United Company, which was in this industry.
ANSWER: copper mining [prompt on “mining”]
[10] The next element of the panic was a run on this trust company after it fired its president, Charles Barney. It shares its name with the fictional persona Diedrich, which Washington Irving used to write A History of New York.
ANSWER: Knickerbocker Trust Company
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2. The narrator of a story by this writer imagines a conversation between a very young envelope and a very old envelope. This author created a character who foresees his own injury and the deaths of his friends using palmistry, but refuses to take action to prevent an impending train accident. He wrote about a poet who is advised against publishing a book with no title in a conversation with Rothenstein in the domino-room. This author of (*) “A.V. Laider” wrote a story in which a playwright spends years crafting a drama fantasizing the life of Savonarola. He included a story about a writer who makes an infernal pact to find out if he is famous in the future just to discover that he is only known for being a fictional character in his collection Seven Men. For 10 points, name this author of “Enoch Soames.”
ANSWER: Max Beerbohm
The Duke of Dorset notices that the studs on his shirt turn pink and black, the same colors as the earrings that this woman was wearing at dinner. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this title character of a Max Beerbohm novel who causes almost all of the undergraduates at Oxford to kill themselves out of love for her.
ANSWER: Zuleika Dobson [accept either name]
[10] Two answers required. While the Duke of Dorset plays a funeral march, the ghosts of these two people look on, with the applause of the audience contrasting their and the Duke’s sadness. They are the primary subject of the memoir A Winter in Majorca.
ANSWER: Frederic Chopin and George Sand [accept in either order]
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3. The first Queen regnant of this country declined to shield herself from the rain while attending the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, according to the custom that one must not imitate the person they are honoring. Shirley Waldemar Baker founded this country’s Free Church and served as prime minister to the first king of this country, who took the name George. This country's first written legal code was promulgated from the town of (*) Vava'u. This country brought a lawsuit against court jester Jesse Bogdanoff after Bogdanoff wasted the revenue this country obtained by selling passports to foreigners. This country elected its first commoner to serve as prime minister in 2014, ʻAkilisi Pōhiva. For 10 points, name this Polynesian country ruled by Tupou VI, the only surviving monarchy in Polynesia.
ANSWER: Tonga [Kingdom of Tonga; or Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga]
Answer the following about developments in the Tongan civil service, for 10 points each:
[10] Queen Sālote Tupou III established Tonga’s Department of Health in 1919, after an outbreak of this disease killed nearly eight percent of Tonga’s population.
ANSWER: influenza [or the Spanish flu]
[10] Paul Nessling represented the United Kingdom in Tonga until 2005 with this title. Relations between Commonwealth countries are managed by these people instead of ambassadors.
ANSWER: High Commissioner
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4. A rebel leader in this country promised a “spring” to follow the “winter” of the Callimachi family’s dominance of politics during its “Phanariote Era.” This country achieved de facto unification under a leader who repatriated a quarter of its land when he “secularized” its monasteries in 1863. Its first king received the keys to the capital after the so-called “Monstrous Coalition” overthrew a man styled “Domnitor,” Alexander (*) Cuza. The Auraria Gemina Legion consisted of Hapsburg supporters from this country in the 1848 revolutions. Carol I of this country personally led troops in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, which led to its independence, and it was formed from Wallachia and Moldavia. For 10 points, name this country that ceded Moldova to Russia in the Treaty of Bucharest.
ANSWER: Romania [accept Moldova until “first king” due to border changes; the first rebel leader mentioned is Tudor Vladimirescu of the 1821 Pandur Uprising]
Carol I was a member of the Sigmaringen branch of this German dynasty. For 10 points each:
[10] Kaiser Wilhelm II apocryphally struck Ferdinand I of Romania from the family register of which house for the “betrayal” of siding with the Triple Entente in World War One?
ANSWER: The House of Hohenzollern
[10] Liberals led by Alexandru Candiano-Popescu declared a short-lived “Republic” in this city in opposition to Carol I in 1870. Operation Tidal Wave targeted its oil fields in World War Two.
ANSWER: Ploiești [pronounced “plo-yesh-ty,” but be generous]
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5. A character claims that this historical figure is a “marshmallowy sort of creature” who “merely pretends to be bluff and crass and unbelievably thick and gittish.” This person thinks that he is the target of two actors rehearsing a play about the murder of Prince Romero, and his father wants him to marry a rosebush after a fictional duel with the victor at Quatre-Bras. While trying to find a wife for this figure, this man’s (*) servant describes his mistreated, historical wife Caroline of Brunswick as having “the worst personality in Germany.” He hired John Nash to build the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, initiating a namesake architectural style. For 10 points, name this British royal played by the ahistorically thin and handsome Hugh Laurie in Blackadder who ruled on behalf of his porphyria-addled father.
ANSWER: George IV [or Prince George; or the Prince Regent; prompt on partial answers]
In the 1788 Regency Crisis, this politician argued that only Parliament could appoint a regent, and in Blackadder he advocates “tougher sentences for geography teachers.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Prime Minister who succeeded Lord North and was not in fact an adolescent. His nickname distinguishes him from his father, who conducted the Seven Year’s War as P.M.
ANSWER: William Pitt the Younger [prompt on partial answers; do not accept or prompt on “Pitt the Even Younger,” “Pitt the Toddler,” “Pitt the Embryo,” or “Pitt the Glint in the Milkman’s Eye”]
[10] Description acceptable. In one episode of the show, Prince George insists on Blackadder’s ability to perform this giant scholarly task, since “We’re British aren’t we?” Blackadder responds “You’re not, you’re German.”
