US History
This was the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
Carried by fleas on rats, this deadly pandemic wiped out nearly one-third of Europe's population in the 14th century.
What is the Black Death? (or Bubonic Plague)
There are ___ many branches in the US Government.
What is 3?
This land mass is both a continent and a country.
What is Australia?
This Austrian neurologist is known as the father of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
What is France?
This man's assassination is considered to be the trigger for WWI.
Who is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun.
What is Japan?
This economic law states that as the price of an item goes up, the amount that consumers are willing to buy goes down.
What is the Law of Demand?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This man was the leader of the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
The nickname "Elastic Clause" describes this clause in the US Constitution.
What is the Necessary and Proper clause?
This mountain chain was once all connected but is now scattered across the world and can be seen in America, Ireland, and Morocco.
What are the Appalachian mountains?
In 1971, Philip Zimbardo halted this controversial experiment after only six days because participants became too deeply absorbed in their assigned roles as guards and prisoners.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
In 1867 this state was purchased by the US Government and became an official state in 1959.
What is Alaska?
Used by the German military to send top-secret radio messages, this cipher machine used a set of three or more internal rotors to make a seemingly unbreakable code.
What is the Enigma?
This concept consists of these three groups: Congress, Bureaucracy, and Interest Groups, who work together to create policies.
What is an Iron Triangle?
This National Park is home to the only glacier in Nevada.
What is the Great Basin National Park?
This "rule" allows you to estimate how many years it will take for an investment to double by dividing this number by the annual rate of return.
What is the Rule of 72?
This 1862 clash between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia was the first-ever naval battle between two of these metal-armored warships.
What are Ironclads?
This 1648 series of peace treaties not only ended the Thirty Years' War but also established the modern concept of "Westphalian Sovereignty."
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
Of the 15 Executive Departments, this one is the only one not headed by a "Secretary," but rather by an official with a title dating back to the Judiciary Act of 1789.
What is the Department of Justice?
This state is the ONLY "triply landlocked" state in the USA.
What is Nebraska?
Located in the left temporal lobe, damage to this specific area of the brain results in a type of aphasia where a person can speak fluently, but the words make no sense.
What is Wernicke’s Area?