Inventions
What invention does Galileo use to look up at the stars?
The Telescope
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
The Black Death
Who were the first Europeans to set foot in North America?
The Norse
Who is the founder of Islam?
Mohammad
Which French nobleman is known for playing a key role in the American Revolution? (daily double!)
Marquis de Lafayette
What invention greatly increases the spread of knowledge in Europe?
The Printing Press
Which Queen of Mbundu was known for fighting the Portuguese for decades?
Queen Nzinga
What key city of Christianity is sacked in the fourth crusade?
Constantinople
What island do the Portguese accidentally find in 1543?
Japan
Who writes the 95 theses, starting the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
What queen of France dies in the French Revolution?
Marie Antoinette
What invention of the Islamic Golden Age helps navigators calculate their exact location while on the open sea?
The Astrolabe
What Malian king causes a minor recession because of all the gold he spends on his Hajj?
Mansa Musa
Which 1773 protest, carried out by the Sons of Liberty, helped spark the American Revolution?
The Boston Tea Party
What is name of South American Emperor captured by Hernan Cortes?
Moctezuma II
What does the Pope refuse, prompting Henry VIII to create Anglicanism?
Annul his marriage with Catherine of Aragon
In what sort of establishment are the first encyclopedia, the Principia Mathematica, and the Wealth of Nations all written?
A coffee shop
What Invention of the industrial revolution makes preparing cleaning cotton significantly easier?
The Cotton Gin
Which Pope of the Renaissance is known for personally leading armies against his enemies? (daily double)
Pope Julius II
What Chinese revolt takes place in 1644 due to widespread famine?
The Li Zicheng Revolt
Who is the first Portuguese explorer to sail around the cape of Good Hope?
Bartholomew Diaz
Which pope orders the first crusade?
Urban II
Which of Henry VIII's wives bears him a son?
Jane Seymour
What branch of math is shaped by Muslims to calculate the direction of Mecca?
Trigonometry
What radical political movement helps the Jacobins control France after the French Revolution?
Sans Culottes
What movement of English artisans destroyed several factories in their effort to fight the Industrial Revolution?
The Luddites
What early New world English colony completely disappeared?
Roanoke
What religion were the pilgrims?
Calvinists
What short lived religion is practiced in France during the reign of the Jacobins?
The Cult of Supreme Being