Global Review
"Social" Studies
Ridiculously Bad Jokes
100

This author and philosopher during the Enlightenment said that people are naturally selfish and powerful government authority is the only way to effectively manage those selfish people. 

Thomas Hobbes

100

The social classes in the pre-revolutionary France were referred to as these? 

Estates. 

100

When does a joke classify as a dad joke? 

When it becomes apparent

200

Explain two innovations developed and used during the Agrarian Revolution. 

Enclosure Movement, Seed Drill, Chemical Fertilizers, etc. 

200

This meeting held after the Napoleonic Wars, attempted to restore a balance of power and redraw the political boundaries of Europe. 

Congress of Vienna. 

200

Which state has the most streets? 

Rhode Island

300
Explain how the Irish Potato Famine led to mass emigration of Irish immigrants. 

Irish families experiencing hardship sought opportunities elsewhere in places America. 

300

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, completely opposed a free-market capitalist economy because they argued it only led to this inevitable situation. 

Unequal social classes (wealthy business owners and working poor). 

300

Why are spiders so smart? 

They can find everything on the web. 

400

This royal structure was the symbol of absolute wealth and power that monarchs like Louis 14th had in pre-revolutionary France. 

Palace of Versailles. 

400

This strategy of negotiation, used by Count Cavour during Italian unification, encourages strategically forming relationships and talking through problems rather than fighting about them. 

Diplomacy

400

What do you say to someone who says you got a haircut? 

Thanks, but I actually got them all cut

500

This Muslim empire in India was very powerful in the 1500-1600s, until they ran into problems of debt, high government spending, nepotism, and European imperial countries taking them over. 

Mughal Empire

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