Industrial Revolution
US History
World History
World Wars
Miscellaneous
100
What raw material from the Americas was crucial for British textile factories?
Cotton
100
What ship brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620?
The Mayflower
100
What rebellion was led by enslaved people and created the first Black republic?
The Haitian Revolution
100
During which battle was this famous photograph taken?
Iwo Jima
100
Who is he?
Tralalero Tralala
200
Who wrote Wealth of Nations and promoted laissez-faire economics?
Adam Smith
200
The United States bought Alaska from which country?
Russia
200
What reform movement modernized Japan in the late 1800s?
Meiji Restoration
200
Who were the Marines who used their complex native language to transmit unbreakable secret messages during WW2?
Navajo Code Talkers
200
Which monarch was the final Habsburg, famous for his extreme protruding chin, known as "Habsburg Jaw"?
Charles II of Spain
300
What was the “enclosure movement”?
Privatizing common land for farming
300
Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
John Hancock
300
What Islamic empire conquered Constantinople in 1453?
The Ottoman Empire
300
Which US Army General became a 5-star general during WW2 and later became President?
Dwight D Eisenhower
300
Which academic institution, located in Annapolis, Maryland, is world-renowned for creating Naval and Marine Corps officers? (Minh's soon-to-be alma mater 😜)
United States Naval Academy
400
What new production method did Henry Ford popularize?
Assembly line
400
Which four presidents are on Mount Rushmore?
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt
400
What was the name of the Spanish-American labor draft system in Andean mines and agriculture?
Mita System
400
Which technology helped the U.K. defeat Germany’s months long air offensive against it in the Battle of Britain?
Radar
400
What was the yield (in tons of TNT) of the Tsar Bomba?
50 megatons or 50,000,000 tons
500
What industrial innovation made it possible to cheaply mass-produce steel in the late 1800s?
The Bessemer Process
500
How many chests of tea were dumped during the Boston Tea Party?
342
500
What was the capital city of the Inca Empire?
Cusco
500
For how many days was Leningrad sieged during WW2?
872 or 900
500
Which Chinese general led the Cao Wei state during the Three Kingdom Period?
Cao Cao