Potpourri
This restaurant is know for its slogan, "Have it your way."
What is Burger King?
Now used as a name for anyone with acrobatic or special abilities, these were the assassins of Medieval Japan.
What are ninja?
These Scandanavian explorers and traders were the first to reach North America 400 years before Columbus.
Who are the Vikings?
The buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas was called this.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers ended World War I
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This was company founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century to establish and direct trade throughout Asia.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
These men were unoffical rulers of Japan from the 1550s to 1800s.
What are shoguns?
An encomienda was a grant of land given to settlers by the government of this country.
What is Spain?
Because the network of trade traveled between Africa, England, and the West Indies it was called this. It's a shape.
What is the triangular trade?
This country known for its banking system remained neutral during both World Wars.
What is Switzerland?
During the cold war, the two main opposing power were the United States and USSR which stood for this.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
A type of Japanese drama in which music, dance, and mime are used to present stories.
What is kabuki?
This group of people founded the colony of Plymouth in Massachusetts to escape religious persecution in England in 1620.
Who were the Pilgrims?
This city in West Africa became a center of trade. It's now used as a nickname for a nowhere place.
What is Timbuktu?
The Axis powers were made up Germany, Japan, and this country.
What is Italy?
This region of the Ukraine was seized by the Russian government during the Obama administration.
What is Crimea?
The ceremony that uses this is an ancient tradition and is celebrated with great formality. The British just have it every afternoon.
What is a tea?
This group of people sought freedom from religious persecution in England by founding a colony at Massachusetts Bay in the early 1600s.
Who were the Puritans?
This agreement between Mexico, Canada, and the United States was made in the 1990s.
What is NAFTA?
Calais was considered for the invasion of France during World War II, but ultimately troops landed here.
What is Normandy?
This play about men deliberating a verdict starred Henry Fonda.
What is 12 Angry men?
This industry was essentially taken over by Japan in the 1980's.
What is the car industry?
This conflict between Britain and France for control of North America lasted from 1754 to 1763.
What is the French and Indian War?
This economic system is based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit.
What is capitalism?
The victories over both Germany and Japan were known by these two letter nicknames. One based on the continent where the war was fought, the other by what country was defeated.
What VE and VJ?