Weapons
At the battle of Agincourt, the English army famously defeated the french using a "long" type of this weapon. Prehistoric humans used animal sinew to create the elastic elements of this early weapon primarily to hunt animals. Name this weapon that Arjuna from the Mahabharat is famous for using.
Bow and Arrow
This man famously told an audience "don't boo" vote. After trailing Hillary Clinton by 20 points this man won the democratic nomination 2008. Name this first black and biracial US president
Barack Hussein Obama
Educated at Cambridge, this physicist famously had a rivalry with Robert Hooke over the inverse-square law. In 1687, This man published the principia mathematica. Named this scientist who supposedly discovered the law of gravity after an apple hit his head.
Isaac Newton
in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, this man posted on youtube using the metaphor of a broken social contract to describe the feelings of many black Americans. In a comedy special, this comedian recounts how his mother Patricia miracoulously survived being shot through the head. Name this South African comedian and former host of the daily show.
Trevor Noah
Initially named Edo, this city on the island of Honshu was the center of Japan's royal family. In 1964, this city hosted the Summer olympics. Name this city, the capital of Japan
Tokyo
The oldest surviving one of these weapons was found in 1288 in China. At the siege of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman forces were able to break the city walls thanks to a larger cannon engineered by a Hungarian engineer named Orban. Name this type of weapon that is sometimes used for distributing t-shirts into audiences.
Cannon
This abolitionist learned to read from the wife of his enslaver eventually founding the North Star Newspaper. Amidst the civil war, this man pressured President Lincoln to allow black men to join the Union Army. Name this abolitionist who delivered the speech "what to a slave is the 4th of July?"
Frederick Douglass
This man's wife Kitty was previously married to Joe Dallet, a trade unionist who died in the spanish civil war. This graduate of Harvard created his namesake wave approximation alongside Max Born. Name this physicist and father of the atomic bomb who led the manhattan project.
J Robert Oppenheimer
At the infamous Rivonia trial, this man restated his opposition to apartheid, advocating for a society free of racial domination. This leader of the African national Congress famously spent 18 years on Robben Island rejecting multiple amnesty offers. Name this first black president of South Africa
Nelson Mandela
During the Satsuma rebellion, this class of people unsuccessfully rebelled against the imperial government's authority. Ronin were members of this class whose masters had died, leaving them as independent warriors. Name this warrior class who formed the shogunate and who often wielded the katana.
Samurai
Despite it's name, you will not obtain this weapon at a typical bar but rather through a mixture of flammable substances in a bottle. Named for a Soviet foreign minister, these weapons were invented by Finnish soldiers during the winter war. Name this rudimentary weapon that mimicks a grenade
Molotov Cocktail
As of 2025, this man was the world's richest musical artist with a net worth of 2.6 billion dollars. Born Shaun Corey Carter, this man was CEO of Def Jam records from 2004 to 2007. Name this black artist, the husband of beyonce famous for Empire State of Mind
Jay-Z, Shaun Corey Carter(if before mentioned)
This danish physicist's disagreement with nazism as well as his jewish identity led him to donate his 1922 nobel medal to a refugee charity. This man's namesake atomic model was the first to propose the idea of electrons orbiting in stable orbitals. Name this scientist from Copenhagen who along with Hendrika Van Leuween came up with a namesake theorem that states when statistical mechanics and classical mechanics are applied consistently, the thermal average of the magnetization is always zero
Niels Bohr
Baaskaap was the idea of caretakership that referred to this system. Within this system of laws, 4 classicifcations of race were established. Name this system of racial segregation and exploitation that governed south africa from 1948 to 1994.
Apartheid
Throwing techniques are fundamental to this style of martial art that dates back to 1882. Since 1964 this martial art has been an olympic sport with Teddy Rinner of France winning in the 100kg + category. Name this Japanese martial art created by polymath Kanō Jigorō
Judo
President Obama was famously criticized for his escalation in the use of these aerial weapons in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the Russia Ukraine War, the 'fixed-wing' version of these weapons has been used to aid in spying and espionage. Name these airborne weapons that share a name with a fertilizing variety of male bees.
drones
The American colonization society supported the founding of this nation as a homeland for former slaves. A civil war in this country that began in 1989 led to the overthrow of President Samuel Doe and placed Charles Taylor in power. Name this nation whose capital city derives its name from that of the 5th US president.
Liberia
It's said that this man's death was caused by his refusal to abide by the commands of Roman soldiers who were sent to capture him alive. During the siege of Syracuse, this man's engineering designs such as the parabolic reflector which burnt roman ships. Name this man who legendeairly figured out how to measure the volume of an object through the amount of water it displaced.
Archimedes
After the British takeover of the Cape Colony in 1806, this group of people moved in land. Translating to farmer in dutch, the name of these people founded namesake republics like stellaland, natalia, and the orange free state. The treaty of Vereeniging ended the 2nd of the wars between these people and the british empire. Name this group of agrarian people who descended from dutch settlers.
Boers
this period began after the end of the Onin war and the fracturing of Japan into many states. During this era, the ninjas of iga went to war with Owari province led by Oda Nobunaga. Name this era of civil war in Japan that ended with the cementing of the Tokugawa clan to the shogunate after the battle of Sekigahara.
Sengoku period
This weapon, that replaced the brown bess musket became common for use amongst british forces due to it's lighter weight. Bullets for this weapon sparked a massive revolt among Sepoys in India due to rumors of bullet cartridges being sealed by cow and pig fat. Name this 2 named weapon that enabled well-trained men to fire up to 20 rounds in a single minute
Lee-Enfield Rifle
In constrast to Booker T Washington, this man advocated immediate and full civil rights for African Americans, opposing the Atlanta compromise. A supporter of some eugenics ideas, this man promoted the notion of the talented tenth. Name this man, a founder of the NAACP who died in Accra, Ghana.
W E B DuBois
This bavarian physcist's premature death in 1826 due to tuberculosis is widely attributed to his childhood as a glassmaker. Though he had no part in its creation, an equation modelling the diffraction of waves bears his namesake. Name this man who invented the spectroscope and whose namesake society is the largest applied research society in all Europe
Joseph Fraunhaufer
The government of Lucas Mangope ruled over bophutatswana, one of these entities. Transkei, another one of these entities was ruled over by Kaiser Matanzhima the nephew of nelson mandela famously opposed the African National congress. The attempt of prime minister B J Vorster to grant independence to these entities in order to maintain a white majority in most of south africa was largely unsuccessful. Name these "homelands" named for a group of african tribes.
Bantustans
The justification for Japan's invasion of what would become this puppet state was the false flag Mukden incident. Over a million Japanese settlers were settled in this puppet state which had zhang jinghui as its nominal prime minister. Name this world war 2 puppet state in modern day Manchuria, China.
Manchukuo