U.S History
When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
August 2, 1776
This Hun got an annual tribute of 2100 pounds of gold from the Romans?
Answer: Who is Attila?
A brutal ruler, Attila called himself the “scourge of God.” At its height, Attila’s army of Huns numbered around 500,000. After his death, Attila was looked upon fondly by some, including former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
Mount Vesuvius erupted it in 79 A.D. and devastated which Roman city?
Answer: Pompeii
Two thousand people died, and the city was abandoned for almost as many years. When a group of explorers rediscovered the site in 1748, they were surprised to find that–underneath a thick layer of dust and debris–Pompeii was mostly intact.
Which planet was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006?
Answer: Pluto
In August 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) downgraded the status of Pluto to that of “dwarf planet.” This means that from now on only the rocky worlds of the inner Solar System and the gas giants of the outer system will be designated as planets. The “inner Solar System” is the region of space that is smaller than the radius of Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. It contains the asteroid belt as well as the terrestrial planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The “gas giants” of course are Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. So now we have eight planets instead of the nine we used to have.
What ancient society would remove major organs and place them in jars and body wrapped in a linen cloth?
Answer: The Ancient Egyptians
They believed that each individual possessed a ka, a life force, that departed the body after death. Upon death, the ka needed to continue to receive offerings of food, whose spiritual essence it still consumed. But a person also had ba, a set of spiritual characteristics unique to each person. These remained attached to a body after death and would return each night to receive new life. Due to the post-mortem importance of a body, Egyptians believed bodies had to be preserved. While elaborate versions of this practice were only reserved for the highest levels of Egyptian society, mummification was a cornerstone of Egyptian religion.
What was the name of the series of programs and projects Presidents President F.D.R enacted during the Great Depression?
The New Deal
Who was the last Czar of Russia?
Nicholas II
What is the worlds oldest recorded civilization?
Answer: Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia, history of the region in southwestern Asia where the world’s earliest civilization developed. The name comes from a Greek word meaning “between rivers,” referring to the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers,
Who won the 2008 U.S. Presidential election?
Answer: Barack Obama
On November 4, 2008, after a campaign that lasted nearly two years, Americans elected Illinois senator Barack Obama their 44th president. The result was historic, as Obama, a first-term U.S. senator, became, when he was inaugurated on January 20, 2009, the country’s first African American president.
True or False: The Anatomy Act of 1832 legalized the dissection of cadavers for medical purposes.
Answer: True
The Anatomy Act of 1832 in Britain, the taking of corpses from graves was not itself illegal, as the corpse had no legal standing and was not owned by anyone. What was illegal was the dissection of the corpses and the theft of items other than the corpse itself. Physicians and medical students who purchased corpses had little interest in where they came from, and the body snatchers (who were also known as resurrectionists) usually left behind everything except the body in the coffin.
What president succeeded Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated?
Answer: Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was a tailor from Tennessee who rose through political ranks to be selected as a running mate to Lincoln in the 1864 election due to his southern background and his stance on unity of the states. He was, however, a cantankerous man who went head-to-head with Congress over issues relating to reconstruction of the South which resulted in a cry for impeachment that failed.
Which country first used paper money?
Answer China
China is not only credited with having invented paper but it is also generally recognized to have been the first country in the world to use paper money. True paper money became a major form of currency during the Northern Song Dynasty.
How many dynasties ruled over Ancient China?
Answer: 10
What U.S. government department was created in the wake of the September 11 attacks?
Answer: The Department of Homeland Security
he Department of Homeland Security was created following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that killed a “total of 2,977 people . . . in New York City, Washington, D.C. and outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania.” The lack of coordination and intelligence sharing among government agencies was a central concern that led to the cabinet department’s creation.
What natural human bodily fluid did Romans use as mouth wash because of the presence of ammonia in it?
Answer: Urine
The Romans used to buy bottles of Portuguese urine and use that as a rinse. GROSS! Importing bottled urine became so popular that the emperor Nero taxed the trade. The ammonia in urine was thought to disinfect mouths and whiten teeth, and urine remained a popular mouthwash ingredient until the 18th century.
Which two Native American leadErs led the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Warriors in the fight against Lt. Col. Custer’s Troops at the battle of the little big horn?
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
Where did Albert Einstein live before moving to the United States?
Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879,
What was the name of the ancient trade route that connected the East with the West?
Answer: The Silk Road
Silk Road, also called Silk Route, ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China. Silk went westward, and wools, gold, and silver went east. China also received Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism (from India) via the Silk Road.
What was the global recession that lasted from 2007 to 2009 called?
Answer: The Great Recession
As the financial crisis and recession deepened, measures intended to revive economic growth were implemented on a global basis. The United States, like many other nations, enacted fiscal stimulus programs that used different combinations of government spending and tax cuts. These programs included the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
What were the four humours that the ancient Greeks believed made up the body and determined illness?
Answer: Blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
The four bodily humors were part of Shakespearean cosmology, inherited from the ancient Greek philosophers Aristotle, Hippocrates, and Galen. Organized around the four elements of earth, water, air, and fire; the four qualities of cold, hot, moist, and dry; and the four humors, these physical qualities determined the behavior of all created things including the human body.
In the 1700s, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington rode to warn US soldiers of a raid at which Connecticut city?
Danbury, Connecticut
How long did the Han Dynasty rule China?
Answer: 400 years
The Han Dynasty ruled China from 206 B.C. to 220 A.D. and was the second imperial dynasty of China. Though tainted by deadly dramas within the royal court, it is also known for its promotion of Confucianism as the state religion and opening the Silk Road trade route to Europe, permanently altering the course of Chinese history.
The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of which powerful ancient empire?
Answer: The Roman Empire
A people known for their military, political, and social institutions, the ancient Romans conquered vast amounts of land in Europe and northern Africa, built roads and aqueducts, and spread Latin, their language, far and wide.
What year did Google launch?
Answer: 1998
Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. They built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub. Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
Why was Leonardo da Vinci important to the field of anatomy?
Answer: anatomical studies
Leonardo’s early anatomical studies dealt chiefly with the skeleton and muscles; yet even at the outset, Leonardo combined anatomical with physiological research. From observing the static structure of the body, Leonardo proceeded to study the role of individual parts of the body in mechanical activity. This led him finally to the study of the internal organs; among them he probed most deeply into the brain, heart, and lungs as the “motors” of the senses and of life. His findings from these studies were recorded in the famous anatomical drawings, which are among the most significant achievements of Renaissance science.