American History
What was the major event that began Ghost Soldiers?
The Bataan Death March
What historical event is The Crucible an allegory of?
Spartacus, a Roman slave, worked in what role?
Bonus: Which philosopher wrote about Spartacus' rebellion?
A gladiator
Bonus: Plutarch
Mary Gets hers, fill in the blank:
"I'm the secret mystery of ____"
Maryness
Bing's AI often claims that Byzantines lacked which body part?
In what city did Frederick Douglass work as a slave for Hugh Auld?
Baltimore, Maryland
According to Hammurabi's Code, what was the punishment for a barber who had "cut the sign of a slave" without the consent of the slaveowner?
The barber's hands were cut off
What character from a Greek play murders her children and then runs away on a flying golden chariot?
Medea, from Medea
Justinian thought that the earthquakes during his reign was caused by what "sinful" behaviors?
Bonus: How did Justinian punish these sinful behaviors.
Homosexuality and Gambling
Bonus: Cutting off Genitalia (Homosexuality) and Hands (Gambling)
In Looking Backward, what year was Julian West from and what year did he travel to?
He's from 1887, he traveled to 2000
What American novel got popularized years after it was published by overseas sailors?
The Great Gatsby
What is one way the Mongols executed prisoners of war and slaves?
In Oedipus, where and how is King Laius killed?
Bonus: What city was Laius king of?
Oedipus kills him at a fork in the road
Bonus: Thebes/Thebai
What happened to Hypatia, a Neoplatonist in Egypt born in the 4th century?
She was crushed by tiles out of jealousy
In Tulsa Burning, what was Tulsa known as?
Black Wall Street
How did the author of Young Goodman Brown differentiate himself from his Puritan ancestors?
He added an "e" at the end of his last name, Hawthorne
How did the Aztecs preform human sacrifices during the Fire Festival?
Bonus: How did the Aztecs alleviate their victim's pain?
They burned sacrificial victims on hot coals while alive, removed them with hooks, ripped their hearts out, and kindled fires in their chest cavities.
Bonus: With a white powder (Drug)
What character from an epic poem gets immortality stolen from him by a snake?
Gilgamesh, from The Epic of Gilgamesh.
In his Secret History, did Procopius accuse Theodora or Justinian of being worse?
Bonus: What creature did he accuse Justinian of being?
Theodora
Bonus: A headless fiend/demon.
When Richard Frethorne, at 12 years old, wrote his letter to his family, what did he plead for?
Bonus: Name the specific type of food
Money/Food
Bonus: Cheese
Why does the narrator and her husband spend the summer in a colonial mansion in The Yellow Wallpaper?
The narrator is suffering from "temporary nervous depression" (more than likely Postpartum depression)
In relation to issuing convict labor and other punishments, how did the Qin dynasty measure one's age?
By height (convict laborers less than 1.43 meters were considered undersized; punishments were issued differently based on height)
What storytelling structure does A Thousand and One Night use?
Frame/Nested stories
In the 500s, from which region of the empire did Constantinople import the majority of its food?
Bonus: When was this region captured?
Egypt