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The first female detective, Kate Warren, prevented the assassination of which President of the United States.
What is Abraham Lincoln
In which country was the first firearm assassination committed?
What percentage of people are related to Genghis Khan?
What is.... 0.5%
The Donnor Party, the group of American Pioneers who got stranded a route to California in 1846. Delayed by their route, they got trapped in snow. What did the rescuers find the survivors doing?
What is.... Cannibalism
What country was home to the most successful pirate in history? Held the largest recorded and had over 80,000 pirates to their fleet
What is.... China?
Ching Shih, also known as Zheng Yi Sao, commanded the Red Flag Fleet that grew from 200 ships to over 1,800 ships and included an estimated 80,000 pirates at its peak.
What flood occurred in 1919, in Boston, Massachusetts? A massive tank burst releasing 2.3 million gallons of ___ into the streets of Boston and caused significant destruction and death.
Waves were reportedly 35 miles per hour and 25-40 feet high, injuring 150 and killing 21 people.
What is..... Molasses
Violet Jessop had survived multiple ships sinking as a stewardess, such the Olympic, the Britannic, and the Titanic. Give your best guess as to what her nickname was?
Context: Her husband, the past Pharoh, died and his only heir was child and was too young to assume the throne.
What is.... She claimed that she was her father was the god, Amun, and that she was a divinely chosen leader. She also put in her loyalists to important positions so her assumption of the throne would be uncontested.
What occupation did teenage revolutionary, Policarpa Salavarrieta, aka "La Pola" do to gather intelligence from Spanish loyalists to relay back to the revolution?
Fun fact: La Pola was captured by the Spanish, but she refused to give up information and betray her people. She was then executed for her role as a spy.
What is...hat
The Straw Hat Riots of 1922 was a series of violence and confrontation that occurred. Men were expected to switch from wearing straw hats to wearing felt hats. Wearing a straw hat was seen as a point of ridicule and would result in violence.
What is... Rat poison
How did Yaa Asantewaa, commander-in-chief of the Ashanti Empire, enlist people to fight in the Golden Stool War.
What is... She commanded all wives to not sleep with their husbands unless they were enlisted. She also encouraged women to join the army where their male counterparts were unwilling to.
What did Roman's use their sweat for
This Scottish Surgeon, Robert Liston, in an era of no anesthesia, was known for his incredible surgical speed. His most well-known surgical feat resulted in a remarkable mortality rate. Was the mortality rate?
a)100% b) -100% c) 300% d) 0%
What is.... 300%
How did Saint Olga of Kiev react when the man who murdered her husband asked for her hand in marriage?
If you respond with any part of the response, you can be awarded the point, but if another team is "more correct" they can steal the point
What is Saint Olga of Kiev had: buried Prince Mal's envoy leaving them to suffocate, trapped his Chieftains in a bathhouse and burned them alive, got the whole city drunk during "celebration" and slaughtered the whole lot, had birds set fire to the townspeople's homes, and she continued to take tributes ($) from the survivors
During the Dancing Plague of 1518 of Strasbourg, France, a mania that had groups of people dancing till they died, how did officials attempt to cure the dancing fever?
Pythagoras, the man who brought the Pythagorean Theorem to the western world, had a prominent cult in 6th century BCE. The religion became so prominent in Ancient Greece that it resulted in the persecution against Pythagoras and his Followers. What vegetable caused Pythagoras' death, due to the cult's belief that the vegetable is sacred due to its resemblance to a fetus?
What is... Beans