2016 NAQT tossups 149A

Many of these French-named homes,like Chenonceau in the Loire Valley, are open to the public

Sharon Stone kicks Arnold in this film & says, "That's for making me come to Mars!"

Fort Henry and Fort Donelson were located here, which was governed until 1865 by Andrew Johnson

The November Uprising inspired his C minor Revolutionary Etude. Wrote Nocturnes and mazurkas

As of 2016, this credit card company's logo features the overlapping circles

Dan Brown, Harlan Coben & David O. Russell all attended this college in Dickinson's home town

Calea Victoriei is a main street in this Romanian capital

This guy from "The Office" gave kids (& their parents) "The Book With No Pictures"

Here, Mount Baldy is the headwaters of the Little Colorado River, bordering the Painted Desert.

The center of the Milky Way lies in the direction of what constellation representing a centaur?

Album "Hell Freezes Over" to culminate this band's unlikely reunion in an MTV special

This 1972 numerical clause was later named the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act

Nineveh was a huge city of this land, which gives part of its name to a current Mideast country

In 1774 Penelope Barker organized an Edenton, N.C. version of this 1773 Boston protest

Which nation ruled by Recep Erdogan, announced a plan to cooperate with the US against ISIS?

"Conditional" examples of these values obey Bayes' theorem; they describe likelihoods of events

James Doohan was the Oracle on this series' "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

This company cleaned up when it introduced the Dustbuster in 1979

A black monolith mysteriously appears at different times in human history in this sci-fi film

He wrote "I will not cease from Mental Fight" in "Jerusalem" and also wrote The Chimney Sweeper

The Black Death that killed many in Europe in the 1300s may have been caused by this organism

In 1967 this dancer was just 19 when he became a soloist at the Kirov Ballet of Leningrad

Depicts "Theirs not to reason why/Theirs but to do or die" in a poem "into the valley of Death"

The loser of this battle was Harold Godwinson; portrayed on Bayeux Tapestry

Sevastopol Sketches were based on the defense of Sevastopol when he served in the Crimean War

In 1916 Jeannette Rankin from this "Big Sky Country" state was elected first female in Congress

This character occasionally visits the Diogenes Club to meet with his brother Mycroft

It's the official title of Green Day's "Time Of Your Life"

Upton Sinclair refers to the Chicago stockyards as "Packingtown" in this 1906 novel

This American woman is the subject of "The French Chef in America"

She won a Pulitzer Prize not for "My Antonia" but for another Nebraska novel, "One of Ours"

"Waltz Of The Flowers" & "Dance Of the Sugar-Plum Fairy" are part of this ballet

The logo for this sports team is popularly known as the Flying Elvis

In one show on this network, the company Pied Piper wins a "Disrupt Cup" for their algorithm.

A classic by Ray Charles begins, "My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I'm ___"

This city is home to the world's tallest man made structure, the Burj Khalifa, in the UAE

This city in New York state is sometimes called "Nickel City"

The Hasmonean Palace was named for the dynasty of these Hanukkah heroes

In 1962 with his brother James, he opened the first of his discount stores in Rogers, Arkansas

This Swiss mister came up with concepts like the collective unconscious & archetypes

About 3% of this country lies at the eastern edge of southern Europe in Thrace

This man's namesake constant times the Boltzmann constant equals the ideal gas constant

The siren on its logo was inspired by a 16th century Norse wood cut

Who was the first woman to enter Congress? Led a brigade to protest Vietnam War

Edi & Legion are artificial intelligence entities helping the puny humans in this video games

In June 2015, two men escaped from prison in this state, governed by Andrew Cuomo.

Joan Jett sang, "I love rock n' roll, so put another dime" here

This man wrote about the nature of piety in Euthyphro & about the soul's immortality in Phaedo

He fled the 1949 siege of Chengdo, led a new "republic" in Taiwan, and opposed Mao Zedong

Heraklion is the capital of this Greek island