Chapter 20- women and farmers
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to pilot an airplane across which ocean?
THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
Which country lost land and all of its colonies, had limits placed on its military and also had to pay huge amounts of money in losses and damages to other countries?
GERMANY
What part of the USSR suffered the worst during the terrible Soviet famine?
THE UKRAINE
What violin piece did Reginald Fessenden play on Christmas Eve in the first audio AM radio transmission?
O HOLY NIGHT
What does Swaraj mean?
INDEPENDENCE OR SELF GOVERNMENT
Who was the first woman to swim across the English channel?
GERTRUDE EDERLE
Who were the four leaders known as the "Big Four.
"WOODROW WILSON, DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, GEORGES CLEMENCEAU AND
VITTORIO ORLANDO
TRUE or FALSE:The United States, whose President Woodrow Wilson had proposed the League of Nations, was the first to join the League.
FALSE
What was the name of the first sound cartoon?
“STEAMBOAT WILLIE”
What were the modern, progressive women of the Roaring Twenties called?
FLAPPERS
What happened to Amelia Earhart when she attempted to fly around the world?
SHE WAS LOST AT SEA (or was she?)
In 1919, after WWI had ended, the victorious leaders met in what palace near Paris?
PALACE OF VERSAILLES, BUILT BY THE SUN KING
LOUIS XIV
How many eggs did Faberge make for Russia’s tsars?
FIFTY
Who actually owned the land on which the farmers lived and worked in Ireland?
British Landlords
Gandhi refused to allow the Congress Party to pick up weapons. He said independence had to be won with ‘satyagraha’. What did that mean?
THE NON-VIOLENT FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE
What First Lady of the United States became Amelia Earhart’s friend?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The Versailles Peace Settlement rearranged the map of Europe. What were the two main countries that were made out of the Austro -Hungarian Empire?
AUSTRIA, HUNGARY. Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro made another new country called YUGOSLAVIA.
Where did the USSR’s communists send people who criticized Stalin?
TO THE GULAG IN SIBERIA
Where did most of the Protestants in Ireland live?
COUNTIES IN ULSTER. THEY WERE SCOTTISH PRESBYTERIANS
Amy Carmichael spent her life in INDIA as a missionary. She fell in 1931 and was bedridden for most of the rest of her life, but stayed in India for how many years until she died?
20
People who work on collective farms tend to work just as hard as people who work on their own land - True or False
false
Who is featured on Washington’s state flag?
George Washington
What was inside the “Hen Egg” made by Peter Faberge for the Tsar’s wife?
A GOLDEN YOLK, RUBY-EYED HEN AND CROWN
What British prime minister tried to win Home Rule for Ireland?
WILLIAM GLADSTONE
What was Sundar Singh's nickname?
“THE APOSTLE WITH THE BLEEDING FEET”