History 2 Flashcards
What year was Texas admitted into the Union?
1845
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to successfully summit Mt. Everest in what year?
1953
Togoland was the site of the first gunfire of what major 20th century conflict?
World War 1
When did the Irish potato famine occur?
1845-1852
Coca Cola was founded in which year?
1886
T/F: Romania was part of the central powers in WW1
False
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire were
Who were the first 2 to successfully summit Mt. Everest in 1953?
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
The Khmer Rouge was the ruling party between 1975-1979 of which modern day country?
Cambodia (Capital Phnom Penh)
Which ancient Greek tutored Alexander the Great until he was 16?
Aristotle
The “Hundred Years War” was a series of conflicts collectively lasting how long?
116 years
Which structure held the record for the tallest structure in the world the longest?
Eiffel Tower
The Eighty Years war was the war of independence of which country?
Netherlands (1568-1648) war against Phillip II of Spain for what is now Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
How long was Queen Victoria’s reign in the UK?
63 years
Bulgaria was a part of this alliance in WW1
The Central Powers along with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
Which of these was invented first?
Steam Turbine, Ballpoint Pen, Dyanmite, Phonograph
Dynamite 1866 by Alfred Nobel after discovering that mixing nitroglycerin with a fine sand called Keiselguhr
What was the capital of West Germany?
Bonn
The USA entered WW1 after the revelation that Germany was encouraging which country to invade?
Mexico
What was the name of the Japanese era during WW2?
Showa
Before 1946, Franklin D Roosevelt Metro Station in Paris was named after who?
Emmanuel III, King of Italy– called “Victor-Emmanuel III”
IBM created a Chess playing computer that defeated a world Chess champion for the first time in what year? What was it called?
1997; Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov
Margaret Thatcher, Vladimir Lenin, and Mahatma Ghandi are all connected by which profession?
Lawyer
The First Opium War occurred between the UK and what other country?
Qing (China)
What African country was established for the relocation of freed African Americans?
Liberia
The Maastricht Treaty, the precursor to the formation of the European Union, was signed in what year?
1992
What was the name of the first battle on land during the Falklands War of 1982?
The Battle of Goose Green (A war between Argentina and the UK over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands)
Which country introduced paper currency?
China
In which year did Edward VIII reign the UK?
1936
Which event made Al Capone the “undisputed” crime boss of Chicago?
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Nicolae Ceeausescu, the final communist leader of Romania, was executed in what year?
1989
Who was India’s first prime minister?
Jawaharlal Nehru
What was the name of Nelson Mandela’s political party?
African National Congress
For how many months was the Chrysler Building the world’s tallest building?
11 months (recall, built in Art Deco)
Befor Victor Emmanuel II became king of a United Italy in 1861, what country was he the king of?
Kingdom of Sardinia
The Great Train Robbery was carried out near London by a gang of how many people?
15
What country is often referred to by its Latin name, Helvetia?
Switzerland
The breakup of the Soviet Union created how many new independent countries including Russia?
15
Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
Between 1714 and 1830, this was the name of all of the British monarchs
George
What was the name of the treaty that became the UK’s obligation to enter WW1?
Treaty of London
Horatio Nelson lost his arm in this battle
Battle of Tenerife
Who drafted the US declaration of independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Before the disappearance of the facades, what was the Great Pyramids original color?
White
During the battle of Tenerife, Horatio Nelson lost which limb?
Arm
Tutankhamun ruled in which dynasty in Egypt?
18th Dynasty
Tomb discovered by Howard Carter in 1922
Which US state was the first to declare secession from the Union before the Civil War began?
South Carolina
They seceded on Dec 20th, 1860
The medical procedure of lobotomy was first carried out in humans in what year?
1935 in Lisbon
Having begun in 1884, when was the Panama Canal completed?
1914 (took 30 years)
What city was Al Capone the crime boss in?
Chicago
How many children that survived infancy did Henry VIII have?
