American History
This U.S. president purchased the Louisiana territory from France in 1803.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This is the name of the period between the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of World War One.
What was the July Crisis?
This Egyptian mummy's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.
This Category 5 hurricane hit New Orleans and the surrounding areas in August 2005.
What was Hurricane Katrina?
The 2006 film 300 portrays the conflict between these two militaries.
What are the Spartan and Persian militaries?
The "shot heard 'round the world" marked the beginning of these battles of the American Revolution.
What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This group of Muslim North Africans ruled the Iberian Peninsula beginning in the Middle Ages.
Who were the Moors?
The ancient Babylonian code had 282 written rules.
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
This nuclear power plant was the site of a nuclear disaster in April 1986.
What is Chernobyl?
This World War Two battle is featured in the opening episodes of the 2001 tv show Band of Brothers.
What was the Battle of Normandy?
This South American country was the last nation to abolish slavery in the Western Hemisphere.
What is Brazil?
This was the codename for the German invasion of Russia during World War Two.
What was Operation Barbarossa?
Tenochtitlán, Texcoco and Tlacopan were the main cities in which ancient American empire?
What was the Aztec empire?
This South African political leader was released from prison in 1990.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
Doc Holliday, Val Kilmer's character in the 1993 film Tombstone, was afflicted with this contagious disease.
What is tuberculosis?
This U.S. president was assassinated in 1881.
Who was James A. Garfield?
France and Britain fought in this conflict from 1337 to 1453.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian were all part of this Roman alliance.
What was the Second Triumvirate?
This search engine was released in 1998.
What is Google?
This collection of semi-autobiographical short stories was written by Vietnam war veteran Tim O'Brien.
What is The Things They Carried?
This man helped initiate the Mexican Revolution in 1910 by challenging Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship over the country.
Who was Francisco Madero?
This dynasty ruled China for over 400 years.
What was the Han dynasty?
The construction of the Coliseum began during the reign of this Roman Emperor.
Who was Vespasian?
This band that played at the Moscow Music Peace Festival in 1989 was rumored to have ties to the CIA.
Who are the Scorpions?
This 1990 film, starring Kevin Costner, portrays the relationship between a U.S. soldier and a group of Lakota Indians during this conflict.