World History
The year when WWI started
1914
The two countries recently engaged in battle
Ukraine & Russia
TRUE or FALSE - The United States was a member of the League of Nations.
FALSE
In 1932, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to
Fly solo across the Atlantic
The city that was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
Pompeii
In 334 B.C he began a march which extended the Greek Empire from Egypt to India
Alexander the Great
The youngest person to win a Nobel Peace Prize at age 17 in 2014
Malala Yousafzai
The original name of the area known as "Times Square" in Manhattan in 1904
Long Acre Square
The first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Tori Morrison
The nation that separated from the United Kingdom in 1921
Ireland
The country where the largest known T-Rex skeleton was found
Canada
The first sport to be played on the moon
Golf
President Richard Nixon funded his political campaign using what
Poker Money
The leading suffragist who was arrested and convicted of attempting to vote in the 1872 election
Susan B. Anthony
The names that were given to the political parties in England in olden days
Whigs and Tories
The amount of people sacrificed by the Aztec people per year
250,000
The country where the Bataan Death March took place
Phillipines
U.S. president who took part in the Potsdam Conference, where the Allies reached a peace settlement with Germany
Harry S. Truman
She was the chair of the U.N.'s Human Rights Commission in 1945
Eleanor Roosevelt
TRUE or FALSE: Genghis Khan got all the way to Vienna
TRUE
The event where prophet Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina, unable to fight his opponents
Hijra
South Africa's new prime minister in 1989 who started to dismantle apartheid
F.W. de Klerk
The series of laws and labour agreements that temporarily brought Mexican farmworkers to assist in the US war effort during the Second World War
Bracero Program/Act
The woman who is credited with helping free more than 2,000 Chinese women and children smuggled into San Francisco to be sold as slaves
Donaldina Cameron
The man who was responsible for helping rebuild London after the Great Fire in 1666
Sir Christopher Wren