Reconstruction
Texas 1945-1960
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Riddles
100

To ensure that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would not be overturned, Congress proposed the ____________Amendment, which would grant citizenship to African Americans. 

a. Fourteenth

b. Fifteenth

c. Sixteenth 

d. Seventeenth 

a. Fourteenth

100

Who was the commander of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps?

a. Dorie Miller 

b. Audie Murphy

c. Chester W. Nimitz

d. Oveta Culp Hobby


d. Oveta Culp Hobby

100

Food, clothing, and shelter are all considered to be __________.

a. illiteracy 

b. basic necessities 

c. education 

d. summer monsoon 

b. basic necessities 

100

What is the capital of Myanmar? 

a. Bangkok 

b. Phnom Penh 

c. Hanoi 

d. Yangon

d. Yangon

100

What eats a lot of iron and yet has no digestion issues?

Rust.

200

After President Andrew Johnson angered Congress by firing the secretary of war, the House of Representatives voted to___________ the president, hoping to remove him from office. 

a. depose

b. impeach

c. elect

d. promote

b. impeach

200

The governor who defended Texas’s ownership of its tidelands was 

a. Allan Shivers

b. Beauford Jester

c. Lulu Bells Madison White

d. Heman Sweatt

a. Allan Shivers

200

__________ is the inability to read or write. 

a. illiteracy 

b. basic necessities 

c. education 

d. summer monsoon 



a. illiteracy

200

Which country did the United States grant independence to after World War II? 

a. Myanmar 

b. Thailand 

c. the Philippines 

d. Singapore

c. the Philippines 

200

What word do all dictionaries spell wrong?




A: Wrong.

300

The Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men____________ rights in the United States. 

a. driving

b. land ownership

c. voting

d. citizenship

c. voting

300

The governor who made education a priority and signed laws that created the Texas Education Agency was 

a. Allan Shivers

b. Beauford Jester

c. Lulu Bells Madison White

d. Heman Sweatt

b. Beauford Jester

300

One reason that Indian families have so many children is because the high __________ means that many children do not live to adulthood. 

a. illiteracy 

b. basic necessities 

c. education 

d. infant mortality rate


 



d. infant mortality rate

300

The main religions of Southeast Asia are Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and 

a. animism. 

b. Judaism. 

c. Islam. 

d. Jainism

c. Islam. 

300

What can you see twice in a week or once in every year – but not once in million months? 


the letter E
400

The______________ was an agreement in which the Democrats accepted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South. 

a. 14th Amendment

b. Civil Rights Act of 1875

c. Freedman Bureau

d. Compromise of 1877


d. Compromise of 1877

400

The African American who sued and won the right to attend the University of Texas School of Law was

a. Beauford Jester

b. Lulu Bells Madison White

c. Heman Sweatt

d. Hector P. García


c. Heman Sweatt

400

Countries in South Asia are trying to control population growth through __________ programs. 

a. illiteracy 

b. basic necessities 

c. education 

d. infant mortality rate



c. education

400

Although a few Filipinos are wealthy, most are poor 

a. fishers. 

b. factory workers. 

c. shop keepers. 

d. farmers.

d. farmers.

400

 Where does Friday always come before Thursday?

 

In a dictionary.

500

Abraham Lincoln’s proposed plan for readmitting southern states to the Union was called the__________ . 

a. Ten Percent Plan

b. Civil Rights Act of 1866

c. Civil Rights Act of 1875

d. Compromise of 1877

a. Ten Percent Plan

500

The Texan who commanded the Pacific Fleet in World War II was 

a. Audie Murphy

b. Chester W. Nimitz

c. Oveta Culp Hobby

d. Ross Sterling

b. Chester W. Nimitz

500

The __________ blows from the southwest across the Indian Ocean, bringing heavy rainfall to South Asia. 

a. cyclones 

b. winter monsoon  

c. summer monsoon  

d. Indus River  

c. summer monsoon  

500

Many of the plants and animals of Southeast Asia’s tropical rain forests are endangered because of 

a. biodiversity. 

b. deforestation. 

c. flooding. 

d. tsunamis.

b. deforestation. 

500

Maybe I can hear everything but you'll never hear me say a word. Who am I?



Your ear.