Quiz Bowl History (2024) 29

The strike of 1902, the second in a series of general strikes in Belgium, began when wildcat strikes broke out among miners in this province. This province faced a 1789 revolution called the Happy Revolution that restored the policies of Prince-Bishop Velbrück.

Liege

Shaka's tactics for the impi were developed whilst under the mentorship of Dingiswayo and during a war fought against these people. Shaka's rival Zwide was a king of these people.

Ndwandwe

During Queen Anne's War, colonists fought near Fort Louis de La Louisiane in this present-day city. After a later battle near this city, General Richard Page was court-martialed for spilling gunpowder into a reservoir near Fort Morgan.

Mobile

Name this conflict in which Miletus was conquered after the Battle of Lade. The Athenians ended their alliance with one side in this conflict after the Battle of Ephesus.

Ionian Revolt

This brother of Darius I was advised by Hecataeus to show leniency after putting down the Ionian Revolt. The Athenian tyrant Hippias fled to the court of this Lydian satrap after a Spartan invasion.

Ataphernes

Amid the union of Norway and Sweden, early socialists and criminals such as Gjest Baardsen were imprisoned at this castle in what was then Christiania. Haakon VII was executed at this castle by the Nasjonal Samling.

Akershus Fortress

Name these objects that people were sometimes buried alongside in the Arras culture. As well as pig bones, a dismantled one of these objects was found alongside the Wetwang Woman in Britain.

chariots

Pompidou negotiated these agreements that led to a 35% minimum wage increase and to the growth of trade unions as part of the May 1968 crisis.

Grenelle Agreements

László Almásy discovered Neolithic cave paintings of giraffes in this modern-day country. As well as detailing a campaign in Canaan, the Israel Stele details a campaign against the inhabitants of this modern-day country.

Libya

This Chinese emperor received an East African giraffe masquerading as a mythical qilin. This emperor's namesake encyclopedia was surpassed in length by the Qianlong emperor's Siku Quanshu.

Yongle Emperor

This Ealdorman of Essex led the English thegns ("thanes") at the Battle of Maldon. This man is described as having "swan white hair" in an Old English poem about the battle

Byrhtnoth

Dorgon and this Ming general defeated Li Zicheng at the Battle of Shanhai Pass. He later rebelled against the Qing in the Revolt of the Three Feudatories.

Wu Sangui

In a story from the Westcar Papyrus, one of this pharaoh's courtiers parts the waters of a lake in order to retrieve a slave girl's lost jewelry. Name this pharaoh who employed the magician Djadjaemankh

Sneferu

The Moriori genocide was carried out by displaced Māori from this region. In the 1860s, the British fought two inconclusive wars in this region concurrent with the Invasion of Waikato and the Tauranga Campaign.

Taranaki

A prince from Liechtenstein with this name protected his country's neutrality during World War II.

Franz Joseph

Per the Illuminated Chronicle, the third ruler of this name adopted Roman Christianity as the state religion after inviting Cistercian monks to establish abbeys at Egres and Zirc. The fourth holder faced the "Passing of the Tatars," or Tatárjárás. He was defeated by Subotai at a 1241 battle by the Sajó River.

Bela

This author of the History of the Worthies of England originated the quote "Wine hath drowned more men than the sea." This man shares his first and last name with a slave known as the "Virginia Calculator" who amazed 18th-century America with his mathematical abilities.

Thomas Fuller

Name this man who wrote for New York's Freedom Journal, the first newspaper owned by African Americans. He wrote a radically abolitionist namesake Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World.

David Walker

As part of this policy, people were required to abandon a Western-style suit and tie in favor of wearing the abacost.. It also supported the "Three Z's" of "Our Country, Our River, Our Money." This policy renamed the Stanley Pool to the Malebo Pool, amongst other localizations.

