Ancient History
This is the famous structure that was built during the Old Kingdom in Egypt.
What is the Sphinx?
This was the name of the first (permanent English) American colony.
What is Jamestown?
This famous British ship sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Titanic?
What is Myanmar?
This can be found under one of the domes on top of the Mathematical Sciences building.
What is the UCLA Planetarium?
This is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that still exists.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This was the name of the battle after which General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant.
What is The Battle of Appomattox Court House?
The modern European country in which the Chernobyl disaster took place.
What is Ukraine?
This was the name given to the surprise attack launched by the North Vietnamese army against U.S. and South Vietnamese forces during the Lunar New Year festival of 1968.
What is the Tet Offensive?
The UCLA campus was called this prior to becoming the Southern Branch of the University of California.
What is the Los Angeles State Normal School?
This Roman General defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama.
Who is Scipio Africanus?
This city was the first capital of the United States (under the Constitution).
What is New York City?
This man killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
This man was emperor of Japan during world War II.
Who is Hirohito?
The UCLA Men’s Basketball team has played in the Final Four this many times.
What is 19 times?
This famous sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty became famous for his titular "code" which importantly shifted law codes from compensating victims to physical punishment of perpetrators.
Who is Hammurabi?
This was the date of the Black Tuesday stock market crash.
What was October 24, 1929?
Napoleon Bonaparte died here on May 5, 1821.
What is St. Helena?
This was the largest of the three kingdoms that constituted ancient Korea until 668.
What is Koguryŏ?
In this year UCLA dismissed the academic semester system and adopted the quarter system, which included a winter session.
What is 1966?
Rome was founded in this year.
What is 753 BCE?
This was the bloodiest single-day battle of American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam, during the Civil War?
This was the name of the unmanned Soviet spaceship that landed on the Moon in 1972.
What is Luna 20?
This woman restored democratic rule to the Philippines after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
Who is Corazon Aquino?
This location on campus is known as the “Birthplace of the Internet."
What is Boelter Hall 3420?