US Presidents
He was the heaviest president at over 300 pounds.
Who was William Howard Taft?
He was born around 1162 and was originally named Temujin, meaning "blacksmith", not this.
Who was Genghis Khan?
This was the bloodiest battle of the war.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
The Chernobyl nuclear explosion took place in 1986, about 90 miles north of this capitol city.
What is Kyiv?
This was the first successful and permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This president was a 5-star general in the US Army during WWII.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Chinese Emperor Shi Huangdi built these to guard his final resting place.
What are Terracota Soldiers?
This was the first state to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860.
What is South Carolina?
This was the first country to declare full independence from the USSR on March 11th, 1990.
What is Lithuania?
This was the last of the 13 colonies to be established.
What is Georgia?
This President died of pneumonia one month after making the longest U.S. Presidential inauguration speech on record.
Who was William H Harrison?
For much of Korean history, these many kingdoms fought for control of the peninsula.
What are the three kingdoms?
During the Battle of Antietam, this nurse tended to the wounded so close to the fighting that a bullet went through her sleeve and killed a man she was treating.
Who was Clara Barton?
The Cyrillic alphabet was invented in this southeastern European country.
What is Bulgaria?
31-year-old Alse Young was the first person to be executed in the 13 colonies for this crime.
What was witchcraft?
This president was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in WWII.
Who was George H. W. Bush?
Spanning from about 300 B.C. - A.D. 300, this period in Japanese history is known for the high amount of wheel-turned pottery recovered from it.
What is Yayoi?
This disease was one of the most common killers during the war and is an infection of the small intestine caused by drinking dirty water.
What is Cholera?
This is the name for the 1932-33 genocide of the Ukrainian people, which killed between 7-10 million Ukrainian men, women, and children.
What was the Holodomor?
Born on August 18th, 1597, she was the first English child born in the American colonies. She later disappeared with the rest of the Roanoke colony.
Who was Virginia Dare?
He was the first president with no British ancestry, being entirely of Dutch descent.
Who was Martin Van Burren?
At the beginning of the 2nd century BCE, a group of nomadic tribes called the Yuezhi left today's Mongolia and defeated the Saka tribe out of the steppes of this modern-day nation.
What is Kazakhstan?
This was the last battle of the war. It took place in Texas in May 1865.
What was the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
Now a saint in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, she was the first female regent of Kyivan Rus and the first to be baptised into Christianity.
Who was St. Princess Olga of Kyiv?
The Secotan people were among the first Native American groups to interact with British colonists. They spoke this widespread Native American language.
What is Algonquian?