Semester Final 2014 (Split) [Generals & History]

Question 1

What was the earliest epic poem ever found in Mesopotamia?

Answer 1

The epic of Gilgamesh

Question 2

What Spanish conquistador found Florida?

Answer 2

Ponce de Leon

Question 3

What Carthaginian general led his army across the Alps?

Answer 3

Hannibal

Question 4

Romulus and Remus founded what city that later became a vast empire?

Answer 4

Roman Empire

Question 5

In what year was Greece conquered by the Roman Empire?

Answer 5

214 B.C.

Question 6

Union General in Battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg and Chattanooga.

Answer 6

U.S. Grant

Question 7

Union General in Antietam

Answer 7

McCellan

Question 8

Union General in Gettysburg, Cold Harbour, Petersburg, and Appomattox

Answer 8

Meade

Question 9

Union General in March of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and Carolina Campaingn

Answer 9

Sherman

Question 10

Union General in Fredericksburg

Answer 10

Ambrose Burnside

Question 11

Confederate Gerneral in 1st and 2nd manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville

Answer 11

Stonewall Jackson

Question 12

Confederate General in The peninsula, 2nd Manassas, Antietam, Fredercksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Cold Harbour, North Anna, Petersbug, and Appomattox

Answer 12

Robert E. Lee

Question 13

Confederate General in Fort Sumter

Answer 13

Robert Anderson

Question 14

Confederate General in Battle of Atlanta, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga

Answer 14

John Bell Hood

Question 15

Confederate General in Battle of Perryville, BAttle of Missionary Ridge, Battle of Stones River (Murfreeboro)

Answer 15

Braxton Braggs

Question 16

What land feature connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea?

Answer 16

Straight of Gabraltar

Question 17

Which Egyptian Pharaoh was the only woman Pharaoh to ever rule?

Answer 17

Hatshepsut

Question 18

Who brought Christianity to Greenland and founded Vinland ?

Answer 18

Leif Erickson

Question 19

Who was the leader of Great Britain during WWII?

Answer 19

Churchill

Question 20

Which country gave the U.S. the statue of liberty?

Answer 20

France

Question 21

What year did the Boston Tea Party place?

Answer 21

1773

Question 22

What document starts with the words “We the people”?

Answer 22

U.S. Constitution

Question 23

Name the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Answer 23

Enola Gay

Question 24

Name the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

Answer 24

Bockscar

Question 25

What event is “the day that will live in infamy”?

Answer 25

Bombing of Pearl Harbor