Question
The Cooper Union speech tars John Brown by association with this man, whose actions prompted Palmerston to introduce a Conspiracy to Murder Bill that brought down his government. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Italian nationalist who used mercury fulminate to craft his namesake bombs, which gained popularity with 19th-century terrorists after he lobbed them at Napoleon III in an 1858 assassination attempt.
ANSWER: Felice Orsini [accept Orsini bomb]
[10e] In this city, Orsini bombs were employed in the Liceu (“lee-SAY-oo”) bombing and an 1896 attack that led to the Montjuïc (“moon-zhoo-EEK”) trials. An Orsini bomb appears in the Temptation of Man relief on an unfinished basilica in this Spanish city.
ANSWER: Barcelona (The basilica is La Sagrada Familia.)
[10h] Orsini bombs were replaced in the public imagination by dynamite, thanks in part to this German “apostle of dynamite.” This grandfather of a sports announcer called for “propaganda of the deed” in his Freiheit journal.
ANSWER: Johann Most [or Johann Joseph Most; or Hans Most] (His grandson was Celtics announcer Johnny Most.)
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 15.83 | 92% | 58% | 8% |
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| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| var merchants | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Les Missourables | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |