Epic Poetry (extra 50 points if you can name the culture each Epic is from)
The original language of Beowulf
What is Old English?
The reason American colonists were angry about the tax acts before the revolutionary war
What is "taxation without representation"?
The three most famous philosophers from Classical Greece
Who were Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?
The person who conquered Greece, the Middle East, and a large portion of Asia and spread Hellenistic culture across those regions
Who was Alexander the Great?
The leader of Germany during WWII
Who was Hitler?
The oldest extant Epic written
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The two U.S. movements that peaked in the 1960s
What are the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam movements?
The Athenian politician from the Peloponnesian war who was accused of Tyranny and frequently called an "Onion Head"
Who was Pericles?
The richest man to live in the U.S.
Who was Rockefeller?
Widely considered the catalyst for the U.S. joining World War 1
What is the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram?
The longest Epic ever written
What is the Mahabharata?
The two famous women who helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869
Who were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
The Historian who didn't believe Britain (the Tin Islands) actually existed
Who was Herodotus?
The richest guy who ever lived
Who was Mansa Musa?
The person who gave the "Peace for our Time" speech
Who was Neville Chamberlain?
The rhyming scheme from the Iliad
What is dactylic hexameter?
When the U.S. became the leading economic power in the world
What is 1945? (End of WWII)
The Athenian politician accused of "seducing the demos" who was liked by Socrates and spoke with a lisp
Who was Alcibiades?
The emperor who conquered most of the Mediterranean, let the Jews rebuild their temple, and was killed by Queen Tomyris
Who was Cyrus the Great?
The second most famous shot ever taken of the Archduke Franze Ferdinand
What is the picture of him in an Egyptian Sarcophagus?
The name of the Serpent King from the Shahnameh
Who was Zahak?
"The Cherokee Leader who tried to prevent the Trail of Tears"
What was Chief John Ross?
https://www.history.com/articles/john-ross-cherokee-chief-indian-removal
The general who fought for Xerxes during the Persian wars who was especially hated by the Greeks for being a Woman
Who was Artemisia of Caria?
The only emperor from Chinese history who was a woman
Who was Empress Wu?
The WW2 spy who worked against Nazis in France, was considered the most dangerous Allied spy by the Gestapo, and had a peg leg named "Cuthbert"
Who was Virginia Hall?