Civil War Presidents
Who was the first and only president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Which Viking leader is thought to be the first European to set foot on continental America?
Leif Erikson
Which English colony, founded in 1587, is known as the “Lost Colony”?
Roanoke
What was the name of the dog in Wizard of Oz?
Toto
Mesopotamia is known as the “land between two rivers.” Which two rivers is this saying referring to?
Tigris and Euphrates
Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln served a single term in Congress during which war?
Mexican-American War
Which empire had a unit of imperial bodyguards containing large numbers of Vikings?
Byzantine
Which 1845 Arctic expedition disappeared while searching for the Northwest passage?
Franklin Expedition
What is the name of the black bear adopted as the mascot of the U.S. Forest Service?
Smokey Bear
Which legal system established justice through “an eye for an eye”?
Hammurabi's Code
Which three former presidents lived through the entirety of the Civil War? (100 per president)
Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan
Which region of France is named after the Vikings who settled there in the tenth century?
Normandy, from "Norsemen" --> "Norman"
The final resting place of which great conqueror has yet to be discovered?
Alexander the Great
Which animal was the first to orbit the earth?
Laika
The standard version of the epic of Gilgamesh was written in what language, using what script?
Akkadian, cuneiform
Which southern senator, and later president, was the only southern senator to remain in Congress when his state seceded from the Union?
Andrew Johnson
What was the name of the territory of England that was occupied by Danish armies in the 9th century?
Danelaw
From which philosopher’s writings does the legend of Atlantis originate?
Plato
What is the name of the fictional collie that became a television star in the 1950s?
Lassie
In 539 BCE, Mesopotamia was conquered by which Persian ruler?
Cyrus the Great
Under what party label did Abraham Lincoln run in 1864?
National Union Party
What year is typically seen as the end of the Viking Age? (200 bonus points for the event which ended the Viking Age)
1066, death of Harald Hardrada (the Viking leader) at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
Which medival manuscript, written in an unknown script, has never been deciphered?
Voynich manuscript
What was the name of the cloned sheep born in 1996, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell?
Dolly
The Neo-Assyrian Empire fell in 612 BCE to the Babylonians and which other power?
Medes / Median Empire