Name the Year!
Where was it?
Quotes
Name that Figure!
Grande
100

NATO formed, China turns to Communism, & the Soviets test their A-bomb successfully 

1949

100

1618 Defenestration of _______

Prague

100

Every one understands how praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep faith, and to live uprightly and not craftily. Nevertheless we see, from what has taken place in our own days, that princes who have set little store by their word, but have known how to overreach men by their cunning, have accomplished great things, and in the end got the better of those who trusted to honest dealing.

NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI

100

prime minister of Prussia (1862–73, 1873–90) and founder and first chancellor (1871–90) of the German Empire.

Otto von Bismarck

100

Year of Graduation from NBHS

2007

200

Communist Manifesto published

1848

200

1815 Congress of ______

Vienna

200

The Germans were able to make their invasion through these countries because, at the time, governments hostile to the Soviet Union existed in these countries. As a result of the German invasion the Soviet Union has lost irretrievably in the fighting against the Germans, and also through the German occupation and the deportation of Soviet citizens to German servitude, a total of about seven million people. In other words, the Soviet Union’s loss of life has been several times greater than that of Britain and the United States of America put together….

Joseph Stalin

200

Women’s rights activists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries focused their attention on the right to vote. The “second-wave” feminists of the 1960s and 1970s pursued a much broader agenda. Rejecting biological determinism, second-wave feminists attacked both discrimination against women and the social structures and patterns that established and reinforced male dominance. A statement of purpose, written in 1966 for the National Organization for Women by _______ _________ , one of the organization’s founders, captures much of the outlook and objectives of this new generation of activists. As you read it, think about how it differs from earlier efforts to define and defend women’s rights.

Betty Friedan

200

College/University 

Bridgewater State Bears 

400

End of the Thirty Years War.... Peace of Westphalia anyone?

1648

400

1871 Unification of _________

Germany

400

The pretense that corporations are necessary for the better government of the trade is without any foundation. The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is not that of his corporation, but that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. An exclusive corporation necessarily weakens the force of this discipline.

Adam Smith

400

In the early nineteenth century, the new mechanization of textile manufacturing endangered the livelihoods of the handworkers engaged in manual textile production. 

During the years 1811–1816, many English hosiery weavers found themselves replaced by stocking frames, new machines that could knit stockings.  

The workers retaliated by smashing the “detestable” machines that had claimed their jobs. 

They adopted the name _________ after a likely apocryphal Edward “Ned” Ludd, lauded as the first to destroy a shearing frame. 

Luddites 

400

Name our three pets 

Evie, Olive, & Ivan

750

Constantinople becomes Istanbul

1453

750

Which of the following Japanese cities was NOT bombed (conventional or atomic bombs) during World War II?

Tokyo

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

Kyoto

Nagoya

Kyoto

750

Let no active worker take offense at these frank remarks, for as far as insufficient training is concerned, I apply them first and foremost to myself. I used to work in a circle that set itself great and all-embracing tasks; and every member of that circle suffered to the point of torture from the realization that we were proving ourselves to be amateurs at a moment in history when we might have been able to say, paraphrasing a well-known epigram: “Give us an organization of revolutionaries, and we shall overturn the whole of Russia!”

Vladimir Lenin

750

In twentieth-century Europe, women achieved many goals of the nineteenth century’s feminists, notably the rights to vote and to own property. ______ __  _________(1908–1986) — a French writer and companion of the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre — was part of the generation of women who wanted full inclusion in society but who realized that suffrage and property rights did not always translate to social equality. Her writing took up the complex issues of attitudes and values and was particularly concerned with the persistence of traditional attitudes long after the circumstances that had created them no longer existed.

Simone de Beauvoir

750

Which country did we NOT travel to?

Italy

Spain

Portugal

France

Japan

Vatican City

Canada

Portugal

1000

Freedom’s Last Line of Defense WINSTON CHURCHILL, Speech Before the House of Commons (June 18, ____)

1940

1000

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a natural or cultural place recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for its outstanding universal value.

Which of the following is NOT a UNESCO site;

France - Palace of Versailles

Greece - Acropolis 

U.S.A. - Mount Rushmore

Italy - Historic centre of Florence

Japan - Hiroshima Peace Museum 

Russia - Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg 

Peru - Machu Picchu

Portugal - University of Coimbra

Cuba - Old Havana

Croatia - Dubronvik

China - The Great Wall  


U.S.A. Mount Rushmore

Many Native Americans, particularly members of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota tribes, view Mount Rushmore as a symbol of injustice and dispossession. The monument was built on land that was taken from them, and they consider the Black Hills to be sacred.

1000

Thus, not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did. [My] father, who was a great scientist and philosopher, did not believe that women were worth less by knowing science; rather, as you know, he took great pleasure from seeing your inclination to learning.

 Christine de Pizan

1000

Poland was one of the eastern European countries that resisted Soviet influence in the 1980s, largely thanks to the tireless efforts of ______ __________. 

He was a Polish electrician who founded Solidarity, the first independent trade union to be formed in the Soviet satellite states. 

He was arrested in the 1970s for union activities, and again during the period of martial law when Solidarity was banned. 

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his actions, was elected president of Poland in the 1990s, and helped Poland develop a new government outside the Soviet sphere.  

Lech Walesa

1000

Which of the following was not earned by me as a senior at NBHS

Varsity Football Captain

Varsity Baseball Captain

2007 Male Athlete of the Year

Baseball Captain