History in Pop Culture
David Guetta got criticized for remixing this speech during a 2020 livestream as a tribute to George Floyd.
What is “I Have a Dream”/what is the “I Have a Dream” speech?
This civil rights movement extended the Mexican-American civil rights movement of the 1960s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.
What was the Chicano Movement?
This royal house consisted of Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI.
What is the House of Lancaster?
At this ancient battle in 490 B.C.E., the Athenian army won an unexpected victory over the numerically superior Persian Army.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
The first Olympics were held in the United States during this year.
What is 1904?
Jane Austen’s hit novel Pride and Prejudice (and the film and tv adaptations that followed it) takes place during this conflict.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
This Danish-born author wrote the 1890 book How the Other Half Lives that discussed the lives of New York City immigrants.
Who was Jacob Riis?
This famous Russian leader saw the fall of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This treaty that shares its name with a basic math equation meant greater strides to German reunification in the 1990s.
What is the 2+4 Agreement?
(The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany)
Robin Williams plays this President in Night at the Museum.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This Swedish heavy metal band, also known as one of the “big four” power metal bands, has written many songs on historical events.
What is Sabaton?
This social movement sought to modernize China through “self-strengthening” and “learning from the West” but was suppressed by the Qing dynasty.
What is the “Hundred Days Reform” (or Wuxu Reform)?
Artworks from this Russian museum were sold between 1929 and 1932 in order to fund the first Soviet five year plan.
What is the Imperial (or State) Hermitage Gallery?
This treaty, signed in the late-nineteenth century, officially ended a war and established the current borders between Chile, Bolivia, and Peru.
What is the Treaty of Ancon?
What is the name of the main mid-19th century school of American landscape painting?
What is the Hudson River School?
The hit song “Zombie” by the Cranberries discusses this historical event.
What are the Troubles?
This activist group was the first to picket the White House in 1917.
Who is the National Women's Party? (also Alice Paul is acceptable)
This man assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, leading to the start of WW1.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
This landmark legislation abolished the national-origin quotas established four decades prior, which led to increased immigration from Asia in the following decades.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (or the Hart-Cellar Act)?
This important Texan was the founder and First Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
In the 1985 film “Back to the Future,” at the high school dance, Marty McFly imitates this artist’s guitar performance as an allusion to the creation of rock ‘n’ roll.
Who is Chuck Berry?
This 1967 Supreme Court case struct down state laws that prohibited interracial marriage under violations of the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the 14th Amendment.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
This queen became the first English queen to publish a book under her own name in 1545.
Who is Katherine Parr?
The third defenestration of Prague, which played a significant role in the early stages of the Thirty Years’ War, took place here (and don’t say Prague be more specific on where in Prague.
What is the Prague Castle?
The only president to be recognised by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as an “Outstanding American” in the sport
Who is Abraham Lincoln?