20th Century Latin America
This man was dictator of Chile from 1974 to 1990.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
This is the year that Apollo 11 landed, allowing the first men to walk on the moon.
What is 1969?
Freedom of Press was added to the US Constitution in this year.
What is 1791?
Name one of the teams that played in the very first college football game in 1869, one being a modern member of the Big10 conference.
What is Rutgers or Princeton, formerly the College of New Jersey?
This Mesopotamian civilization is believed to have developed the first system of writing.
What is Sumer or Sumeria?
The 1954 CIA operation PBSuccess involved a coup to oust democratically elected President Jacabo Árbenz in this nation.
What is Guatemala?
This medical school dropout/amateur taxidermist/foodie shaped the idea of natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The first newspaper in the US was published in this city.
What is Boston?
Name one of the 2 countries which have won both the Women’s and the Men’s World Cup.
What is Germany or Spain?
Despite commonly being referred to as the antagonist in the Book of Exodus, this Egyptian pharaoh is known as “the Great” due to his victorious military campaigns and extensive building projects.
Who is Ramesses II?
The Iran-Contra affair involved the illegal sale of arms to Iran by American officials, who then used these funds to support the Contras, an anti-Sandinista group, in this nation.
What is Nicaragua?
This is the astronomical theory that Nicolaus Copernicus introduced during the Renaissance.
What is Heliocentrism or a sun-centered universe?
Prior to 1857, the New York Times was known by this name.
What is the New York Daily Times?
“Take Me Out to the Ballgame” is played during this baseball inning.
What is the seventh inning?
Having already fought two wars with this North African civilization, the Roman politician Cato the Elder is said to have ended all his speeches with “____ must be destroyed.”
What is Carthage?
The Detroit Industry Murals, located in the Detroit Institute of Arts, were designed by this Mexican artist.
Who is Diego Rivera?
This is the condition that brought Marie Curie’s life to an end.
What is aplastic pernicious anemia, or a blood disease caused by prolonged exposure to radiation?
The first printing press was invented in this year.
What is 1440?
This college football icon was unveiled in 1938 when Fritz Crisler made a key wardrobe update to the University of Michigan football uniform, intended to make receivers more visible to the quarterback.
What is the winged helmet?
This Babylonian legal text includes one of the earliest known uses of the idea of “an eye for an eye,” writing that “[i]f a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.”
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
This nation, which was also the birthplace of an American founding father, gained its independence from the UK in 1983.
What is St. Kitts and Nevis?
This is the number that Nikola Tesla was superstitiously obsessed with.
What is the number 3?
Name one of the two newspapers that newsies in Queens refused to sell during their 1899 strike.
What is The Evening Journal or the New York World?
Name one of the two sports that were played on the surface of the moon.
What is golf or javelin?
In 260 CE, the Roman emperor Valerian was captured in battle by Shapur I, the king of this Iranian empire.
What is the Sasanian or Sassanid Empire?