World (1600s)

Question 1

What was the name of the Netherlands-chartered organization that was established in 1621 and was responsible for the country’s participation in the Atlantic slave trade, commercial operation in the New World, and settlement of New Netherland (now New York)?

Answer 1

(Dutch) West India Company

Question 2

Robert Catesby was the real ringleader of the 1605 crime now most closely associated with what man?

Answer 2

Today, Catesby’s co-conspirator Guy Fawkes gets most of the press from the failed “Gunpowder Plot.”

Question 3

After a long journey, this was signed Nov. 21, 1620 to ensure the enactment of “just and equal laws”

Answer 3

The Mayflower Compact

Question 4

650 miles off the U.S., it was the site of a 1609 shipwreck of colonists bound for Jamestown that may have inspired “The Tempest.”

Answer 4

Bermuda

Question 5

What city did the 17th-century Queen Christina wish to remake as an “Athens of the North”?

Answer 5

The extraordinary Christina is still one of the most storied figures in Swedish history, and brought a new era of art, culture, and science to her capital, Stockholm.

Question 6

Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built this monument in memory of his favorite wife, who died in 1631

Answer 6

Taj Mahal