3
Which British Prime Minister presided over the second half of WW1?
David Lloyd George
Tsar Nicholas II signed the October manifesto in what year?
1905 (marked the end of unlimited autocracy in Russia and instituted constitutional monarchy)
Who was the Roman God of commerce?
Mercury
Who ruled the Roman Empire during the crucifixion of Jesus Christ?
Tiberius
Pontius Pilate was the official of the Province of Judaea
Of note, Augustus was emperor when Jesus was born
In which year did the following events occur?
A) Construction of Berlin Wall
B) Bay of Pigs Invasion
C) First human journey to space
D) Independence of Algeria
A) Berlin wall- 1961
B) Bay of Pigs- 1961
C) Yuri Gagarin 1961
D) Algeria- 1962
In which landmark where peace treaties signed following the First World War?
Palace of Versailles
The Aztec empire was situated mostly in what modern country?
Mexico
How long in total was Winston Churchill prime minister of the UK?
9 years
Which reactor experienced the meltdown in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster?
Reactor No. 4
Jeans, orginally as “Blue Jeans” was invented in what year?
1871
The first Cholera Pandemic occurred in what country?
India
Who assassinated John Lennon
Mark Chapman
Tutankhaten is the other name for _____
Tutankhamun- discovered by Hower Carter 1922, 18th dynasty pharoah
The Munich Air Disaster of 1958 was the crash of a plane carrying what football team?
Manchester United
The Auschwitz concentration camp is found in which modern day country?
Poland
What crime was Al Capone ultimately jailed for?
Tax Evasion
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in what year?
1962 (not released until 1990)-spent 28 years in prison
What individual from Spain defeated the Aztec Empire in 1521?
Hernan Cortes
Which German General during WW2 was known as the “Savior of Paris” for disobeying Hitler’s order to destroy the city?
Von Choltitz
Buckingham Palace became a residence for the British Monarch in what century?
18th century
1700s
The Ford Motor Company was founded in what year?
1903
The goals of the government of the Meiji restoration in 1868 were outlined in this document that set the legal stage for Japan’s modernization
Charter Oath
What chemical element was discovered first (after the ancient times)?
Phosphorus, 1669 by German Alchemist Hennig Brand
Chichen Itza was built by what people?
Mayan (in current state of Yucatan)
Another card may mention Inca but that is wrong
In 1902, which country was the first to allow women to vote and run for head of state?
Australia
What does F stand for in JFK?
Fitzgerald
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Haile Selassie was emperor of what country from 1930 to 1974? What religion was he seen as being a prophet of?
Ethiopia, Rastafarianism
Who discovered dynamite in 1866?
He mixed nitroglycerin with a fine sand called _______
Alfred Nobel
Kieselguhr (noted in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day)
The first vaccine ever made protected against what disease?
Smallpox
Margaret Thatcher was known by which nickname?
The Iron Lady
Which island was the birth place of Napoleon?
Corsica
He was exiled first to Elba, then to St. Helena
The 1916 Easter Uprising occurred in what country?
Ireland
What is the capital of the country of Georgia?
Tbilisi
Ruling from 1930-1974, the Emperor of which country is seen as a prophet of the Rastafari religion?
Ethiopia (Haile Selassie)
Initiated by Stalin, during what years did the Great Purge occur?
1936-1938 (aka, the Purge Trials)
To the closest year, what was the duration of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s?
3 Years- note Francisco Franco was the dictator then
During the American Civil War, which state experienced the most battles?
Virginia
Which saint is Westminster Abbey dedicated to?
St. Peter
The Indian territory of Puducherry was once a colony of this country ________
France
Jack the Ripper was a serial killer in what decade?
1880s
He was also called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron
What massacre did Ivan the Terrible, the first Tsar of Russia, reign over?
Massacre of Novgorod (1570)
What was the Roman name for Scotland?
