History part 3

Question 1

What New Deal program was directed by Harry Hopkins

Answer 1

WPA

Question 2

What war failed to end despite the Act of Accord because it disadvantaged the descendants of Margaret of Anjou

Answer 2

War of the Roses

Question 3

What ruler brought the minting of gold and silver coins under his personal control

Answer 3

Augustus Caesar

Question 4

What country’s city of Cienfuegos is known as the Pearl of the South

Answer 4

Cuba

Question 5

In what revolution was James II of England overthrown by William and Mary

Answer 5

Glorious Revolution

Question 6

In what 1812 battle did the French Army fight Russian troops which resulted in over 100,000 casualties

Answer 6

Battle of Borodino

Question 7

What is the burial place for most French kings

Answer 7

Basillica of St. Denis

Question 8

What city has a cathedral which is said to house the tunic of the Virgin Mary and is famed for statues on its royal port

Answer 8

Shart

Question 9

What organization was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin

Answer 9

Republican Party

Question 10

What river forms New Hampshire’s western border

Answer 10

Connecticut River

Question 11

What man gave the name Mauritius to a waterway that had already been discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano

Answer 11

Henry Hudson

Question 12

What country’s city of Coro is at the base of the Paraguana Peninsula

Answer 12

Venezuela

Question 13

What event was caused by an attempt to repeal the Test Act

Answer 13

Glorious Revolution

Question 14

What rebellion was put down by Benjamin Lincoln

Answer 14

Shays rebellion

Question 15

What city was the place of a convention called by Alexander Hamilton to discuss the economic problems of the articles of confederation

Answer 15

Annapolis

Question 16

What country controls the southern portion of the Darien Gap

Answer 16

Colombia

Question 17

What empire agreed to its own dissolution by signing the treaty of sevruh but was later negated by the treaty of Lausanne

Answer 17

Ottoman Empire

Question 18

One type of what particle would create long range fluctuations with little energy cost according to the Mermin-Wagner theorem

Answer 18

Boson

Question 19

What country signed the Gastein Convention with Austria

Answer 19

Prussia

Question 20

What country’s Jasmine revolution started the Arab Spring

Answer 20

Tunisia

Question 21

What country’s north contains the Sabana-Camaguey archipelago

Answer 21

Cuba

Question 22

What portugese explorer arrived in India after sailing around the cape of good hope

Answer 22

Vasco De Gama

Question 23

What place did Colonel Thomas Blood try to steal the crown jewels in 1671

Answer 23

Tower of London

Question 24

What future English monarch was imprisoned in the Tower of London on the orders of Mary Tudor

Answer 24

Elizabeth I

Question 25

Who opened the first birth control center in America and wrote What Every Girl Should Know

Answer 25

Margaret Sanger

Question 26

What 1873 US law banned sending obscene material through the mail

Answer 26

Comstock Law

Question 27

What man declared that Habeus Corpus can only be suspended by Congress in Ex parte Merryman

Answer 27

Roger Taney

Question 28

What ruler introduced the Table of Ranks and replaced the Boyar Duma with the Governing Senate

Answer 28

Peter the Great

Question 29

What man fell into debt after marrying Margaret Shippen in 1779

Answer 29

Benedict Arnold

Question 30

What was the second of the four major Islamic Caliphates that ruled from 661-750

Answer 30

Umayyad

Question 31

What man established the clear and present danger doctrine in Schenk v US

Answer 31

Oliver Holmes

Question 32

What advisor and tutor to Nero was forced to commit suicide along with Petronius and Lucan after the Pisonian conspiracy

Answer 32

Seneca

Question 33

Who was the first leader of the Gestapo

Answer 33

Hermann Goring

Question 34

Who was the first Nazi to be executed following the Nuremberg Trials

Answer 34

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Question 35

What city was the capital of Yaroslav the Wise and his father Vladimir the Great

Answer 35

Kiev

Question 36

What man's wife was involved in the Diamond Necklace Affair

Answer 36

Louis the 16th

Question 37

What man was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the Billion Dollar Congress

Answer 37

William Mckinley

Question 38

What poem's speaker anticipates the question why brought he us from bondage, our loved Egyptian night

Answer 38

White Man's Burden

Question 39

What man came up with the Anaconda plan during the civil war and lost to Franklin Pierce for president in 1852

Answer 39

Winfield Scott

Question 40

What man led the Maytee during the Red River Rebellion

Answer 40

Louis Riel

Question 41

What war's highway of death refers to the mass bombing of the Republican Guard

Answer 41

Gulf War

Question 42

What man instituted the Kosygin Reform and presided over a namesake Era of Stagnation

Answer 42

Brezhnev

Question 43

What person asserted in a speech at a cotton exposition that we can be as separate as the fingers but as one as the hand

Answer 43

Booker T Washington

Question 44

What ruler ordered the construction of the Palazzo a Mare and negotiated with Phraates the 4th for the return of lost battle standards

Answer 44

Augustus Caesar

Question 45

What action did the 2 plus 4 agreement allow

Answer 45

German Reunification

Question 46

In what election did the first Black woman run

Answer 46

Election of 1972

Question 47

What movement's advocates founded the Kensington Society

Answer 47

Women's Suffrage (in the UK)

Question 48

What man won his senate seat against incumbent Kenneth Keating despite not living in New York

Answer 48

Robert Kennedy

Question 49

What event's target opposed The Week of Long Knives

Answer 49

Mahatma Gahndi

Question 50

What profession had members employed by Jack Rodham

Answer 50

Pirates

Question 51

What city had a revolution that involved protestors gathering around a statue of Jozef Bem