Authenticite

Nicolas I's rule became defined by a doctrine, first formulated by education minister Sergey Uvarov in a letter to educators, which consisted of Orthodoxy and these two other principles.

autocracy and nationality

Western Australia had much higher support for expanding this policy's reach than the nation as a whole in two referendums introduced by Billy Hughes. Two namesake "crises" opposing this policy occurred in Quebec.

conscription

Name this place, which members of the Gush Emunim had planned on blowing up during the 1980s. This place is also where a visiting King Abdullah I was assassinated in 1951.

Al-Aqsa Mosque

Oswaldtwistle is a town in this shire, the center of the 18th century textile industry in England. Lands held by British monarchs as dukes of this shire were not unusually not surrendered by George III..

Lancashire

Name this non-American city where David Trench suppressed leftist riots in 1967. The year before, protests erupted in this city after its Star Ferry announced a five-cent fare increase.

Hong Kong

This pharaoh's head and neck wounds indicate that he may have died in battle with the Hyksos. In one story, the Hyksos king Apophis complained about loud hippos that kept him awake to this pharaoh, whose given name was Tao or Ta'a.

Seqenenre

Greece was assigned to the Western sphere of influence in this agreement despite being mostly controlled by the EAM. Winston Churchill wrote down 2 numbers beside the names of five countries in his secret copy of this agreement.

Percentages agreement

This person spent a decade perfecting a gas-powered design while working in Springfield, Massachusetts with skills he developed from textile machining. His best-known invention would make an iconic "ping" sound when it required reloading, causing rumors that it endangered the user.

John Garand

Targets of the Dirty War include this left-wing Peronist group whose young members were targeted at Ezeiza Airport. This group kidnapped and murdered Pedro Aramburu.

Montoneros

Give this surname of Charles, a 15-time Representative from the Bronx. A Conservative Party Senator from New York with this surname was the lead petitioner in a case that overturned parts of the Federal Election Campaign Act.

Buckley

Although this device failed to kill its intended victim, it killed 18 people and wounded 22 others when it was fired on the Boulevard du Temple. Name this 25-barrel volley gun that was used by Giuseppe Fieschi in an 1835 assassination attempt on Louis-Philippe.

the infernal machine

Wilkins also assisted in organizing this 1966 demonstration launched by James Meredith, in which protestors walked from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi to counter racism in the Mississippi Delta.

March Against Fear

After the Nationals defeated David Lange's New Zealand Labour party, the Minister of Finance continued Rogernomics with her "Mother of all Budgets." You can give either that minister's name, or the pejorative term used to refer to her policies.

Ruth Richardson or Ruthanasia

Name this party which floated its country's currency and introduced market reforms as part of Minister of Finance Roger Douglas's "Rogernomics." This party opposes the National Party

New Zealand Labour Party

This country invaded Samoa during World War I and began administering it as a League of Nations mandate. Over 20 percent of Samoa's population died after a ship from this country, the SS Talune, brought the Spanish flu.

New Zealand

Name this conflict, fought by rebels who initially supported Queen Joanna against the newly elected Holy Roman Emperor. City councils took control during this conflict, which was concurrent with the Revolt of the Brotherhoods.

Revolt of the Comuneros

At this battle shortly after the start of King Philip's War, Josiah Winslow led militiamen and over 150 Pequots in a massacre of Narragansetts led by Canonchet.

Great Swamp Fight

Nehru wrote "The Discovery of India" while imprisoned at the Ahmednagar Fort in this state. Bal Thackeray formed a party in this state that formed its first coalition with the BJP in 1995.

Maharashtra

Name this ruler of the Nemanjić dynasty, who promulgated a law code in 1349 from his capital of Skopje. After crowning himself emperor, this ruler nominally shared power with his failson Uros the Weak.

Stefan Dusan

Before the decline of the Classical Maya period, this Yucatán city ruled a realm sometimes called the "Snake Kingdom." This city rivaled Tikal after the dramatic change in politics caused by Teotihuacan's intervention in the region during 378.

Calakmul

Giscard also promoted the creation of this online network, which was connected using telephone lines. Although limited to France, this was the most popular online service before the advent of the World Wide Web.

Minitel