Mansa Musa
History
Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Stranger Things
Economics 1
Economics 2
At the Movies
Geography
Berlin Trivia
Arts
Berlin Trivia (Difficult)
Culture 1
Culture 2
American History
100
why he did what he did
What was his religion?
OR
What was his faith?
100
when the Atlantic Slave Trade began to start
What are the 1500s?
100
organized by zone
What does zonal mean?
100
when a part of a country tries to break away
What is to secede?
100
where Stranger Things is set
What is Hawkins, Indiana?
100
the economy of the country from where the item came
Where does money go to when you buy something?
100
when the Atlantic slave trade (Triangle Trade) started
What is the 1500s?
100
a crab sings in this movie
What is Moana?
or
What is The Little Mermaid?
100
the main geographic feature of northern Africa
What is a desert?
OR
What is the Sahara?
100
green and gold
What are McGee's colors?
100
a type of brightly colored cloth woven by hand
What is kente cloth?
100
where Mr. Sullivan was a principal before coming to McGee
What is East Hampton?
100
more than 250
How many ethnic groups are there in Africa?
100
the most popular religion in the Sahara and in the Sahel
What is Islam?
100
the name of the Pilgrims' ship
What is the Mayflower?
200
education
What was one thing that was important to Mansa Musa for religious reasons?
200
how history in Western Africa was recorded
What is oral history?
or
What is oral tradition?
200
to break away
What is the definition of to secede?
200
extreme shortage of food
What is famine?
200
the police chief's nickname
What is Hop?
200
the world's leading exporter of cacao
What is Ghana?
200
why the Atlantic Slave Trade (Triangle Trade) started
What is "to meet demand for workers in the North American colonies of the Europeans"?
200
a movie with actor James Earl Jones about a group of boys and the game baseball
What is The Sandlot?
200
the main geographic feature of Western Africa
What are plains and areas of flat land?
200
she was a pioneer in women's education
What did Emma Hart Willard do?
200
beautiful works of art including masks and sculpture
What were artistic accomplishments of African cultures?
200
it was a golf course.
What was Pistol Creek Park before it was a park?
200
one of the best known African art forms
What is masks?
200
the most popular religion below the Sahel?
What is Christianity?
200
December 7, 1941
When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
300
things he built
What are libraries, universities and mosques?
300
an American colony created by a religious group in 1820 as a home for former slaves, the creation of which is viewed by some as very racist
What is Liberia?
300
the spread of desert like conditions
What is desertification?
300
to divide among a group of people
What is to distribute?
300
Eggos
What is Eleven's favorite food?
300
Nigeria's main export
What is oil?
300
when the Europeans began colonizing large portions of Africa to gain access to resources (raw materials)
What is the 1800s?
300
a rabbit is a cop in this movie
What is Zootopia?
300
a strip of land that divides the Sahara from wetter areas.
What is the Sahel?
300
red and white
What are the High School colors?
300
originally a toll road that connects the state capitol at Hartford with the state capitol at New Haven
What is the Berlin Turnpike?
300
a religious belief similar to the Japanese Shinto religion or the religion of Native Americans where it is believed that inanimate objects, animals, trees and bodies of water have spirits
What is animism?
300
father, mother, children, close relatives all living under one roof
What is extended family?
300
a city in New England that is known for women being put on trial for witchcraft
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
400
caused the price of gold to crash
What is a result of Mansa Musa's hajj to Makkah?
400
England, Germany, France, Portugal
Who were some of the European powers that colonized Africa?
400
a type of agriculture where farmers work very hard to grow just enough to survive
What is subsistence farming?
400
when the MILITARY is in charge of the country instead of the GOVERNMENT being in charge of the military.
What is military rule?
400
the name of Will Byers fort
What is Castle Byers?
400
West African king, believed to have been the richest person to have ever lived
Who was Mansa Musa?
400
major colonizers of Africa
What are France, Britain, Germany, Portugal?
400
the character Sulley is in this movie
What is Monsters, Inc.?
400
an area of tall grasses, scattered trees and shrubs
What is savanna?
400
"Ok, send in the werewolf!"
What is one of K9 Casner's two viral memes?
400
iron truss bridges
For what product was Berlin Steel known in the 1800s?
400
an important member of society responsible for recording and teaching history
What is a griot?
400
a group of people who all share the same or similar cultural background or descent
What is ethnic group?
400
the oldest European-founded city in North America
What is St. Augustine, FL?
500
the number of camels that he brought with him to Makkah
What is 80?
500
a city in Songhai with a university, mosques and over 100 schools
What was Timbuktu?
500
the study of the past based on artifacts left behind
What is archaeology?
500
a country in which the highest power is the people; it typically has a president
What is a republic?
500
the thing that puts stores out of business at the start of Season 3
What is Starcourt mall?
500
Nigeria's main resource
What is oil?
500
a major cause of poverty in Nigeria
What is a high birth rate?
500
a movie with a famous scene involving two dogs eating spaghetti
What is Lady and the Tramp?
500
a network of channels, swamps, and lakes along the Niger River that looks like the area where a river meets the ocean, although it's far inland
What is an inland delta?
500
a very large weapon that can be found at the intersection of Worthington Ridge and Farmington Avenue
What is a 155mm howitzer?
OR
What is a cannon?
500
the Pattison brothers
Who brought the tinware industry to Berlin?
500
when most African colonies gained their independence
What are the 1950s & 1960s?
500
a style of dress associated with a particular ethnic group or time period
What is traditional clothing?
500
a celebrated act of economic terrorism that resulted in a manmade environmental disaster
What is the Boston Tea Party?
600
Made Europeans aware of the wealth and sophistication of Western Africa. May have been what motivated the Portuguese to explore Western Africa.
What is an effect of Mansa Musa's hajj to Makkah?
600
Combined unlike groups, people who were often more loyal to their ethnic group than to their country.
What was a result of the political boundaries created by imperialism?
600
lines that separate areas governed by different groups such as states, counties, or towns
What are political boundaries?
600
to make someone more wealthy
What is to enrich?
600
the well-known actress that plays Will Byers' mother
Who is Wynona Ryder?
600
corrupt government officials
What is one reason why some African countries are poor?
600
a major cause of poverty in Africa, they use their positions to enrich themselves
What are corrupt government officials?
600
A movie about a troubled boy who runs away from home after an argument, it's based on a book by an author from Connecticut.
What is Where the Wild Things Are?
600
you plotted at least three on your map
How many deserts are there in Africa?
600
it's surrounded by a 10-foot tall stockade fence
What is the Willam Sloper House?
OR
What is the Titanic House on the Chamberlain Highway?
600
Sergeant Richard Beckley
Who was the first English settler in Berlin?
600
major influences on modern West African culture
What are traditional African culture, European culture, and Islam?
600
storytellers; keepers of oral history
What are griots?
600
the President who signed the Indian Removal Act; the symbol of the Democratic Party was drawn from a cartoon representation of this individual
Who is Andrew Jackson?
700
Arab Muslim scholars came to Timbuktu to teach
What is one result of Mansa Musa's hajj?
700
they disrupted overland trade in favor of coastal trade
Who were Europeans?
700
a measure of how many people live in a particular area
What is population density?
700
the back road that Eleven and the boys often use as an escape route
What is Mirkwood?
700
overpopulation / a birthrate that is too high
What is one reason why African countries are poor.
700
The title song from this film about a troubled boy was featured prominently in a Netflix series
What is Neverending Story?
700
the most important river in western Africa
What is the Niger?
700
Art Powers Municipal Complex
What is the official name for the buildings that hold the library, the town hall, the police station and the Board of Education?
700
Simeon North
Who is Berlin person who along with Eeli Whitney of Hamden is one of the fathers of interchangeable parts?
700
they are believed to allow the wearer to actually be what they represent.
What are masks?
700
country created by the United States as a homeland to send former slaves to
What is Liberia?
700
it ended the Revolutionary War and created a nation
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
800
hajj
Why did Mansa Musa go to Cairo, Makkah and Medina?
800
how we know most of what we know about African cultures
What is archaeology?
800
the scientist who gets kidnapped by Chief Hopper and Joyce
Who is Alexei?
800
supply (how much there is) and demand (how much people want an item)
What determines pricing?
800
A deer and a dinosaur-like creature with atomic breath
Who are the two characters in the short film Bambi meets Godzilla?
800
it has an inland delta
What is unique about the Niger River?
800
it's located near Kensington Congregational Church at the intersection of Percival Avenue and Sheldon Street
Where is America's first Civil War monument?
800
Chief Tarramuggus
From whom did the first settler in Berlin purchase his land?
800
outside the region
From where do the two of the major religions in western Africa come?
800
the King of England's invention of 1763, it really, REALLY annoyed a young man named George
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?