Faces and Places
Years before any European explorer caught sight of this place, European maps included this place named Unknown Southern Land.
What is Australia?
A popular outdoor game designed to teach young ladies like Martha Custis (who became Martha Washington) physical grace. This game used a pair of sticks and embroidery hoops.
What is the Game of Graces?
This election ended in a tie due to a flaw in this system.
What is the election of 1800 and the electoral college?
The chief villain behind the Reign of Terror and the country where he "reigned".
Who was Maximilien de Robespierre and France?
The type of boat that Lewis and Clark used.
What is a keelboat?
She went exploring here when she was just 17 years old.
Who was Sacagawea and the West (the Louisiana Territory and west)?
Meriweather Lewis bought a hunting dog while he was in Pittsburg waiting for his keelboat to be finished. What was the dog's name?
Who is Seaman?
The first two political parties of the United States and their strongest supporters.
What were the Federalists (Alexander Hamilton) and the Democratic-Republicans (Thomas Jefferson)?
With war threatening in mid 1792, this French soldier-composer wrote this song to inspire his countrymen to resist the invading armies of Prussia.
Who is Claude Rouget de Lisle and La Marseillaise?
A Famous French pastry bread that cost far more than regular bread.
What is brioche?
What French leader sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States?
Who is Napoleon?
Lewis and Clark took along peace medals to give to Native American chiefs as tokens of friendship. How many medals did they take?
What is 90?
In winning the War of the Third Coalition, Napoleon tore down an empire that had stood for more than 800 years. What empire?
What is The Holy Roman Empire?
This Queen from France was hated for 2 main reasons.(Name both the Queen and the reasons.)
Who was Marie Antoinette?
What was the Diamond Necklace Affair and her callous remark, "Let them eat cake"?
This game was used by French revolutionaries to teach their children new ways of thinking. The French version of this game has players advancing through pictures of Roman emperors and French kings. But after the revolution, the game boards featured revolutionary war heroes like Abbe Sieyes and events like Storming the Bastille.
What is the Game of the Goose?
Martha Washington's daughter Patsy died at age seventeen. What did she die of?
What is a seizure?
Captain James Cook was headed home from Australia when he ran into a hidden danger, and nearly sank. What was this hidden danger?
What is The Great Barrier Reef?
What is a lame duck?
A politician who has been voted out of office, but still has some time left in office.
This monarch tried to escape to here disguised, but was found out. Ultimately he ended up on trial and this was his punishment.
Name him, where he was escaping to, and what happened to him.
Who was King Louis XVI escaping to Austria but ended up losing his head in the guillotine?
The best known symbol of New Zealand, a flightless bird found no where else in the world.
What is the Kiwi?
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on an island between France and Italy. What island?
What is Corsica.
After the Liberty Bell cracked, two metalworkers melted it down and re-cast it. What were their names?
Who are Pass and Tow?
What important document was the first to use the name "United States of America"?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Catherine's husband Peter had been a good looking young man. What ruined his good looks?
What is smallpox?
When the British drew close to Washington in 1814, First Lady Dolley Madison stayed in the White House longer than she should have. Why?
Because she was trying to save historic treasures.