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2005 ACF Regionals - Packet by Michigan B - #6 [report this tossup]
He discovered the thirteenth-century inscription of King Ramkamhaeng during his time as a Buddhist abbot and founded the modernizing Thammayut sect. On the death of his half brother, he succeeded to the throne even though he was his father's forty-third child. His Prime Minister, Suriyawong, urged him to maintain a balanced influence between France and Britain in foreign policy. Nevertheless, he agreed to the Bowring Treaty of 1855, which granted extraterritoriality and trading privileges to British subjects. Foreign influence would continue in the reign of his son, Chulalongkorn, who succeeded him in 1868. Also known as Rama IV, FTP, name this Chakri king of Thailand who hired the English governess Anna Leonowens to tutor his son, inspiring The King and I.
Answer: Mongkut (accept: Rama IV before it is mentioned)
2000 ACF Regionals - Packet by Georgia Tech - #24 [report this tossup]
After the Civil War, this reformer devoted himself to such causes as temperance, women's rights, and the Greenback Party, and in 1870 was an unsuccessful Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate for the Labor and Prohibition Parties. Influential in the popularization of an important Ante-bellum cause, this man was recognized as one of the era's great orators after delivering a spontaneous speech at Faneuil Hall in protest of the mob action responsible for the death of Elijah Lovejoy. FTP, name this radical abolitionist, a disciple of Garrison, who became the president of the American Anti-Slavery Society after Garrison.
Answer: Wendell Phillips
2007 ACF Regionals - Packet by Berkeley A - #8 [report this tossup]
A French translation of one of their epithets is the title of a novel purporting to be the memoirs of SS officer Maximilian Aue, written by Jonathan Littell. One of them assumes the guise of the priestess Chalybe and plunges a torch into the breast of the sleeping Turnus in the Aeneid. The Divine Comedy locates them at the gates of the city of Dis and describes them as girdled with green hydras, bloodstained, and wearing crowns of vipers. They are the titular creatures of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies, and one of their euphemistic Greek names is the title of the last play of Aeschylus's Oresteia. Megaera, Alecto, and Tisiphone are, FTP, which divine personifications of vengeance?
Answer: Eumenides or Eryines or Furies or the Kindly Ones (accept Les Bienveillantes before "Chalybe")