19th Century British Authors
Which British author wrote A Christmas Carol?
Charles Dickens
Who is known as the “father of history”?
Herodotus
Who was the first black president of South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
Which president signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Andrew Jackson
What famous 13th-century Venetian journeyed along the Silk Road and wrote about his travels?
Marco Polo
What was Jane Austen's first officially published book, released in 1811?
Sense and Sensibility
Which 18th-century British historian is well-known for crediting the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of Christianity?
Edward Gibbon
What event in 1994 signified the official end of Apartheid?
first non-racial elections
What law, passed in 1990, mandates that museums and federal agencies must return human remains and cultural artifacts to Native American tribes?
NAGPRA
What religion spread from India to China along the Silk Road?
Buddhism
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, where does Victor chase the creature for their last confrontation?
the Arctic
Which historian first used the term Renaissance (“rinascita”)?
Giorgio Vasari
What was the name of the 1976 student-led protest against the government’s plan to impose Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools for black students?
Soweto Uprising
Which 18th and 19th century Shawnee chief promoted resistance against the expansion of the US onto Native Lads?
Tecumseh
What disease did the Silk Road help spread throughout Europe?
Black Death
Irish, BUT: In 1895, Oscar Wilde was charged with what crime?
gross indecency / homosexuality (gay icon)
Which Chinese historian wrote the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian)?
Sima Qian
What were the territories set aside for black South Africans to live called?
Bantustans
In what year were Native Americans granted citizenship?
1924
Which Chinese dynasty established the Silk Road?
Han Dynasty
When did Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes, first appear in print? (plus or minus 5 years)
1887
Which Byzantine princess authored the Alexiad, which recounted the reign of her father?
Anna Komnene
Which South African politician and president shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela?
F.W. de Klerk
Which 1887 law authorized the president to break up reservation land for the purpose of assimilating Native Americans into Western society?
Dawes Act
Which empire boycotted trade with China, effectively “closing” the Silk Road in 1453?
Ottoman Empire