People
This man passed through Timbuktu on a well-known journey and gave away large quantities of gold during a pilgrimage to Mecca. For the point, who is this most famous ruler of the Mali Empire?
Mansa Musa
This civilization’s hieroglyphic system is preserved in the Dresden Codex, and they played a ball game known as pok-ta-pok. This civilization’s mysterious collapse during the 8th century is sometimes attributed to foreign invasion. For the point, what Mesoamerican civilization constructed Chichen Itza
Mayan Civilization
The “conductors” of this secret pathway would sometimes pretend to be slaves to infiltrate plantations. For the point, what abolitionist network of secret routes, “stations,” and conductors such as Harriet Tubman, helped an estimated 30,000 slaves escape to freedom in Canada and elsewhere?
Underground Railroad
This man and Wilt Chamberlain are the only players to score 3,000 points in a season, and in 1993, he left the NBA and played minor league baseball for the White Sox. The current owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, he starred alongside Bugs Bunny in Space Jam. For the point, what basketball player is notable for his time with the Chicago Bulls?
Michael Jordan
This person was involved in the Diamond Necklace Incident, and this person’s family was held in the Temple Prison before her execution. She famously uttered the phrase “Let them eat cake!” and was the mother of Maria Theresa. For the point, who was this woman, the wife of Louis XVI, who was executed during the French Revolution?
Marie Antoinette
This dynasty adopted Salic Law to avoid placing Joan II on the throne, and its namesake succeeded Carolingian King Louis V in 987. For the point, what large French ruling house, containing the Houses of Bourbon and Valois, was founded by its namesake, Hugh?
Capetian Dynasty
This political party saw its members make up the majority of the members of the Constitutional Union Party in 1860. It nominated Hugh Lawson White, William Henry Harrison, and Daniel Webster in the Presidential Election of 1836. For the point, what U.S. political party also included such politicians Henry Clay and Zachary Taylor?
Whig
This man signed a namesake manifesto with Bertrand Russell, which warned against the dangers of nuclear warfare. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the photoelectric effect. For the point, what Swiss scientist is famous for his theories of general and special relativity?
Albert Einstein
After the death of Patriarch Adrian, this ruler replaced the Patriarchate with the Most Holy Synod. In his youth, this man gained military experience in war games he played with his "toy army." This ruler faced a revolt consisting of a class of soldiers attempting to replace him with his sister Sophia. This ruler expanded his territory in his Azov campaign against the Ottomans, after which he founded a base at Taganrog. This ruler found his old friend Gerrit Kist in Zaandam and worked for Lynst Rogge at a shipyard while part of the Grand Embassy. The victor at the Battle of Poltava, for 10 points, name this ruler who defeated Charles XII of Sweden in the Great Northern War and built a namesake "window to the West" on the Baltic.
Peter the Great
The government of this city began the controversial Galliara beautification project. Legend has it that Hazrat Mian Mir laid the foundation of one building in this city. The Sarovar is a tank here which contains holy water. Its name comes from the “Pool of the Nectar of Immortality,” an item created by this city’s founder, Ram Das. Adherents of a particular faith were horrified when troops entered this city as part of Operation Blue Star. The most famous building in this city is officially titled the Harmandir Sahib. That gurdwara was completed by Arjun Dev and houses the Adi Granth.
Amritsar
This speaker noted “I want [slavery] root and branch destroyed” in an 1867 speech to the American Equal Rights Association that ended with a singing of “We are going home.” This speaker asked “Where did your Christ come from?”, noting “Man had nothing to do with Him!” in another speech; in that speech, she proclaimed “I have plowed and planted, [...] and no man could head me!” for ten points, name this 19th century activist and orator, a former slave who repeated the question “Ain’t I a Woman?” in her most famous speech.
Sojourner Truth
A zinc selenide crystal causes total internal reflection in the attenuated total reflectance type of this technique. The two dimensional form of this technique is used to dynamically follow hydrogen bond formation. Unlike a similar technique, this technique requires a compound to have a change in its dipole moment rather than a permanent dipole. Samples are prepared for this process using Nujol oil or a potassium bromide pellet. Carbonyl compounds have a peak of about 1700 wavenumbers, and several useful vibrations occur in the “fingerprint” region of its spectrum.
IR spectroscopy
This poet wrote, “ask for no Orphean lute to pluck life back” in a poem concluding, “The Lord survives the rainbow of his will.” That poem describes “the end of the whaleroad and the whale.” In another poem, the speaker states, “I hear my ill-spirit sob in each blood cell,” before observing a creature that “drops her ostrich tail, and will not scare.” This man, who dedicated that poem to Elizabeth Bishop, also described how “giant finned cars nose forward like fish” in a poem noting, “Colonel Shaw is riding on his bubble.”
Robert Lowell
One thinker from this country developed three criteria for monetary equilibrium and predicted aggregate demand and prices would increase through a “cumulative process” when the natural and market rates of interest were different. Besides Wicksell, economists from this country include two who developed a theorem stating more capital abundant countries will export more capital intensive goods, the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem. Another man from here described the central “creed” that held people together in a work on race relations in the United States, An American Dilemma.
Sweden
Morgan Lewis defeated this man to become Governor of New York in 1804. James Wilkinson conspired with this man to create a monarchy in the American west with support from Spain. This man, Thomas Jefferson’s first Vice President, went to Weehauken, New Jersey to settle a personal dispute with a former Secretary of the Treasury.
Aaron Burr
A simple example of these objects is the king post type, while the Howe and Pratt types differ only in the direction of the diagonal. A graphical method for analyzing these objects is the Maxwell-Cremona diagram. More commonly, these objects are analyzed in two or more parts using the method of sections, or by using the method of joints. These structures are characterized by passive revolute, or pin, joints; thus, unlike frames, analysis of these structures explicitly assumes a lack of moments. These structures consist of beams arranged to form triangles, which ensures they will not change shape when bearing a load.
Truss
This ruler's downfall was chronicled by Garcilaso de la Vega.This ruler conquered the Cañari city of Tumebamba. He allegedly threw a Bible in the face of Friar Vicente de Valverde. His generals included Quizquiz and Rumiñahui, who lost the Battle of Mount Chimborazo. After this man was captured, Rumiñahui agreed to ransom him for a room full of gold and silver. For years, this son of Huayna Capac was embroiled in a civil war with his half-brother Huascar.
Atahualpa
After pushing the protagonist of this work's car into a ravine, a policeman tells him, “Them that don't have cars don't need licenses.” Another character in this work spends his afternoons unsuccessfully flirting with the waitress of the Frosty Bottle before visiting the “muvseevum” that contains a shrunken artifact. The protagonist's second encounter with the police comes when they beat him to death after he has blinded himself and is found lying in a ditch. Enoch steals a mummy and tries to make it the “new jesus” of the protagonist's new religion. For 10 points, Hazel Motes tries to start the Church Without Christ in what novel, the first by Flannery O'Connor?
Wise Blood
Former President of Sears Julius Rosenwald was asked by this man to serve on the board of directors for an institute he headed. This man advised his people to “Cast down your bucket where you are” in his “Atlanta Compromise” speech, which was opposed by the formulator of the “Talented Tenth” doctrine, W.E.B. DuBois.
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Booker T. Washington
Name this medieval romance by Wolfram von Eschenbach about the son of Gamuret’s quest for the Holy Grail
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501 pts for this btw
Parzival