Look at all these Chickens
Hatched in 1976, this African Gray parrot is well known for his involvement in experiments demonstrating animal intelligence. He could use language to identify objects, answer questions and communicate with his keepers.
Alex
This trail brought many new settlers to Oregon and connected the Missouri River to the Oregon Territory as well as inspiring the popular 1970’s video game.
1. Who sentenced Jesus to Death?
Pontius Pilate
Name the First Lady who worked with various working women’s associations and wrote a newspaper column entitled “My Day” which addressed women’s rights and equality. She was also the first delegate to the United Nations and chaired JFK’s President’s Commission on the Status of Women.
A) Jackie Kennedy
B) Eleanor Roosevelt
C) Rosalynn Carter
D) Edith Wilson
B) Eleanor Roosevelt
The Model T, one of the first commercially available cars to be widely available, was manufactured by which company?
The Dodo, a large flightless relative of the pigeon native to Mauritius , was first described to western science by sailors from this coutry.
The Netherlands
When a whale beached on the Oregon Coast near Florence in 1970, how did the Oregon Department of Transportation deal with the carcass?
A) They brought chainsaws and cut it up
B) They let it decompose naturally on the beach
C) They stuffed it with 450kg of dynamite
D) They brought in many animals specifically to eat it
C) They stuffed it with 450kg of dynamite
2.Which of Henry VIII's wives were executed? Choose all that apply.
A. Catherine Howard
B. Catherine of Aragon
C. Anne of Cleves
D. Anne Boleyn
E. Jane Seymour
F. Katherine Parr
A and D
What is the name of the feminist leader and activist prominent during the 1960s and 70s women’s rights movement who co-founded Ms. Magazine, the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Women’s Action Alliance, and the Women’s Media Center?
A) Gloria Steinem
B) Angela Davis
C) Betty Friedan
D) Susan B. Anthony
A) Gloria Steinem
On the day it opened, more than 30,000 passengers tried out this underground subway system, which was the first of its kind. What is the oldest subway system int the world?
The London Underground
The last passenger pigeon died in 1914 in a zoo in this American city.
Cincinnati
In order to prevent a riot estimated to be larger than the 1968 DNC, Gov Tom McCall did what to separate the large hippie population and Nixon and his supporters when the President visited in 1970?
A) Ordered the largest amount of police and national guard troops in West Coast history
B) Cancelled Nixon's visit, preventing him from showing up
C) Announced a state holiday, closed the universities, and sent the students home
D) Planned and put on a folk-rock concert outside Portland
D) Named Vortex 1 or The Governors Pot Party
What Scottish knight was brutally executed by the British in 1305?
William Wallace
This American poet and civil rights activist published 7 autobiographies, 36 books, and several plays, movies, and t.v. shows over the course of 50 years, and has earned over 50 honorary degrees. One of her most well-known autobiographies is titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and tells the story of her coming-of-age.
Maya Angelou
The first long-distance rural freeway in the United States opened on October 1, 1940. What is is called?
The Pennsylvania Turnpike
Andrew Jackson's pet parrot, an African Gray named Poll, allegedly had to be removed from his funeral for doing what?
Swearing
These two travelers were the leaders of an expedition sent by Jefferson to explore the new Louisiana Purchase and arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
4. Which influential Indian nationalist was executed by the British for the murder of a British police officer?
A. Mohandas Gandi
B. Subhas Chandra Bose
C. Bhagat Singh
D. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
C. Bhagat Singh
Who published Silent Spring, a book which revealed the harmful nature of pesticides to the American public, prompting bans on certain pesticides in agriculture and inspiring an environmental movement which would motivate the U.S. government to create the Environmental Protection Agency?
Rachel Carson
French Engineer Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésague is widley credited with creating the first scientific approach to road building in what year?
A) 1890
B)1523
C)1764
D) 1633
C)1764
Name this decorated British carried pigeon who was wounded in action while carrying a message that saved 194 men from the 77th infantry division.
He's on display in the smithsonian!
Cher Ami
In 1984, the cult Rajneeshee carried out the first and largest bioterror attack in US history by doing what?
A) Released Anthrax spores in a Portland Suburb
B) Contaminated salad bars across the city of The Dalles with salmonella to prevent voter turnout
C) Released fungus in the water supply of Eugene
D) Released Y. pestis in Bandon to crash the tourism industry there
B) Contaminated salad bars across the city of The Dalles with salmonella to prevent voter turnout
5.Who were the only two Americans executed for espionage during the cold war?
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
This notable journalist and activist was born into slavery and spent her life exposing and denouncing the rampent lynching of Black Americans after the Civil War, risking her own life to do so. She was also a co-founder of the National Association of Colored Women’s Club which promoted issues such as civil rights and women’s suffrage.
Ida B. Wells
The granite railway, the first commercial railway in the United states, was built in which state?
Massachusetts