What is the of the pugnacious, belligerent militant imperialist leading the German Empire in August 1914? Hint: He was pronounced insane and exiled four years later...
100
The name and title of our current chief diplomat and representative of the USA
Who is John Kerry, the Secretary of State?
100
These are the four states bordering North Carolina
What are South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia?
100
This famous, strong-fisted sports figure said, ?“I can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.”
Who is Mohammed Ali?
200
The basic system of public services, systems, and structures that are necessary for economic activity, transportation, communication, and utilities.
What is infrastructure?
200
This region was known as the “powder keg of Europe” in 1914.
What are the Balkans?
200
Founder of the Land of the Pure, also known as Pakistan, and in which year?
Who is Mohammed Ali Jinnah, in 1947
200
The capital city of Rwanda.
What is Kigali?
200
The Star Spangled Banner was written during this lesser-known but incredibly important brief war, during which the White House was actually burned down. Who was our early antagonist?
What is the War of 1812, a battle against the British.
300
The systematic and mass killing of an ethnic group, with the intent of eliminating that ethnic group from existence.
What is genocide?
300
Throughout the 18th and 19th century, British leaders firmly maintained this policy that kept them out of Europe's entanglements and free to build the British Empire.
What is Splendid Isolationism?
300
A democratically-elected Marxist leader in Chile, 1970, that horrified civilized capitalists.
Who is General Pinochet?
300
Six countries in the Middle East.
What are: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine (non-member state), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
300
A baseball is used this many times in an average MLB game.
What is six times.
400
During the Cold War, there were many of this kind of fight in which both superpowers supported a smaller, allied group instead of going to war directly. It was due to this genre of war, that the Cold War got its name.
What is a proxy war?
400
Three main reasons for World War One.
What is militant imperialism (especially by Germany), militant nationalism (especially pan-Slavism in the Balkans), the assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the breakup and chaos of the Ottoman Empire, entangling alliances that made widespread war inevitable...
400
The current Chancellor of Germany, the strongest economy in Europe, and one of the most powerful women in the world.
Who is Angela Merkel?
400
In the American politics, we often talk of "red" and "blue" states. Name two traditionally Red and two traditionally Blue states. Secondly, what is a main issue that these political philosophies disagree on?
What is size and role of government, taxes and budgets, military and diplomacy, social values...
400
Stalin and Pinochet are two examples (there are plenty more) of dictators who used a particular tool to gain and keep their iron control. Stalin's NKVD and Pinochet's DINA are two examples of what?
What is a secret and brutal police force, without law or accountability.
500
The meaning of SATYAGRAHA, Gandhi's foremost principle, also taken up later by leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is Truth Force, Power of Nonviolent Resistance, Insistence on Truth
500
Three bad consequences of World War One.
What are: bitter resentment felt by German pride, crippling of German economy, secret and conflicting false promises made by the British and French in the Middle East, very bad boundaries in Yugoslavia and Middle East that didn't respect ethnic boundaries, the USA makes a lot of money off the war in Europe, millions and millions of people die horrible deaths, millions and millions of people are displaced, the traditional stability of Europe is shaken, the rise of tension between Jews and Palestinians in Palestine/Israel...
500
American statesman who fanned the flames of the Red Scare, and was responsible- on one hand- for the unjust blacklisting of innocent people, but on the other hand- perhaps a savior against real Communist threats at the time. Name, and what were his most important years?
Who is Sen. Joe McCarthy, 1950-1954
500
Location of TWO important Cold War proxy wars.
What are: Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Cambodia, Chile, Middle East (Afghanistan), El Salvador, Nicaragua...
500
In World War One, some of the first Americans to see combat was a fierce unit, the 369th, made up of segregated African-Americans. What was their nickname, and what was the name of their famously musical leader?
What are the Harlem Hellfighters, led by James Reese Europe.