Dates

Question 0

1066

Answer 0

Battle of Hastings ( Normandy’s William )

Question 1

711

Answer 1

Moors reach Spain via Morocco

Question 2

1095 / 1145

Answer 2

1st crusade / 2nd crusade

Question 3

1492

Answer 3

Columbus sails ocean blue -

Moors defeated by Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain

Question 4

1588

Answer 4

British defeat Spanish Armada

Elizabeth 1 / sir Frances drake / Phillip 2

Question 5

1607

Answer 5

Settlement of Jamestown VA

Question 6

1620

Answer 6

Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock MA

Question 7

1717

Answer 7

Lady Montagu develops smallpox vaccine at court of Ottoman Empire

Question 8

1776

Answer 8

American colonists declare independence from Britain

Question 9

1789

Answer 9

French Revolution

Question 10

1796

Answer 10

Edward Jenner develops and coins “ vaccine “ for smallpox

Question 11

1803

Answer 11

(Jefferson’s) LA purchase from napoleon’s France
Doubles size of USA
(Manifest destiny) as well as when worlds population reached it’s first billion people .

Question 12

1830’s

Answer 12

Cyrus McCormack invented reaper , trains made transportation & communication easier /
Samuel morse invented telegraph

Question 13

1854

Answer 13

Dr. John snow discovers cure for

Cholera - leads to sanitation

Question 14

1860’s

Answer 14

Civil war

• Lincoln was 16th president of USA
• industrial revolution begins

Question 15

1869

Answer 15

Transcontinental railroad finished
( golden spike - promontory , UT)
Suez Canal formally opened nov. 17
(100 miles long connecting by way of 3 natural lakes , gulf of sues & Indian Ocean)

Question 16

1885

Answer 16

Dr Joseph lister develops surgical antiseptic (carbolic acid)

Question 17

1896

Answer 17

Plessy v ferguson
-supreme court rules
“ separate but equal “

Question 18

1898

Answer 18

Spanish-American war fought in 3 months.

American acquires Philippines , Cuba , Puerto Rico , and Guam

Question 19

1914-1918

Answer 19

The great war

Question 20

1917

Answer 20

Bolshevik revolution Len by Vladimir Lenin

• overthrow Romanov dynasty
• communism beings ( lasts until 1991)

Question 21

1920

Answer 21

Women in America receive suffrage

Question 22

1928

Answer 22

Dr . Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

Question 23

1929

Answer 23

October - Black Thursday -

Stock market crash started worldwide depression

Question 24

1939-1945

Answer 24

World war 2

Question 25

1948

Answer 25

Allies create state of Israel on Palestinian lands

Question 26

1950-1953

Answer 26

Korean War

- beginnings of the Cold War

Question 27

1954

Answer 27

Brown v board of education

• Supreme Court ruling reversing Plessy v ferguson
• integration begins

Question 28

1960’s

Answer 28

Civil rights movement / beginnings of Vietnam

Question 29

1989

Answer 29

Perestroika - Berlin Wall falls

Question 30

1991

Answer 30

Fall of USSR , desert storm

Question 31

1996

Answer 31

Monsanto patents life , beginning of GMO

Question 32

2001

Answer 32

War on terror

NSA spying begins

Question 33

2008

Answer 33

1/2 of all earths residents now reside in cities

Question 34

2011

Answer 34

World population hits 7 billion