US HISTORY
This future US President crossed the Delaware River in 1776 and surprised the Hessians on Christmas night.
George Washington
This 18th Century French Monarch was known as the “Sun King”.
King Louis XIV
This Italian Renaissance artist painted the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa:
Leonardo da Vinci
Alexander the Great was originally from this country.
Macedonia
What was the name of Charles Lindbergh’s airplane that he flew over the Atlantic Ocean on the first solo transatlantic flight?
The Spirit of St. Louis
As an indirect result of the end of the Seven Years War, the US bought this from Napoleon to help expand their new country.
The Louisiana Purchase
Scientist who developed the theory of gravity and the theory of motion:
Sir Isaac Newton
This painter was especially prominent in Spain and painted at the absolutist palace El Escorial.
El Greco
This European city is home to the famous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius:
Pompeii
This Olympic runner set the new world record for the 100m at 9.58 seconds.
Usain Bolt
The Category 5 Hurricane that hit New Orleans in 2005.
Hurricane Katrina
This event, in which several Catholic Habsburg government officials were thrown out of a window, began the Thirty Years War.
Defenestration of Prague
This Photographer photographed key battles and figures of the American Civil War.
Matthew Brady
A Dominican priest who was angered by the indulgences of the Catholic Church, and published his 95 Theses
Martin Luther
This building caught fire in 2019, but miraculously, all the relics inside were untouched by the flames.
Notre Dame
It was in this year that the Great Depression began and the stock market crashed.
1929
Who wrote The Allegory of the Cave, showing readers to search for truth?
Plato
This Italian Renaissance artist painted the School of Athens.
Raphael
This famous general fought the Roman Army and invaded Italy with elephants.
Hannibal
Everyone knows Sacagawea led Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the Pacific Ocean, but what Native American tribe was she a part of?
Shoshone
This turning point in American history resulted in the start of the Civil War and was the first fight between the North and South.
Battle of Fort Sumter
He invented the Cartesian Coordinate System.
René Descartes
Who painted the Arnolfini Portrait, and was a prominent painter in the Northern Renaissance?
Jan van Eck
This acclaimed orator and laywer was beheaded by Augustus.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
This woman famously refused to give up her bus seat on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks did the same.
Claudette Colvin