US History
What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
1776
What leader was assassinated, causing the beginning of WWI?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Which leader managed to bring the CO2 levels on earth down by a third, due to his killings?
Genghis Khan
What leader led the push of US involvement in WWII due to his actions in the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Emperor Hirohito
Which artist famously cut off part of his ear?
Vincent van Gogh
What do the stripes on the American flag represent?
The 13 original colonies
What is the term for the cultural movement that began in Italy in the 14th century, emphasizing art, literature, and humanism?
The Renaissance
Mao Zedong
Which character from Hamlet is depicted drowning in an 1852 work by John Everett Millais?
Ophelia
Which president is responsible for letting tensions rise BEFORE the Civil War?
James Buchanan
What was the 1517 proposition for the church regarding the Catholic church created by Martin Luther known as?
Ninety-five Theses
What teachings were implemented throughout Asia as a philosophy, especially regarding the "five key relationships" for men exclusively?
Confucianism
What were the trials of former Nazis, where famous SS officers such as Goering were sentenced to death?
The Nuremberg Trials
Rendered in shades of black, white, and gray, what famous 1937 mural by Pablo Picasso is named for the Basque town in Spain that it commemorates?
Guernica
Which two Native American leaders led Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors in the fight against Lt. Col. George Custer’s troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
Which French heroine helped lead troops during the Hundred Years’ War?
Joan of Arc
What massacre occurred in 1989 following a pro-Democracy movement, with a demand for further freedoms from the CCP?
The Tiananmen Square Massacre
What leader quoted "peace for our time" in regards to a further appeasement policy towards the invasion of Czechoslovakia?
Neville Chamberlain
Perhaps the most infamous painting of the 1913 Armory Show, what "cubo-futurist" painting of the human figure by Marcel Duchamp was described by one critical viewer as "an explosion in a shingle factory"?
Nude Descending a Staircase
Finish the line President Franklin D. Roosevelt said during his speech addressing the attack on Pearl Harbor: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941…”
Which wife did King Henry VIII kill due to her "difference in appearance" from her portrait?
Anne of Cleves
Who was the original leader that the Allies were to put in place as the new democratic leader of China, following the end of WWII?
Chiang Kai-Shek
Who was the head of the SA in 1934, who was murdered due to possibly planning a coup; but was publicly excused in his death due to his homosexuality?
Ernst Röhm
The name for which European art movement, which was chosen by randomly selecting a word from the dictionary, comes from a French word for a hobbyhorse?
Dadaism