History Department Holiday Party 2018!

U.S. Presidents

100

This president went on to win a Grammy after leaving office

Bill Clinton (Spoken Word Album: "My Life")

200

This president had the most children (give the name and number of children)

John Tyler, 15 children

300

This president cheated on his eye exam in order to join the cavalry reserves in the 1930s

Ronald Reagan

400

This president was the only one to have a PhD and serve as a college president

Woodrow Wilson

500

In 1914, Theodore Roosevelt nearly died exploring this tropical rainforest

The Amazon

African

100

This Nigerian author paved the way for post-colonial discourse and literature, and is most well-known for writing the book Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

200

This country is often called the “failed state” in international political circles

Somalia

300

This was the first Christian nation

Ethiopia

400

This city was located in modern-day Tunisia and was destroyed by the Roman Empire during the Punic Wars in 146 BC

Carthage

500

This was the first apartheid law, which made it illegal for South African citizens to pursue romantic relationships with someone of a different race

Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

Colonial American

100

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 added these two states to the Union

Missouri and Maine

200

This colony was England's first attempted permanent settlement in North America

Roanoke Colony

300

This Native American princess is now known by her nickname, Pocahontas

Matoaka

400

This man is famous for being the first fatality in the Boston Massacre and the first American killed in the Revolutionary War

Crispus Attucks

500

This woman is famous for fighting in the Revolutionary War as a man

Deborah Sampson

European

100

This was the last great battle of the Western Front during World War II

Battle of the Bulge

200

This man has often been called the father of modern political science

Niccolò Machiavelli

300

This exiled Russian revolutionary led the Bolsheviks to take power in 1917

Vladimir Lenin

400

This Germanic tribe sacked Rome in 410

Visigoths

500

This man was the main initiator of the Age of Discovery

Prince Henry the Navigator

Professor Who?

100

This professor was in a cover dance group

Shenglan Li

200

This professor is very good at knitting, spinning, sewing, and needlework

Anni Cecil

300

This professor's first job was as a puppeteer

Alex Bloom

400

This professor can rap Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby"

Dana Polanichka

500

This professor obsessively collects news reports about wild turkeys going wild and attacking people

John Bezís-Selfa