Caledonia
Recall that France’s largest island is New Caledonia but that is near Australia
How long did the Berlin Blockade last?
11 months
Tim Berners-Lee invented what in 1989?
World Wide Web
What English King’s mother and son were both beheaded?
James VI and I
Who is credited for inventing the World Wide Web in 1989?
Tim Berners-Lee
In what year did Prince Charles and Princess Diana get married?
1981
How many girls formed the “Radium Girls” dial painters who sued for exposure to lethal radiation?
5
They painted watch dials at factories in
Orange, New Jersey
Ottowa, Illinois
Waterbury, Connecticut
1917-1920s
U.S. Radium Corporation originally called Radium Luminous Material Corporation
Robert Waldow, the tallest man to ever live, was born in which US state?
Illinois
Aka the Alton Giant and Giant of Illinois
8 ft 11 in, died aged 22
Tbilisi is the capital of what country?
Georgia
Baku is Azerbaijan
Who was Jawaharlal Nehru?
India’s First Prime Minister
Caledonia was the Roman name for this country
Scotland
New Caledonia is the largest Island of France located east of Australia near the Solomon Islands and New Zealand
What was the objective of the Berlin Conference of 1884?
This was part of the scramble for Africa. Organized by Otto von Bismarck it concerned itself with the partitioning of Africa between 14 European powers and the US
Jesse Owens famously won 4 gold medals in the Olympics held in this city _____
Berlin
1936 Summer Olympics
At its highest, what percentage of people in the USA were unemployed during the Great Depression?
23% (nearly a quarter)
In what decade did the First Industrial Revolution begin?
1760s
The region that was last to grant women the right to vote in 1991 is found in what country?
Switzerland
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 created tension between Austria-Hungary and what other country?
Serbia- assassin was Gavrillo Princip of the Black Hand
The Battle of Waterloo, last battle by Napoleon, occurred in what modern day country?
Belgium
In the Pearl Harbor attack of 1941, the loss of life was greatest on what ship? What island was this?
USS Arizona
Oahu
Which U.S. president’s middle name is Milhous?
Richard Nixon
Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous inventor of what?
Cryptocurrency
Who is the pseudonymous inventor of cryptocurrency?
Satoshi Nakamoto
“To be or not to be, that is the question” is a famous quote from which of Shakespeare’s plays?
Hamlet
Who did Rome fight in the Punic wars?
Carthage
Simon Bolivar, known as the liberator of South America, was born in which modern-day country?
Venezuela
Roald Amundsen and his team reached the South Pole for the first time in what year?
1911; Roald was a Norwegian explorer
Which US president gave the White House its name?
Theodore Roosevelt
In what year did The Beatles release their album, Abbey Road?
1969
In what century was the Mona Lisa painted?
16th century (1503)
The Meiji restoration of Japan began in what year?
1868
A political event that restored practical imperial rule under Emperor Meiji. There were emperors before but this really consolidated the power. Goals were outlined in “The Charter Oath”
The Mayflower sailed from England to Massachusetts in which year?
1620
Where did Florence Nightingale establish a hospital to treat casualties of the Crimean War?
Scutari (in Turkey)
Where was the Titanic built?
Belfast
i.e. Capital of Northern Ireland
Alfred the Great was king of the Anglo-Saxons originating from which family?
Wessex
When was the chocolate bar invented?
1847 by British Chocolatier J.S. Fry and Sons
Swiss chocolatier Daniel Peter is generally credited with adding dried milk to it in 1876 to creat milk chocolate
Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II were all popes in which year?
1978
What Norwegian explorer reached the South Pole with his team in 1911 during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration?
Roald Amundsen
Hannibal famously travelled to Italy, through the alps, on what animal?
Elephant
Recall Surus (The Syrian) was missing a tusk
In what year did the world population reach 1 billion?
1804
Until their destruction in 2001, how long did the twin towers exist for?
