U.S. Presidents
This president went on to win a Grammy after leaving office
Bill Clinton (Spoken Word Album: "My Life")
This Nigerian author paved the way for post-colonial discourse and literature, and is most well-known for writing the book Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 added these two states to the Union
Missouri and Maine
This was the last great battle of the Western Front during World War II
Battle of the Bulge
This professor was in a cover dance group
Shenglan Li
This president had the most children (give the name and number of children)
John Tyler, 15 children
This country is often called the “failed state” in international political circles
Somalia
This colony was England's first attempted permanent settlement in North America
Roanoke Colony
This man has often been called the father of modern political science
Niccolò Machiavelli
This professor is very good at knitting, spinning, sewing, and needlework
Anni Cecil
This president cheated on his eye exam in order to join the cavalry reserves in the 1930s
Ronald Reagan
This was the first Christian nation
Ethiopia
This Native American princess is now known by her nickname, Pocahontas
Matoaka
This exiled Russian revolutionary led the Bolsheviks to take power in 1917
Vladimir Lenin
This professor's first job was as a puppeteer
Alex Bloom
This president was the only one to have a PhD and serve as a college president
Woodrow Wilson
This city was located in modern-day Tunisia and was destroyed by the Roman Empire during the Punic Wars in 146 BC
Carthage
This man is famous for being the first fatality in the Boston Massacre and the first American killed in the Revolutionary War
Crispus Attucks
This Germanic tribe sacked Rome in 410
Visigoths
This professor can rap Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby"
Dana Polanichka
In 1914, Theodore Roosevelt nearly died exploring this tropical rainforest
The Amazon
This was the first apartheid law, which made it illegal for South African citizens to pursue romantic relationships with someone of a different race
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
This woman is famous for fighting in the Revolutionary War as a man
Deborah Sampson
This man was the main initiator of the Age of Discovery
Prince Henry the Navigator
This professor obsessively collects news reports about wild turkeys going wild and attacking people
John Bezís-Selfa