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What is the world’s oldest civilization?
China
What was Sumer’s greatest contribution to civilization?
Wrting
Considered the greatest scientist of all time?
Isaac Newton
Supreme Allied commander during WWII
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In what city is the United Nations headquartered?
New York City
First city destroyed by an atomic weapon?
Hiroshima
What nation did Sadaam Hussein invade, prompting Operation Desert Storm?
Kuwait
What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific during WWII?
Midway
Rome’s greatest contribution to civilization
Law
What war did the Tet Offensive happen?
Vietnam
“Morning Star of the Reformation”
John Wycliffe
Who said of war, “There is no substitute for victory”?
Douglas MacArthur
Where was Napoleon’s final defeat?
Waterloo
What year did the Vietnam War end?
1975
What empire was ruled by Cyrus the Great?
Persian
Liberal educator who promoted “progressive education.”
John Dewey
What U.S. President made the decision to use the atomic bomb in WWII?
Harry Truman
What child prodigy wrote The Magic Flute?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who was the terrorist leader of the PLO?
Yassir Arafat
Greatest scholar of the Northern Renaissance?
Desiderius Erasmus
Great Leader of the Scottish Reformation?
John Knox
“Father of the Hydrogen Bomb”
Edward Teller
What did Vasco de Balboa discover?
Pacific Ocean
Who was Byzantium’s greatest ruler?
Justinian
Who became Lord Protector after the English Civil War?
Oliver Cromwell