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100
This person believes that leaders are made, not born.
Who is Confucius?
100
This is the year WA was founded.
What is 1834?
100
The word for a collection of islands, like Greece.
What is an archipelago?
100
This mountain range divided civilization in India from that in China.
What are the Himalayas?
100
Ms. Schlesinger grew up in this city.
What is Newton, MA?
200
This person first wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This English teacher is not from the United States.
Who is Mr. Baillie?
200
This psychological term describes a man's attachment to his mother.
What is an Oedipal Complex?
200
These two rivers allowed civilization to arise in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
This person was one of China's leading philosophers in the 5th century along with Confucius.
Who is Lao Tze?
300
This is the author of the world's first legal code.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
This building was donated by a famous Hollywood family.
What is Warner Theater?
300
This is the age at which Spartan boys began their military training.
What is 7?
300
This the region in which Chinese civilization developed.
What is the Ordos Bulge?
300
This person declared, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself".
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
400
This person founded what would become the first Buddhist empire in India's history
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
400
These three faculty members graduated from WA in the last 10 years.
Who are Ms. Iaccarino, Ms. Gagne and Mr. Fuentes?
400
This material revolutionized ancient Greek sculpture.
What is bronze?
400
This bounds Egypt on the east.
What is the Red Sea?
400
This city was the first in the world to reach 1 million inhabitants.
What is Rome?
500
This person is said to be the world's first monotheist.
Who is Abraham?
500
These three WA faculty members graduated from Princeton University.
Who are Ms. Schlesinger, Mr. Baker, and Mr. Carroll?
500
This playwright's most famous play was called "The Libation Bearers".
Who is Aeschylus?
500
This is one of the first neolithic sites in the world, located on the Anatolian peninsula.
What is Catal Hoyuk?
500
This person said, "Democracy is the worst form of governement. Except, of course, for all the others."
Who is Winston Churchill?