Result: 1 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 10 | Question: 20 | History |

WorldID: 72674

Question: In a 2005 book, Yale University historian Peter Perdue argued that this event was
systematic and deliberate, as evidenced by his translation of orders to "show no mercy at all to
these rebels" and "[save] only the old and weak." To celebrate the success of this event, the
Puning Temple was built in the summer capital of Chengde, which included the world's largest
wooden statue of Avalokiteshvara. Zhao Hui ambushed Amursana's camp in a night ambush in
the Battle of (*) Oroi-Jalatu, after which this event was greatly accelerated. Emin Khoja, the
local ruler of Turfan, offered his assistance during this event, which was the culmination of the
first two of the Ten Great Campaigns. The population of Xinjiang dropped almost 80% after this
event, which opened up Xinjiang to Han and Manchu settlers. For 10 points, name this mass
extermination of a people by Qing Dynasty forces during the reign of Qianlong.

ANSWER: Dzungar genocide [or Zhunga'er miezu; be generous and accept Dzungar-Qing War,
Pacification of Dzungaria, or anything that mentions the Dzungar people; prompt on Qing
conquest of Xinjiang before "Xinjiang" is mentioned; prompt on Ten Great Campaigns before
mention]

Result: 2 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 8 | Question: 15 | History |

WorldID: 72383

Question: One ruler of this country was asked to choose his wife from a set of photographs, only
to have his first choice rejected as she was considered too poor and too ugly. In 1927, Herbert C.
White published a colorized series of photographs of this country's capital city. Felice Beato took
extensive photographs of an exquisite and magnificent garden-palace complex in this country
that was put to the torch in a punitive expedition afterwards. In a photograph taken in this
country, a bloody, orphaned baby sits in a completely destroyed (*) railway station after it was
hit by a bomb on Bloody Saturday. A grainy photograph of two smiling officers posing with
their swords in this country first appeared in a newspaper with the associated headline: Contest
To Kill 100 People With A Sword. Associated Press photographer Jeff Widener snapped a
photograph in this country of an unknown pedestrian with shopping bags obstructing the path of
a line of tanks. For 10 points, name this country in which the "Tank Man" photograph captured a
moment from protests in its Tiananmen Square.

ANSWER: China [accept any of the following answers: Qing Dynasty, Empire of the Great
Qing, Republic of China, Republic of China, People's Republic of China, People's Republic of
China, Qing Chao, Da Qing Diguo, Zhonghua Minguo, Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo; accept
Manchukuo on the first clue]

Result: 3 | ACF Nationals | 2017 | Round: 14 | Question: 21 | History | WorldID: 67808

Question: This ruler sponsored miniaturists who illustrated the Tales of a Parrot and Tales of
Amir Hamzah in his court's characteristic naturalistic style. This ruler kept on his predecessor's
3nance minister, Todar Mal, who standardized weights and measures in the dahsala system. This
ruler's expansion southward was aided by his sack of Chitor Fortress during the war against
Mewar. This ruler formalized an elaborate bureaucracy in which o53ceholders held 33 numerical
ranks between 10 and 5,000. This ruler introduced a system in which administrators maintained
numbers of troops according to their assigned zat and sawar numbers and were given a rank
divided by ten, the mansabdari system. The historian Abu'l Fazl was one of the "Nine Jewels" at
this ruler's Persianate court, which he established a7ter throwing o5f his childhood tutor, Bairam
Khan. For 10 points, name this 16th-century Mughal emperor who built Fatehpur Sikri and
succeeded Humayun.

ANSWER: Akbar the Great

Result: 4 | ACF Nationals | 2017 | Round: 15 | Question: 18 | Literature | BritishID: 67826

Question: This poem describes a person who will " t his tongue to dialogues of business, love, or
strife...as if his whole vocation were endless imitation." Harold Bloom argued that this poem set
the template for the "crisis-lyric" followed by poets as diverse as Whitman, Dickinson, and
Stevens. The most dramatic turn in this poem occurs a ter the speaker predicts a time when
"custom [will] lie upon thee with a weight, heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!"
Uncharacteristically for its author, this poem uses a Platonic metaphor in the stanza beginning
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." The rst four stanzas of this poem, which ask "Whither
is led the visionary gleam?", prompted a response from Coleridge in "Dejection: An Ode." This
poem concludes, "to me the meanest lower that blows can give thoughts that do o ten lie too
deep for tears." For 10 points, name this irregular Pindaric ode by William Wordsworth.

