History Flashcards
During the Holocaust, what Swedish diplomat in Budapest provided at least 20,000 Jews with Swedish passports and protection?
Raoul Wallenburg
First U.S. President?
George Washington
Who was killed on the Ides of March?
Julius Caesar (44BC)
Who painted the “Mona Lisa”?
Leonardo da Vinci
Who was the Greek king who conquered Persia?
Alexander the Great (Macedon 336-323)
Who led French armies against the British in the Hundred Years War?
Joan of Arc
Who was the first blind and deaf college graduate?
Helen Keller
Who started the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
Who first theorized gravity?
Isaac Newton
Who was the state of Virginia named after?
Queen Elizabeth I
Who started the Spanish Inquisition and funded Christopher Columbus’s travels to America?
Queen Isabella of Castile
Elizabeth I was associated with what house?
The house of Tudor (a royal house of Welsh origin)
What is a draft of a proposed law that is presented to parliament?
Bill
Which U.S. state was the first to legalize same-sex marriage, in 2004?
Massachusetts
What conquistador conquered the Aztecs?
Hernán Cortés
Name the Chief Justice who has administered the Oath of Office to the most presidents.
Roger Taney
What was the first permanent English settlement in Northern America?
Jamestown (founded in 1607)
What is the first known empire?
the Akkadian
formed around 2250 B.C.
“If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. If one break a man’s bone, they shall break his bone.”
In what legal code was this written in?
Code of Hammurabi
Who was the first Roman emperor?
Augustus Caesar
What was the name of the angel that spoke to Muhammad?
Gabriel
What mathematician and physicist was born the same year that Galileo Galilei died?
Isaac Newton
In this philosophy, Jen and Li are the two most important virtues. Who created this philosophy?
Confucius
Jen - humanity, love
Li- etiquette, propriety, ritual
Who invented paper?
Ts’ai Lun
(Also commonly reffered to as Cài Lún)
On whose tomb is this written:
“Let mortals rejoice that so great an ornament to the human race has existed!”
Isaac Newton’s
Who ordered a book burning in 213BC on the Asian continent?
Shi Huang
The span of tranquility after Augustus Caesar is called what?
Pax Romana (Roman Peace)
In what year did the first powered flight take place?
1903 (thanks to the Wright brothers)
What year did the Titanic sink?
1912
RMS= Royal Mail Ship