History of Maine
Geography
History of Italy
Colonial America
World History: World War I and World War II
100

This 41-acre island in Casco Bay was the site of an interracial community from the Civil War until 1911 when the residents were forcibly evicted from the island.

What is Malaga Island?

100

Which of the five Great Lakes is the largest in area?

What is Lake Superior?

100

Shakspeare's play Rome and Juliet takes place in what Italian city?

What is Verona?

100

The theory that a nation could increase its wealth through a favorable balance of trade by establishing colonies.

What is mercantilism?

100

This persons assassination led to the outbreak of World War I

Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

200

This mountain's name means "The Greatest Mountain" and has attracted many visitors including Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Cole.

What is Mount Katahdin? 

200

This strategic waterway serves as a continental boundary between Europe and Asia, separating the city of Istanbul

What is the Bosporus Strait?

200

 This Italian city is known as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.

What is Florence?

200

This colony was established by Roger Williams which was based on Separation of Church and State.

What is Rhode Island?

200

This British ocean liner was sunk by the Germans in 1917

What is the Lusitania?

300

During his lifetime this native Mainer served as governor of Maine (1857) and Vice President to Abraham Lincoln and 

Who is Hannibal Hamlin?

300

This mountain range separates Spain & France

What is The Pyrenees?

300

In what year did Italian dictator Benito Mussolini become Prime Minister? 

What is 1922? 

300

This person founded the first colony in Maine. 

Who is William Popham?

300

What was the name of the final — and controversial — 1945 conference between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin?

What is the Yalta Conference?

400

The year Maine ceded from Massachusetts. 

What is 1820? 

400

This Alpine city is the capital of a canton as well as the capital of a country, Switzerland

NOTE: DAILY DOUBLE

What is Bern?


400
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the summer of A.D. 79, the nearby Roman town of Pompeii was buried under several feet of ash and rock. This ruined city remained frozen until what year when it was discovered? 


What is 1748?

400

This major Native America tribe lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina during the 16th Century. 

Who are the Cherokee?

400

There were this many Japanese Internment Camps established in the United States during World War II. 

What is ten?

500

This war was fought from 1838-1839 between the United States and Great Britain. 

What is the Aroostook War? 

500

Having previously served as a British colony, Northern and Southern Rhodesia separated into these two modern-day countries?

What is Zambia and Zimbabwe?

500

This is the city where Leonardo Da Vinci's, The Last Supper, is displayed. 

What is Milan?

500

In which colony would you have found the House of Burgesses?

What is Virginia?

500

The Gallipoli Campaign was part of this war.

What is World War I?

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