AMERICAN
This person led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831
HINT: A 1967 Pulitzer Prize winning novel was titled for “The Confessions of” this person.
Nat Turner
The fourth Rashidun caliph and the rightful successor of Muhammad in Shia Islam.
HINT: This man was the son-in-law of Muhammad and assassinated by a Kharijite wiedling a poisoned dagger while praying in Kufa.
Ali
A queen who was said that despite having “the body of a weak, feeble woman” had “the heart and stomach of a king” in her Tilbury Speech.
HINT: The speech was delivered in 1588
Elizabeth I
This institution was founded by Ptolemy I Soter and Mark Antony was said to have given 200,000 scrolls to it as a wedding gift to Cleopatra.
HINT: This institution, whose index was created by Callimachus, was burned down.
The Library of Alexandria
How do you pronounce Taliaferro Hall?
"Tolliver," the common regional pronunciation.
This city which experienced a series of Draft Riots in July of 1863.
HINT: This city was the home of gangs such as the “Dead Rabbits” and the “Bowery Boys.”
New York City
These people’s myth system were contained in the Popol Vuh. Name this civilization, whose namesake Hero Twins, Xbalanque and Hunahpu traveled to Xibalba to play a ball game against the Lords of the Underworld.
HINT: This Mesoamerican civilization is known for its hieroglyphic script
Mayans
This crusading order founded to defend Christian pilgrims on the way to the Holy Land whose symbol was a red cross on a white background.
HINT: The last Grand Master of this order was Jacques de Molay who was executed on the orders of Philip IV of France.
The Knights Templar
This queen of the Iceni who led a rebellion against Roman rule in Britannia.
HINT: This queens rebellion was eventually put down after the Battle of Watling Street resulting in her death, likely from a suicide by poison.
Boudicca
This building was constructed between 1932 and 1940; named for the author of the "Star-spangled Banner."
Francis Scott Key Hall
Name this event in which Giles Corey got pressed and in which started when the slave Tituba was accused of a certain crime.
HINT: Some scholars have attempted to explain this event as the result of ergotism.
The Salem Witch Trials
The 15th and 16th century African empire with capital at Gao.
HINT: This empire’s Askia the Great took power from Sonni Ali’s son and was buried in a 17 meter tall pyramidal mud tomb and they eventually lost their valuable salt mines at Taghaza after being defeated by Issaq II at Tondibi.
Songhai Empire
Name this 1805 Naval victory of Horatio Nelson over the combined Franco-Spanish fleet.
HINT: After this battle the winning but dead commander was preserved in a cask of brandy.
Battle of Trafalgar
This Greek City-State practiced ostracism and was ruled by a council of citizens called the Boule.
HINT: Major figures in creating this city’s governance were Cleisthenes and Solon.
Athens
The college traces its history to the founding of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1921.
The College of Arts and Humanities
The defending commander in this location was apocryphally claimed to have surrendered in his pajamas after being told to “Come out you old Rat!”. Name this fort in upstate New York at the south end of Lake Champlain.
Fort Ticonderoga
The last ruler of this dynasty’s consort Daji was said to have been possessed by an evil fox spirit, who distracted him into building “meat forests” and into ripping out the heart of his uncle. Name this first dynasty of traditional Chinese history, which ruled China from 1600-1046 BC which was supplanted by the Zhou.
The Shang
The Germany-based group Boney M. released a song which claimed this man was the “Russia’s greatest love machine/ It was a shame how he carried on”. Name this Russian mystic who was infamously hard to kill and who was hired to heal Alexei’s hemophilia.
Rasputin
This emperor’s co-ruler, Lucius Verus was killed during a plague, and he was succeeded by his son Commodus, who liked to compete in gladiatorial bouts. Name this last of the Five Good Emperors, a stoic philosopher who wrote the Meditations.
Marcus Aurelius
The two largest campus buildings were completely destroyed by fire over Thanksgiving weekend in this year.
1912
This President made a landmark visit to meet Mao Zedong in China. Name this president who after losing to Pat Brown in the California gubernatorial election stated that the press won’t have him to “kick around any more.”
Richard Nixon
The wife of the 10th president of the Philippines who was ousted in the People’s Power Revolution.
HINT: This woman was known as the “Steel Butterfly” and some have claimed that she owned over 7,500 pairs of shoes (although Time only found 1,060 pairs).
Imelda Marcos
This president of Serbia, who led the Socialist Party of Serbia, was ousted during the Bulldozer Revolution after NATO airstrikes were launched against him for invading Kosovo.
Slobodan Milosevic
Fabius Cunctator developed a namesake scorched earth strategy to defeat this general who eventually drew the Romans out at the battle of Cannae. This general Name this Carthaginian general who led his elephants over the Alps during the Second Punic War.
Hannibal Barca
The three First Ladies who have visited the University of Maryland.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Hilary Clinton, and Michelle Obama
Eleanor Roosevelt spoke on campus on April 13, 1938, to urge young people to prepare for civic involvement and returned to campus in 1944 in connection with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration program. Hillary Rodham Clinton served as the commencement speaker in May 1996. Michelle Obama attended a Maryland men's basketball game with her family on November 17, 2013, to cheer on Oregon State, a team coached by her