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What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to North America?
The Mayflower
100
What are the names of the three ships Columbus & crew sailed to the New World in 1492?
What is the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
100
Which amendment to the Constitution outlawed slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th amendment
100
Who is the scientist famous for being struck by an apple in the process of writing the “Law of Universal Gravitation”?
Who is Sir Issac Newton
100
Which of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is named after the artist who painted The Mona Lisa?
Who is (Leonardo) DaVinci
200
In what American city was the Declaration of Independence signed?
What is Philadelphia
200
The Iranian Revolution where an opposition led by Ayatollah Khomeini worked to overthrow the Shah happened in what year?
What is 1979
200
The Ancient Roman Government created a body of lawmakers to represent the interests and needs of the people. This body had the same name as what part of the initial United States Congress?
What is the Senate
200
What was the name of the illness that killed a quarter of Europe’s population and forever changed the way man looked at medicine?
What is The Black Plague
200
Which Looney Toons character is modeled after Mark Twain’s southern dialect and the “rebel” personality of a Confederate Soldier?
Who is Yosemite Sam
300
What famous president defeated the British during the battle for New Orleans in 1815 while serving as general in the US Army?
Who is Andrew Jackson
300
During the French Revolution, what was the fate of King Louis XVI and his Queen Marie Antoinette?
What is beheaded
300
The image of a hammer and sickle (below) is a symbol for which political party?
What is the Communist Party (USSR)
300
The invention of this machine in 1440 revolutionized Europe’s ability to create printable material quickly. Letters on blocks were set in the patterns, inked and placed on paper. What is the name of this machine and who invented it?
What is the Printing Press and Who is Joannes Gutenberg
300
Ancient Rome is famous for the Gladiator Games, a bloody contest in which prisoners were forced to fight and kill one another. This bloody contest is the model for the “games” in which recent best-selling trilogy?
What is The Hunger Games
400
What Revolutionary War battle was preceded by a lighting of candles in Old North Church according to the saying, “One if by land, two if by sea”?
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord
400
The word “Mesopotamia”, which means “between the rivers”, comes from what language?
What is Greek
400
What was the name of the 1954 Supreme Court case that began the transition to integrated schools in the United States?
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
400
What is the name of this writing system (shown in picture)?
What is Cuneiform
400
What is the name of this garment, pictured here, which was a turning point for women in fashion?
What is Bloomers
500
What is the name of the second Japanese city to be hit with an atomic bomb from the United States at the end of WWII?
What is Nagasaki
500
The country Rwanda has been a victim to genocide, due to a conflict between these two groups of people. What are the names of these groups?
What are the Hutus & Tutsis
500
Over the spring and summer of 1961, student activists for civil rights began to ride buses south to test new laws that prohibited segregation. These students were met with angry mobs and some attacks. What is this group of students commonly known as?
The Freedom Riders
500
Galileo was known for many discoveries, one of which is a device that we use to observe things that are far away. For this invention, Galileo took two glass discs and placed them into a cone. What is the modern day name of this invention?
What is the Hubble Telescope
500
How many bathrooms are in the United States White House?
What is 35