local history
This annual race began in 1983 and occurs on Tucson's roads.
What is El Tour de Tucson?
The King who built Versailles in France.
Who is Louis XIV?
This famed trade route stretched from Europe to Asia, transporting luxury goods.
This is the shortest (in terms of terms) serving president.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This saint is associated with the origin of Santa.
Who is Saint Nicholas?
This is how Tucson joined the United States.
What is Gadsden Purchase (1854)?
The documents that Martin Luther nailed to a church door in 1517 (according to tradition) to begin the Protestant Reformation.
What is the 95 Theses?
The largest continuous land-based empire.
What is the Mongol Empire?
The first feminist conference in the United States held in New York, 1848.
What is Seneca Falls Convention?
The dessert named after timber is a common treat in Europe.
What is a Yule log or bûche de Noël?
The English translation of the word "Tucson" from Tohono O'odham.
What is "at the base of the black mountain?"
This French investigative journalist was assassinated in his bathtub.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
This crop allowed for population increase in the Song Dynasty.
What is Champa rice?
This US president ended American isolationism in WW2.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The name of the one-day truce in WW1.
What is the Christmas Truce?
The year Tucson was settled by the Spaniards.
When is 1775?
The first and shortest reigning queen of England.
Who is Lady Jane Grey?
One of the only empresses in Chinese history.
Who is Zu Weitan?
Thought to be the first billionaire in the United States.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The pagan holiday celebrated on the Winter Solstice worshipping old spirits.
What is Yule?
This Chicago gangster was arrested in Tucson in 1933.
Who is John Dillinger?
These two art movements are both present in the Sistine Chapel.
What are Italian Renaissance and mannerism (late Renaissance)?
Name the six major post-classical Chinese dynasties.
What are Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing?
Where the first casualty of the American Revolution occurred.
What is the Boston Massacre?
What is Holi?