People We Need To Know

Question 1

Who was the leader of the Catholic Church in 2014?

Answer 1

Pope Francis

Question 2

Who famously promoted the assembly line?

Answer 2

Henry Ford

Question 3

Give the birth name of the man who rose to the rank of first Baron of Baltimore.

Answer 3

George Calvert

Question 4

Name the man who requested a New World colony where Catholics could freely practice their religion, and name the colony formed after his request.

Answer 4

Sir George Calvert, Maryland

Question 5

Name the doctor from Pittsburgh who became the first black line officer in the United States Army during the Civil war. He is also considered the father of black nationalism

Answer 5

Major Martin Delany

Question 6

Name the famous Scottish economist who believed that rational self-interest and competition were the keys to increasing prosperity. He wrote THE WEALTH OF NATIONS and is called the father of modern economics.

Answer 6

Adam Smith

Question 7

Give the name of the U. S. Secretary of Education since 2009.

Answer 7

Arne Duncan

Question 8

Give the name of the current Queen of England.

Answer 8

Elizabeth II

Question 9

Give the name of the current president of Mexico.

Answer 9

Enrique Pena Nieto (pronounced Pain-ya)

Question 10

Name the Union general who during the civil war led a long march across Georgia to cut off the Confederate armies’ food supplies. He captured the crucial city of Atlanta in the fall of 1864.

Answer 10

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 11

Give the name of the employee of the National Security Agency who famously leaked their secret methods and took asylum in Russia.

Answer 11

Edward Snowden

Question 12

Give the name of the prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2013

Answer 12

David Cameron

Question 13

Nazi Dictator of Germany

Answer 13

Adolf Hitler

Question 14

Fascist dictator of Italy

Answer 14

Benito Mussolini

Question 15

Military dictator of Japan

Answer 15

Hideki Tojo

Question 16

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

Answer 16

Josef Stalin

Question 17

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who led them through the war

Answer 17

Winston Churchill

Question 18

American commanding general of all Allied forces in Europe

Answer 18

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 19

President of the United States who ordered the atomic bomb strikes on Japan

Answer 19

Harry Truman

Question 20

Identify the two Japanese cities attacked by American atomic bombs at the end of World War II. Then identify the dates those bombs were dropped, and the names of the two bombs.

Answer 20

Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, 1945, by a bomb called “Little Boy”;
Nagasaki was bombed on August 9, 1945, by a bomb called “Fat Man.”

Question 21

Explain how he played a part in adding to our modern understanding of astronomy: , Copernicus

Answer 21

Nicolas Copernicus proposed that the universe was centered on the sun, rather than the earth, and that the earth rotated around the sun

Question 22

Explain how he played a part in adding to our modern understanding of astronomy: Galileo

Answer 22

Galileo Galilei used the telescope to discover evidence in the solar system that supported Copernicus’ theory, such as the phases of Venus and four of the moons of Jupiter

Question 23

Explain how he played a part in adding to our modern understanding of astronomy: Sir Isaac Newton

Answer 23

Sir Isaac Newton explained the law of universal gravitation, which united the work of Copernicus, Galileo, and Johannes Kepler to develop into the planetary model we now believe (mostly).

Question 24

Identify the leader of the Chinese Communist Party in World War II; after the war, he became the leader of all China. Modern Chinese refer to him as “the Chairman.”

Answer 24

Mao Tse-tung

Question 25

Name the German catholic priest famous for his disagreement with the Church over specific points of doctrine. He believed that only scripture, not tradition, could give direction to the faithful, and set out his ideas in 95 theses that he nailed to the door of the Wittenberg church

Answer 25

Martin Luther