Modern US History
What scandal caused President Nixon to resign?
Watergate Scandal
What school in Indiana did Larry Bird lead to the NCAA Basketball title game in 1979?
Indiana State University
A narrow strip of land with water on both sides that connects two larger bodies of land is called what?
Isthmus
Which body sense enables people to keep their balance?
Vestibular Sense
In what year did World War II end?
1945
What is the name of the federal healthcare program that primarily serves those ages 65 and over?
Medicare
Which type of status is earned or chosen?
Achieved
What was the cash crop of Jamestown?
Tabacco
D-Day
How many cabinet departments are there in the United States Government?
15
This virus turned into a global pandemic causing a global death toll over 2.8 million.
Coronavirus, Covid, Covid19
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Which future president spent his teenage years growing up in Indiana?
Abraham Lincoln
What are the people of the lowest Indian caste called because they are considered unclean?
Untouchables
What ws the first modern intelligence test?
Stanford Binet Test
Which Macedonian king conquered the mighty Persian Empire and never lost a battle?
Alexander the Great
In which stage of production does profit maximization occur?
Stage 2 or Decreasing Returns
Which Pre-Industrial society has fewer than 50 people?
Hunting and Gathering
In 1831, who led the most famous and violent slave revolt, where nearly 60 people were killed before the rebellion ended?
Nat Turner
When European immigrants arrived in America, where were they processed before being allowed to enter the country?
Ellis Island
How many members are there in the United States House of Representatives?
435
Donald Trump
What fatal disease first appeared in 1981?
AIDS
Who was the great Shawnee warrior that William Henry Harrison referred to as an "uncommon genius?"
Tecumseh
The countries of Portugal, Spain, and Andorra are all located on what European peninsula?
Iberian Peninsula
What is a false idea or belief that seems real?
Delusion
Who wrote the Wealth of Nations and argued for less government regulation in the economy?
Adam Smith
What is the term for a market structure dominated by a few firms?
Oligopoly
What is the most obvious aspect of culture?
Language
Name given to the forced march of around 16,000 Native Americans from the South to across the Mississippi River, where and estimated 4,000 natives died.
Trail of Tears
What was enacted in the South to allow white voters to vote without having to pay a poll ta or take a literacy test?
Grandfather Clause
Which amendment calls for the direct election of United States Senators?
17th
What British royal family member decided to step away from his role in the royal family in 2020?
Prince Harry
Who was the first American Astronaut to orbit the earth?
John Glenn
Which Indiana city is considered the "Limestone Capital of the World?"
Bedford
The Atacama Desert , where rain has never been recorded, is located on what continent?
South America
Who developed the theory of Defense Mechanisms?
Sigmund Freud
Who invented the cotton gin to remove seeds from cotton faster?
Eli Whitney
What is the term for how a change in prices affects supply and demand?
Elasticity
What are the ways in which a culture expresses universal traits?
Cultural Particulars
Who killed Alexander Hamilton in a dual?
Aaron Burr
Which battle in the Pacific will be the turning point for the U.S. during WWII, after which Japan was always on the defensive?
Battle of Midway
Who was the first female Justice to be appointed to the Supreme Court?
Sandra Day O'Connor
What doctor and director of U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has been in the news since the outbreak of Covid 19?
Dr. Fauci
Who assassinated Bobby Kennedy?
Sirhan Sirhan
Who was the first governor of the state of Indiana?
Jonathon Jennings
What communist leader of China created economic changes in 1958 that he called the Great Leap Forward?
Mao Zedong
Which method of overcoming fears involves pairing a pleasing stimulus with a feared stimulus?
Counterconditioning
Along with Karl Marx who co-wrote the Communist Manifesto?
Friedrich Engels
What former Federal Reserve Chairman is the current Secretary of the Treasury?
Janet Yellen
Who coined the term sociological imagination in 1959?
C. Wright Mills
What were the women, mostly young, single women, who worked in the mills of the factory system during the early 1800s in Massachusetts known as?
Lowell Girls
Who was the young Quaker woman that led the National Woman's Party, and along with Carrie Chapman Catt, helped gain the right to vote for women with the passage of the 19th Amendment?
Alice Paul
Which state has a unicameral legislature?
Nebraska
This female justice was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Trump to fill the seat formerly help by Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Amy Coney Barrett