ANSWER: Rewrite Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary [accept equivalents; prompt with “Whose Dictionary?” on answers missing just Samuel Johnson’s name]
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6. A novel about this type of event begins when Old Bundy is trampled by a horse and ends with the protagonist saying his last words, “let the rope talk.” An instance of this type of event ended after a drunken revelry at the Combahee Swamp. The impetus for one was a Security Act that mandated carrying firearms to church services, and another is the subject of an Arna Bontemps novel partially titled after (*) “Thunder.” This type of event was planned to occur on Bastille Day by a man who had previously won 1,500 dollars in a lottery. A man alternately named Jemmy or Cato led one in the colony of South Carolina. Failed examples of them were masterminded by Denmark Vesey and Gabriel Prosser. For 10 points, name these events that targeted white plantation owners in the Antebellum South.
ANSWER: slave revolts [or slave rebellions, etc.]
The protagonist of this novel leads a rebellion after having visions of white and black angels battling in the sky. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel whose main character is coerced into killing Margaret Whitehead. It was written by William Styron.
ANSWER: The Confessions of Nat Turner
[10] The frame story of The Confessions of Nat Turner involves Turner detailing his life story to this lawyer, who in real life published a pamphlet supposedly consisting of Turner’s confessions.
ANSWER: Thomas Ruffin Gray
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7. While discussing this event, a woman relates a boring story about how she caught a boy named Dick Jackson stealing two pieces of wood. A central character participates in this event only because he finds it the lesser evil than involving his neighbor, Charles Maddox. It necessitates ordering a large roll of green fabric and hiring a carpenter and a painter to make changes to the billiard room. Plans for this event are (*) interrupted by the return of the family patriarch from Antigua, after which Mr. Yates is forced to leave the premises. The present-day fame of Elizabeth Inchbald rests on it. Julia is slighted when her engaged sister Maria is chosen for the role of Agatha in this event by Henry Crawford. For 10 points, name this planned theatrical event, a major plot point in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.
ANSWER: the performance of Lover’s Vows [accept equivalents; accept “rehearsal” or “staging” in place of “performance”; prompt if the name of the play is not given]
A member of this family is shocked to learn that the man she loves, John Willoughby, is actually a womanizer who got the teenaged ward of Colonel Brandon pregnant. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this family that includes Elinor and Marianne, the main characters of Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility.
ANSWER: Dashwood Family
[10] The Dashwood sisters accompany Mrs. Jennings to Portman Square in this city, the setting of most of the middle chapters of the book. It is where Marianne is treated coldly by Willoughby at a party, and shortly thereafter learns of his indiscretions.
ANSWER: London
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8. The first person to mention this city in writing was the Sephardic trader Ibrahim ibn Yaqub al-Tartushi. Königsburg was named in honor of the last ruler of this city’s founding dynasty, who built its “Lesser Quarter” before dying at the Battle on the Marchfeld. Its founding dynasty was allegedly established when a ploughman with a broken sandal married Libushe. (*) Vitkov Hill was the site of a battle defending this city, which was ruled by the kings of the Přemyslid dynasty, such as Ottokar II. A ruler of it built St. Vitus Cathedral and a three-towered bridge on which Jan Nepomuk was killed. Prokop the Great and Jan Žižka led followers of a Bible translator from this city against the sons of Charles IV. For 10 points, name this home city of Jan Hus, the capital of Bohemia.
ANSWER: Prague [or Praha]
John of Bohemia, of Crécy fame, originally gave Charles IV this name, but Charles renamed himself in honor of Charles the Fair of France. For 10 points each:
[10] Give this name of several rulers of Prague, like Charles’ Nepomuk-killing son. A beloved duke of this name was murdered by his not-so-good brother, Boleslaus the Cruel.
ANSWER: Wenceslas [also accept Wenceslaus or Vaclav]
[10] Much of the Hussites’ military success under Žižka stemmed from his pioneering of this tactic, in which bow and pistol-armed soldiers would hide in the namesake vehicles, and then charge once enemy cavalry faltered.
ANSWER: the Wagenburg [or wagon fort; accept the Tabor or Laager; do not accept the specifically Russian “gulai-gorod”; prompt on descriptions like “they tied wagons together"]
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9. An army led by this ruler obtained the submission of the historical Macbeth, as well as of King Malcolm II. This ruler's daughter Gunhild married the son of Conrad II, who transferred him Schleswig as a gift. Henry of Huntingdon recorded anecdotes about this man including his reduction of Gallic tolls and a probably ahistorical story in which he sat near the (*) shoreline and commanded the waves not to strike him. Thorkell the Tall may have educated this ruler. This ruler’s victory at Assandun allowed him to force a treaty upon Edmund Ironside, by which he acquired the throne of England. He was the second husband of Emma of Normandy, with whom he fathered Harold Harefoot. For 10 points, name this son of Sweyn Forkbeard, the only English monarch other than Alfred who is called “the Great.”
ANSWER: Canute the Great [or Cnut; or Knud, den Store; or Knut den Mektige; or Knútr inn ríki]
Canute was one of the last rulers to levy this tax from England. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this form of tribute that was paid in order to prevent Vikings from pillaging the country.
ANSWER: Danegeld
[10] Bribery didn’t stop this massive force of Vikings led by Ivar the Boneless, which deposed Ælla of Northumbria after the death of Ragnar Lodbrok.
ANSWER: Great Heathen Army [or mycel heathen here]