28 years (Built in 1973)
Hernan Cortes of the Spanish Empire defeated the Aztec empire in what year?
1521
The Berlin Conference of 1884-85, a discussion of the fate of Africa, was organized by what leader?
Otto Von Bismarck
When was the famous investor, Warren Buffet, born?
1930
Which of the 7 wonders of the world was built most recently?
The Collosus of Rhodes
K2 was first summited in what year?
1954; recall it is in Pakistan in the Karakoram mountain range
In what year did Cleopatra die?
30 BC when she was 39 years old, last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt
The Gadsden Purchase was the US acquisition of land from what country?
Mexico
Treaty finalized in 1854
In what year was the Trans-Siberian railway opened?
1904
Goes from Moscow all the way to Vladivostok (and goes near Lake Baikal)
The Salem Witch Trials were a series of prosecutions carried out in which decade? Which state?
1690s (end of 17th century)
Salem, Massachusetts
Demonym of someone from Mass is “Bay Stater”
The Abominable Snowman is a term for Yeti, coined during the exploration of which world region?
Himalayas
Which event in Russia occurred first?
1) Russian withdrawal from WW1
2) Bolshevik Revoluion
3) Russian Civil War
4) Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II
Bolshevik Revolution
Which terrorist organization was responsible for the 9/11 attacks?
Al-Qaeda
Who was the youngest US president?
Theodore Roosevelt though he was VP for McKinley when assassinated but was 42
Youngest elected was JFK 43
In what year was the first satellite launched into space?
1957- Sputnik
1961- Yuri Gagarin goes into space
What country is Phnom Penh the capital of?
Cambodia
Which country declared war on Germany on the same day as the UK, starting WW2?
France
Between 1762 and 1796, Catherine the Great was empress of which empire?
Russian
Joseph Stalin was born in what modern day country? Capital?
Georgia (Tbilisi)
What year did Benito Mussoline come to power in Italy?
1922
The first gunfire (by the Brits) of the First World War occurred in which country?
Togoland- a German Protectorate in West Africa near Ghana and Togo
Though per Google some of the first gunshots were in Australia
The Great Leap Forward was initiated in what year?
1958
Among other territories, the UK and Argentina fought over the South Sandwich Islands during this war
Falklands War 1982
When was the statue of liberty built?
1876
What year saw 3 different popes?
1978
Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II
Carthage was besieged as a result of the Third Punic War of what year?
166 BC
Where was Napolean exiled to in 1814-1815?
Elba (then St. Helena after Waterloo)
What country lost the most soldiers during the second world war?
USSR
What is Tutankhamun’s other name?
Tutankhaten
The ancient region of Mesopotamia is mostly situated in which present day country?
Iraq
As was the ancient city of Babylon
The historic German state of Prussia was abolished by decree in which year?
1947
The recreational use of Opium was outlawed in what year in the US?
1914
Which volcano destroyed the city of Pompeii?
Mt. Vesuvius which now overlooks Naples about 9km away
Nazi Germany declared war on the Soviet Union in which year?
1941
Mark Chapman assassinated what famous person?
John Lennon
The formation of the German Empire occurred in what year?
1871
Queen Elizabeth’s 65th anniversary as queen is called _____
Sapphire Jubilee
What is the capital of Cambodia?
Phnom Penh
Which explorer sighted New Zealand for the first time?
Abel Tasman
Not James Cook but the Cook strait separates the North and South Islands
The Spanish Flu infected roughly how much of world population?
1/3 (33.3%)
During which century was Machu Picchu built?
15th Century
Alcatraz penitentary operated from 1934 to what year?
1963 (29 years)
Which Roman emperor ruled during the birth of Jesus Christ?
Augustus
The Saturday Night Massacre was a series of events that culminated under what US president
Richard Nixon
Who was the final communist leader of Romania, executed in 1989?
What country has a flag almost identical to Romania?
Nicolae Ceausescu
Chad
