Revolutions
This former British Gerneral would serve as a leader in the American revolution.
George Washington
This First World War Battle held great symbolic victory for the Canadian national identity.
Vimy Ridge
This Civil War battle in Pennsylvania would go down as the Bloodiest battle in American History.
Gettysburg
This highly influential poem is among the great literary accomplishments of its time.
"The Epic of Gilgamesh"
This Roman Emperor is also known for his contributions to Stoic Philosophy.
Marcus Aurelius
This radical tract ironically bypassed Imperial Russian censors on the grounds of being far too verbose to insight a revolution.
'Das Kapital' by Karl Marx
This great Canadian folk singer is well known for songs such as "Big Yellow Taxi," "A Case of You," "Chelsea Morning," and "River."
Joni Mitchell
What two beaches did American soldiers land on during D-Day?
Utah and Omaha
What two rivers were the source of life for many ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and Euphrates River
This charismatic politician and general was highly prominent and influential in Athens during the Greco-Persian wars and the Peloponnesian War until he succumbed to a plague in 429 BCE
Pericles
This young Frenchman sailed across the Atlantic at the age of 19 and became one of George Washington’s most trusted generals during the American Revolution. For that as well as his role in the French Revolution, he became known as the “hero of two worlds.”
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
The failure of which Accord helped spur the Quebec sovereignty movement and the Second Referendum in the 1990s?
Meech Lake Accord
This man escaped slavery and became a great abolitionist and was one the finest public speakers and writers of his time. He wrote bestsellers such as "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" and "My Bondage and My Freedom," as well as the speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
Frederick Douglass
In which modern country was Carthage situated?
Tunisia
Some might argue that Dr. Freud read a little too deeply into this classic Athenian tragedy.
Oedipus Rex
What is the name of a political group of which Maximillien Robespierre was a part of, that sat on the highest benches of the French Nation Convention.
The Mountain
Which Canadian Prime Minister stated: “the twentieth century shall be the century of Canada”?
Wilfred Laurier
Which four U.S. Presidents were assassinated while in office?
Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield. William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy
This ancient Chinese Philosopher has influenced Chinese social and political culture for centuries.
Confucius
This Byzantine Emperor re-conquered great swaths of the former Western Roman Empire during the sixth century.
Justinian the Great.
In 1878, this woman committed what was at that time one of the most notorious terrorist attacks in Russian history when she shot the Governor of St. Petersburg at point-blank range.
Vera Zasulich
In 1793, this governor declared that Upper Canada would become the “image and transcript” of Britain.
John Graves Simcoe
What was the name of the program enacted by the USA to aid its wartime allies?
Lend-Lease
This Egyptian Pharaoh ended polytheism in favour of the monotheistic worship of the Sun God, Aten.
Akhenaten
This fiery Roman senator lamented the decline of classical Roman values at the hands of powerful generals with autocratic aspirations such as Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus.
Cato the Younger