Presidents of the Past
Who was the first president to be photographed at his inauguration?
Abraham Lincoln
Name three things Reggie has in common with Alexander the Great
She is human, she has had teachers, and she has seen the sky.
Who was emperor of the Roman Empire in the year of Jesus's birth?
Caesar Augustus,
Which famous one-name poet wrote in Persian and at least three other languages?
Which scientist said, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"?
Isaac Newton
Who was president when Reggie was born?
George W Bush
What famous invasion of World War II worked in part because of inflatable tanks and dummies being parachuted to the wrong location to fool the German army?
D-Day
Who referred to the Soviet Union as the Evil Empire?
Ronald Reagan
Which English poet is famous for dictating his poetry to his daughter when he became blind?
John Milton
Where was Archimedes when he discovered the principle of displacement and buoyancy and shouted "Eureka!"?
The bathtub
Mark Twain help get this president's autobiography published the same year he published Huckleberry Finn.
Ulysses S. Grant
What historic wall was built across northern England to hold back the northern tribes?
Hadrian's Wall
What ancient empire was ruled by Cyrus the Great?
The Persian Empire
Which Shakespeare play starts with the line "If music be the food of love, play on"?
Which French scientist made discoveries in microbiology that form the foundation of our understanding of the causes and prevention of diseases?
Louis Pasteur
Who was the only man to be elected twice as U.S. Vice President and twice as President of the United States?
Richard Nixon
Who or what invaded the Iberian peninsula in the 700s?
The Muslims (better: the Umayyad Caliphate)
In what country would you find the ancient Incan citadel Machu Picchu?
Peru
Veggie, Wedgie, Edgy
Which German scientist discovered the three laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
In 1934, the image of this president was printed on the $100,000 bill, the highest denomination ever issued by the U.S. federal government?
Woodrow Wilson
What's group sacked Rome in 410, initiating the "beginning of the end" for the Roman Empire?
The Visigoths
Hammurabi ruled over which ancient empire?
Babylonia
Which Mexican poet and Diplomat won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990?
Octavio Paz
What famous medieval Franciscan scientist was the first to establish the study of optics?
Roger Bacon