History 4 I think Flashcards
In what election year did Thomas Eagleton’s history of electroshock therapy cost him a spot on the democratic ticket
1972
What man’s argument in Smith v Allwright led to the end of all white primaries
Thurgood Marshall
What war had a battle where the commander of the Niagara defeated Robert Barclay’s fleet at Put-In-Bay
War of 1812
What man surrendered aboard the HMS Bellerophon to end the Hundred Days
Napoleon Bonaparte
What empire’s forces repulsed an attack by Lord Cardigan at the Battle of Balaclava
Russia
What order from Andrew Jackson required government land to be paid for with gold and silver, and caused the Panic of 1837
Specie Circular
What country’s king met with FDR on the USS Quincy after he left the Yalta conference
Saudia Arabia
What woman did Henry the 8th marry following Anne Boelyn’s execution
Jane Seymour
What king was the successor to Henry the 8th
Edward the 6th
What daughter of Anne Boleyn outlived Edward VI and Mary I and became queen of England 1558
Elizabeth I
What Argentinian Nazi was captured and executed in Israel
Adolf Eichmann
What king gained hegemony over Greece after his victory at Chaeronea
Phillip II
What empire sparked a wider conflict by destroying an enemy fleet at the Battle of Sinop
Russia
What country’s Sampo generation refers to young people who have given up on marriage and children
South Korea
What organization carried out the covert Operation Wrath of God in the 1970s to assassinate members of Black September
Mossad
What text’s earliest portions were made for the Great Wife Mentuhotep and describes a negative confession which denies performing any of 42 sins that tip the scale of Maat
Book of the Dead
What war did Theodore Roosevelt write a naval history of
War of 1812
Who is the president of Brazil
Lula da Silva
What country was formerly known as British Honduras
Belize
What is the most populous country in central America
Guatemala
What man was exiled for 6 years in the Longwood House Mansion
Napoleon Bonaparte
What communist revolutionary group was supressed during the 1990s by the government of Alberto Fujimori
Shining Path
What country were Shining Path and Tupac Amaru active
Peru
What position was held by Alberto Fujimori and Kofi Annan
Secretary General of the United Nations
What country contains the Little Belt and Great Belt straits on it’s island of Funen in the Kattegat
Denmark
What period’s ending was protested by the student Jan Palach by public self-immolation
Prague Spring
What person was stabbed with a letter opener by Izola Curry during a book signing in an incident he recalled where he repeated the phrase “If I had sneezed”
MLK
What real life River is called the Sindhu River in the Rig Veda
Indus River
What man arranged Wilhem the firsts coronation and unified Germany in his role as Prussian chancellor
Otto Von Bismarck
What drive was started by Otto Von Bismarck and Adalbert Falk to reduce catholic influence in Germany
Kulturkampf
What city’s regulations were struck down in Yick Wo v Hopkins
San Francisco
What justice wrote that the Chinese were utterly foreign and was the lone dissenter in Plessy v Ferguson
John Marshall Harlan
What lake borders and is named for a Swiss City
Geneva
What kingdom’s soldiers were killed at Blood River by troops under Andries Pretorius
Zulu
What woman founded the Women’s Social and Political Union along with her sister Christabell
Emille Pankhurst
What country was the home of an explorer that led the first team to fly over the North Pole in an airship
Norway
What man caused Roscoe Conkling to resign due to his appointments which defied the stalwart Republicans
James Garfield
What term refers to the tumultuous division of the British Raj into India and Pakistan
Partition
What Muslim leader led Pakistan during the partition
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
What woman succeeded John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court in 2010
Elena Kagan
What position represents the federal government before the Supreme Court
Solicitor General
What king was saved from defeat by his enemies delay after the Battle of Kunersdorf and by the death of Russia’s Empress Elizabeth
Frederick the Great
Who signed a 1903 treaty along with John Hay, and served as Panama’s ambassador to the US
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
What man returned to the Theseus to have his right arm amputated before continuing to command a failed attack on the Canary Islands
Horatio Nelson
In what year did student protest strikes almost topple Frances government
1968
What man gained his highest office after Tom Clark resigned so that Clark’s son Ramsey could become attorney general
Thurgood Marshall
What prison west of Baghdad was abused by the US military during the Iraq War
Abu Ghraib
What journalist broke the Abu Ghraib scandal and the My Lai massacre as a reporter in Vietnam
Seymour Hersh
What man took over in South Korea after Douglass Mcarthur was dismissed
Matthew Ridgeway
What man was shot along with JFK
John Connally
What campaign slogan was used to endorse William Henry Harrison in the election of 1840
Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
What party did William Henry Harrison run with
Whigs
What party nominated James G Birney twice and drew votes from Henry Clay in the election of 1844
Liberty party
What country’s explorer discovered and named Labrador
Portugal
In what state was Abraham Lincoln’s friend Elmer Ellsworth shot while lowering a confederate flag at the Marshall house
Virginia
What quantity did St Louis provide at Pruitt-Igoe
Housing
What conflict’s results were unsuccessfully overturned by the Project National Glory
Chinese Civil War
What family had two sons of the same name, one called The Unfortunate, and the other The Gouty
Medici
What man’s economic development program ended in the so called ‘great break’
