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100
Who painted the “Girl Before a Mirror” and “The Weeping Woman”?
Pablo Picasso
100
September 3, 1928 - On this day, Alexander Fleming returns to his office to discover that mold-contaminated bacteria colonies had been killed, possibly by the mold. Over the next ten years or so this led to the development of the first antibiotic. Which antibiotic?
Penicillin
100
Who was the first “First Lady” to have developed her own political and media identity?
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
100
What rank/ position represents the crown in Canada at both federal and provincial levels?
Governor General at the federal level, and Lieutenant Governor in each of the ten provinces.
100
What is the world's biggest rainforest?
The Amazon.
200
Name the extravagant period of art and architecture prevalent in Europe during most of the 17th century.
The Baroque Period.
200
After the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago in 1929 in which seven gang members were killed as a result of rivalry between mobsters Al Capone and George "Bugs" Moran, forensic firearms expert Dr. Calvin Goddard analyzed evidence from shell casings under a special microscope and proved that the uniformed men who fired the guns were not using police weapons, thus implicating the rival gang. What did the special area of forensic science examining firearms, bullets, and tool mark evidence on bullets come to be called?
Ballistics
200
What were women who worked for women’s right to vote were called?
Suffragist
200
What title was given to the rulers in Ancient Egypt?
Pharaohs
200
Name two of the most famous extinct animals.
Sabre-toothed Cat, Woolly Mammoth, Dodo, Great Auk, Tasmanian Tiger, etc.
300
The first “artists” of the world used which mediums to produce their work?
Ashes from fire, plant pigments, and red clay
300
In 1816, an elaboration of the ear trumpet used as a simple hearing aid contributed to the history of forensic science by making it easier to determine if someone was truly dead. What is this instrument, a version of which is still used today?
Stethoscope
300
What woman served as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, freeing hundreds of southern slaves and leading them to safety in the North? A $40,000 reward was offered for her capture.
Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1913)
300
Which US President give his name to the Teddy Bear?
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.
300
This period of revolution lasted from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s. It industrialized the manufacture of textiles and began the move of production from homes to factories. Steam power and the cotton gin played an important role in this period.
First Industrial Revolution
400
Claude Monet is most known for his paintings of what?
Water Lily Paintings
400
In 1904 a German inventor, named Christian Hulsmeyer, patented a device he called a "Telemobiloscope" which allowed ships to detect each other through the fog. Which later technology would build on this invention?
RADAR
400
What was the first Canadian province that allowed women to vote in 1916?
Manitoba
400
To some people, this Cuban Prime Minister from 1959- 2006 (47 years) was a ruthless dictator and a communist tyrant. To others, he was a liberator and a stalwart advocate of egalitarianism.
Fidel Castro.
400
What happened in the late 1980s to spur the introduction and passage by Congress of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990?
The Exxon Valdez oil spill
500
Why was Michelangelo suggested to the Pope that he should paint the Sistine Chapel by his rival artist, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, aka Raphael?
To try and prove that Michelangelo couldn’t paint.
500
The Apollo missions were an incredible feat in engineering. Which technology did the astronauts NOT have available to them?
Emergency solar panels in case of power failure.
500
What was the first country that granted women the right to vote?
New Zealand in 1893.
500
Introduced to England and Wales in 1696 (and later seen in France, Scotland and Ireland), what tax was designed to charge according to the relative prosperity of the individual but without the controversy of an income tax?
The window tax
500
What movie depicting a near meltdown and safety problems at an American nuclear power plant was released merely days before the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania?
The China Syndrome