Answer 51

Budapest

Question 52

What prime minister was criticized for not sending support for Charles Gordon during the Siege of Khartoum

Answer 52

William Gladstone

Question 53

What knightly order protected European travelers to the Holy Land

Answer 53

Knights Templar

Question 54

What king executed Roger Mortimer

Answer 54

Edward III

Question 55

What conflict saw the use of sharp rifles nicknamed Beecher Bibles

Answer 55

Bleeding Kansas

Question 56

What architect was inspired by Anasazi cliff dwellings

Answer 56

IM Pei

Question 57

What man used his newspaper L'Aurore to publish J'Accuse during the Dreyfus affair

Answer 57

Georges Clemenceau

Question 58

What war featured the battle of Mortimer's Cross

Answer 58

War of the Roses

Question 59

What ruler's arrival is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry

Answer 59

William the Conquerer

Question 60

What battle's site contains the Lion's Mound which marks where William II was knocked off his horse

Answer 60

Waterloo

Question 61

What man served as secretary of war and secretary of the treasury before becoming chief justice

Answer 61

Roger Taney

Question 62

Who was the first premier of the People's republic of China

Answer 62

Zhou Enlai

Question 63

What leader was exiled to Jamaica

Answer 63

Simon Bolivar

Question 64

What country's Statspolitiet was reestablished after a milk strike occurred during the reign of Joseph Terboven

Answer 64

Norway

Question 65

What battle's fighting took place on Reno Hill

Answer 65

Little Bighorn

Question 66

What WW2 battle was fought in the Solomon Islands

Answer 66

Battle of Guadalcanal

Question 67

What good did the Medici's build their banking empire from due to the Arte Della Lana guild

Answer 67

Wool

Question 68

What battle saw one side use bundles of sugar cane to cross Rodriguez Canal

Answer 68

Battle of New Orleans

Question 69

What war led to the collapse of the Aberdeen government

Answer 69

Crimean war

Question 70

What battle included the charge of the light brigade

Answer 70

Balaclava

Question 71

What island did the US invade in operation Urgent Fury

Answer 71

Grenada

Question 72

What island's highest point is Maunga Terevaka

Answer 72

Easter island

Question 73

What chinese dynasty was founded by emperor Gaozu and featured poets like Du Fu and Li Po

Answer 73

Tang

Question 74

What nation is connected to it's northern neighbor's Rameswaram Island by Adam's Bridge

Answer 74

Sri Lanka

Question 75

What Prussian officer trained soldiers at Valley Forge and outlined his procedures in the official American Revolution Drill Manual

Answer 75

Friedrich von Steuben

Question 76

What prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia was the first prime minister of a unified Italy

Answer 76

Cavour

Question 77

What French ruler helped unify Italy

Answer 77

Napoleon III

Question 78

What chant was used by Italians who wanted Victor Emmanuel to become king

Answer 78

VERDI

Question 79

What empire was the target of the Arab revolt during WW1 and was partitioned under the treaty of Sevres

Answer 79

Ottoman Empire

Question 80

What battle's losing commander exclaimed "My men have bceome women, and my women men"

Answer 80

Battle of Salamis

Question 81

Who was the winning commander at the Battle of Salamis

Answer 81

Themistocles

Question 82

What desert covers a large amount of the southwest before entering it's namesake Mexican province

Answer 82

Sonoran Desert

Question 83

What valley is located on Navajo land and contains Mitten Buttes

Answer 83

Monument Valley

Question 84

What state is Monument Valley and most of Sonoran Desert in

Answer 84

Arizona

Question 85

What advisor and lover of Catherine the Great organized the coup that overthrew Paul II and put Catherine on the throne

Answer 85

Grigory Orlav

Question 86

What politician won a presidential nomination at Chicago's Wigwam

Answer 86

Abraham Lincoln

Question 87

What largest home in the US is in Asheville NC

Answer 87

Biltmore House

Question 88

What son of Marcus Aurelius scandalized his subjects by performing as a gladiator and battling wild animals in the arena

Answer 88

Commodus

Question 89

A novel from what country features a rake-wielding glutton with a pig's face

Answer 89

China

Question 90

What man ordered the execution of British captain Charles Asgill in 1782

Answer 90

George Washington

Question 91

What country's monarch sent a gunboat to Morocco to spark the Agadir Crisis, part of an effort to achieve the country's place in the sun

Answer 91

Germany

Question 92

What British PM returned to power just before the 1929 stock market crash and great depression

Answer 92

Ramsay Macdonald

Question 93

What party was Ramsay Macdonald a part of

Answer 93

Labour

Question 94

What king did Macdonald serve under

Answer 94

George V

Question 95

What country's Carnation Revolution ended Marcel Caetano's rule of this country

Answer 95

Portugal

Question 96

What man was the chairman of the Council of Parks from 1924 to 1963 and dominated urban planning in NYC

Answer 96

Robert Moses

Question 97

What man ruled against state granted monopolies in the Charles River Bridge case

Answer 97

Roger Taney

Question 98

What landmark was the site of the largest protests against Japan's seizure of territory in Shandong

Answer 98

Tiananmen Square

Question 99

What empire began around 1438 and used knotted strings to keep records in the quipu

Answer 99

Inca

Question 100

What man did Athhualpa defeat, who was also his brother

Answer 100

Huascar