Vladimir Lenin
What man was provided with a general uniform and filmed battles by the Mutual Film Company
Pancho VIlla
What type of ancient military unit was usually formed from a group of cohorts
Roman legion
What emperor cried out ‘Quintillius Varus give me back my legions’
Augustus caeser
What president and his wife Lou spoke in Chinese to have private conversations in the White House
Herbert Hoover
What ancient city’s name comes from the Sindhi word for mound of the dead
Mohenjo daro
What country’s were involved in the Auld Alliance
Scotland and France
What country’s invasion caused Edward I to construct the largest trebuchet ever built
Scotland
What country was victorious at Stirling Bridge
Scotland
What man was victorious at Sterling Bridge but was later betrayed by John de Menteith
William Wallace
What character is humiliated in the aria ‘questa Donna conoscete’
La Traviata (or Violeta Valery)
What painting can be seen hanging in an artist’s portrait of Emile Zola
Olympia (Manet)
What figure is depicted in a Raphael painting where Saint Sixtus and Saint Barbara flank the title woman
Mary
What 31 BC naval battle did Octavian beat Mark Antony and Cleopatra
Battle of Actium
What prohibition era crime fighter was the public safety director of Cleveland and helped bring down Al Capone
Eliot Ness
What committee ruled France at the height of the Reign of Terror
Committee of Public Safety
Who founded an all black college in Daytona Florida and was known as the First Lady of the Struggle
Mary McLeod Bethune
What group advises the president on issues of national defense
Joint chiefs of staff
In what absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco do the inhabitants of a French town turn into rampaging animals
Rhinoceros
What confederate general commanded the assault on Fort Sumter
PGT Beauregard
What Bosch painting depicts the earth as a grihzye sphere
Garden of Earthly Delights
What author of The Idea of Order at Key West broke his hand punching Ernest Hemingway
Wallace Stevens
What piano piece’s four movements are all named for literary figures
Concord Sonata
Who wrote In Cold Blood and Answered Prayers
Truman Capote
What city’s Thomas Eagleton Courthouse is the largest courthouse in the US
St Louis
What country’s communist leader was executed along with his wife Elena on Christmas
Romania
What island contained the labyrinth
Crete
Who was the founder and first president of the National Organization for Women
Betty Friedan
What is the only African country where Spanish is an official language
Equatorial Guinea
What type of contrapuntal compositions feature expositions
Fugue
What composer was inspired by Bach to write a work that alternates fugues and interludes in every key
Paul Hindemith
What British economist wrote the General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Keynes
What 1933 play is set in small town Connecticut
Ah! Wilderness
What American bay comes from a word meaning ‘of the small point’
Narragansett Bay
What empire did the Duke of Kasheass fight for in the war of the triple alliance
Brazil
What book does the explorer Raphael Hythloday narrate most of
Utopia
What abstract computational machines are named for a UK scientist
Turing Machine
What poem ends by describing the ‘herbs and flowers’ of the title location
The Garden
What poem describes a woman reluctant to love the speaker
To his Coy Mistress
Who wrote The Garden and To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
What alkali metal’s ores are sylvite and langbenight
Potassium
What ‘massacre’ did Richard Nixon spark by ordering Elliot Richardson to fire the Watergate special prosecutor
Saturday Night Massacre
Who was the Watergate Special Prosecutor
Archibald Cox
What solicitor general fired Archibald Cox and was rejected for his 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court
Robert Bork
What school of philosophers was named for a German city
Frankfurt School
What movement did Immanuel Kant define as ‘man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity’
Enlightenment
What French Jesuit missionary joined an expedition led by Louis Joliet the explored much of the Mississippi River
Marquette
What river runs from Colorado to the Mississippi River
Arkansas River
In what second to last process of mitosis is a replicated chromosome pulled in two
Anaphase
What protein tags other proteins for degradation in almost all eukaryotic types
Ubiquitin
What structures on sister chromatids do spindle fibers attach to
Kinetochores
What author wrote The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope
What author wrote of the ‘Art of Sinking in Poetry’ in his treatise Peri Bathous
Alexander Pope
What British physician did Alexander Pope ask ‘who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel’ referring to a form of torture
John Arbuthnot
What Roman author did Alexander Pope create ‘imitations of’
Horace
What curves appear on snail shells
Spirals
What artist depicted an eye whose iris is a cloud-filled sky in The False Mirror
Rene Magritte
What man painted a series in which daytime skies are contrasted with nighttime streets in The Empire of Light
Rene Magritte
What poems narrator criticizes the ‘zest’ of a friend who tells the ‘old Lie’ to children ardent for some desperate glory
Dulce et Decorum Est
What man sailed by Greenland after hearing of Brian Herjolfsson’s voyage
Leif Eriksson
What structures can be observed using quinacrine banding
Chromosomes
What structures can be observed by fluorescence in Situ hybridization
Chromosomes
What man’s band’s saxophonist Paul Gonsalves played a 27 chorus solo in his ‘Crescendo and Diminuendo in Blue’
Duke Ellingtin
What musician wrote ‘Jeep’s Blues’ for his band mate Johnny Hodges
Duke Ellington
What musician led the Cotton Club Orchestra in the 1920s
Duke Ellington