ANSWER: "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" [or the
Intimations Ode; or the Immortality Ode; or the Great Ode]

Result: 5 | ACF Nationals | 2017 | Round: 2 | Question: 13 | History | EuropeanID: 67189

Question: This ruler took the opportunity to blockade and subjugate a rival state a ter two of its o
cials referred to him as "sovereign" rather than "lord." O cial accounts claim that under this man's
rule, Christian nobles began abandoning the Trinity for the heresy of Skariya the Jew. This ruler
schemed to expropriate monastic lands by adjudicating a synod between the "Possessor" and
"Non-Possessor" factions, where his policies were championed by holy man Nilus of Sora. A
delegation including Cardinal Bessarion o fered a second marriage to this ruler, a ter which he
adopted the symbol of a two-headed eagle for his seal. This husband of Zoe Palaeologus carted o
f the veche bell of a conquered city whose fur-trading elites he exiled. This ruler's refusal to pay
tribute led to a battle in which the opposing side under Ahmad Khan retreated a ter failing to
cross the Ugra river. For 10 points, identify this Grand Prince of Moscow who subjugated
Novgorod and gained independence from the Golden Horde.

ANSWER: Ivan III [or Ivan the Great; prompt on Ivan]

Result: 6 | ACF Nationals | 2017 | Round: 20 | Question: 5 | Literature | OtherID: 67940

Question: A taxi driver learns about a treacherous act he committed during this historical event
in the last past life narrative of Susan Barker's The Incarnations. During this event, a girl kicks
the pregnant Nini in the stomach until she gives birth; ater this event, that girl cannot speak
during her public execution because her vocal cords are cut in the novel The Vagrants. In
reaction to this event, the muckraking series "People or Monsters?" was published, and the
literary journal Today was founded to champion writings of the "Misty Poets." The short story
"The Class Monitor" pioneered a genre of literature dened by relections on this historical
event, called "scar literature." During this event, The Legend of the Red Lantern was popularized
as one of "Eight Model Plays," and the author of the play Hai Rui ("high" rway) Dismissed From
Oa3ce was censored. For 10 points, name this period of political upheaval in China in which Red
Guards sought to restore Maoist ideology.

ANSWER: the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Result: 7 | ACF Nationals | 2017 | Round: 4 | Question: 7 | History | EuropeanID: 67225

Question: Jonathan Winkler's Nexus explains how the a7termath of this event led to
unprecedented integration of private business and government research, while Nicholas Lambert
argued that its protagonists were unwilling to threaten their own economic networks. It's not the
Holocaust, but Arno Mayer (MY-ur) interpreted this event in light of what he called the
"Primacy of Domestic Politics." A very stupid book by Max Hastings rea53rmed the "Fischer
School" explanations for this event, which Niall (neel) Ferguson counterfactually imagined
leading to an earlier emergence of continental union. Traditional explanations of the cause of this
event were rejected in Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers. Literary culture lacked the ability
to accurately re6lect this event until the rise of Modernist irony according to Paul Fussell, who
examined this event along with "modern memory." For 10 points, name this war whose causes
are treated in Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August.

ANSWER: World War I [accept equivalents such as WWI, The Great War, The War to End All
Wars, etc.]

Result: 8 | ACF Regionals | 2017 | Round: G | Question: 3 | History | ClassicalID: 64020

Question: In the aftermath of this event, measures were taken to suppress the illegal practice of
"puncturing" and to require the increased use of stone from Gabii or Alba. According to Tacitus,
this event took place on the anniversary of a Gallic raid following the Battle of the Allia. Titus
Flavius Sabinus, who was praefectus urbi ("pry"-FEKT-oos OOR-bee) during this event, put the
City Guard to work so that the Vigiles (wee-jee-lays) could nd time to sleep. Celer (CHEH-lur)
and Severus oversaw the construction of the Domus Aurea after this event, for which Christians
were scapegoated. The emperor, who was away at Antium, was nevertheless popularly blamed
for this event, during which he allegedly played the lyre and sang about the fall of Troy. For 10
points, what disaster destroyed much of the capital during the reign of Nero?

