A United Front
The first African American child to desegregate an all-white school in the South in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
An individual who traveled from Italy to China via the Silk Road during the 13th century.
Who is Marco Polo?
Where French citizens stormed to arm themselves against the monarchy on July 14th, 1789
What is the Bastille?
The "original" clock - the earliest known timekeeping invention
What is a sundial?
The richest man of the 14th century - could ruin the economy of a country just by visiting.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The full name of the governmental agency that won the space race
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
These months were named after two famous Roman leaders
What are July and August?
The most famous chemical developed and used to attack soldiers in the trenches in WWI
What is mustard gas?
Invention of Johannes Gutenburg, helps make creations of books easier
What is the printing press?
Rebellion in China that looked to push out the insiders that established an "open door policy" within the country.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
Abolitionist who famously edited for the Liberator and burnt a copy of the Constitution
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The two islands Napoleon was banished to in the 19th century
What are Elba and St Helena?
Where was the famous oath held where the Third Estate pledged to create a new constitution?
What is the tennis court?
Powerful antibiotic created by accident from leaving a petri dish out during vacation
What is penicillin?
Originator of the famous "bull horns" technique of battle, led a tribe in South Africa to become a short-lived superpower
Who is Shaka Zulu?
The only US state that had a non-European king (bonus points if you can name the first king)
What is Hawaii? (and who is King Kamehameha I?)
Modern day country from which Alexander the Great takes his roots from
What is Macedonia?
Underwater vehicles created to move in secrecy during WWI
What is the submarine (U-boat)?
Created during the 1904 World's Fair - a simple solution when vendors ran out of bowls to hold a sweet treat
What is the waffle cone?
A "banana republic" country that saw its leader deposed in 1954 to serve the United Fruit Company
What is Guatemala?
The three presidents who extended their reach into either the legislative branch (House of Reps, Senate) or judicial branch after being president
Who are John Quincy Adams, Andrew Johnson and William Howard Taft?
Two leaders of the Soviet Union after Stalin
Who are Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, or Mikhail Gorbachev?
The event that led to the Third Estate seizing Louis XVI, taking him and his family away from the palace and into Paris
What is the Women's March on Versailles?
Morse code was created to communicate with this invention, composing of electrical signals from a wire
What is the telegraph?
Rebellion by indigenous American tribes after the British policies implemented after the Seven Year's War
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?