Lesson 31
Smallest of British colonies in Australia.
What is Victoria?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
How many months about Origin of Species published did a steamy debate arise about plausibility of evolution?
What was seven months?
The person who gave away secrets in the Revolutionary War.
Who was Benedict Arnold?
Person who led the British in the famous Battle of Waterloo.
Who was the duke of Wellington?
Outraged of miners created something to help for the rights of miners.
What was the Ballaret Reform League?
The reason Charles Darwin changed schools and majors.
What was after he discovered his aversion to the sight of blood?
For over 40 years this skull was promoted as evidence of evolution, until it was proved a forgery in 1953.
What was Piltdown Man?
Composer of The Marriage of Figaro.
Who was Mozart?
Composed his Ninth Symphony although he was deaf.
Who was Beethoven?
Name of the miners flag that they raised on November 29. It was a name of a constellation and special to Australians.
What was the Southern Cross?
How long did Charles Darwin spend on the Galapagos Islands?
What was only a month?
Until 1927, it was mistakenly believed that the fossilized tooth of what wild animal belonged anthropoid ape named Nebraska Man.
What was a pig?
The person who recruited the explorers Lewis and Clark.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The person who formed the Committee of Public Safety.
Who was Robespierre?
When the Eureka Stockade happened it was a public relations nightmare for whom?
Who was Charles Hothman(governor)?
What was an agnostic?
In the famous Scopes trial, what state took to trial John Thomas Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
What was Tennessee?
The person who led the uprising against the Ottoman Turks.
Who was Alexander Ypsilanti?
Became the president of the Republic of Colombia?
Who was Simon Bolivar?
What year did the colonies vote to break away from Great Britian and united six states and two territories of the Commonwealth of Australia?
What was 1900?
In the book On the Origin of Species what is on topic he avoided in this publication.
What was "human" evolution?
When Charles Darwin wrote what book in 1859, he had no working knowledge of DNA, the hereditary material found in cells that was not fully understood until 1944.
What was On the Origin of Species?.
This person led the Indians to fight during the War of 1812.
Who was Tecumseh?
Famous person defeated his enemies at Austerlitz in 1805?
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?