ANSWER: Great Fire of Rome [accept answers referring to the Roman re of 64 CE or the
Roman re during the reign of Nero; prompt on partial answers]

Result: 9 | ACF Regionals | 2017 | Round: H | Question: 17 | Mythology | NoneID: 64055

Question: Despite the efforts of a watchman named Teithrin (TAY-thrin), a region of Ceredigion
(ker-eh-DIG-ee-on) suffered this fate when a castle protecting it fell into decay under the
command of Seithenyn (say-THEH-nin). That region, which suffered this fate under Gwyddno
Garanhir (GWID-no GAH-rahn-heer), was called Cantre'r Gwaelod (kahn-TRAYR gwee-
LOHD). A location that suffered this fate was ruled by a man who pushed his daughter off his
horse Morvarch (mor-VARK), aer which she became a mermaid; that princess caused her city
to be destroyed in this way aer stealing a key from her sleeping father's neck and using it to
open a protective gate. Dahut (da-HOO) brought this fate upon a city in Brittany that was ruled
by Gradlon (grahd-loh) and that was called Ys (EES). Plato's Timaeus (tim-AY-us) describes an
island beyond the Pillars of Hercules that suffered this fate. For 10 points, what sort of disaster
befell the lost continent of Atlantis?

ANSWER: sinking beneath the sea [accept sunken cities or sunken kingdoms or answers
indicating that locations are submerged or underwater; prompt on "ooding" or "drowning"; do
not accept or prompt on "Great Flood" or similar answers]

Result: 10 | ACF Regionals | 2017 | Round: J | Question: 14 | History | WorldID: 64094

Question: A poem criticizing this government program declares that "the millet is scattered over
the ground, the leaves of the sweet potato are withered," which was used as evidence to re a
defense minister. A fake photo circulated by the government as part of this program appeared to
show a wheat eld supporting the weight of several children. Jasper Becker highlighted foreign
news coverage of this program's deadly aermath in his book Hungry Ghosts. The effects of this
program were exacerbated by the extermination of sparrows, which were labelled one of the
"Four Pests." As part of this program's focus on steel production, household utensils were melted
down in backyard furnaces. For 10 points, what program started in 1958 and attempted to rapidly
modernize the economy of China?
ANSWER: Great Leap Forward [or da yue jin ; accept Great Leap Forward Famine; prompt on
the "Great Chinese Famine" or "Three Years of Difculty"]

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Result: 1 | ACF Regionals |2016 | Columbia A and VCU A | 10 | Geography | None |

CollegeID: 16496

Question: This "global conveyor belt" explains how CFCs got into the North Atlantic Deep
Water. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this cause of deep ocean currents. As its name suggests, it is driven by temperature
and salinity-caused differences in seawater density.

ANSWER: thermohaline circulation [or THC, accept meriodional overturning circulation,

prompt on answers like "great ocean conveyor belt"]

[10] While deep ocean currents are driven mostly by thermohaline circulation, this phenomenon
drives surface currents like the Gulf Stream. The Beaufort Scale estimates its speed in terms of
observed effects

ANSWER: wind speed

[10] Unless you believe the Clovis Comet hypothesis, you probably agree that the sharp decline
in Earth's temperature during this time period was due to an influx of freshwater from Lake
Agassiz shutting down North Atlantic THC.

ANSWER: Younger Dryas [accept Loch Lomond stadial or Nahangan stadial, prompt on
Pleistocene, do not accept or prompt answers like "the ice age" or "Last Glacial Maximum" since
that was way earlier]

Result: 2 | PACE NSC |2016 | 1 | 11 | History | Classical | HSID: 17967

Question: This author described how a force shouted "Thalatt! Thalatta," meaning "The Sea! The
Sea," as they reached the shore of the Black Sea. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Greek historian who was one of the leaders of a group of mercenaries called the
Ten Thousand. Their march north is discussed in this author's Anabasis.
ANSWER: Xenophon of Athens

[10] Xenophon also wrote a fictionalized biography of this king, who conquered the Median
Empire, Babylonia, and Lydia to found the Persian Achaemenid Empire.

