American History
A war fought between The United States and Britain following the Revolutionary War
What was the War of 1812?
Series of wars fought between Greece and Carthage
What were the Punic Wars?
A correction to the calendar made by Julius Caesar to account for the extra 1/4 day at the end of each year.
What is the leap year?
Wrote Divine Comedy.
Who was Dante Alighieri?
Devoured his children.
Who was Saturn/Kronos?
Triggered the Great Depression
What was the stock market crash of 1929?
The treaty that ended World War One
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Famous bell at the palace of Westminster in London
What is Big Ben?
The place where God gave the Tablets of the Law to Moses.
What is Mt. Sinai?
Nicknamed "His Rotundity" by political opponents.
Who was John Adams?
Invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Famous microbiologist who developed the first vaccines against anthrax and rabies.
Who was Louis Pasteur?
Designed the modern calendar.
Who is Pope Gregory the Great?
Designed a model of the universe placing the Earth at the center.
Who was Ptolemy?
Issued the warning "beware the Ides of March"
Who was the Soothsayer?
Who was Grover Cleveland?
Built the Kremlin
Who was Ivan the Great?
Predecessor to the modern calendar.
What is the Julian Calendar?
Greek Goddess of the moon, and summoner of spirits and ghosts.
Who was Hecate?
Smoked, but did not inhale.
Who is Bill Clinton?
Hannibal Hamlin was Vice President to whom?
Who was Lincoln't first Vice President?
American Leader who negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
A measure championed by urban business and opposed by agricultural interest in the early 1900's, to adjust time based on the summer or winter solstice.
What is daylight saving time?
Calculated the circumference of the Earth
Who was Eratosthenes?
Annexed Texas.
Who was James Polk?