Games or the Games of the Olympiad that occur in the summer
What is the definition of Summer Olympics?
100
American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
Who is Mark Twain?
100
One of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
100
This legislation opened areas of the Louisiana Purchase territory to popular sovereignty in 1854.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
France
What is Paris the capital city of?
200
Baron Pierre de Coubertin
Who invented the Summer Olympics Committee?
200
Sammuel Clemmens
What is Mark Twain's real name?
200
Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy (1901)
When and who were the first Nobel Peace Prize Winner/Winners?
200
Republican Presidential candidate in 1860 whose primary focus was to stop the expansion of slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Athens
What was the first city to host the Summer Olympic?
300
Florida, Missouri
Where was Mark Twain Born?
300
Alfred B. Nobel
Who established the Noble Peace Prize?
300
By declaring this, civil authority is removed from local jurisdiction and given to federal powers.
What is the Martial Law?
400
1) basketball
2) boxing
3) golf
Name 3 of the games played during the Summer Olympics
400
"The trouble begins at 8 o'clock"
When Mark Twain returned to San Francisco what was his first public lecture called?
400
It was the day that Alfred Nobel died
Why are the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies on 10 December each year?
400
This man was originally offered the command of the Army of the Potomac by President Lincoln, but turned down the position to lead the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
Zeus
The Olympic Games were first staged in honour/honor of: Plato; Zeus; Alexander the Great; or Jesus?
500
His mother died.
What significant obstacle did Twain face in 1890?
500
The Curies
Which family is the most successful when it comes to number of awarded Nobel Prizes: The Bragg's; The Curies; The Einsteins?
500
The constitutional amendment gave blacks the right to vote.