History Bowl

Question 1

A 2010 redesign of this item removed the initials “VDB”

Answer 1

Penny

Question 2

During this campaign, a combined 25 American and British planes crashed

Answer 2

Berlin Airlift

Question 3

a ruler of this city was locked in his treasure room without food or water for neglecting to spend his gold on the city’s defense.

Answer 3

Baghdad

Question 4

this philosopher was offered fifty years pay in advance by Catherine the Great

Answer 4

Diderot

Question 5

An early lyric by this group parodies the nativist views of Enoch Powell and demands that immigrants return to their “commonwealth homes.”

Answer 5

Beatles

Question 6

For use on ** this** ship, Louis Casella manufactured a resilient version of a Six’s thermometer.

Answer 6

Challenger

Question 7

English physician Thomas Sydenham wrote a 17th century manual advocating for a product containing this good, laudanum.

Answer 7

Opium

Question 8

The deflection of this element’s particles led to J. J. Thomson’s discovery of atomic isotopes.

Answer 8

Neon

Question 9

a project focused on this river employed a number of Camp Clinton-housed prisoners from the German Afrika Korps

Answer 9

Mississippi River

Question 10

this general established the Juliana Republic in southern Brazil.

Answer 10

Garibaldi

Question 11

Italian statesman who reluctantly negotiated the cessation of Savoy to France in the Treaty of Plombières, became the first prime minister of Italy

Answer 11

Benso

Question 12

The fanfare Buckaroo Holiday begins a ballet by this composer

Answer 12

Copland

Question 13

Copland composed a work named for which outlaw who was gunned down by Pat Garrett

Answer 13

Billy the kid

Question 14

scholars suspected that several frescoes in the Hall of the Five Hundred at the Palazzo Vecchio were painted over this man’s historical work, The Battle of Anghiari.

Answer 14

Da vinci

Question 15

Leonardo’s Codex Atlanticus contains a design for a “rapid-fire”

Answer 15

Crossbow

Question 16

This acquisition was retroactively confirmed by the decision American Insurance Co. v. Canter.

Answer 16

Louisiana purchase

Question 17

Louisiana Purchase was explored by which duo of officers

Answer 17

Lewis and Clark

Question 18

An invention produced by Andreas Flocken is often considered the first “true” one of these objects

Answer 18

Electric car

Question 19

Successful commanders from this kingdom were often equated to the god Montu

Answer 19

Egypt

Question 20

invading Hyksos were likely from what Levantine region

Answer 20

Canaan

Question 21

A tyrant of this city named Dionysius the Elder arrested the philosopher Plato and sold him into slavery following a disagreement.

Answer 21

Syracuse

Question 22

first settlers to Syracuse were from which Greek city-state

Answer 22

Corinth

Question 23

A subset of the “Great Railroad Strike of 1877” in this city included strikers trapping police officers on the Halsted Street bridge in the Battle of the Viaduct

Answer 23

Chicago