ANSWER: Cyrus the Great [or Cyrus II; or Cyrus the Elder; or Kurosh; prompt on Cyrus]

[10] The Ten Thousand were originally hired to fight for Cyrus the Younger against his brother
Artaxerxes II. Cyrus the Younger died in this battle when his forces were betrayed by
Tissaphernes.

ANSWER: Battle of Cunaxa

Result: 3 | PACE NSC |2016 | 3 | 9 | History | British | HSID: 18027

Question: Millicent Fawcett claimed that this war "found women serfs and left them free." For
10 points each:

[10] Name this war during which British women over thirty gained the right to vote via the 1918
Representation of the People Act.

ANSWER: World War I [or the Great War]

[10] Along with her sister Christabelle, this leader of the suffragist movement in Britain
controversially halted activities of the Women's Social and Political Union to campaign for the
war effort.

ANSWER: Emmeline Pankhurst [or Emmeline Goulden]

[10] 101 British suffragists signed a 1914 open letter of this name calling for the end of World
War I. A 1914 "truce" by this name involved widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the
trenches of the Western Front.

ANSWER: Christmas [or Open Christmas Letter; or Christmas Truce]

Result: 4 | ACF Regionals |2015 | Emergency Extras | 5 | Religion | None | CollegeID: 4135

Question: This religion's namesake book chronicles some Israelite tribes who cross the Atlantic
and become ancestors of Native Americans. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Christian denomination based on golden plates uncovered and translated by
Joseph Smith. After its early members were expelled from Nauvoo, they went west and settled in
Utah.

ANSWER: Mormonism [accept The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; accept LDS
Church]

[10] This Mormon text includes the Book of Moses, the Book of Abraham, and a retranslation of
the Gospel of Matthew. It is named for a valuable object in parable of Jesus.

ANSWER: Pearl of Great Price

[10] Mormons equate eternal life with this highest form of salvation, which entire families can
attain together if they've undergone sealing ordinances. Lorenzo Snow claimed "As God now is,
man may be" through this process.

ANSWER: exaltation [or becoming exalted; or highest degree of the celestial kingdom; prompt
on "apotheosis" or "eternal life" or "becoming a god" or "celestial kingdom"]

Result: 5 | ACF Regionals |2015 | Illinois A + Ottawa A | 21 | History | World | CollegeID:

3766

Question: Answer the following about places where castle-like buildings were built far away
from Europe during the Middle Ages, for 10 points each.

[10] This site in southern Africa near Masvingo, probably built by ancestors of the Shona people,
included a walled Great Enclosure. Robert Mugabe's flag depicts a sculpted soapstone bird found
at this site.

ANSWER: Great Zimbabwe [do not accept or prompt on "Zimbabwe"]

[10] This man, the second of Japan's three great unifiers, built a castle at Osaka where Tokugawa
Ieyasu later besieged this man's son Hideyori.

ANSWER: Toyotomi Hideyoshi [prompt on "Hideyoshi" as some sources identify him by that
name alone]

[10] The sunken medieval fortress of Nan Madol, built on coral near Pohnpei in this island
group, may have inspired H.P. Lovecraft's R'lyeh. On its isle of Yap medieval people may have
rolled huge stone disks called rai for currency.

ANSWER: Micronesia [or Federated States of Micronesia]

Result: 6 | ACF Regionals |2015 | Maryland A + Minnesota | 14 | History | World |
CollegeID: 3885

Question: After this man's most famous political action, the Conservative leader Arthur Meighen
failed to pass a vote of no-confidence, resulting in the Liberal Party's return to power. For 10
points each:

[10] Name this Governor-General of Canada who refused Prime Minister Mackenzie King's
request to call a general election and dissolve Parliament in 1926.

ANSWER: Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy [prompt on "Bungo"]

[10] In a notable exercise of Canada's diplomatic independence, King refused to participate in

the Chanak Crisis, a dispute between Britain and this country.

