Bible History
This judge of Israel was left-handed and assassinated the Moabite king, Eglon
Who is Ehud?
These scrolls discovered in caves near Qumran in 1947 contain some of the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew bible.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
This Indiana city was the hometown of famous poet James Whitcomb Riley.
What is Greenfield?
This president introduced the New Deal to combat the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This dwarf planet was reclassified from a planet by the International Astronomical Union in 2006.
What is Pluto?
The king of Judah attempted religious reforms, but was killed in battle at Megiddo by Pharaoh Necho.
Who is Josiah?
This fortress overlooking the Dead Sea became famous as the last stronghold of Jewish rebels against Rome in A.D. 73.
What is Masada?
This Indiana county was home to utopian community New Harmony in the early 1800's.
What is Posey County?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
This element is the most abundant in Earth's crust.
What is Oxygen?
This grandson of Saul briefly ruled Israel before being assassinated by two of his own officers.
Who is Ish-bosheth?
This stone inscription discovered in northern Israel mentions the "House of David" confirming the biblical king's historical dynasty.
What is the Tel Dan Stele?
This World War 1 hero from Tennessee trained at Camp Gordan and became one of the most decorated American soldiers.
Who is Alvin York?
This Cold War crisis in 1962 brought the United States and Soviet Union close to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This mathematician developed the theorem relating the sides of a right triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
This prophet anointed Jehu king of Israel to overthrow the house of Ahab.
Who is Elisha?
This Roman inscription discovered inn Caesarea in 1961 confirms the existence of the prefect who presided over Jesus' trial.
What is the Pilate Stone?
This Indiana university West Lafayette is known for engineering and aviation programs.
What is Purdue University?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
The longest river in South America is this one.
What is the Amazon River?
This Persian king issued the decree allowing Ezra to lead a group of exiles back to Jerusalem.
Who is Cyrus the great?
This Egyptian victory inscription from Pharaoh Merneptah contains the earliest known reference to Israel outside the Bible.
What is the Merneptah Stele?
This Indiana-born vice president served under Abraham Lincoln and became president after Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This compromise in 1820 attempted to balance slave and free states by admitting Missouri as a salve state and Maine as a free state.
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?