ANSWER: Republic of Turkey [or Trkiye Cumhuriyeti]

[10] King's failure to deal adequately with this global economic crisis was part of the reason for
his loss in the 1930 elections to Richard Bennett. It was caused by a stock market crash in 1929.

ANSWER: Great Depression

Result: 7 | ACF Regionals |2015 | MIT A & Texas A&M A | 5 | History | European |
CollegeID: 3834

Question: This ruler had author Aleksander Radishchev exiled for publishing the anti-serfdom
book Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Russian ruler who succeeded her husband Peter III after his assassination. The
rising serfdom issue resulted in Pugachev's rebellion against this female "enlightened despot."

ANSWER: Catherine the Great [or Catherine II of Russia; accept Yekaterina Alexeevna]

[10] Catherine became the lover of this future Polish king at age 26. He could not prevent the
partitions of Poland, which ended with this man's abdication and the end of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth.

ANSWER: Stanislaw August Poniatowski [or Stanislaw II August; prompt on partial answers]

[10] In 1783, Russia annexed this region under the direction of Catherine's diplomat Grigory
Potemkin. During Catherine's visit to this region and New Russia, Potemkin apocryphally
erected fake villages to impress her.

ANSWER: Crimean Peninsula

Result: 8 | ACF Regionals |2015 | Penn B + HS Contributors + Editors 2 | 9 | Religion | None
| CollegeID: 3965

Question: This holiday commemorates the martyrdom of Ali's son Hussein at Karbala. For 10
points each:

[10] Name this fast day observed on the 10th day of Muharram. In Shi'a Islam, particularly
extreme observers of this day engage in public self-flagellation as an act of grief.

ANSWER: Day of Ashura

[10] Many Shi'a Muslims mourn Husayn again this number of days after Ashura occurs, within
the month of Safar. Muhammad had his first Quranic revelation when he was this many years
old.

ANSWER: 40 days after [or 40 years old][This observance is called Arba'een, which means "40"
in Arabic.]

[10] Another thing that lasted 40 days in Abrahamic tradition was this event, which was starting
to subside as a 300-cubit-long wooden structure got stuck on Mount Ararat with many pairs of
animals inside.

ANSWER: Great Flood [or Deluge; or Noah's Flood]

Result: 9 | ACF Regionals |2015 | Stanford + LASA A + MIT B | 14 | Geography | None |

CollegeID: 3991

Question: The tiny Botswain Bird Island just off of this island's coast is the only known nesting
ground for its namesake species of frigatebird. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this volcanic Atlantic island. Its location midway between Brazil and Africa gave its
Wideawake Airfield strategic value as a fueling station for the United States in World War II and
the Cold War.

ANSWER: Ascension Island

[10] Ascension Island is part of an overseas territory administered by this nation. Another of its
overseas territories was invaded by Argentina in the Falklands War.

ANSWER: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland [or UK; or Great Britain; do
not accept or prompt on "England"]
[10] Along with Tristan de Cunha, Ascension is administered from this other volcanic island
located 800 miles to the southeast. Its capital is Jamestown, and its Longwood House has been
converted into a museum dedicated to this island's most famous resident.

ANSWER: Saint Helena [That resident was Napoleon Bonaparte in his second exile.]

Result: 10 | ACF Regionals |2015 | WUStL + Harvard | 13 | Trash | None | CollegeID: 4122

Question: After being ranked the second best Swedish athlete of all time behind Bjrn Borg by
Dagens Nyheter, this player responded: "On that list I would have been No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, with
due respect to the others." For 10 points each:

[10] Name this striker for Paris Saint-Germain [san zher-MAN] and captain of the Swedish
national soccer team.

ANSWER: Zlatan Ibrahimovic

[10] Ibrahmovic scored what is widely considered the best goal of 2013 with a looping bicycle
kick from distance against this national team, which is nicknamed the Three Lions and is
captained by Wayne Rooney.

ANSWER: England [do not accept or prompt on "Great Britain" or "United Kingdom"]

[10] While playing for Ajax [AH-yahks] in 2004, Ibrahimovic accidentally injured this
teammate, and in the ensuing conflict threatened to break both his legs. This Dutch midfielder
has played for Hamburger SV since leaving Tottenham in 2012.

ANSWER: Rafael van der Vaart